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Bill Parcells on Sunday NFL Countdown to Preview Patriots at Colts Game

October 25 , 2007 -- Sunday NFL Countdown Presented by IBM with Chris Berman and analysts Mike Ditka, Tom Jackson, Keyshawn Johnson and Emmitt Smith will preview the day’s NFL matchups Sunday at 11 a.m. ET. Chris Mortensen will also provide headlines and league news, and Steve Young will contribute his weekly Sunday segment – “Young is Restless” – featuring his opinion on the week's hottest topics.    » read more »

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MONDAY NIGHT COUNTDOWN, 7 P.M. ON ESPN

October 18, 2007 -- Monday Night Countdown Delivered by UPS with Berman, Jackson, Johnson, Parcells and Mortensen (in Bristol) and Stuart Scott, Young and Smith (at the MNF game in Jacksonville) will review the outcome of Sunday’s games and preview Monday Night Football. The pre-game show will lead into the kickoff of Monday Night Football – Indianapolis Colts at Jacksonville Jaguars (8:30 p.m.), featuring Mike Tirico, Ron Jaworski and Tony Kornheiser with sideline reporters Suzy Kolber and Michele Tafoya.    » read more »

October 12, 2007 -- (Washington, DC) - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee Chairwoman Linda Sánchez (D-CA), Committee Ranking Member Lamar Smith (R-TX), and Subcommittee Ranking Member Chris Cannon (R-UT) announced plans to expand an ongoing Judiciary Committee investigation into injuries suffered by professional football players and the lack of pension and health benefits available to these former players.    » read more »

Plus: The Magazine’s Fantasy Hoops Preview, ESPN.com’s Top 100 Fantasy Hoop Picks and MLB Post-Season Preview

October 10, 2007 -- COVER:

I’LL SHOW YOU. Want to know the secret behind Steelers running back Willie Parker’s smile? It’s having speed to burn, knowing he can do anything and believing that the best is yet to come. Tim Keown reports.

NBA FANTASY PREVIEW:    » read more »

Monday Night Countdown Features

October 11, 2007 -- Former NFL coach Bill Parcells, who led the Patriots to the team’s second Super Bowl appearance in 1997 and rebuilt the Dallas Cowboys into its current roster as the team’s coach from 2003 to 2006, will make a special Sunday NFL Countdown appearance Sunday, Oct. 14, at 11 a.m ET. Parcells will join Chris Berman, Mike Ditka, Keyshawn Johnson, Tom Jackson, Emmitt Smith and NFL insider Chris Mortensen as they preview “The Duel in Dallas” Patriots at Cowboys game featuring two 5-0 teams.    » read more »

October 4, 2007 -- Sunday NFL Countdown Presented by IBM with Chris Berman, Mike Ditka, Tom Jackson, Keyshawn Johnson and Emmitt Smith will preview the day’s NFL action Sunday at 11 a.m. ET. Chris Mortensen will provide headlines and league news, and Steve Young will contribute his weekly Sunday segment – “Young is Restless” – featuring his opinion on the week's hottest topics.    » read more »

Matt Leinart, Larry Johnson and Steven Jackson Featured as Madden NFL Football Gamers Vie for $100,000 Prize

Monday Night Football: Wins Night In Key Male Demos

September 25, 2007 -- ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown (11 a.m. – 1 p.m. ET) is averaging 2,258,000 households, an increase of 11% compared to the first three weeks of last year’s season. The show – which has seen its audience grow every year since 2001 – is averaging a 2.3 rating, up from 2.2. Among men 18-34, a key demo group, the show is averaging 859,000 impressions, up 33% from 648,000 at this point in 2006.    » read more »

September 20, 2007 -- Sunday NFL Countdown Presented by IBM with Chris Berman and analysts Mike Ditka, Tom Jackson, Keyshawn Johnson and Emmitt Smith will preview the day’s NFL matchups Sunday at 11 a.m. ET. Chris Mortensen will also provide headlines and league news, and Steve Young will contribute his weekly Sunday segment – “Young is Restless” – featuring his opinion on the week's hottest topics.    » read more »

NEW YORK, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The New York Jets have just been added to the roster of 13 National Football League (NFL) teams that will be participating in and supporting Nickelodeon's fourth annual Worldwide Day of Play, which takes place Saturday, September 29, 2007. The Jets and safety Erik Coleman will be hosting a Worldwide Day of Play event on September 25, at the Marie Curie School in Bayside, Queens. To date, 13 of the NFL's leading teams will host events in celebration of Worldwide Day of Play, reaching more than 4,000 kids combined.    » read more »

September 20, 2007 -- On Tuesday, Sept. 25, just two days after the Atlanta Falcons’ first home game without quarterback Michael Vick, who has pleaded guilty to charges of involvement with dogfighting, ESPN will convene a live Town Meeting in Atlanta to examine the repercussions of the story that shocked the city and the nation.    » read more »

- MNF: #1 Among All Networks In Prime Time
- ESPN.com NFL Content: 53 Million Page Views, Up 25% From 2006

September 19, 2007 -- Monday night’s Washington Redskins – Philadelphia Eagles game on ESPN’s Monday Night Football earned a 9.1 rating, ESPN’s best of 2007, boosting ESPN to the top spot among all television networks – broadcast or cable – in prime time. In addition, traffic to ESPN.com’s NFL content showed strong growth over last year’s debut season of MNF.    » read more »

"If the NFL doesn't get its house in order, I am prepared to introduce legislation to create an oversight commission to look at the actions of the retirement board."

09/18/2007 -- WASHINGTON D.C. – Senator John Kerry today told NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell that he wants the league to take seriously complaints from injured retired players, who say they receive little medical guidance, counseling or assistance once their playing days are over and they live with debilitating injuries.    » read more »