Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning talks to reporters in the locker room at the NFL football team's practice facility in Indianapolis, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011. The four-time league MVP gave reporters his latest medical update Friday, saying his workouts will increase and that the next phase of rehabilitation process will include throwing the ball. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Peyton Manning has some rare good news for the NFL's only winless team: His ramped-up rehabilitation program includes more throwing.Coach Jim Caldwell said Wednesday that Manning has picked up his regimen, though the four-time league MVP was not scheduled to practice with h ...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Rams running back Steven Jackson blinked when he saw the New Orleans Saints scored 62 points last week.The Saints (5-2) rolled to a 62-7 victory over the Indianapolis Colts, while the Rams (0-6) have 56 points all season."Well, what can you say?" Jackson said Thursday. "It suc ...
METAIRIE (AP) — With Mark Ingram missing a second straight practice Thursday, it appears more likely that he'll be scratched from the lineup just a week after the best performance of his young career.Fortunately for New Orleans, last season's leading rusher, Chris Ivory, appears ready to join ...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — It was almost an unfair advantage for the New Orleans Saints, playing a winless team minus its starting quarterback. Now they get a chance to experience it again.The Saints vow not to let last week's historic 62-7 drubbing of the Peyton Manning-less Colts go to their heads as ...
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — So the first time the Dallas Cowboys asked DeMarco Murray to be an important part of their offense, all the rookie did was run for more yards than Hall of Famer Tony Dorsett and NFL rushing king Emmitt Smith ever gained in any game.His 253 yards were the ninth-most by a ...
METAIRIE (AP) — No matter how many blowouts the Saints post while Sean Payton is overseeing games from a booth high above the field, the injured coach isn't about to stay away from the sideline any longer than necessary."When I'm healthy, I'll go back down to the field," Payton said Monday, sh ...
METAIRIE (AP) — Center Olin Kreutz told the New Orleans Saints that his playing days are over, informing the team that he has lost his passion for football.
“He has to feel really good about the passion he has got for the game and the love he has got for the game,” his agent Mark ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — When Sean Payton showed up at Saints practice this week, he was moving about the field on a motorized cart with his broken left leg elevated.
He had to use crutches to get around team headquarters and to his office, where he found a pile of things such as cookies and get-we ...
METAIRIE (AP) — Saints coach Sean Payton says tight end Jimmy Graham, who leads the team in receiving, has missed Thursday's practice with a sore right ankle.
Graham has 39 catches for 620 yards and three touchdowns, and last week became only the second tight end to have four straight games i ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Superdome will debut a new lighting system this week.The Times-Picayune reports dome officials, will in essence, flip the switch on a new LED lighting system, illuminating the outside of the 36-year-old stadium in a spectrum of animated colors and images.The lighting wil ...
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tampa Bay coach Raheem Morris went into Sunday's matchup against New Orleans knowing it would be difficult to slow down the Saints' red-hot offense.So the Bucs relied on Plan B: Keep the New Orleans offense off the field as much as possible and hope for a few mistakes.They a ...
