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Vikings' Cedric Griffin Out for Season

The Minnesota Vikings have lost starting cornerback Cedric Griffin for the season with another significant knee injury, coach Brad Childress confirmed on Tuesday. Griffin, who tore his ACL in his left knee last January in the NFC championship game, rehabbed very hard during the offseason and the start of the regular...

2010 Minnesota Vikings Season Preview: The Old Man Tries Again

FanHouse's 2010 NFL Season Preview features division-by-division predictions based on our tried and true "Heat Index" formula. Each team is graded on a scale of 1-10 (10 being highest) in five key categories: Offense, Defense, Special Teams, Coaching and Intangibles. The higher the score, the better we think the team will...

Jets Defense Lets AFC Championship Slip Away

INDIANAPOLIS -- When it was over, the Jets didn't want for potential explanations. Donald Strickland's groin injury. Bart Scott's ankle injury. Shonn Greene's rib injury. Bad coverages, blown communications, missed tackles. Peyton Manning. There was no shortage of reasons to explain how a team with the best defense in...

Dirty Dozen: 12 to Watch on Championship Sunday

Brett Favre can't be Brett Favre on Sunday in New Orleans.Or at least, he can't be the bad Brett, the quarterback who improvises under pressure and throws the ball to ...Oh, let's say Darren Sharper. Because the last thing the Vikings want against the Saints in the NFC championship game is to get behind. That will rev up...

Revis' Next Test? Stopping San Diego's Vincent Jackson

SAN DIEGO -- Darrelle Revis has been so effective at clamping down on the NFL's best receivers this year that the New York Jets automatically assign their All-Pro cornerback to the opponent's top wideout on Monday of game weeks. They give him stacks of videotape, and let him devise ways to consume his next victim. The...

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04/12/12 The Best and Worst of Athletes on Twitter, Starring... Source: The 700 Level Two personalities from the Philadelphia sports scene showed their followers two opposite ends of the atheletes-on-twitter spectrum on Thursday.
04/12/12 Jabar Gaffney's Twitter meltdown Source: The Washington Post - Washington DC (Mitchell Layton - GETTY IMAGES) Jabar Gaffney is having what can only be described as a Twitter meltdown.