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Halloween Costume Party for Sports Fans … What a Blast

What are you Sports Fans doing for Halloween this year? I love dressing up in costumes, so we get our friends and family together at our house, dress up the kids for Halloween and take them trick or treating, and then have a costume party for the adults afterwards.

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Favre sends text message to Packers GM Thompson

The Green Bay Packers and Brett Favre are publicly remaining quiet on reports that the quarterback is reconsidering his decision to retire. But according to media reports, that doesn’t mean there’s no activity behind the scenes.

Favre has said little about the report that he was considering a return to the NFL, other than telling the Sun Herald of Biloxi, Miss. that “it’s all rumor” and that there was “no reason” for a media frenzy. And the Packers said they had “no reaction” to ESPN’s report that Favre had an “itch” to come out of retirement and report to training camp later this month.

But WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee reported Monday that Favre sent a text message to Packers GM Ted Thompson on Saturday — and that Thompson’s reply was that he is on vacation and the two men will have to talk later.

And Sports Illustrated reported on its Web site Monday that Thompson has ignored phone calls from Favre’s agent, James “Bus” Cook, while sending an intermediary to Mississippi to talk to Favre. According to that report, Cook is expected to request that Favre be taken off the NFL’s reserve/retired list within the next 10 days.

Last week, ESPN’s Chris Mortensen reported Favre had communicated his potential desire to return to coach Mike McCarthy, but that talks had not advanced to a substantive stage, according to a Packers source. The source said the Packers would be reluctant to open the door for Favre because “Brett retired for the right reasons, even though I know his family is tugging on him [to play].”

And at least one Packers player said that Favre hasn’t completely gotten the game out of his system.

Last week on ESPN’s “NFL Live,” Packers defensive back Al Harris said: “I’ve talked to Brett and I know he has the itch to come back and play. If he will or not, I don’t know. But I know he’s feeling he wants to play.”

When asked how Favre expressed his desire to return, Harris said the quarterback said, “I got the itch.”

Citing NFL sources, multiple media outlets in Wisconsin reported last week that Favre or his agent contacted the Packers about returning a few weeks ago and the conversation ended with the quarterback asking for his release. The team reportedly refused his request.

If Favre indeed decides to return, that would put the Packers in an awkward situation. The entire offseason has been spent preparing Aaron Rodgers to play quarterback to the point where “the offensive scheme has evolved” and psychologically closing the door on Favre’s legendary 17-year career.

If Favre asked the Packers, in writing, to reinstate him to active status, the team would have to comply or release him.

Vick files for bankruptcy protection

Falcons among seven creditors listed in federal court filing

Michael Vick filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in federal court in Virginia Monday, citing debts of $10 million to $50 million.

One of the creditors listed in the court papers filed by the imprisoned Falcons quarterback is the Atlanta Falcons for a claim of $3.75 million as a pro-rated signing bonus. The claim is listed as disputed.

Of the six other creditors listed in the court documents three are banks, including two that recently won judgments against Vick. The largest creditor is Joel Enterprises, Inc. with a claim of $4.5 million. That claim is also listed as disputed.

Calls to Vick’s attorney listed in court documents, Paul K. Campsen of Norfolk, Virginia, and the Falcons where not immediately returned.

Vick is currently serving a 23-month prison sentence in Leavenworth, Kansas for his guilty plea in federal felony charges related to dogfighting. His release date is July, 2009.

According to court documents, upon his release from prison Vick “will return to his home in Hampton, Va. and will seek to rebuild his life and career.”

Keith Olbermann, Dan Patrick reunited on NBC

On a busy Monday on the NFL broadcast front, Dan Marino officially lost one of his two TV gigs, as expected, and Dan Patrick rejoined former ESPN “tag-team” partner Keith Olbermann, this time, at NBC.

The details:

- Inside the NFL, moving from HBO to Showtime, unveiled its new cast: CBS studio host James Brown, NBC’s Cris Collinsworth and CBS lead analyst Phil Simms. Collinsworth is the only commentator accompanying the show in its move from HBO, whose Inside the NFL cast also featured Bob Costas, Marino and Cris Carter.

CBS, which is producing the program for Showtime, will add a fourth commentator - either a permanent analyst, analysts on a rotating basis, or current players on bye weeks. Marino wasn’t invited to move to Showtime but will keep his job in CBS’ studio.

“We wanted to have some connection to the HBO show with Collinsworth,” CBS Sports president Sean McManus said. “We wanted to have some CBS presence, but we didn’t want it to be a CBS show in its entirety. Dan has a really important role with CBS Sports. It was more of a numbers game. It wasn’t so much we didn’t want Dan on the show. I think Dan understands that.”

Inside the NFL will run 23 weeks on Showtime, beginning at 10 p.m. on Sept. 10. HBO dropped the show after 31 years.

- Patrick and Olbermann - perhaps ESPN’s most popular SportsCenter team ever before Olbermann left - will be reunited 11 years later as cohosts (along with Costas and others) on NBC’s Football Night in America at 7 p.m. Sundays this coming season.

Patrick and Olbermann, who have done some radio together in recent years, will split up most of the narration of highlights. Besides Costas, the other cast members also return - Collinsworth, Tiki Barber, Jerome Bettis and Peter King.

“Bob will do fewer highlights, and he knew this when he was pushing for this idea more than 15 months ago,” NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol said. “Costas has never counted lines in his life.”

Under terms of his departure from ESPN, Patrick wasn’t allowed to take the job with NBC last season. But beginning Sept. 1, ESPN can no longer restrict Patrick’s TV opportunities.

“When we worked together from 1992 to ’97, we were as good as any five people in the business,” said Olbermann, who anchors a weeknight news show on MSNBC. “The undercurrent was for him to crack me up or me to crack him up.”

Patrick - who has a syndicated radio show and writes a column for Sports Illustrated - said when Olbermann left SportsCenter for a job at Fox, “I said you’ll never get this again. We never tried to understand why it worked. It just did.”

Patrick’s Olympic duties for NBC will begin at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Rooneys Are Considering Selling Part of the Steelers

Ever since Art Rooney used $2,500 to pay the N.F.L.’s entrance fee for his franchise in Pittsburgh in 1933, the Rooney clan has been among the league’s grand old families. Along with the Maras in New York, the Rooneys have been behind a single team for the entirety of their existence.

But a statement released Monday cast doubt on how much longer that will be true.

The Steelers announced that the family had spent the past two years examining a restructuring of the ownership. A statement on the team’s Web site said that part of the franchise could be sold, and part could be consolidated under the control of Dan Rooney, the team’s chairman; and his son Art Rooney II, the team president. Dan Rooney is the oldest son of Art Rooney Sr., who died in 1988.

The move would help the Rooney family, which owns racetracks in New York and Florida, fall into line with the N.F.L.’s policy prohibiting the joint ownership of a team and certain gambling operations.

On its Web site Monday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the franchise had been “secretly shopped to potential buyers.” The article did not name those prospective buyers.

The Steelers’ statement did not explicitly mention the possibility that outside interests could acquire part of the team.

“I have spent my entire life devoted to the Pittsburgh Steelers and the National Football League,” Dan Rooney said in the statement. “I will do everything possible to work out a solution to ensure my father’s legacy of keeping the Steelers in the Rooney family and in Pittsburgh for at least another 75 years.”

The Rooney family has led the franchise through five Super Bowl championship seasons, from the team’s dynasty years of the 1970s through a victory in Super Bowl XL in February 2006.

A similar concern was raised in baseball in 2006, when Robert Nutting, the chairman of the Pittsburgh Pirates, bought Seven Springs Mountain Resort in western Pennsylvania.

A casino with 500 slot machines was planned for the resort, but Nutting abandoned the project because Major League Baseball forbids club owners to own or operate casinos.

Patriots cut ties with DB Andrews

Foxboro, MA (Sports Network) - The New England Patriots released defensive back Willie Andrews on Tuesday, after the third-year player was arrested for the second time this offseason on Monday.

According to a Tuesday story in the Boston Globe, Andrews was arrested in Lowell, Massachusetts on gun charges after allegedly pulling a gun on his girlfriend during an argument. It was the second scrape with the law during this offseason for Andrews, who was arrested two days after New England’s 17-14 loss to the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLII and charged with intent to distribute marijuana.

The 24-year-old Andrews, a seventh-round pick by the Pats in 2006, saw most of his time as a special teamer. He had one tackle on defense, with 23 tackles on special teams and returned four kickoffs for 149 yards.

Also on Tuesday, the Pats signed sixth-round draft pick Bo Ruud, a linebacker from Nebraska.

Former Charger Kiel dies in car crash

San Diego, CA (Sports Network) - Former Chargers safety Terrence Kiel died late Friday in a car crash. He was 27 years old.

The San Diego Union-Tribune reported the crash on Saturday. According to police, a witness saw Kiel driving the wrong way down a road before his 2004 Chevy sedan rolled near an intersection in Scripps Ranch, a part of San Diego.

According to the Union-Tribune, Kiel was ejected from his car, and was barely breathing when emergency personnel reached him. The Lufkin, Texas, native was pronounced dead at 11:28 p.m.

A second-round pick from Texas A&M in the 2003 NFL draft, Kiel has been out of the league since the Chargers released him after a guilty plea to a felony drug charge in February 2007, according to the Union-Tribune.

Kiel compiled 278 tackles, four interceptions, and two forced fumbles in four seasons with the Chargers. He played in 59 games, starting in 51 from 2003-2006 with San Diego.

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Class action suit asks for more than $100 million from Patriots, Belichick

NEW ORLEANS — A class action lawsuit filed in federal court here Friday claims that the New England Patriots “fraudulent videotaping” of the St. Louis Rams’ walk-through prior to Super Bowl XXXVI 2002 Super Bowl should cost the team damages in excess of $100 million.

The suit targets the Patriots and head coach Bill Belichick. The suit says: “The basis of this action is that the Defendants illegally videotaped the St. Louis Rams (”Rams”) “walk through” prior to the 2002 Super Bowl for the purpose of gaining an unfair advantage in the game.” It claims the Patriots were engaged in fraud, racketeering, breach of contract, and were in violation of Louisiana’s unfair trade practices and consumer protection act. Read more

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Seattle’s Alexander Is Running in Place

KIRKLAND, Wash., Jan. 3 — The first time was a shock. Seattle Seahawks running back Shaun Alexander lay flat on the turf of his home stadium earlier this season, a failed running play having knocked him three yards for a loss and, as he began to pick himself up, there came from around him a strange sound.

Was it booing?

He looked up at the stands, unsure if he heard right. Read more

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