New Chargers GM Faces the Music
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Please, Please, We Just Want to Talk to Te'o
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John Clayton, ESPN
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Tom Krasovic, U-T San Diego
Chargers Need to Change Doctors
Barry Petchesky, Deadspin
We should be yawning by this point, but instead, some of us are yearning. Will we get to talk to him this time? Manti Te’o should be getting boring by now, but with this e...(full article)
Tom Telesco doesn’t taste lemons and dwell on their sourness. He thinks about the possibilities with a little sugar. “We’ve talked about having a long-term visio...(full article)
The 2013 draft was rich in beef and low on skill players. Three tackles went in the top four picks, and six offensive linemen went in the top 11. Only three receivers, one tight e...(full article)
The Chargers didn't reach in selecting Notre Dame's Manti Te'o. Mel Kiper? He reached so far, he must've slapped himself in the head before he spoke. The Gel Man dec...(full article)
In recent weeks, we've learned some more supposedly irrelevant things about Dr. David Chao, a Harvard- and Northwestern-trained orthopedic surgeon. Like a license hearing pursued ...(full article)
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