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Buffalo Bills interim coach Perry Fewell has met with the New York Giants about their vacant defensive coordinator's job. Fewell said Wednesday that he would meet with the Giants on Thursday. The Record of Bergen County confirmed that the meeting took place. Fewell, who was the Bills' defensive coordinator until coach Dick Jauron was fired, [...]

Starting cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie returned to practice for the Arizona Cardinals on Thursday, but wide receiver Anquan Boldin remained sidelined because of a sprained left ankle. Although he was listed as limited in the workout, Rodgers-Cromartie says he was at full speed and felt good.
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Players on the two Super Bowl teams who miss the Pro Bowl this year will get paid a full share. Commissioner Roger Goodell has informed the 12 playoff teams that their all-stars who must skip the game because they are preparing for the Super Bowl won't forfeit Pro Bowl earnings. Fifty-seven Pro Bowl players are [...]

Tim Davey, the NFL's director of football operations, has died. He was 58. Davey was an employee of the New York Jets and the NFL for a total of 33 years. He died on Wednesday. Davey joined the NFL in 1991 in the league's game operations department. He supervised the logistics for stadium communications systems [...]

Eric Mangini came up with his biggest win yet. Mangini will return for a second season as Cleveland's coach, a stunning personal victory following a four-game winning streak by the Browns that may have saved his job. New team president Mike Holmgren decided Thursday to retain Mangini, whose job security was in jeopardy after the [...]

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer has been reassured by Bills owner Ralph Wilson that he has no intention of entertaining offers to relocate the team to Los Angeles. In a statement released Thursday, the New York Democrat said Wilson told him by phone that he's had no contact with a real estate firm seeking to lure [...]

Eric Mangini will return for a second season as coach of the Cleveland Browns. New team president Mike Holmgren decided Thursday to retain Mangini, whose job security was in jeopardy after the Browns started 1-11. But the team regrouped and finished with a four-game winning streak, Cleveland's longest since 1994, to help save Mangini.

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Dallas Pro Bowl linebacker DeMarcus Ware missed practice Thursday because of a sore back. The problem isn't considered serious and Ware is expected to play in Saturday night's home playoff game against Philadelphia. Ware, who has 11 sacks, has played with a fracture in his wrist for much of the season.
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Rich Gannon won't be offering his help to the Oakland Raiders again any time soon. A day after the Raiders rebuffed an offer of help from their former quarterback, Gannon said on Sirius NFL Radio on Thursday that "I won't make that call again." Gannon said on his show Wednesday that he had called team [...]

Indianapolis has decided to use kicker Matt Stover instead of Adam Vinatieri during this year's playoffs. Colts coach Jim Caldwell said Thursday that Stover had done a "great" job since joining the Colts after Vinatieri had knee surgery on his kicking leg in October. Caldwell said Vinatieri is not yet 100 percent.
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