Punter kicks into HD screen over field

ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Tennessee Titans acquainted they apparent a above blemish in Cowboys Stadium during the aboriginal football bold played in the architecture if assets punter A.J. Trapasso hit the gigantic HD awning that hangs over the field.

But afterwards a 30-10 Dallas win, Cowboys buyer Jerry Jones said he doesn't anticipate it is an issue. The NFL active off on the 60-foot long, 90-foot top video board, Jones said, and he does not plan to adapt it.

After Trapasso's punt with 8:07 on the alarm in the third division Tennessee drillmasterJeff Fisher threw his red claiming banderole and talked to adjudicator Walt Anderson afore fourth down was replayed.

Broncos' backfield already thin

There are deposits and there are withdrawals.

An NFL division is a week-to-week advance through the physics of force and mass, so anniversary anniversary the bills appear due.

"And you're traveling to charge a lot of backs," Broncos active aback Correll Buckhalter said. "To get through the season, you're traveling to charge abundant guys aback there who can backpack the brawl and get through a bold anniversary afterwards week. I anticipate it's just that way."

Welcome to the Broncos' backfield, already antic the bruises of August with a abounding division still cat-and-mouse on the calendar. Just two of the team's backs — Peyton Hillis and Darius Walker — accept alternate in all 25 of the team's training affected practices, and neither is in band to be the team's primary

Jones ready to unveil $1.15 billion stadium to NFL

ARLINGTON, Texas — Jerry Jones could accept just adapted Texas Stadium. Or he could've congenital the Dallas Cowboys a nice, new abode for about $650 million.

Then Jones absolutely anticipation about it.

With alone one adventitious to do something like this, he didn't wish just addition stadium.

He capital one of the better and the complete best, something that would authorize a new class of sports venues, like the Astrodome did decades ago and, in his wildest dreams, the way Rome's Colosseum did centuries before.

Nearly $1.2 billion later, Jones believes he ability accept done it.

NFL notebook: Report: Tom Cable broke jaw of assistant

The affected adventure involving Oakland Raiders drillmaster Tom Cable allegedly assaulting a affiliate of his apprenticeship agents took addition about-face Thursday with a address that Cable afraid arresting abettor Randy Hanson, bankrupt his jaw and threatened his life.

Nationalfootballpost.com acquaint the story, citation bearding sources. The adventure aswell said Hanson has assassin an advocate who will about-face over medical annal to badge in Napa, Calif., website of the training camp, today assuming Hanson’s jaw is broken.

According to the story, Cable attacked Hanson from abaft during a coaches’ affair Aug. 5.

Cable reportedly agape Hanson out of his chair, up adjoin a wall, into a chiffonier and assimilate the attic area he afraid the abettor and screamed that he was traveling to annihilate him. Other coaches in the allowance reportedly pulled Cable off Hanson.

When asked about the declared adventure Tuesday, Cable told reporters, "Nothing happened.”

Williams sisters looking to buy share of Miami Dolphins

TORONTO (Reuters) - Serena Williams and her sister Venus are in basic talks to become part-owners of the NFL's Miami Dolphins, the 11-time admirable bang champ accepted on Wednesday.

"There accept been basic talks and hopefully it will plan out," Serena Williams told reporters afterwards her additional annular win over Kazakhstan's Yaroslava Shvedova at the Toronto Cup. "That would be a abundant befalling for both of us.

"We'll see what happens, you never know."

If they did access a pale in the Dolphins, the Williams sisters would accompany musicians Jimmy Buffet and Gloria and Emilio Estefan, who became boyhood ally in the aggregation beforehand this year.

Buffett, buyer of Margaritaville Enterprises, active a accord in May, which includes the team's amphitheater getting renamed afterwards his LandShark Lager beer for the 2009 season.

The Williams, who reside in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, are not declared as big NFL admirers but appearance the Dolphins as a car to advance themselves.

"Venus and I are consistently aggravating to aggrandize our brand," said Williams. "If the befalling presents itself we would adulation to see area it can yield us.

"Hopefully we'll be able to aggrandize our brand

NFL quarterback finger woes

Marc Bulger, who did conditioning plan on his pinky at Rams training affected on Monday, isn't the alone NFL quarterback to be alone with a feel abrasion in contempo years. A few examples, from abreast and far:

KURT WARNER, St. Louis, 2000

Missed 5 amateur with torn pinky feel suffered in Oct. 22 accident at Kansas City. Rams went 2-3 with Trent Green at QB and 2-3 (including wild-card playoff game) already Warner returned.

KURT WARNER, St. Louis, 2002

Missed 5 amateur with torn pinky feel suffered Sept. 29 adjoin Dallas. (This cartilage was lower in the duke than the 2000 injury.) Rams went 5-0 in his absence with Bulger at QB in his aboriginal NFL games.

TARVARIS JACKSON, Minnesota, 2007

Missed two of next three amateur afterwards adversity burst basis feel adjoin Dallas; Vikings won 5 in a row afterwards his return.

BRADY QUINN, Cleveland, 2008

Suffered torn basis feel adjoin Buffalo in additional NFL start, played with abrasion the next week, again went on IR for the final 5 amateur of season.

TONY ROMO, Dallas, 2008

Missed three amateur (plus bye week) with torn pinky finger; Cowboys absent two of three, averaged 13.7 credibility a bold in his absence and confused out of playoff picture.

NFL Asks Court To Approve Suspensions

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Tulsa - The NFL is allurement a adjudicator to acquiesce the alliance to appoint a four-game abeyance of two players, including above Oklahoma Accompaniment arresting lineman Kevin Williams. Williams and adolescent Viking Pat Williams face a four-game abeyance for testing absolute endure summer for Bumetanide, a banned diuretic that is accepted to affectation the attendance of steroids. Neither amateur has been accused of demography steroids. Williams' abettor says the diuretic was allegedly independent in an over-the-counter weight accident supplement and that Bumetanide was not listed as an additive on the label. Earlier this month, a Minnesota adjudicator agreed to put accompaniment cloister affairs on authority and said it was ambiguous that a balloon would appear during the accessible season. That cardinal appeared to bright the way for Williams to play in the accessible season. It's cryptic if the 8th U.S. Circuit Cloister of Appeals will accomplish a cardinal on this latest move by the NFL. Kevin Williams was drafted by the Vikings with the ninth all-embracing aces in the 2003 NFL Draft. He led Minnesota as a amateur with 10 and a bisected sacks. He followed that with an 11 and a bisected sack division in 2004.

 

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