Here's a variety of topics and full-story links that'll help bring you up to date with what's going on around the league.
The football stadium, the one that houses the Jaguars, is just a long home run away from where Jeff Samardzija stood in a batter's box last week taking his cuts at batting-practice pitching.
http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/story/10813958
Former Jaguars star Tony Boselli spoke about the importance of fathers protecting their children recently at a Palms Presbyterian Church men's dinner.
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/050708/nes275728198.shtml
This is what we know about the Texans right now.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/5759631.html
Few people outside those paid to know knew much about Cary Williams, the Tennessee Titans' seventh-round pick in the 2008 NFL draft. Fewer knew anything about where he played, tiny Washburn University, a Division II school in Topeka, Kan.
Since drafting Jim Kiick in the fifth round 40 years ago, the Dolphins have had little success with late-round running backs. The new regime of Vice President of Football Operations Bill Parcells and General Manager Jeff Ireland is attempting to buck that trend with sixth-round running backs Jalen Parmele and Lex Hilliard.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/football/pro/dolphins/sfl-flspdolphins07sbmay07,0,3877368.story
Real life intruded for the past three seasons, but fortune brought Justin Wynn to the attention of the Dolphins. The capricious nature of roster life as a rookie free agent -- one of Wynn's Fort Wayne (Ind.) Snider High pals, cornerback Aaron Lane, was waived Monday after getting leapfrogged by mini-camp workout cornerback Scorpio Babers -- means Wynn might be lucky to make it to training camp still on the roster. But that is a long shot Wynn appreciates as a chance to help out his family, the reason for the three-season white space on his football résumé.
http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/story/523651.html
Entering the NFL as a first-round draft choice with the Jaguars in 1999, cornerback Fernando Bryant knew all about high expectations. They followed him to Detroit in 2004 after he signed a lucrative free-agent deal. What Bryant has experienced the last six weeks, since joining the Patriots, is something altogether different. He's flying under the radar.
http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/articles/2008/05/07/veteranquietlyfittingin/
The Bills will play eight games over five seasons in Toronto; three preseason games and five regular-season games. Fans have the option of buying a three-game package (for the two games this year and the one regular-season game in 2009) or the full eight-game package. Those who buy the eight-game package get a discount. The $295 seats near the corners of the lower deck cost $270 per game for the eight-game package.
http://www.buffalonews.com/sports/story/341024.html
