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Yahoo! Sports - NFL - Arizona Cardinals NewsLatest news and information about the Arizona Cardinals.Ravens' Birk named Payton NFL Man of Year Award winner (Yahoo! Sports) Baltimore Ravens center Matt Birk was named Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Saturday night. The award, which recognizes a player's off-the-field community service and playing excellence, was handed out as part of NFL Honors, a two-hour primetime awards TV special that aired... Cardinals Team Report (Yahoo! Sports) It took five years of trying, but the Cardinals defense finally played the way Ken Whisenhunt envisioned. Now it's up to Whisenhunt to fix an offense that's been the main reason the team finished out of the playoffs for the past two seasons. The defense showed great improvement under Ray Horton, the third defensive coordinator Whisenhunt hired in his five years in Arizona. The Cardinals led the league in third-down percentage and were second in red zone defense. That unit must concentrate on giving up fewer big plays, but by the end of the season, it was forming into a dominating group. The offense, meanwhile, hasn't produced since Kurt Warner retired at the end of the 2009 season. Capsule look at Hall of Fame finalists (The Canadian Press) A capsule look at the finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame: Cardinals' Fitzgerald plans to meet with Peyton Manning (Yahoo! Sports) Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald is looking to connect with Peyton Manning. The two plan on having dinner this week in Indianapolis, according to Tom James of the Terre Haute Tribune-Star. Fitzgerald hopes to recruit Manning should the quarterback get released by the... Mega-deal for Megatron? (The National Football Post) The Detroit Lions have serious salary cap problems heading into the 2012 season. The team is already using... Ravens owner backs Flacco, still eyes Super Bowl (PA SportsTicker) By DAVID GINSBURG AP Sports Writer Report: Bucs still hoping to pry McNulty from Cardinals (The National Footbal... It?s not uncommon when NFL teams deny permission for assistant coaches on staff to interview with other... This Super Bowl rematch anything but trashy (PA SportsTicker) By JOE KAY AP Sports Writer Giants defeat Patriots in Madden?s Super Bowl simulation (Yahoo! Sports) For whatever curse is bestowed upon the cover athlete of each season's Madden NFL game, one doesn't apply to the victory of EA's annual Super Bowl simulation. In six of the past eight seasons, the winner of a pregame simulation ? Continue reading ? Marshall remains king of the islands, leads AFC to Pro Bowl win (Yahoo! Sports) If Hawaii ever were to land a professional football team, Brandon Marshall would be its first target. The Miami Dolphins receiver scored a single-game record four touchdowns, finishing with 176 receiving yards to lead the AFC to a 59-41 win over the NFC in the Pro Bowl on Sunday at... Man tries to sell Pat Tillman?s game-worn cleats on eBay ? for $3.2 million (... The Internet is a haven for weirdness at the best of times, but once in a while, you come across something that makes you wonder just what people are thinking when they get up in the morning. So it was ? Continue reading ? Irsay, Manning: Super Bowl Sideshow in Indianapolis (Yahoo! Sports) By Frank Cooney The Sports Xchange As Indianapolis prepares to play host to Sunday's Super Bowl XXVI, the buildup for the big game isn't the only drama in the city for sports fans. Although it is quarterback Eli Manning and the New York Giants who are playing in the game,... Pro Bowl to feature plenty of offense, new faces (PA SportsTicker) By JAYMES SONG AP Sports Writer Cardinals say no to Bucs on top offensive coordinator choice (Yahoo! Sports) The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have been denied permission to interview Arizona Cardinals wide receivers coach John McNulty for their offensive coordinator position, according to an NFL.com report on Saturday. McNulty had served as new Buccaners coach Greg Schiano's offensive... CVC Questions Rams London Game Plans (Yahoo! Sports) By Howard Balzer The Sports Xchange St. Louis, MO -- It's been 12 days since the Rams introduced Jeff Fisher as the team's next head coach. Since then, Fisher has officially added three coaches and is believed to have agreements with several more. It's a numbers game at the Pro Bowl (The Canadian Press) KAPOLEI, Hawaii - The Pro Bowl has turned into a numbers game. Why Cardinals may be eyeing Peyton Manning (Yahoo! Sports) By Len Pasquarelli The Sports Xchange There are good reasons why the Arizona Cardinals are rumored to have some interest in acquiring quarterback Peyton Manning. For one, as part of Arizona quarterback Kevin Kolb's five-year, $63 million contract, the Cardinals owe him a $7... Pasquarelli Tip Sheet: Is NFL hiring color blind? (Yahoo! Sports) By Len Pasquarelli The Sports Xchange One of the more compelling bits of Super Bowl XLVI trivia, courtesy of John Wooten, is that the game marks the sixth consecutive year in which at least one of the teams in the championship matchup will include either a head coach or a general... Report: Chiefs may not pay balance of Haley contract (The National Football P... A report has emerged from the Twitter feed of Mike Jurecki, a broadcaster for XTRA-910 in Phoenix that the... Brees is most powerful athlete in U.S. (ProFootballWeekly.com) The Bloomberg/Businessweek 2012 Power 100 ranking of the most powerful professional athletes in the U.S. Todd Haley, Cardinals could have a reunion (The National Football Post) Todd Haley could be returning to the Arizona Cardinals after all. The last time he was with the team, as the... Mock draft 1.0 (ProFootballWeekly.com) An NFL-record 65 underclassmen were sorely needed to upgrade the talent in a weak senior class and figure to... Super Bowl XLVI Super Cars Locations Announced (Yahoo! Contributor Network) The Indianapolis Super Bowl Committee has released the locations of the Super Cars--33 IndyCar race cars painted to represent each of the 32 NFL teams, plus Super Bowl XLVI--for the Super Bowl festivities leading up to the big game. Calvin Johnson says contract talks could start soon (The National Football Post) Calvin Johnson expects the Detroit Lions to get down to business with him soon. General manager Martin Mayhew,... McGinnis leaving Titans to join Rams (The National Football Post) Long-time Tennessee Titans assistant coach and former Arizona Cardinals head coach Dave McGinnis will be... Not-so-special special teams can lose an NFL game (AP) If it's true, as the saying goes, that "defense wins championships," the NFL's conference title games offered ample evidence that special teams can lose them. "You're going to need special teams. A kick will win a game more often than a run or pass will win the game, and a special teams tackle can make a big difference," former Minnesota Vikings and Arizona Cardinals... Dolphins coveting Peyton Manning (Yahoo! Sports) If the Indianapolis Colts decide to set four-time NFL MVP Peyton Manning free this offseason, there will be more than a few teams interested. The word on Sunday was that the Arizona Cardinals, Miami Dolphins, New York Jets, and Washington ? Continue reading ? Steelers' Arians retires (Yahoo! Sports) Steelers offensive coordinator Bruce Arians has retired from coaching. Head coach Mike Tomlin announced in a statement that Arians was stepping away from football. "Bruce Arians has informed me that he will retire from coaching," Tomlin said in a statement released by the... Patriots may be able to overcome woeful D (Yahoo! Sports) Teams as generous as New England's have managed to capture the Super Bowl titles. Rex Ryan, Jim Schwartz the last two left in 11-man coaching Class of ?09 (Yah... Andrew Siciliano of the NFL Network had quite the interesting factoid to open Tuesday's "Total Access" show. With the firing of Indianapolis Colts head coach Jim Caldwell, all but two head coaches hired by NFL teams in 2009 ? a ? Continue reading ? Newsfeed display by CaRP |
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