The Packers will have to cut the current 90 man roster down to 53 for the season's start in just a few weeks and one of the players who's destiny is in the air is Donald Driver. There are currently 12 men fighting for five or six WR spots on that final roster. It seems a foregone conclusion that guys like Jordy Nelson, Greg Jennings, Randall Cobb and James Jones are already penned onto that final ...

When it came down to whether to sign Cedric Benson, a back with no home and a slightly shady past, or Ryan Grant, who'd put in many years with the team, the Packers chose Benson. The rumor is that the team was worried Grant wouldn't be able to live up to expectations and wanted to keep him from suffering the indignity of being released. Benson spent the off-season as a free agent and didn't get th...

The new NFL CBA mandates no two-a-days, but otherwise the recently released Packers training camp schedule looks like it has in year's past. Mike McCarthy talked about eliminating night practices - something he'd himself instituted a few years ago. Those practices are super-popular with the fans and apparnetly that was enough to convince McCarthy they should stick around. With all the Packers' pre...

Call the Observers what you will—traitors to the American way, apostates to the great creed of sports fandom—but the NFL's annual pageant for restocking its rosters...

The Packers drafted a total of 8 players during the draft - I blogged about Nick Perry again, so the others are Jerel Worthy, DT, Michigan State Second Round (51) Casey Hayward, CB, Vandebilt Second Round (62) Mike Daniels, DT, Iowa Fourth Round (132) Jerron McMillian, C, Maine Fourth Round (133) Terrell Manning, ILB, NC State Fifth Round (163) Andrew Datko, OT, Florida State Seventh Round (241) B...

Kevin Zeitler started the Badgers off on the right foot Thursday night when we was drafted no. 27 overall in the first round of the NFL Draft. Zeitler, the second guard and fourth lineman taken in the draft, made it a second consecutive year and third time in the last six years that a Badger lineman was taken in the first round of the draft. Zeitler, a first-team All-American his senior year, was ...

Pre-draft reports on Perry are somewhat spotty - he'll have to transition from DE to a 3-4 OLB, but current Packer OLBs Jamari Lattimore, Vic So'oto, Frank Zombo and Erik Walden were all college DEs, so position coach Kevin Greene does have experience helping guys through the transition. Scouting reports say that Perry is explosive, but did gain a lot of leverage from having his hand on the ground...

Next week the dizzying coverage of the NFL draft will remind us that whatever the season, football is the No. 1 professional sport in America. But the NFL is facing a crisis created by the nature of the sport. A torrent of evidence shows that repeated full-speed collisions cause terrible long-term damage to many players' brains, to say nothing of their bones. Even as the NFL acts to protect its human assets, the “Bountygate” scandal surrounding former New Orleans...

As high-profile events periodically prove, politics and athletics have long had a love-hate relationship, the affinity ebbing and flowing with the cultural tides. In the tumultuous 1960s, for instance, stars like Muhammed Ali, Arthur Ashe and John Carlos...

Call it the Final Five: the hours it took for Wisconsin's agonizing one-point loss to Syracuse, followed by Marquette's cold-shooting exit against Florida. A sudden ending just two steps short of the Final Four always stirs the...