Eagles QB Vick was proved to be innocent

The Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick will report for the team’s training camp on time and play his backup role for starter Kevin Kolb just as scheduled, because the league announced that investigation resulted in no evidence of Vick shooting at his 30th birthday party. A lot of speculations were ended by the announcement, and Vick will stay with the Eagles for one another season, neither to be released nor to be traded.

Now we may have a look back on how Vick got involved into the trouble. He went to a restaurant in Virginia Beach to celebrate his 30th birthday with a group of friends in Brett Favre jerseys and allegedly left the scene before a shooting happened out site the restaurant. What made him more like suspect was that the man in Saints jersey being shot was Vick’s co-defendant in the dogfighting case. The well-known case put Vick in jail for 18 months and led to a long suspension from the NFL.

As local police made it clear that Vick was not the shooter, the quarterback does not have to face any arrest now and the league will neither punish him with a suspension, which was expected by many people when Vick was suspected to be the shooter. The Eagles, who have always been insisting that they would not release Vick, now proved that they were right.

Greatest Laker Jerry West praised Kobe Bryant

Spending his entire basketball career and the whole post-career life with the Los Angeles Lakers, Jerry West is no doubt the greatest Lakers player in history and deserves all the honors his received. However, West himself does not agree with that opinion, as he takes a current Lakers player, Kobe Bryant as one of the greatest.

"[Kobe's] playing the best basketball I have ever seen him play to be honest with you. [...] There's no better player that I've ever seen than him... He's the greatest Laker player that we have ever seen."

It’s hard to argue with West on that point, as Kobe, who is in his 14th season with the Lakers, has already got four titles and is competing for a fifth one. He is now a leading role of the team, just like what West was during his time. West is so confident with Bryant that he claimed the young man could successfully defend the champion title of NFL team New Orleans Saints if he puts on Saints jersey to play American football. The claim could be a joke, but athletically, Bryant could just be able to also play football well enough to earn as many MVP titles.

At age 31, Bryant is unlikely to play another 14 seasons for the Lakers, but he is very likely to repeat West’s glorious life as a player, then a coach and then a team organizer.

One more Saints player had sports hernia surgery

Following tight end Jeremy Shockey, linebacker Jonathan Vilma, defensive end Will Smith, offensive tackle Jammal Brown and quite a few other New Orleans Saints players, Pro Bowl right tackle Jon Stinchcomb was a new name of the long list of Saints to have sports hernia surgery.

Actually the news has not been confirmed by the team officials, but Stinchcomb was absent from the AllFax Specialties Classic, a charity golf tournament for Children's Hospital at Beau Chene Country Club he was scheduled to host on Friday. His teammates and coordinators all gave the same explanation for his absence as the surgery. So we can take it as the fact, but there is no need to worry about his availability to team’s offseason programs, because recovery from a typical sports hernia surgery usually takes three to four weeks, and the Saints training camp is more than two months away on July 29.

Stinchcomb can even have plenty of time to participate some team workouts in June, but it’s unlikely for him to be allowed to do that as the team would definitely want him to be in his 100 percent before wearing back his Saints jersey for any on-field work.

Saints made more choices with undrafted rookies

The end of the 2010 NFL draft did not necessary mean the end of adding rookies. There were still quite a few brilliant players yet to be drafted when the last round came an end and teams can still make some good choices with the undrafted free agents. Defending champions New Orleans Saints did not let the chance go and selected ten more rookies among the undrafted.

There are several big names on the list, including LSU’s safety Harry Coleman and TCU long snapper Clint Gresham. The other eight to put on Saints jerseys are UNLV’s offensive linebacker Jason Beauchamp, offensive guard Brandon Carter from the Texas Tech, defensive end Junior Galette from Stillman, quarterback A.J. McKenna from Albany State, cornerback Rafael Priest from TCU, defensive tackle Jay Ross from East Carolina, nose tackle Ekom Udofia from Stanford and cornerback Marcell Young from Jacksonville State.

With a height of 6-2 and weight of 211 pounds, Coleman also used to play at linebacker during his college football career. Being a huge Saints fan himself, Coleman is glad to be able to join the Super Bowl XLIV winner and contribute his versatility to the team’s development. As for Gresham, he is the only long snapper in the draft and could offer a lot help in the improvements at the position and could have a chance to compete for starting job with veteran Jason Kyle.