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NFL Network Set Passes Time By Making Fun of Each Other

As happens on the last Saturday in April every year, I spent the day on my couch watching Roger Goodell and Ray Anderson read names off a card. The NFL Draft is the biggest event of the football offseason, even though it involves a bunch of guys in suits sitting around a set telling us about players who won't see the field...

NFL Network's Steve Mariucci Has an Enormous Noggin

So the NFL has robbed us of the usual late-season slate of Saturday afternoon games, but what they've given us in return is much, much better. Okay, not really -- for starters, as it currently stands, about 250 people get NFL Network, which means that a lot of you will be shut out of tonight's Ravens-Cowboys game. Not only...

Rich Eisen's Wife Complains About Sarah Palin Showing Off Her Infant At the Debates

By all accounts, Rich Eisen seems like a nice enough guy. He does a great job on NFL Network, as he did at ESPN, and never really ruffles any feathers. I guess the same can't be said about his wife and former ABC sportscaster Suzy Shuster, who writes a little for The Huffington Post. Shuster decided on Friday that the...

Trent Dilfer, Inventor of Game-Managing Quarterback, Might Call it a Career

It's a sad day, well, somewhere; the 49ers have terminated Trent Dilfer's contract. Dilfer was the Buccaneers first-round pick in 1994 and although he never became a franchise quarterback during his 15-year career, he did win a Super Bowl with the Ravens in 2000, made the "game manager" label relatively respectable, and...

NFL Network Bosses Place One Restriction on Rich Eisen: No Gambling Talk

Rich Eisen has solid credentials as a journalist, but when he decided to leave ESPN and join forces with NFL Network, he must have been concerned that he would be seen as less a reporter than a PR man. In a compelling interview with King Kaufman of Salon, Eisen explains that when he took the job, he did so with assurances...

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04/28/12 2012 NFL Draft: How Does Day 2 Affect Cal Prospects Source: CBS - KPIX 5 - San Francisco CA As I watching the draft, I expected either defensive end Trevor Guyton or wide receiver Marvin Jones to be the next Cal prospect selected.
04/27/12 Ben Becker: NFL Draft coverage continues to expand Source: TCPalm.com - Fort Pierce FL It's Christmas time for NFL fans again, except that the draft is arguably better because it lasts for three days.
04/25/12 2012 NFL Draft television schedule Source: Philly.com - Philadelphia PA For the seventh straight year, ESPN and the NFL Network will battle for the same football-hungry TV audience at the NFL Draft at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The live coverage on both networks gets underway on Thursday night at 8 p.m. with the first round.
04/19/12 Go Route Podcast with Rich Eisen Source: CBS - WBBM 2 - Chicago IL Presented for your enjoyment, the first ever installment of the Go Route podcast, featuring Josh Zerkle and myself.
04/19/12 Rich Eisen Excited About RGIII And Redskins, Thinks... Source: WNEW With the NFL Draft fast approaching, the intrigue surrounding who the Washington Redskins will select with the second overall pick has about as much suspense and guess-work as the ending to a film you've seen 100 times before.