The New England Patriots are so shrouded in secrecy that no one can say for certain where they play. They used to play in Foxboro Stadium, in Foxborough, Mass., whose town square is called Fox Borough, which creates a problem for sportswriters filing Patriot game stories, whose datelines alternate between FOXBORO and FOXBOROUGH. No other NFL city has this problem. Buffalo is never depicted as BUFFALOUGH.
FOXBORO, Mass. -- No one is going to confuse Eli Manning with Tom Brady, particularly us number-crunchers in fantasy circles. Manning just doesn't do it pretty and he doesn't do it all game, or all season.
While fantasy owners hold their breath amid the Revis-like holdout of Chris Johnson and the inactivity of Peyton Manning (neck surgery), we move on like NFL coaches do: Focusing on the players we have to work with right now.
SI.com has dispatched writers to report on training camps across the country. For an archive of all camp postcards, click here.
Brace yourself, NFL. It looks like Bill Belichick plans to come back from the lockout with guns blazing.
SI.com has dispatched writers to report on NFL training camps across the country. For an archive of all camp postcards, click here.
Politely banished from playing professional soccer, rudely bumped from the back of a bull and fully in need of his next attention fix, Chad Ochocinco will be wrestling an alligator now. You could say this is brilliant self-hype, yet again, from Planet Ocho. Or you could say an alligator has lots of teeth.
The NFL star accepts a bullriding challenge, but comes up short
The couple say they want to be engaged at least a year before starting to plan their wedding
There are two key things to avoid this week: panic and frustration. I'm bad with the last one. I'll admit that when someone asks me about someone's injury on Sunday night before I've had a chance to talk with anyone, I have to try not to snap. When I get asked the millionth time about something, same thing. I'm working on it. Be a better person than me and don't let these negative impulses burn you in the midst of the fantasy playoffs. Without a real reason to do so, the rule of "dance with the one that brought you" should hold true. There's a reason you're in the playoffs and trying to second guess, play matchups, or think that there's something better on the waiver wire is seldom true. Maybe you're the wire wizard whose moves all worked, week after week, and you'll need to do it again, but that just makes you the exception to the rule. No, a hard look at the numbers over the long term show there's only one thing that consistently gets a team to the playoffs -- a solid draft that
"He gets who I am, supports my dreams and loves me unconditionally," she gushes
The football star tells Ryan Seacrest that model Evelyn Lozada is "everything I've been missing"
The Basketball Wives star flashes a sparkler on her wedding finger and says, "10 carats looks good on me"
It's an all-Tweet-mailbag Tuesday ... so many stories, so many reactions. I'll touch on three stories of the day, then answer 10 of your Twitter queries to my @SI_PeterKing account.
They've tried everything but Craigslist in search of offensive linemen in Chicago. They cut short James Harrison's retirement party in Pittsburgh. They may be bracing for two quarterback controversies for the price of one in Tennessee. And Cheeseheads probably still remember Brett Favre in Green Bay.
"What we've got to do is find a way to play this game without killing each other.'' --Lito Sheppard, June, 2007
Seemingly every year a rookie running back looks good in camp, wins a starting job on a good team and shoots up the fantasy draft boards. The hype gets so strong a week or two before the season he's being drafted in the first round.
For those who don't have time to consume every word of the expansive Fantasy Football Preview, we'd like to present the SI.com 5-Minute Guide to Fantasy Football, in five parts. Think of it as a Reader's Digest approach to fantasy domination. And should you have any questions or comments, be sure to follow me on Twitter. Herewith, a quick glance at wide receivers.
Week 1 on the training camp trail ... From a very deep team in San Antonio (Dallas) to the Big Top in Kentucky (Cincinnati) to the NFL's men of mystery (Carolina) to the youngest veteran team in the league (Atlanta) to the team (Miami) determined not to let the AFC East become a two-horse race -- and, by the way, I like its chances. Along the way, three stories intercede: Albert Haynesworth, the business of football threatening to tear the San Diego Chargers asunder and the retirement of Sean Morey.
Here's a good one: what do Chad Ochocinco, LeBron James, Mark Cuban and Philip Rivers have in common?
CINCINNATI -- What did Cincinnati do to deserve this?
Now that the Aussie Open is reaching the halfway point, time to revise your picks. Of those left standing, who's going to reach the semis and the finals? --Scott Freeman, Atlanta, Ga.
Breaking down the AFC wild-card matchup, Jets at Bengals, Saturday, 4:30 p.m. ET, NBC
SAN DIEGO -- Wide receiver Chad Ochocinco did not dress in his locker stall after the Bengals' heartbreaking 27-24 loss to the Chargers late Sunday afternoon in Qualcomm Stadium. Instead, he slipped into his loose-fitting blue jeans and oversized white T-shirt in the stall next to his, the one with "No. 15" handwritten on a white nameplate above it.
Because celebrities haven't taken over every millimeter of your existence quite yet, some intrepid folks of note are coming to an iPhone near you.
I'm tall. I mean, I'm really tall. And I don't mean 5'10" tall. I'm 6'1". That's ridiculously tall. Kermit the Frog once said: "It's not easy being green." Well, it's not easy being a tall woman, either.
He's feeling a little too good about things, a little too happy about an offense that just spent almost 40 minutes in the middle of a game without making a first down. Somehow, the Cincinnati Bengals beat the Cleveland Browns 23-20 in overtime on Sunday. It was the NFL version of childbirth. In the visitors' locker room in Cleveland, someone asks Chad Ochocinco, "Why do you guys make it so hard on yourselves?''
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