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An animal-rights group said Friday it has no plans to do public-service advertisements with Michael Vick after the disgraced quarterback is released from prison. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said it withdrew any offer about doing the ads after a U.S. Department of Agriculture report on Vick’s dogfighting operation found “he enjoyed [...]

Starting linebacker Leroy Hill says he is happy to be back with the Seattle Seahawks after his three-day stint as a free agent. Hill was at Seattle’s minicamp Friday with the Seahawks’ first-team defense, one day after he agreed to a new contract with the team. Hill became a free agent last weekend after the [...]

Former Texas Tech star quarterback Graham Harrell has a lot to prove in three days. Harrell was invited to the Cleveland Browns rookie minicamp on a three-day tryout. He wasn’t offered a contract, so nothing is guaranteed beyond Sunday. He has to prove he isn’t simply a product of Texas Tech’s spread offense.
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Shawne Merriman stood out even though he was held out of team drills in the opening practice of the San Diego Chargers’ minicamp on Friday. First, there’s his mohawk, which he said he got just for the heck of it. Then there’s the ever-present speculation that 2009 could be the final season the star outside [...]

Mark Sanchez was up late the night before his first practices with the New York Jets, staring into a mirror and reciting calls from his playbook. “You’ve just got to run the plays and say it over and over,” a smiling Sanchez said. “Just so I can say it and hear what it sounds like [...]

Brett Favre says he’s retired, but Minnesota coach Brad Childress acknowledges it’s likely the Vikings will at least assess their interest in the record-setting quarterback later in the offseason. Childress declined Friday to directly answer a question about whether he’s spoken recently with Favre. The coach says he has been too busy with the NFL [...]

Steven Jackson was one of the NFL’s best running backs before the St. Louis Rams concentrated on offensive line upgrades in the offseason. Now that they’ve added a center and selected a tackle with the second pick of the draft, he expects even more. The Rams’ desire to build around their bruising running back in [...]

The Minnesota Vikings first-round draft pick Percy Harvin has been hospitalized due to severe dehydration Coach Brad Childress says Harvin became ill Thursday on a flight to Atlanta. From there he was scheduled to continue to the Twin Cities for the team’s weekend rookie minicamp. However, the wide receiver vomited on the flight and was [...]

Detroit Lions coach Jim Schwartz says quarterback Matthew Stafford was “overanxious” in his first day on the practice field with the team. The No. 1 pick in the NFL draft was joined Friday by fellow first-round pick tight end Brandon Pettigrew, the rest of Detroit’s selections last weekend and undrafted prospects such as Demir Boldin [...]

Wide receiver Anquan Boldin and defensive tackle Darnell Dockett showed up for the Arizona Cardinals minicamp but begged off of workouts because of “injuries.” Both players are upset with their contract status, and both said they had injured hamstrings, coach Ken Whisenhunt said. “They showed up last night and reported an injury that we weren’t [...]