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San Francisco coach Mike Singletary won't be surprised if top draft pick Michael Crabtree hasn't agreed to a contract with the 49ers before training camp opens this weekend. After holding out at least twice during his own playing career, Singletary knows such tactics are just part of the game.
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San Francisco coach Mike Singletary won't be surprised if top draft pick Michael Crabtree hasn't agreed to a contract with the 49ers before training camp opens this weekend. After holding out at least twice during his own playing career, Singletary knows such tactics are just part of the game.
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Chicago Bears cornerback Charles Tillman is promising to be ready for the season despite his recent back surgery. Tillman promised on the team's Web site Tuesday that he'll be fine, saying: "When I panic, then you can panic. But I'm not panicking, so we're good." The season opens Sept.
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Brett Favre has handed the Minnesota Vikings one more loss. The 39-year-old Favre called Vikings coach Brad Childress on Tuesday to tell the coach he won't be coming out of retirement to play for Minnesota. "It was the hardest decision I've ever made," Favre told ESPN. "I didn't feel like physically I could play at [...]

The Cleveland Browns have placed wide receiver Braylon Edwards on the non-football injury list. The team did not specify an injury in making the announcement Tuesday. A message seeking comment was left with a Browns spokesman. Edwards is the only established receiver on the roster, and he was mostly a spectator during the team's three-day [...]

Jim Johnson, whose attacking defenses helped the Eagles to one Super Bowl appearance and five NFC title games, has died. He was 68. Johnson had taken a leave of absence from the team in May as he continued to battle a cancerous tumor on his spine. The Eagles announced his death on Tuesday afternoon. A [...]

Brett Favre has handed the Minnesota Vikings one more loss. Favre called Vikings coach Brad Childress on Tuesday to tell the coach he won't be coming out of retirement to play for Minnesota. Childress told The Star Tribune, which first reported the decision on its Web site, that the 39-year-old Favre did not want to [...]

Jerry Jones says the $1.15 billion stadium the Dallas Cowboys are moving into will inspire his team, although he stopped short of saying how far that inspiration will take them. "I think the team will play to the level of the stadium," said Jones, who later called it the greatest sports facility ever built.
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If any NFL teams are interested in Michael Vick, they're not saying. A day after the quarterback was conditionally reinstated to the league, only the Baltimore Ravens would directly acknowledge evaluating him. "We've had long discussions about Michael Vick and we have a feeling about how he would impact our team and not impact our [...]

Minnesota Vikings coach Brad Childress tells The Star Tribune that Brett Favre will not be coming out of retirement. In a report posted on the newspapers' Web site on Tuesday, Childress said Favre did not want to put himself through the grind of another football season. Favre retired for a second time after playing for [...]