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The Perfect Draft: Green Bay Packers

With the draft approaching, we ignore projections and identify the dream scenario for each team in a series we call The Perfect Draft.I don't have to go out on a limb to say that 6-10 wasn't a goal for the Green Bay Packers in 2008. Yes, they lost Brett Favre to retirement/unretirement/trade. Yes, many thought the Packers...

Green Bay Packers: Not That Far Off

Because the NFL season never ends, we present our 2009 Offseason Roadmaps for front offices to navigate through the summer.On its surface, the 2008 season appears to have been an unmitigated disaster for the Green Bay Packers. After the Packers made the NFC Championship Game the season before, fans painfully watched the...

NFL Veteran Dom Capers Named Packers' Defensive Coordinator

Perhaps it took longer than expected for Mike McCarthy, but the search is over. The Packers canned defensive coordinator Bob Sanders after a miserable season, and speculation on a replacement immediately began to center around former San Francisco head coach Mike Nolan.When Nolan took the job in Denver, the talk turned to...

Report: Mike Nolan to Coach Packers' Defense

We told you earlier Monday of the firing of Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator Bob Sanders. It was hardly a surprise, but the fact that head coach Mike McCarthy waited a full week after the end of the season made it possible that he had someone specific in mind to take over.I mentioned then that former San Francisco...

2009 Pro Bowl Players Announced

The AFC and NFC Pro Bowlers were announced a short while ago, and why make some pointless comment you are sure not to laugh at when we can just give you the rosters instead? Here goes. AFC (starers, followed by their reserves) QB -- Peyton Manning, Colts. Brett Favre, Jets. Jay Cutler, Broncos. RB -- Thomas Jones, Jets....

NickCollins News From the Web

05/20/12 Vaccine would not have prevented meningitis death Source: HometownLife.com Final test results confirm a form of meningitis for which there is no vaccine killed 19-year-old Nick Collins of Livonia, the Wayne County Department of Public Health announced Thursday.
05/17/12 Vaccine would not have prevented meningitis that... Source: HometownLife.com Final laboratory test results confirm a form of bacterial meningitis for which there is no U.S. vaccine killed a Livonia teen last week, the Wayne County Department of Public Health announced today.
05/14/12 Bacterial meningitis suspected in Livonia teen's death Source: HometownLife.com The Wayne County Health and Human Services Department is waiting for official test results confirming that a form of bacterial meningitis is what killed a Livonia teen Thursday night.
05/13/12 Bacterial meningitis suspected in teen's death Source: HometownLife.com The Wayne County Health and Human Services Department is waiting for official test results confirming that a form of bacterial meningitis is what killed a Livonia teen Thursday night.
05/12/12 McMichael Ends Vikes' Season Source: The Pilot - Southern Pines NC Union Pines lost 12-5 to McMichael High School Friday in the opening round of the state 3-A baseball playoffs at Viking Field in Cameron.