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| Niners Look to Slow Brees, Saints Attack |
NFL Football |
09/26/2008 |
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| (Best E Casino) - The NFL's top passing offense collides with one of the best passing defenses in the league so far this year on Sunday, when Drew Brees and the high-flying New Orleans Saints battle Justin Smith and the San Francisco 49ers at the Superdome. The Saints enter this tilt just 1-2 despite leading the league with 315.3 passing yards per game and ranking fourth in total offense at 396.7 yards per game. While the club is also eighth in the league with 80 points scored so far, New Orleans' defense has be |
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| 49ers to retire Young's No. 8 |
NFL Football |
09/25/2008 |
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| Santa Clara, CA (Best E Casino) - The San Francisco 49ers announced Thursday they will retire the jersey No. 8 of former quarterback Steve Young, the 11th player to be so honored in team history. The ceremony will take place at halftime of San Francisco's game against New England on October 5. "It's a tremendous honor. No question about it," Young said. "This is your team. It's not the league, it's the guys that you fought with, it's the heart and soul of who you really were and you can turn back after all your |
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| Niners CB Spencer to go on IR |
NFL Football |
09/23/2008 |
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| Santa Clara, CA (Best E Casino) - San Francisco 49ers cornerback Shawntae Spencer will undergo surgery on Wednesday to repair a torn ACL in his left knee. Spencer, who will also be placed on injured reserve, suffered the injury in San Francisco's 33-30 overtime win over Seattle in Week 2. In his fifth NFL season, Spencer has played exclusively with the Niners and accumulated six interceptions. |
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| NFC West: Risk at QB paying off for 49ers |
NFL Football |
09/23/2008 |
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| (Best E Casino) - One thing about the National Football League is that it is a league of copycats. If one team finds success a certain way, other teams are sure to try it themselves. So surely the San Francisco 49ers knew that Chicago Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Baltimore Ravens have all made it the Super Bowl during the past nine seasons with less-than-stellar signal-callers, with Tampa Bay and Baltimore claiming titles with the likes of Brad Johnson and Trent Dilfer, respectively, under center. Having a ru |
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| NFC North: Packers fail to make a statement |
NFL Football |
09/23/2008 |
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| t is going wrong so far this year. That is probably because the club is doing little right at this point. The Lions are 0-3 for the second time in three seasons and can't seem to click on either side of the ball. Following Sunday's 31-13 loss to the San Francisco 49ers, Detroit ranks 29th in the NFL in rushing yards per game (75.7) and 20th in points scored (59). Also, Detroit has converted just nine of its 34 third-down conversion tries and went 5-for-13 in that situation versus San Francisco. "Third-and-longs te |
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| NFC South: Griese rewards Gruden's faith |
NFL Football |
09/23/2008 |
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| eft the Denver game with injuries...Cornerback Mike McKenzie played in his first regular-season game since tearing his ACL last December and had an interception along with four tackles. NEXT UP: The Saints will attempt to regroup when the surprising San Francisco 49ers invade the Superdome this Sunday. San Francisco, which won just five times a year ago, is off to a 2-1 start following last week's 31-13 victory over Detroit. The teams will be meeting for the first time since the Lions came through with a 13-12 dec |
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| O'Sullivan, Gore power 49ers past Lions |
NFL Football |
09/21/2008 |
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| San Francisco, CA (Best E Casino) - J.T. O'Sullivan threw for 189 yards and two touchdowns on 16-of-23 passing, while Frank Gore tallied 130 yards on 27 attempts with a score and added four grabs for 32 yards to lead the San Francisco 49ers past the Detroit Lions, 31-13, in Week 3 action. Delanie Walker caught three balls for 44 yards and found the end zone for the 49ers (2-1), who were coming off a 33-30 overtime win against the Seahawks. Isaac Bruce had two catches for 19 yards and crossed the goal line once. |
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| NFL Inactives (Sunday, September 21, 2008) |
NFL Football |
09/21/2008 |
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| ta, WR Terrance Copper, WR Marques Colston, RB Aaron Stecker, DT Antwan Lake, TE Mark Campbell Broncos - S Hamza Abdullah, RB Ryan Torain, LB Louis Green, T Erik Pears, C Tom Nalen, WR Darrell Jackson, DT Nic Clemons, DE Tim Crowder DETROIT LIONS AT SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS, 4:05 P.M. (ET) Lions - 3rd QB Drew Stanton, CB Ramzee Robinson, LB Jordon Dizon, G Manny Ramirez, T Damion Cook, DE Cliff Avril, DT Andre Fluellen, DT Landon Cohen 49ers - 3rd QB Jamie Martin, CB Shawntae Spencer, CB Donald Strickland, CB Marcus Hu |
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| Around the CFL: Flutie among five inducted into Hall of Fame |
CFL |
09/20/2008 |
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| tablished himself as a top-notch rodeo competitor, going to the National Finals Rodeo three straight years as a high school standout. But Pickett does have solid football credentials, too. He played collegiately at the University of Washington and was a seventh-round pick of the NFL's San Francisco 49ers in 2004. He was dealt to Houston in July 2006 before being released. Pickett then played for NFL Europe's Rhein Fire in 2007. He then signed with Oakland before being released and ultimately picked up by Toronto. |
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| Can Niners' Martz, O'Sullivan Show Lions What They're Missing? |
NFL Football |
09/19/2008 |
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| (Best E Casino) - Given a rare chance to start, J.T. O'Sullivan nearly doubled his career passing yardage total in one game last week. The journeyman quarterback will now try to haunt his former team this Sunday, when his San Francisco 49ers play host to the Detroit Lions at Candlestick Park. O'Sullivan came out on top of a three-player race in training camp to earn San Francisco's No. 1 QB spot, beating out former 2005 first-overall pick Alex Smith in the process. O'Sullivan didn't wow critics in a Week 1 loss |
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