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Breakdown Of The 329 Players Invited To The 2011 NFL Combine

The NFL has announced all 329 combine invites on its Combine Official Invite List.  Ignore the fact that the title of the webpage says it is the 2009 list – it is actually this year’s list of Combine invites.  The Combine will certainly be wide-receiver heavy, with a total of 46 WR of the 329 […]

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Preparing For The Wonderlic Test At The NFL Combine

Yesterday, I talked to Patrick Fisher, Executive Director of SportsMeasures TestPrep.  Fisher is busy promoting his service now that the college football season is over and NFL draft-eligible players might be in the market for what he has to offer.  Our discussion was as follows. Darren Heitner: In five sentences or less, what is SportsMeasures […]

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The NFLPA Game

Besides Pro Day and Combine Training, NFL Contract Advisors are also focusing on the college football all-star games.  They could be trying to figure out how to get their clients into one of the games and/or focusing on getting their accepted clients into the best shape possible prior to the playing of the games.  Just […]

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Making A Case For Clint Robinson

Let me preface the following bullet points by saying that I am in no way suggesting that Clint Robinson starts next season on an MLB roster.  In all likelihood, the Kansas City Royals will be protecting Robinson on their 40-man roster by the middle of November 2010, preventing Robinson from being grabbed by another team […]

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The Significance of a Super Bowl in a Cold City like New York

The NFL owners voting to have an outdoor Super Bowl in the Meadowlands in 2014 is a drastic change to professional sports, which deserves a closer look at exactly what it means for the future of neutral site games. Other then the Super Bowl, the other major sporting events to play on a neutral court/field […]

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The NFL Takes to the Cage

Kudos to the Atlanta Falcons for being the first professional sports team to implement their own team-sponsored MMA training program in their off-season workouts. This is a voluntary workout program run by MMAthletics, a company founded by FOX Sports NFL Insider Jay Glazer and UFC legend Randy Couture. As the popularity of the UFC and […]

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Ask The Expert: Joseph McAuliffe, Edge Sports Academy

The most recent Ask The Expert is up at AccessAthletes.com.  Matthew Allinson hosted a certified strength and conditioning specialist named Joseph McAuliffe.  McAuliffe has been a fitness professional for almost a quarter of a century and is the Program Director of Edge Sports Academy and Health Club in Eatontown, NJ. He has trained over 300 Division […]

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Football Players May Be Tough as Nails, but They’re Not Invincible

This is a guest post from Albert Elias – President of Elias Sports Management, LLC. Follow Albert and 50+ other sports agents who are active on Twitter on the Master Twitter List of Sports Agents. Each of my NFL clients at Elias Sports Management has only one body. And if they go out there on […]

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Grading The Jennings Experiment

Being fully aware that it is still too early to deem Brandon Jennings‘ year overseas as a complete success, at this point in the season, he certainly is off to a promising start. Just a few days after an impressive 32 point, 9 assist performance against Chauncey Billups and the Nuggets, Brandon Jennings dropped an insane stat line. 55 […]

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Pete Parise Receives Biomechanical Analysis

Before Pete Parise finally left to Puerto Rico last Friday, he had been training nonstop, trying to get his body into even better shape for the start of next season.  He had been doing his training at Athletes Advantage, a state of the art indoor sports performance training facility located in South Florida.  On October […]