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Byline: Mike Garafolo, @MikeGarafolo, USA TODAY Sports The NFL decided that, despite Adam Jones' recent arrest on charges of assaulting a woman at a bar, the Cincinnati Bengals cornerback, formerly [...]

Byline: Chris Chase; Mike Garafolo In an upcoming issue of Rolling Stone magazine, Serena Williams comments on last year's rape case in Steubenville, Ohio. On Aug. 11, an incapacitated high [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @MikeGarafolo, USA TODAY Sports This week, when New York Jets rookie quarterback Geno Smith declined to comment on questions about whether he would attend Mark Sanchez's annual [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @MikeGarafolo, USA TODAY Sports Earlier this week, when New York Jets rookie quarterback Geno Smith no-commented on questions about whether he would attend Mark Sanchez's annual 'Jets [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @MikeGarafolo, USA TODAY Sports The head coach barely entertained news reporters' questions. The owner walked off the field quietly after practice, declining to make any grand statements [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @MikeGarafolo, USA TODAY Sports Matt Hasselbeck was one of the first Indianapolis Colts in the locker room after a recent organized team activities session that didn't go [...]

Byline: Jim Corbett; Dann Stupp; Mike Garafolo Roosevelt 'Rosey' Grier choked back tears Tuesday as he remembered former Los Angeles Rams teammate David 'Deacon' Jones. Jones, 74, died of natural [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @MikeGarafolo, USA TODAY Sports Austin Collie had just completed a two-hour workout at St. Vincent Sports Performance last week -- with weight training to test the strength [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @MikeGarafolo, USA TODAY Sports New York Jets quarterback Geno Smith told reporters Thursday that Jay-Z did not recruit him to sign with the music mogul's Roc Nation [...]

Byline: Dan Uthman; Lindsay H. Jones; Mike Garafolo The family of the late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno and several members of the university community plan to file suit [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @MikeGarafolo, USA TODAY Sports San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree suffered a torn Achilles tendon during organized team activities Tuesday and has had surgery, the team [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @MikeGarafolo, USA TODAY Sports New York Jets rookie quarterback Geno Smith announced Wednesday that he had hired Jay-Z's newly formed Roc Nation Sports as his representation, choosing [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @MikeGarafolo, USA TODAY Sports NFL owners will meet today to discuss issues involving the league, including player safety. Stephen Jones says there will be another pressing issue [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo The to-do lists for the other seven general managers who were hired or promoted this offseason: Steve Keim, Arizona Cardinals: The offensive line was atrocious last season, [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @MikeGarafolo, USA TODAY Sports There was the Rex Ryan who took over the New York Jets in 2009, the one who promised to take a swipe at [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @MikeGarafolo, USA TODAY Sports It's a four-way race for the New York Jets' starting quarterback job. Veteran David Garrard, 35, who signed with the Jets in April [...]

Byline: Douglas Robson; Jim Corbett; Mike Garafolo America's Cup organizers said the sailing race would go on as scheduled but had appointed a committee to review Thursday's training accident in [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @MikeGarafolo, USA TODAY Sports After 16 NFL seasons, five Pro Bowl selections, a Super Bowl title and 47 career interceptions, Ronde Barber has decided to call it [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @MikeGarafolo, USA TODAY Sports Mike Zimmer once told an NFL owner in an interview for that team's head coaching vacancy, 'You know what, someone's going to give [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @MikeGarafolo, USA TODAY Sports Since the NFL's new collective bargaining agreement put in place a rookie wage scale in 2011, contract negotiations for first-round picks have been [...]

Byline: Steve DiMeglio; Nicole Auerbach; Mike Garafolo Preakness beefs up security, bans backpacks at pimlico Preakness Stakes officials have toughened security guidelines for the Triple Crown horse race after the [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @MikeGarafolo, USA TODAY Sports Don't assume Tim Tebow can pack up, move to Canada and dominate in the Canadian Football League. Jim Popp isn't. 'We own his [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @MikeGarafolo, USA TODAY Sports Though it wasn't the order many expected for most of the past few months, it was nonetheless the historical development that was anticipated [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @mikegarafolo, USA TODAY Sports Dee Milliner didn't make a bold statement when asked about replacing Darrelle Revis. No, the New York Jets' first-round pick saved that for [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @MikeGarafolo, USA TODAY Sports Though it wasn't the order many expected for most of the past few months, it was nonetheless the historical development that was anticipated [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @MikeGarafolo, USA TODAY Sports Eddie Lacy brought two suits with him for the NFL draft -- one for today (Round 1) and another for Friday (Round 2 [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @MikeGarafolo, USA TODAY Sports We're close to getting answers about the 2013 NFL draft. For now, only questions remain as the draft opens today with the first [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @MikeGarafolo, USA TODAY Sports Cris Carter knows what issues scare NFL teams. Heck, he had plenty of them early in his career. That's why he thinks his [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @mikegarafolo, USA TODAY Sports Conner Vernon watched Denver Broncos wide receiver Wes Welker work the slot, noting how the 5-9, 185-pound water bug set up his routes [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @MikeGarafolo, USA TODAY Sports The New York Jets were not better Sunday night than they were on Saturday and every day before that with Darrelle Revis on [...]

Byline: Paul White; Mike Garafolo Alex Rodriguez doesn't know when he'll be ready to play baseball again. He's not talking about his role in baseball's investigation into the Biogenesis clinic. [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @MikeGarafolo, USA TODAY Sports Monday was a good day for projected high NFL draft picks, unless they play quarterback. The Oakland Raiders, who hold the third overall [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @mikegarafolo, USA TODA Sports Congratulations, Mario Williams, on being born in 1985. Had you arrived a year later, your net worth might be a lot less than [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @MikeGarafolo, USA TODAY Sports The New York Giants tendered Pro Bowl receiver Victor Cruz at the first-round level, team President and CEO John Mara told news reporters [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @MikeGarafolo, USA TODAY Sports The Denver Broncos are considering asking defensive end Elvis Dumervil to take a pay cut from his $12 million salary, a person informed [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @MikeGarafolo, USA TODAY Sports The Kansas City Chiefs had a busy Monday afternoon. The team had until 4 p.m. ET to use the franchise tag and did [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @MikeGarafolo, USA TODAY Sports Lauren Silberman's bid to make the NFL consisted of two kickoffs totaling 30 yards, an aggravation of a thigh injury she said she [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @mikegarafolo, USA TODAY Sports In the NFL, Paul is making out like a bandit while Peter gets robbed. With the start of the league year approaching and [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @mikegarafolo, USA TODAY Sports Rontez Miles, a safety prospect from Division II's California (Pa.), will show his speed and agility at the scouting combine in Indianapolis today [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @mikegarafolo, USA TODAY Sports As a defensive end at Auburn the last few years, Corey Lemonier's job was to push the pocket into the quarterback. He accomplished [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @mikegarafolo, USA TODAY Sports It's taken the New York Jets almost a month to refute reports owner Woody Johnson is looking to trade Darrelle Revis. Coach Rex [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @mikegarafolo, USA TODAY Sports In the last four years, only one restricted free agent has signed an offer sheet with an NFL team that went unmatched by [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, and Lindsay H. Jones, USA TODAY Sports There are few job interviews as intense as NFL scouting combine interviews. Manti Te'o, Tyrann Mathieu and others with red [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @mikegarafolo, USA TODAY Sports While the Philadelphia Eagles see Nick Foles as a real option to be their quarterback of the future, the team has two seemingly [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @mikegarafolo, USA TODAY Sports The most intriguing quarterback-on-the-move story of the 2013 NFL offseason never got moving. Michael Vick is staying with the Philadelphia Eagles. He signed [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @mikegarafolo, USA TODAY Sports Michael Vick got a little bit of job security and a decent chunk of guaranteed money from the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday. Vick's [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @mikegarafolo, USA TODAY Sports The Philadelphia Eagles might have settled on their quarterbacks for 2013, but here are seven teams with a quarterback situation that's mildly to [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @mikegarafolo, USA TODAY Sports Adrian Peterson's 2,097-yard rushing season as he was coming off anterior cruciate ligament knee surgery was even more incredible than it appeared. The [...]

Byline: Mike Garafolo, @mikegarafolo, USA TODAY Sports The aunt and uncle of San Francisco 49ers tight end Delanie Walker were killed in a car crash Monday shortly after 5:30 a.m. [...]

Byline: Jim Corbett and Mike Garafolo Arizona Cardinals There is a new brain trust in the desert, where general manager Steve Keim and coach Bruce Arians will attempt to solve [...]