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Football's toll
Rookies, veterans, retirees ‘re-examining things’ about post-NFL days

Junior Seau’s suicide is troubling NFL players.

In this Jan. 10, 2010 file photo, New England Patriots linebacker Junior Seau (55) warms up on the field before an NFL wild-card playoff football game in Foxborough, Mass.
Sure Footed
Packers Donald Driver named Dancing With the Stars champion

Green Bay receiver and partner Peta Murgatroyd celebrate win

This 2011 file photo shows Donald Driver of the Green Bay Packers NFL football team. Driver will be among the 12 celebrity contestants on the next season of the ABC dancing competition, premiering March 19. (AP Photo, file)
ALLAN MAKI
Family fears bad news after donating former CFLer’s brain to research

Former Winnipeg Blue Bomber Doug MacIver ‘suspected several times he could have CTE,’ son says

Doug MacIver Jr., pictured at the Canad Inns stadium in Winnipeg, Mb on May 14, 2012. MacIver donated the brain of his father, former Blue Bomber Doug Sr., to Boston University for concussion study. Doug Sr who passed away in January always felt that he had lasting damage to his brain. (Thomas Fricke for The Globe and Mail)
NFL
Independent counsel: Saints players made bounty payments

A former U.S. attorney hired by the NFL to evaluate its investigation of the New Orleans Saints' bounty program says the evidence shows payments were handed out and received for some hits on targeted opponents.

Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre (R) is tackled by New Orleans Saints linebacker Scott Fujita (L) and Anthony Hargrove in the third quarter of play in the NFL's NFC Championship football game in New Orleans, Louisiana January 24, 2010. Hargrove was called for roughing the passer on the play.
Teboo
Tim Tebow booed at Yankee Stadium

New York backup gets rude welcome to Big Apple from baseball fans

New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow speaks Celebration Church's 'Easter on the Hill' in Georgetown, Texas, on Easter Sunday, April 8, 2012. (AP Photo/William Philpott)
Delayed again
Vikings fans tired of hearing ‘wait ‘til next year’ on new stadium

Governor Mark Dayton hopes to revive bill and solve NFL riddle for Twin Cities

Minnesota Vikings fans continue to wait for a new stadium to be built. AP File Photo/Joerg Sarbach
Cost of a Contract
Rookie pay could cause trade boom

Lower rookie pay means teams don't need to fear albatross contracts.

Quarterback Eli Manning, from the University of Mississippi, holds up a San Diego Chargers jersey after being chosen by the Chargers as the first overall pick in the 2004 NFL Draft, at Madison Square Garden in New York, April 24, 2004. The Chargers then traded him to the New York Giants shortly afterwards for future draft picks.