The Associated Press has chosen Tom Brady as the NFL Comeback Player of the Year due to its incredible good performance this season after being out for several months due to a knee injury he suffered during the first quarter of the 2008 season. Brady obtained 19 votes from a panel of 50 sports writers and broadcasters covering the NFL. Tampa Bay Carnell Williams ended second with 14 votes.

Wes Welker, the New England Patriots star receiver, is officially out of the playoffs after an MRI confirmed that he tore the anterior cruciate ligament and the medial collateral ligament in his left knee. The team and coach Bill Belichick are already resigned to moving into the first round of the AFC playoffs without the player.

The National Football League will increase measures against concussions suffered by players and will settle teams to receive advice from independent doctors while some of the team members are recovering for one of those injuries, said The New York Times.

The crowd at the Metrodome on Sunday night chanted “MVP” and chants were directed to no other than quarterback Brett Favre, who was sitting on the bench during the fourth quarter of the Viking’s victory 35-9.

It’s midseason for the NFL and sports bets are hot and so is the championship. The only two undefeated teams, Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saints, seem to be heading to the Super Bowl XLIV, however, some teams have improved their performances and may change the story.

Andrei Kirilenko scored 24 points, and Mehmet Okur had his best game since joining Utah with 12 points and 9 rebounds to help the host Jazz improve to 4-0 with a 102-91 victory over the Denver Nuggets last night.

New York Yankees slugger Jason Giambi injected himself with human growth hormone in 2003 and also used steroids for at least three seasons, according to his grand jury testimony reviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle.

The testimony given in December 2003 to the federal grand jury investigating BALCO contradicts Giambi's public proclamations that he never used performance-enhancing drugs.

Midway Games Inc. plans to publish a "mature"-rated pro football video game with the kinds of violence and excess shunned by the National Football League, the company said on Thursday.

The game, called "Blitz: Playmakers," is being designed with the help of a writer from the now-canceled ESPN series "Playmakers," which the NFL condemned for its behind-the-scenes portraits of player drug use and mayhem.

Long-suffering Eagles fans would never be so foolish to think a trip to the Super Bowl was a lock, even though their Birds are clearly the best team in the NFC this season.

"Something could still happen," is a dreaded, but not uncommon thought among loyalists.
Something did.

Star receiver Terrell Owens will miss the final two games of the regular season and the playoffs and possibly the Super Bowl because of a sprained right ankle, a devastating blow for a team that has lost three straight NFC title games.

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