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| Cardinals part ways with Shipp |
NFL Football |
08/04/2008 |
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| Tempe, AZ (MySportsbook) - The Arizona Cardinals released running back Marcel Shipp after seven years of service on Monday. Shipp joined the Cardinals as an undrafted rookie free agent out of Massachusetts in 2001. In 87 career games with the Cardinals, including 28 starts, Shipp racked up 2,197 yards on the ground with 11 touchdowns. He also caught 113 balls for 937 yards and three scores. Also on Monday, the Cardinals signed free agent offensive lineman Jasper Harvey, who played for the Orlando Predators in |
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| Cardinals sign CB Rodgers-Cromartie |
NFL Football |
07/25/2008 |
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| Tempe, AZ (MySportsbook) - The Arizona Cardinals signed cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, Arizona's first round pick in this year's draft, to a six- year contract on Friday. In accordance with team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed. The 16th overall pick out of Tennessee State, Rodgers-Cromartie was a third- team All-America selection last season after collecting 37 tackles, 11 passes defended and two interceptions, both of which he returned for touchdowns. He started 39 of the 44 games he ap |
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| Patriots release Scott Player |
NFL Football |
06/12/2008 |
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| Foxboro, MA (MySportsbook) - The New England Patriots have released punter Scott Player, who had signed as a free agent in April. Player, a 10-year veteran, has played for the Arizona Cardinals and Cleveland Browns. He punted in three games with Cleveland last season before being released on October 8. The 38-year-old Florida State product spent nine seasons with Arizona and holds most of the Cardinals' punting records. He is the club's leader with 714 punts, 30,752 punting yards and 179 punts downed inside t |
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| Burress won't practice without a new contract |
NFL Football |
06/11/2008 |
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| ' Burress said. ``Everybody wants to be treated fairly.'' By current standards, Burress is being underpaid. Terrell Owens of Dallas and Randy Moss of New England recently signed three-year contracts for $27 million, while Larry Fitzgerald of the Arizona Cardinals got a four-year, $40 million contract with a $30 million guarantee. ``This is only my ninth season,'' Burress said. ``I'm in the prime years of my career. I know I can play stellar football for at least another four or five more years.'' Despite |
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| Cardinals sign 1st of 7 draft picks |
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06/06/2008 |
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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) -Rookie running back Tim Hightower has signed a three-year contract with the Arizona Cardinals, becoming the first of the team's seven draft picks to agree to terms. Financial details of the deal weren't announced Friday. Hightower, a fifth-round pick, rushed for 1,924 yards and 20 touchdowns last season at Richmond and set 18 school records. The rushing total ranks as the third-highest total in Colonial Athletic Association history behind only Cardinals teammate Marcel Shipp (2,542 in |
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| Pats ink OL Ross |
NFL Football |
06/02/2008 |
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| New England Patriots added veteran depth to their roster Monday, signing offensive lineman Oliver Ross. Per team policy, terms were not disclosed. The 33-year-old is entering his 11th NFL season. The 6-foot-4, 327-pounder spent last season with the Arizona Cardinals, but did not play due to a triceps injury. In 2006, he played in 11 games with five starts. Prior to his stint in Arizona, the Iowa State product dressed for the Steelers (2000-04); Eagles (1999) and Cowboys (1998) -- who drafted him in the fifth ro |
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| Leinart still No. 1, but Warner contending |
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06/02/2008 |
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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) -Matt Leinart is the Arizona Cardinals' first-string quarterback. Kurt Warner has been taking some snaps with the first-string offense in voluntary workouts. Confusing? Coach Ken Whisenhunt doesn't think so. ``Same thing I said back at the end of the season: Matt's our starter,'' Whisenhunt said after Monday's practice. ``Kurt's going to be there pushing him.'' In the NFL, it's never too early for a quarterback controversy. The Leinart vs. Warner debate has simmered since the Cardina |
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| Ex-NFL player Hambrick gets 5 years for drug sales |
Headlines |
05/13/2008 |
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -A Tampa judge has sentenced former NFL running back Troy Hambrick to five years in prison for selling crack cocaine. The former Dallas Cowboys and Arizona Cardinals player was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday. Hambrick pleaded guilty on Feb. 26 to one count of distributing 50 grams or more of crack cocaine. Court documents show Hambrick sold the drugs in 2007 to a confidential informants near his home in Lacoochee, about 40 miles north of Tampa. Hambrick's |
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| Ex-NFL lineman gets 6-year prison term for drug offenses |
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05/10/2008 |
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PHOENIX (AP) -Former NFL lineman Luis Sharpe was sentenced Friday to six years in prison and four years' probation for a series of drug offenses. The 47-year-old Sharpe played for the St. Louis and Arizona Cardinals from 1982-94 and was a three-time Pro Bowl selection. In a pre-sentence report, Sharpe admitted that he first started using cocaine when he was a 21-year-old rookie in the NFL and it was ``the worst mistake I ever made.'' Sharpe has been convicted of nine felonies since 1995 and spent severa |
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| Randle among six selected to Divisional College Hall of Fame |
Division I-AA College Football |
05/07/2008 |
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| ve player to win the Harlon Hill Trophy as the top player in Division II, and led North Alabama to three straight Division II national championships in the early 1990s. The three-time All-America selection played 10 seasons in the NFL, nine with the Arizona Cardinals before finishing his career with the New Orleans Saints. Ballard helped Mount Union to its first-ever Division III national title in 1993, was a first-team All-America pick in 1992 and '93, and won the inaugural Melberger Award as the division's pla |
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