Free-agent LB Fowler backs out on Birds, signs with Titans
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03/13/2007 - Nashville, TN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Just a day after reports surfaced indicating that he had signed an offer sheet with the Philadelphia Eagles, restricted free-agent linebacker Ryan Fowler signed a multi-year contract with the Tennessee Titans.
The Dallas Cowboys have seven days from when they receive the contract to match the offer, or allow the special teamer to leave for Nashville.
Fowler, entering his fourth year in the league, has three career starts. Last season he led Dallas with 24 tackles on special teams, and Fowler will challenge for a spot in the middle on Tennessee's defense.
"We think Ryan can compete for our starting middle linebacker spot and he has already proven to be an excellent special teams performer," said Titans general manager Mike Reinfeldt.
Reports surfaced in Philadelphia newspapers on Sunday that the 6'3, 250-pound Fowler had signed a four-year contract worth $10.5 million, $4 million in the first year, with the Eagles. It is unclear from where the misunderstanding arose, but Fowler's agent Alan Herman reportedly told the Philadelphia Daily News that his client had turned down a similar contract from Tennessee to sign with the Eagles.
Fowler never signed the offer sheet from Philadelphia, though, and in seven days could be a Titan.
Fowler signed with the Cowboys as an undrafted free agent out of Duke in 2004.
Houston, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Houston Texans have re-signed tight end Mark Bruener. Bruener came to the Texans as an unrestricted free agent in 2004 after nine seasons in Pittsburgh. The 6-foot-4, 256 pound veteran caught nine p
<< Marshall parts ways with Jirsa
Huntington, WV (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Marshall announced Monday that Ron Jirsa
will not be retained as head men's basketball coach for next season.
The Thundering Herd finished this past season 13-19 overall and 7-9 in
Conference USA
<< Wyoming terminates McClain
Laramie, WY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The University of Wyoming has announced that
the contract of head men's basketball coach Steve McClain has been terminated,
effective immediately.
"The University of Wyoming appreciates Steve's service her
<< Niners sign veteran CB Harris
Palo Alto, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The San Francisco 49ers signed cornerback
Walt Harris to an extension on Monday.
Harris intercepted a career-high and NFC-leading eight passes last season,
earning All-NFC honors twice and a Pro Bowl
<< Colorado State axes Layer
Fort Collins, CO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Colorado State fired head men's basketball
coach Dale Layer, director of athletics Paul Kowalczyk announced Monday.
"After evaluating our men's basketball program over the past season and seeing
where we
Indianapolis, IN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Duke, Connecticut, North Carolina and Tennessee have been installed as the No. 1 seeds for the women's NCAA Tournament. Duke, which has an NCAA-record seven consecutive 30-win seasons, was gi
Duke, UConn among top seeds in women's bracket >>
Indianapolis, IN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Duke, Connecticut, North Carolina and
Tennessee have been installed as the No. 1 seeds for the women's NCAA
Tournament.
Duke, which has an NCAA-record seven consecutive 30-win seasons, was gi
Rockies release Javy Lopez >>
Tucson, AZ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Colorado Rockies released veteran catcher
Javy Lopez on Monday.
Lopez split the 2006 season between Baltimore and Boston, batting .251 with
eight home runs and 35 runs batted in 94 games. The native of
Lehtonen, Atlanta thrash Washington >>
Atlanta, GA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Kari Lehtonen stopped 31 shots, and Bobby
Holik scored a highlight-reel goal to lead the streaking Atlanta Thrashers to
a 4-2 win over the Washington Capitals.
Eric Boulton had two assists for the Thras
Bobcats set franchise records in beating Magic >>
Charlotte, NC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Derek Anderson scored 24 points off the
bench and dished out 10 assists, as the Charlotte Bobcats eased by the
Orlando Magic, 119-108.
Gerald Wallace had 20 points and nine assists for the Bobcats, w
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My fellow Americans, as tempting as it may be to don the coat and HD-ready tie in order to deliver this State of the Game address before the cameras, I know better. As Brad Paisley sings on his latest album, "I'm so much cooler online."
The ideas for this annual essay to kick off the MySportsbook.com college football betting preview flowed like frat-house beer, which is to say they were cheap and spilled all over the floor. The 2007 season will be better than 2007, if only because there will be more of it. A year ago, the NCAA Football Rules Committee made two rule changes in the interest of speeding up the game. These changes went over like Kobe burgers at a vegan banquet.
To its credit, the rules committee rectified its mistakes. This season the clock once again will start when a kickoff is received, rather than when it is kicked, and the clock will not start so quickly on a change of possession.
However, kickoffs have been moved back five yards, to the 30, which will force more returns. (Thus forcing the clock to run. Clever, huh?) Special teams might decide a lot of games, because coaching strategy will come straight out of another new Paisley lyric (almost), I'd like to check you for kicks.
Paisley sings with a twang, which is why he's appropriate for this college football season. The sun coming up over the 2007 college football betting lines season rises from the south. It's a Southern football world. As the Southeastern Conference begins its 75th year, the power shift is noticeable.
Eight-figure budgets, glamorous settings -- and that's just for the head coaches. The SEC has four coaches who have won national championships -- the greatest aggregation of coaching know-how since Eddie Robinson dined alone.
Steve Spurrier, Phil Fulmer, Nick Saban and Urban Meyer have given lie to the idea that a conference championship game is too daunting a hurdle on the road to No. 1. In six of the past 10 seasons, the national champions played and won a conference championship game -- three of the six (Tennessee, 1998; LSU, 2003; Florida, 2007) from the SEC.
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There will be more of the same this season, if the preseason prognostications are correct. Six SEC teams are in the preseason coaches' poll, more than from any other conference. Only one conference has talent so deep that a team with 15 returning starters, including the best quarterback in the league, from an eight-win season is considered an afterthought. That may speak more to Kentucky's losing legacy than to the wisdom of the predictions, but there you have it. And seriously, keep an eye on Wildcats QB Andre' Woodson.
The reach of the South extends all the way to No. 1. Take a look at the team that is a consensus pick to win the national championship. The quarterback is from Shreveport. The best wide receiver is from Nashville. The top recruit is from New Orleans.
So what's the campus doing in Los Angeles? Hey, it is the University of Southern California.
USC lost two Pacific-10 Conference games a year ago, the first time that had happened in five seasons, and university officials withstood the urge to form blue-ribbon panels to unearth the cause of such a disaster. Instead, the Trojans gathered themselves and routed Michigan, 32-18, in the Rose Bowl.
USC's losses at Oregon State and at UCLA last year should have given pause to those who question the Pac-10's football prowess (such as, without naming names, L.M. from Baton Rouge). The league only got deeper this season; Dennis Erickson is taking over an Arizona State team that never quite got out of its own way under his predecessor, Dirk Koetter.
Erickson will resume his quest to become the first coach to win a national championship at two schools. Both he and Spurrier, now in his third season at South Carolina, returned to college football at schools with lower profiles than where they won their titles.
That isn't the case for the third coach looking for the national championship double. You may have missed this, but NASA reported the astronauts on the space shuttle last spring made contact with what can only be described as beings from another galaxy.
The leader of the aliens said, "We come in peace," followed by, "So how do you think Nick Saban will do at Alabama?"
The public is reacting to the new Crimson Tide coach as if he is the Barry Bonds of college football -- beloved at home for what his fans believe he is going to do, hated on the road for his intimidating attitude and for what his detractors believe he did (bend NCAA recruiting rules). I made this comparison from the dais at a charity dinner in Mobile, Ala., last month, and the chill that washed over me didn't come from the air conditioning.
Saban will attempt to prove that he can remake in Tuscaloosa what he built in Baton Rouge, much like another member of the national championship fraternity. Bobby Bowden is attempting to remake at Florida State what he built at, um, Florida State. Bowden rebuilt his offensive staff, bringing in four new coaches led by Saban's former offensive coordinator, Jimbo Fisher, to jump-start an offense that has been dead for a couple of years.
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The Atlantic Coast Conference is expected to show new signs of life, too. That is said with no disrespect toward last season's champion, Wake Forest, which provided one of the best story lines of 2007. The Demon Deacons begin this season in their customary position, overshadowed by the Virginia Techs, Miamis and Florida States.
It's not that Wake will find it difficult to duplicate its success in 2007 as much as the feeling that success engendered. Surprising success is the narcotic of sport. It never feels quite so euphoric the next time. Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese has figured this out. He refers to 2007, when a league looked down upon by fans and foes alike took three undefeated teams into November, as "Cinderella."
The fairy tale may be over, but the Big East has four genuine Heisman Trophy candidates in Louisville quarterback Brian Brohm, West Virginia tailback Steve Slaton and quarterback Pat White, and Rutgers tailback Ray Rice. Rutgers, as did Wake Forest and, of course, Boise State, proved last season that the have-nots in college football occasionally have quite a lot.
The Broncos' rousing 43-42 overtime victory over Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl has raised the profile of all schools in conferences that don't get automatic BCS bids. This season, TCU and Hawaii are the preseason favorites to burst through the BCS doors and earn an at-large bid. The Warriors return 14 starters from an 11-3 team, including quarterback Colt Brennan.
Brennan not only broke the single-season record with 58 touchdown passes in 2007, but he also led Division I-A in passing efficiency (186.0). The senior is expected to contend for the Heisman Trophy, and neither his success nor the rise of his team should come as any surprise in the 2007 season.
After all, Hawaii is the southernmost team in the country.
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