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Bills Commentary: Little Gronk makes the cut, Lawson misses out: Bills slash roster to 53 players as week 1 begins

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CURTIS HENRY Assistant Sports Editor   The Buffalo Bills announced their final 53-man roster for the start of the season on Friday, more than 24 hours in advance of the league’s 4 p.m. Saturday roster cut deadline. The most notable takeaway from Friday was the release of veteran fullback Jerome......
Sports

Fantasy players to buy low and sell high: The NFL is back this week and so is fantasy football

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CURTIS HENRY Assistant Sports Editor After six and a half long, dreary months without a single game of professional American football, the NFL is set to kick off on Thursday night with a Super Bowl rematch between the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers. The triumphant return of the sport brings......
Opinion

NFL quarterback Kaepernick has every right to sit

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San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is the only backup QB in the league that can’t get out of the spotlight. Given all of the wrong reasons that NFL players have been in the spotlight for in the past few seasons — dog fighting, murder, domestic violence, drug abuse —......
Scallion

Making Kaepernickuragua great again: Quarterback turns conquistador, gets own country

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PATRICK BENNETT Staff Lampoonist   Lately, all the rage and the subject of American grandmothers’ posts have revolved around San Fransisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Kaepernick, a Scorpio from birth, sat during the national anthem during a pre-season NFL game. People at the stadium were enjoying their day at the......
Sports

Commentary: Bills may have won offseason, but have lost preseason: Injuries and suspensions among big storylines in Bills camp

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CURTIS HENRY Assistant Sports Editor   It was hardly more than two months ago that Rex Ryan was standing at the podium and proclaiming that the Buffalo Bills had “won the offseason.” One could make the case that Ryan had a valid point. The Bills’ starters and nucleus of the......
Life & Arts

Film revisits NFL scandal ‘Concussion’ strives for Oscar

  JARED HILL Special to The Leader   “Concussion” is the story about Dr. Bennet Omalu, the neuropathologist who first discovered chronic traumatic encephalopathy, when the brain of former Pittsburgh Steeler “Iron” Mike Webster was placed in his hands. Simply put, the story is about one medical examiner who discovers......

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