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Morris entered the 2003 NFL draft but was not signed. A free agent, he spent part of last summer at the Indianapolis Colts’ preseason camp before he was waived at the beginning of August. He was then claimed by the Philadelphia Eagles but was released at the end of the month...
Want a glimpse of the VOIP future? In mid-January, about two weeks before the Super Bowl, NFL Films plans to set up makeshift offices in about 20 trailers in the parking lot outside Houston's Reliant Stadium and use Cisco IP equipment to get on the NFL Films network. Several dozen employees will be relocated from company headquarters in Mount Laurel, N.J. Call one of them at her New Jersey phone number, and she will pick up a phone in the Houston trailer. Leave her a voice mail, and it will pop up in her e-mail account...
...included a player stealing painkillers from a young cancer patient. Tampa Bay Buccaneers star Warren Sapp calls Playmakers the worst show on television and now refuses to talk to ESPN reporters. "The saddest part is that it's being put out by the 'worldwide sports leader,'" says Sapp. Declares NFL Players Association executive Doug Allen: "Whoever is responsible for this owes the NFL an apology...
...Sports Talk ESPN's programming chief, Mark Shapiro, is scrambling for higher ratings--and blitzing the NFL...
...hold your breath. "To hypothesize that Playmakers has harmed a 24-year relationship is absurd," Shapiro says. He was also instrumental in hiring Rush Limbaugh for ESPN's Sunday-morning NFL pregame show. But when the conservative talk-radio host made his racially charged comments about Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, Shapiro was, at least initially, uncharacteristically mute. In the end, he helped force Limbaugh out. "Put as much blame as you want on me," Shapiro says...