NEPD Staff Writer: Brian D
After a long week of questions and second guesses, the Patriots will head out to Oakland on Sunday to try and remove the sour taste in their mouths from Buffalo.
NEPD Staff Writer: Brian D
After a long week of questions and second guesses, the Patriots will head out to Oakland on Sunday to try and remove the sour taste in their mouths from Buffalo.
NEPD Owner: James Christensen
Exhaustedly picking my way through a nearly full parking lot strewn with empty bottles, dimming coals, and the crushed dreams of half a state, a faint smile somehow crept across my face.
The six-story trip down and up from the press box to the visiting team’s press conference wasn’t the culprit for my exhausted state. Perhaps it was the nervous stirrings that kept me from sleeping the night before, or maybe the eight hours that had elapsed since I had last eaten.
The smile, however, is a much longer story.

Illinois always seems to have a few interesting NFL Draft prospects - they won't disappoint this year either.
We’ll be on the road this weekend, checking out the Illinois vs Northwestern game from the friendly confines of Memorial Stadium’s press box. Once we return, we’ve got the Nebraska vs Wisconsin queued up to watch.
Here are the top 2012 NFL Draft Prospects that we’ll be scouting.
NEPD Staff Writer: Mike Loyko
The past two weeks I have been assigned to scout and study LSU in big nationally televised games. It’s amazing to me how much talent this LSU team has on the field, especially on the defensive side.
Even more amazing is they are all under-classmen, so we can expect LSU to challenge for another National Championship next season as well. This breakdown will focus on both players who will be draft eligible in 2012 as well as 2013.
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