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NFL Coaches Fight Club: The Tournament

NFL Coaches Fight Club: the Tournament. Because we have nothing better to do than predict what might happen if head coaches started punching each other in the face.Consider this hypothetical: what if two coaches met in a dark alley and threw down in a no-holds-barred brawl? Who would emerge victorious? First, some...

Still Not Tough Enough: Chargers Pushed Around by Champs

PITTSBURGH -- They watched, and they kicked at the grass and thought about how it all could have been different. The players on the San Diego Chargers defense watched their brilliant, tough, never-say-die quarterback, Philip Rivers, move the ball with ease on the Steelers late in the game, making a game interesting when it...

Sproles' Role to Remain Unchanged

The Chargers franchised Darren Sproles on Wednesday, making him the smallest NFL player who didn't make his living kicking a football to ever receive such a distinction.* For now, he's set to make $6.6 million next season, although San Diego hopes to sign Sproles to a long-term deal. Those negotiations, however, won't have...

Heath Shuler Goes to Washington, Gets Clowned by Own Party

Former University of Tennessee star and Redskins first-round draft bust Heath Shuler might now be a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives, but that doesn't mean he's regurgitating the party's talking points just because Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid think he should. In fact, he's pretty upset with the stimulus...

LaDainian Tomlinson Revises Stance on Trade Talks, Calls Them 'Ridiculous'

The LaDainian Tomlinson saga in San Diego is quickly becoming one of the more prevelant themes of an NFL offseason ... that hasn't even begun yet.But we are talking about LdT, and when someone of his stature is suddenly rumored to be on the trade block, only to ignore said trade rumors -- which comes just before the team...

NorvTurner News From the Web

05/30/12 Rivers should receive Manning Treatment in SD Source: Bolt Beat I have spoken with fellow BoltBeat writers and contributors on the phone, I have seen it in the comments section, all across the internet, and I have, for some reason, delayed writing the article about this very same topic.
05/29/12 Norv Turner thinks Chargers RB Ryan Mathews 'ready to... Source: CBSSports.com It's pretty easy to call Chargers running back Ryan Mathews a disappointment.
05/24/12 Norv to lean âheavilyâ on Bisaccia Source: Bolt Beat In a conference call with season ticket holders, Norv Turner said, "I am going to lean on (Bisaccia) heavily."
05/18/12 Gates of Heaven? Source: San Diego Reader - San Diego CA "Antonio Gates' body is fast undergoing the corruption that comes to all flesh," sighed Norv Turner as he watched his star tight end strain his way downfield.
05/18/12 Turner: Antonio Gates is physically 'back' Source: The San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego CA A full offseason seems to be doing wonders for Antonio Gates.