Possible first-round picks could include Marcell Dareus, Nick Fairley, Mark Ingram, Julio Jones and Cam Newton.
The first-round of the draft will be held today (Thursday) with the second and third rounds to be selected on Friday at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
If you want to watch the draft live on TV, tune in to either ESPN or the NFL Network tonight at 7 p.m. Friday’s broadcast will begin at 5 p.m. on both stations.
The fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh rounds will be selected on Saturday and the broadcast of those rounds will begin at 11 a.m.
The New Orleans Hornets are hanging in there with the two-time defending World Champion, L.A. Lakers. As of Tuesday morning, the best-of-seven, first-round playoff series between the Hornets and the Lakers was tied, 2-2.
The two teams were set to square off Tuesday night at 9:30 p.m. in L.A. and again tonight (Thursday) at 9:30 p.m. in New Orleans. If necessary, a seventh and final game will be played to decide the series on Saturday in L.A.
A New Orleans win in the series would be an upset by any stretch of the term and would send shockwaves through the NBA playoff scene. The challenge for New Orleans at that point would be having to maintain their intensity throughout the rest of the playoffs.
As of Tuesday morning, the Atlanta Braves were 11-13 overall and five games back in the National League East standings. The Braves were also fresh off a road sweep of the defending World Champion, San Francisco Giants.
The Braves wrapped up their trip to the West Coast - which included stops in San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego – yesterday (Wednesday), and they’ll return to the friendly confines of their home stadium in Atlanta tomorrow (Friday) night when they begin a three-game series against the St. Louis Cardinals. As of Tuesday, St. Louis was 12-10 overall and were sitting in first place in the National League Central standings.
NFL legend Brett Favre made Ripley’s Believe It or Not! on Sunday when the comic strip mentioned that from 1992 to 2010 the quarterback started in 297 consecutive games. His streak amounts to 321 games if you count playoff starts.
Favre is the current record holder when it comes to consecutive starts. He broke the record over 10 years ago – on Nov. 9, 1999 – when he started his 117th game.
Now that he’s retired, he may not hold the record for long. Former University of Tennessee quarterback Peyton Manning, who now quarterbacks the Indianapolis Colts, is closing fast on Favre’s record.
Going back to Sept. 6, 1998, Manning has started 227 games, counting playoff appearances.
Other active players who are somewhat close to Favre’s record include Peyton’s little brother, Eli Manning (110 games), and Decatur native, Phillip Rivers (87).
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