New Orleans (14-3) dispatched the Detroit Lions 45-28 Saturday night in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, setting up a divisional playoff game next weekend in San Francisco. Brees led an unstoppable offense by throwing for 466 yards and 3 touchdowns, and New Orleans dominated the second half for a 45-28 NFC wild-card victory over the Detroit Lions on Saturday [...]
A Super Bowl hangover and the NFL lockout weren’t about to slow down Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers. The New Orleans Saints just couldn’t keep up. Rodgers came out on top in a memorable opening-night duel with Drew Brees, and the Packers made a goal-line stand on the final play of the [...]
Opening weekend is just around the corner and we kick off the time-honored BTB tradition of having the front-page writers embarrass themselves by publicly picking their winners for the coming NFL weekend. Thursday’s Game New Orleans 32, Green Bay 21 The New Orleans Saints already learned the hard way how to prepare for the [...]
After months of the NFL lockout and the threat of inaction, NFL Football is finally here! The Chiefs are now on the field against the Buccaneers to open the contest on FOX, and it feels good to have everything back the way it should be. So many questions await as the game unfolds, but the [...]
The first preseason games are getting ready to kick off, and the excitement is palpable as football fans are primed and ready to see what their favorite teams look like on the field of play. We here at the ESPN.com fantasy department are equally giddy with anticipation and in order to try and get some [...]
Seattle Seahawks become the first team in NFL team to make the playoffs with a 7-9 record in a non-strike year. Some of you like draft picks and potential. But the Seattle Seahawks are in the playoffs. And that’s not something we thought was going to happen before the season or at various points throughout the [...]
Apple’s iPhone popular item on eBay’s Top Shopped 2010 list, while the iPad came in fifth. eBay compiles the annual list by analyzing sale and search data from the year to track top shopping trends. Over 1.63 million iPhone 4 related items were sold on eBay in 2010, according to eBay. The iPad and its [...]
Palin’s previous television foray, the Fox News special “Real American Stories,” drew 2 million viewers in April. TLC’s previous ratings record holder was the 2003 debut of “What Not to Wear.” Palin, then Sarah Heath, was a sportscaster for four years at KTUU-TV in Anchorage before launching her political career. FLAVOR OF THE WEEK IS [...]
In previewing the 2010 NFL season opener – a rematch of the 2009-10 NFC Conference Championship Game – with the rest of the “Pro Football Weekly” gang, Hall of Famer Dan Hampton tries to muster up all of the anger that the Minnesota Vikings had experienced after being defeated by the New Orleans Saints, who [...]