The league's roster of outspoken gay rights supporters has been depleted, and just when the NFL appears to need them most: Football is preparing for its own Jason Collins moment, a week after the first major American team sport athlete came out. But were these less prominent voices released because of their loud voices on the NFL's big gay issues, or because they weren't good enough? And will the real Pro Bowlers please stand up?
Today in sports: Fox wins the television rights to the 2018 and 2022 World Cup, the University of Missouri is likely moving to the SEC, and the rise and fall of the football neck roll.
Today in sports: Tony La Russa is a tactical genius, more than 125 NFL alums are now suing the league over concussions, and the greatest quarterback in Canadian football history is now an American.
Today in sports: The iPad comes to the NFL locker room, the problem with the NFL's concussion policy, and a Red Sox pitcher says he only drank beer in the clubhouse to help the team.
Plus: The NFL wants to invest in football-related startups
Plus: Wayne Rooney won't be distracted for England Euro Cup games, because he won't be playing
The cantankerous quote machine of Oakland, LA, then Oakland again is dead at 82
Plus: Missouri ponders staying in the Big 12; Grantland now available in print (and leather)
Plus: The NFL is going keep sending teams to London until the idea works
Plus: How European soccer spending got so out-of-control
Plus: More details emerge on the NFL's vast fake injury conspiracy
Plus: Dennis Rodman didn't speak with Michael Jordan in his three years with the Bulls
Plus: The first 'J. Edgar' trailer is all about the crime
Plus: Jeffrey Ross makes the case for watching the Charlie Sheen roast
Also in sports: The Redskins owner decides suing weekly paper isn't helping his image
Plus: A new study says running backs and quarterbacks suffer the most serious concussions
The NFL returns tonight, and not a moment too soon
President opts to go head-to-head with the NFL instead of GOP deabte
Plus: Michael Vick didn't even want to be an Eagle back in 2009
Players are expected to approve a new collective bargaining agreement today
Terms of a new labor pact are in place, but there's still three days of paperwork before it is official
Then maybe there wouldn't be a lockout next season, suggests one commenter
The NBA's labor Cold Warsomehow manages to be worse than advertised
On for-profit candidates, the debt limit golf game, and the 'illegal' war in Libya
Plus: Hollywood agencies want to be in the Mel Gibson business
Players are turning to internships, selling used cars, and substitute teaching
What Judge Susan Nelson's ruling means for football fans
Some cities will actually save money if there's no football this year
Power litigator David Boies is defending the NFL. It won't be his toughest case.
Purveyors of chicken wings, video games and gambling are hoping for labor peace
There's no way to enforce drug testing and agent regulations during the contract standoff
Negotiations between the players union and team owners collapsed again
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