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Miami University first-year football coach Mike Haywood gave mixed reviews to his team's first day of summer practice Friday, Aug.

Miami University first-year football coach Mike Haywood gave mixed reviews to his team's first day of summer practice Friday, Aug.

Miami University first-year football coach Mike Haywood gave mixed reviews to his team's first day of summer practice Friday, Aug.

Miami University first-year football coach Mike Haywood gave mixed reviews to his team's first day of summer practice Friday, Aug.

As training camps get set to open, the Naples Daily News took a weeklong look at the nine Collier and Lee County football players in the NFL: They were nearly draft afterthoughts, picked toward the tail end of the NFL's two-day marathon selection process in April.

July 29, 2009, 7:28 AM / * = Projected starter QUARTERBACK The Chiefs might continue the charade that there is competition for the starting job, but they'd be far better off spending their time getting Cassel ready for the Sept.

The report says Kansas City coach Todd Haley declared the competition for the starting TE job wide open, dispelling the widely believed thought that the spot belonged to Cottam.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has started his review of the Plaxico Burress shooting incident under the leagues personal-conduct policy.

The Chiefs announced the signing of seventh-round draft pick Jake O'Connell, a tight end from Miami of Ohio.

Tony Gonzalez is gone, and thats not changing. That leaves a group of Chiefs tight ends fighting for Gonzalezs scraps and the competition for whatever is left of those 100-catch seasons is fiercer than Kansas City coach Todd Haley might have predicted.The starting job was supposed to be Brad Cottams job to take.

The Chiefs returned to the field on Monday for their seventh OTA of the off-season after concluding five practices over a three-day weekend mini-camp. The team worked under cool and breezy conditions eerily similar to what might frequently greet the club in River Falls, WI for training camp in August.