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			    <title>Michael Vick | NFC East | Philadelphia Eagles | NFL | Juiced Sports News</title> 
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			<title>Vick says he&#039;s still NFL&#039;s fastest quarterback</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/vick-says-hes-still-nfls-fastest-quarterback</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Michael Vick is ready to prove he&#039;s still the NFL&#039;s fastest quarterback.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 13:30:02 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>&#039;Old&#039; Vick outruns McCoy after challenge</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/old-vick-outruns-mccoy-after-challenge</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick proved Thursday that speed is still part of his game, beating teammate LeSean McCoy in a 40-yard dash at practice after the running back had been calling him &quot;old.&quot;]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 15:00:05 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Kobe On Mike Rice</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A lot of people are weighing in on the Mike Rice situation, including now Kobe Bryant, who told Jim Rome that “I would have smacked the hell outta him.”
We’re not knocking Kobe here – we agree with him – but at what point does it turn into piling on? Whatever his faults, what Rice did is not as disturbing as, say, Michael Vick. Vick was forgiven.
Presumably, if he is sincere, Rice will be as well.
Eventually.
That’s not to say he should be trusted with a coaching job again, just that at some point, he should get the chance to repent and be taken seriously if he does.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 02:00:02 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Kofi Kingston Talks His 10 Favorite Video Games  (Plus His Pick for a Movie Version of Master Chief)</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/kofi-kingston-talks-his-10-favorite-video-games-plus-his-pick-for-a-movie-version-of-master-chief</link>
			<description><![CDATA[photo credit: THQ.comUnlike the Kitana-costume-donning AJ Lee, whose 10 most beloved video games were featured on Monday, Kofi Kingston hasn’t made any big shout-outs to gaming culture on WWE programming. But much like Lee, Kingston is dedicated to the medium and was totally down to write and rank his favorite games before doing a countdown interview a while back. “The top 10 list is a big deal, so you didn’t have to ask me twice,” says the resident king of resourceful Royal Rumble spots.Kingston’s life with video games began with the 1987 Commodore 64 title Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior. As a console player, he’s run the gamut. At first, his loyalty was strictly with Nintendo (he despised Sega), but his allegiance began to wobble when the SNES version of Mortal Kombat hit and substituted blood for sweat. Later, he was a fan of the original PlayStation. When he and Zack Ryder were going through developmental together, Ryder’s mom got her son an Xbox 360. Since Ryder wasn’t really into video games, Kingston bought the barely used 360 for a song and soon became an Xbox guy. Currently, he owns all three major consoles plus, as an episode of WWE’s YouTube series Superstar Toyz indicated, a 125-games-in-one arcade cabinet. “I guess that’d be pretty hardcore if you had to put a tag on it,” he says.As of this writing, Kingston has disappointingly been given nothing to do for WrestleMania 29 on Sunday. If he doesn’t get a last-minute slot, this will mark the first WrestleMania without a Kofi match on the card since he debuted in WWE in 2008. Seeing as how he could especially use some love right now, let’s hand off the reins to everyone’s favorite ex-Jamaican to hear his ballot.  10. Streets of Rage (1991)Going back to jumping on Sega, this was one of the first games I played. It was cool ’cause it was interactive and one of the first games [in which] you could actually do [all the specials] at home.9. Ninja Gaiden (1988) I played both [the Nintendo and arcade versions], but I was talking specifically about the arcade. To be honest, I never beat the game, but it was just so fun to play. Specifically, I remember being able to run and jump off the walls and do attacks and stuff. I just thought that was so cool. That’s probably what I was trying to do more so than even beat the game.I always wanted to be able to do that in real life, but I never actually did. I remember my gym teacher saying something about someone trying to do it ’cause we’d always play off the wall. Someone tried to do something like that and they ended up popping their knee out, so I always scared to actually try it myself.8. Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! (1987)Even to this day, that’s a game you can still pick up and have fun [with].Who’s your favorite character? Also, as a kid, did you realize how stereotypical and kinda racist the game was? [Laughs] As a kid, I didn’t even realize at all, but yeah, definitely looking back now [with] Piston Honda [and his] ‘Oh, I’ll give you a TKO from Tokyo,’ it’s almost comical. I think it was in good fun. It wasn’t meant to be racist or anything like that, but looking back at it now, you probably couldn’t come out with a game like that now because of everyone’s sensitivity to race and things happen to be politically correct.My favorite character in that game would probably be Super Macho Man. I think he was actually harder than Mike Tyson himself, to be honest. But yeah, it was just a fun game in general between Doc and running, [and] the music and everything. I actually have Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! as one of my ringtones. It’s definitely a great game.7. Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990)When The Wizard, the movie [promoting the game&#039;s release], came out, it was definitely horrible, but for me as a kid, seeing a video game in a movie was like, ‘Oh my God, there are kids out there who do what I do.’ Mario 3 was definitely one of those groundbreaking games as far as taking Mario to a new level and then going into all the different worlds and stuff like that.Did you have any favorite characters or levels?Definitely favorite costume would be the Tanooki Suit when you just turn to stone and have the guys walk by. I know it wasn’t really cool as far as it didn’t spit any kind of special projectiles or anything like that, but I remember it being one of the hardest things to get towards the end of the game. You just felt accomplished once you actually got it.Any one of the flying ship stages I thought were really cool. The stage would actually be moving while you were trying to get through it so it just added another level of depth to the game. It was always cool getting to the end where you’d have all these different types of Koopas [with] different types of abilities, so you’d always be anxious to see what the next Koopa was going to do. It was cool to go up against every single one of ‘em. 6. Final Fantasy VII (1997)I played a lot of role-playing games back in the days, and when Final Fantasy VII came out, this was on like three discs, so there was so much content. At the time, the graphics were incredible. The music and the soundtrack was phenomenal. You always had what would be considered video game music, and it didn’t sound real. Final Fantasy VII was the first game I remember that had actual music that was composed. It sounded very orchestral, very symphonic. You could put that in a CD player and listen to it as a regular [album].5. The Halo series (2001-present)I play all of ‘em, so I put the whole franchise in there. Just the whole franchise and the story with the Master Chief and all that stuff still to this day is one of the best multiplayer games, especially online. This was one of the first games that you could actually play online and one of the more popular games.It’s funny because I love playing Halo a lot, but I didn’t get on the Halo bandwagon until probably six to eight months after it initially came out.My aim is terrible. I’m not very good. I can sneak up on somebody and be shooting them, and they’ll turn around and shoot me and kill me in one shot. I just remember it being a game in college where instead of going out to bars and stuff, we would be in our dorm room literally playing Halo all night and eating pizza. It was just a really good time. It’s one of those games that brings people together. You can play it forever and ever, and they kept that aspect of it throughout, even [with] the Halos now. It’s one of those games where you want to sit down and play one game, and you end up sitting there for hours. It doesn’t even feel like hours have gone by. It’s just one of those games that really sucks you in and you can’t help but enjoy it.I collect a bunch of helmets and the Master Chief helmet is one I actually have.A Halo movie has been talked about for years. If you could pick anyone to play Master Chief, who would it be?Oh man, tough question. For whatever reason, George Clooney is coming to my head and I don’t know why. That’s what my initial gut instinct would be just because he can play that cool and confident character. Master Chief wasn’t a young guy by any means. George Clooney’s kind of like that grizzled vet. I feel like he might be able to do a good job.4. WCW/nWo Revenge (1998)WCW/nWo Revenge is an amazing game. The nWo was just so hot back then. Wrestling games in general—In Your House and stuff like that—weren’t too realistic. [With] WCW/nWo Revenge, the graphics had stepped up. The gameplay was a lot smoother than the other games before it. For a wrestling fan, to play as your favorite guys is always cool.Who were your favorite wrestlers to play as?Definitely nWo Macho Man and nWo Sting. Sting was so mysterious back then, too, right? There was a year where he didn’t even say anything. He’d be coming down from the rafters and stuff. You actually get to play as him and then when you try to get a weapon under the ring, it would default to the black baseball bat. It was cool that they actually put all that thought into it, as far as things making sense from the weapons to the face paint to the moves and taunts and everything like that. I probably used Sting the most.3. The Madden NFL series (1993-present) It’s all over the Internet that I am the Madden king. I have the crown in my house. That I definitely had to put on there just because I’m so dominant in Madden. I’ve been dominant for almost a decade now, a decade-plus.Do you have a specific team or players you have thought of as yours?My team is always the Patriots. I’m a New England guy and I usually play as them. I think it was 2003 that the version with Michael Vick came out. He was awesome to play with because they didn’t put any limitations on his scrambling abilities. You could basically pick Michael Vick and literally run all over everybody. He had a cannon, too. I used to like playing with the Falcons back when that game came out.2. Street Fighter II (1991)I can remember the first time I actually played the game. I went into a Boys &amp; Girls club and they had it there. Everyone was just playing and putting their quarters up on the screen and getting next game and stuff like that. This is what is kind of lost obviously with the ability to play games online. You can talk trash through the headset, but it’s not quite the same as being side by side with somebody and being able to whoop on ‘em in front of everybody and talk trash to their face. It’s kind of a lost art, but it definitely brought a lot of us together and kept a lot of us kids out of trouble.Any favorites to play as?Definitely Ken. Easily Ken. Yup, yup. Just standard poster child of the game next to Ryu, but they probably had the most interesting rivalry even though they had the same move set. Ken I liked because he was more arrogant and flamboyant and talked a little bit more trash. Ryu was more the honorable fighter who would always do the right thing, but Ken had a little bit more of an edge to him.1. The Mortal Kombat series (but especially Mortal Kombat II) (1992-present)You can’t mention fighting games without my number one, which would be Mortal Kombat—just the entire franchise. [There was] all the controversy behind it when it first came out. You had people trying to pass laws against it because Sub-Zero was ripping people’s heads off, and obviously that wasn’t suitable for the kids that were playing the game.When you didn’t have the Internet back in the day, you’d have to always get information through magazines. I remember Ermac being a guy who you read about, and it was this big myth, [with] ‘Error Machine’ and this and that. You’d go to the arcade and want to try to find out how to see him on the game and you’d be trying to get the error.[It] just was a really interactive [series] and another one to this day which has stood the test of time. To discover new, fresh, and innovative ways to finish people over 10 years or however long it’s been since the first one came out is definitely a testament to their creativity. [I always liked] just how realistic everything looks. You never get sick of playing it. That’d be my number one for sure.If I was had to pick a [single] Mortal Kombat, I’ll probably say Mortal Kombat II. I think Super Nintendo did the actual blood instead of having the sweat from Mortal Kombat I. Mortal Kombat II was more crisp. [With] Mortal Kombat I, I remember the graphics looking real, but it just didn’t flow as well as Mortal Kombat II did. I think we played Mortal Kombat II for the entire summer when it came out. I remember playing Mortal Kombat II and eating steak and cheese subs. That’s all we did.The post Kofi Kingston Talks His 10 Favorite Video Games  (Plus His Pick for a Movie Version of Master Chief) appeared first on With Leather.
    
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:00:04 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Vick: Threats won&#039;t derail book tour, outreach</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/vick-threats-wont-derail-book-tour-outreach</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Michael Vick was back signing copies of his autobiography Saturday and said he would continue to stay &quot;positive&quot; and wouldn&#039;t let threats keep him from finishing his book tour.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 11:00:04 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Matt Cassel And Kevin Kolb Are Getting Cut</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/matt-cassel-and-kevin-kolb-are-getting-cut</link>
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It&#039;s the end of two eras. Two sad, frustrating eras marked with wasted promise and ill-advised trades and inept quarterbacking. Matt Cassel was released by the Chiefs today, and the Cardinals are expected to cut Kevin Kolb by the weekend. The only question left is: which one of them will end up on the Jets?
Neither release is a surprise. Cassel became expendable when Kansas City traded for Alex Smith. With two years and $17 million left on his deal, Cassel is gone just 24 hours after Smith was formally introduced at Arrowhead.
After a breakout year in New England when Tom Brady went down, the Chiefs acquired Cassel to be their franchise QB, trading away a second-round pick and inking him to a six-year, $63 million deal. It never quite worked out. 2010 saw a Pro Bowl season and a playoff appearance, but it was the exception rather than the rule. Cassel struggled every other year, and dealt with a pair of season-crippling injuries. (Hand surgery after Week 10 of 2011, and a concussion that cost him the starting job in Week 5 of 2012. Chiefs fans cheered as an injured Cassel left the field. That was probably the end.)
Aside from the details, you can just do a find-and-replace on the above to sum up Kolb&#039;s Arizona career. A much-hyped backup in Philadelphia, he had an injury-plagued 2010 in which he lost the starting gig to Michael Vick. That offseason, the Cardinals traded Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and a second-rounder for him. 
Injuries and ineffectiveness ensued, and when you&#039;re ceding snaps to John Skelton, Ryan Lindley, and even Brian Hoyer, something has to change. The Cardinals signed Drew Stanton yesterday, and with Kolb set to make $9 million this year, plus a $2 million bonus due on Sunday, he&#039;s all but gone.
There is a lesson here, one the Chiefs and Cardinals and even the Seahawks learned the hard way. If you&#039;ve got a backup QB for whom you have no plans, hype him to the moon. NFL GMs will always overpay for the unknown.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:00:08 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Michael Vick Cancels Book Tour Because Of Death Threats</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/michael-vick-cancels-book-tour-because-of-death-threats</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Vick was scheduled to sign copies of his book, “Michael Vick: Finally Free,&quot; in three Barnes &amp; Noble locations in Atlanta, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. That&#039;s not accidental, those areas are probably the only places in the country where at least some people like him.
But even there, his brutal past of animal cruelty is too incendiary and many have lodged complaints, including threats of violence, against Vick, his family and Barnes &amp; Noble and its employees.

“While we stand by Michael Vick’s right to free speech and the retailers’ right to free commerce, we cannot knowingly put anyone in harm’s way, and therefore we must announce the cancellation of Mr. Vick’s book-signing appearances,” said Byron Williamson, president of Worthy Publishing. “We’ve been assured these threats of violence, which have been reported to the police, are being taken very seriously by local authorities.”
There has been a recent uptick in what a source close to Vick calls “credible threats of violence” directed toward the Eagles quarterback and his family.

The Barnes &amp; Noble facebook page has been overrun--they&#039;re commenting on posts about Twilight--by protesting customers and according to Phillymag, at least one user threatened to &quot;slit [Vick&#039;s] throat knowing how you treat animals.&quot; Others have proposed to throw dog shit at the store during any appearances.  
Torturing and murdering innocent dogs is despicable and Vick should be aware by now that people will hate him forever because of it, but where is the incentive to rehabilitate yourself--after spending 19 months in jail--if you&#039;re getting dog shit thrown at you for selling a book?
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			<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:30:02 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>AP Source:  Vick&#039;s book tour canceled (Yahoo! Sports)</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/ap-source-vicks-book-tour-canceled-yahoo-sports</link>
			<description><![CDATA[PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A person with knowledge of the situation tells The Associated Press that book signings for Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick scheduled at Barnes &amp; Noble have been canceled because of threats against him.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:00:02 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>McCoy: &#039;I think Michael Vick is the starting QB&#039;</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/mccoy-i-think-michael-vick-is-the-starting-qb</link>
			<description><![CDATA[LeSean McCoy has an idea who should be new coach Chip Kelly&#039;s starting quarterback with the Philadelphia Eagles next season.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:00:07 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>How Will Michael Vick Stay Healthy? &quot;Train Hard And Pray To God.&quot;</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/how-will-michael-vick-stay-healthy-train-hard-and-pray-to-god</link>
			<description><![CDATA[      Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Vick calls last year &quot;an embarrassment.&quot; More » ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:00:04 EST</pubDate>
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