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  Sam Adams (football player) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Adams attended Cypress Creek high School (Houston, Texas) and was a letterman in football and in trackandfield as a shot put thrower/discus thrower.
Adams was a starter all three years he played at Texas AandM, during his junior year he was named to the first-team All-American team by the Associated Press.
Adams was selected in the first round (8th overall) by the Seattle Seahawks.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sam_Adams_(football_player)   (507 words)

  
 Samuel Adams (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Samuel Adams (1722–1803) was an American patriot and organizer of the Boston Tea Party.
Samuel Adams (governor) (1805–1850), acting Governor of Arkansas in 1844
Sam Adams (football player) (born 1973), American football player
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sam_Adams   (174 words)

  
 Realbeer.com: Beer News: Brewery, lineman help charity
Though Adams is not a beer drinker himself, he agreed to participate in the donation and check presentation because he saw it as an opportunity to help children and teens of the Northwest PAL Football Organization.
Father of two, Adams recognizes the importance of community activities for young people, and was excited that Sam Adams beer gave him the opportunity to give something back to the community of Baltimore.
Boston Beer donated the check to PAL at the Towanda Recreational Center in Baltimore, Md. "The donation from Sam Adams is a tribute to my performance at yesterday's game and a way to encourage young people to excel at football or the sport of their choice," said Sam Adams, the football player.
www.realbeer.com /news/articles/news-001462.html   (312 words)

  
 Sam Adams : USAToday.com - Sam Adams Biography from USAToday.com
Adams' presence is expected to provide a big lift for Cincinnati's rush defense, as he'll occupy blockers in front of Brian Simmons and, possibly in Week 5, Odell Thurman.
Adams, struggling with his weight, remains on active/PUP but is aiming to play in one of Cincinnati's final two preseason games.
Sam Adams' contract is for three years, $7.5 million.
fantasyfootball.usatoday.com /content/player.asp?sport=NFL&id=2306   (187 words)

  
 CNNSI.com - NFL Football - Report: Packers in negotiations with Seahawks' Adams - Thursday March 09, 2000 10:12 PM
Posted: Thursday March 09, 2000 10:12 PM Sam Adams may have to settle for significantly less with the Packers because of his reputation for taking plays off.
Adams, who made $2.2 million with the Seahawks last year, may have to settle for significantly less with the Packers, perhaps because of his reputation for taking plays off.
Adams, the No. 9 overall draft choice in 1994, was almost sent to Green Bay last April in a deal for defensive tackle Gilbert Brown that was scuttled at the last minute.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /football/nfl/news/2000/03/09/packers_adams_ap   (346 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Seahawks: Big Poppa knows his business
Reporters in Buffalo are touting Adams for the Pro Bowl, based on his dominance along the line of scrimmage in occupying blocks or overpowering a single block to disrupt a run or pass.
Adams is even scheduling interviews to discuss his Everett team during his trip with the Bills to play the Seahawks on Sunday.
Adams is all business — so to speak — about wanting to play a part in defeating his former team.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/seahawks/2002100474_hawk25.html   (846 words)

  
 2 On Your Side - Print Full Story
Adams' agent, Angelo Wright, made that claim in an interview with The Associated Press on Monday, a day after his client was told to sit out a 13-9 loss to Carolina.
Mularkey said Adams elected not to be on the sideline for the game after being told he wasn't going to be active.
Adams is in his third year with Buffalo and coming off the third Pro Bowl season of his career.
www.wgrz.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=33502   (519 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Agent: Adams made out as scapegoat for Bills' struggles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Pro Bowl tackle Sam Adams believes he is unfairly being made the scapegoat for the Buffalo Bills' struggles this season.
Last season, Adams was benched for the final two quarters of Buffalo's 20-13 win over Miami in October after refusing to come off the field when the Bills sent out backup Justin Bannan for a substitution.
Adams responded by recording 29 tackles (he finished the season with 40) and five sacks in Buffalo's next 11 games.
www.usatoday.com /sports/football/nfl/bills/2005-11-28-adams_x.htm?csp=34   (727 words)

  
 Boston.com / Sports / Football / Patriots / A battle of QBs
In most cases when a player has a large cap hit, the team guarantees the salary, uses some of it as a salary and the rest as a signing bonus and spreads the hit out over the length of the contract.
Sure he is a good player but he made the pro bowl the last 2 years on reputation not by his on the field play, he is slow and to bulky to play safety, to many times he goes for the big hit rather than taking the sure tackle.
We are quick to criticize holdout players who fail to honor their contracts, but teams receive a lot less criticism when they fail to hold up their end of the bargain.
www.boston.com /sports/football/patriots/extras/asknick/09_12_03?mode=PF   (16379 words)

  
 News - Bengals, Adams make their investments - Cincinnati Bengals
Adams says his job is to cause havoc as a defensive tackle.
Adams has told people when it began to blow up on him in Buffalo late last season and he had been relegated to a backup role, he began looking at Cincinnati real estate ads.
Adams, who is already thinking about a pool tournament in Cincinnati to raise money, says the Hawks “fix the yearning for football in the offseason,” while the fitness centers help him keep in shape.
www.bengals.com /news/news.asp?story_id=5179   (1960 words)

  
 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Sam Adams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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Having spent 20 years growing Sam Adams into the super-brand that it is today, Rhonda Kallman left the brewery to start her own independent label called New Century Brewing.
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/sam_adams   (540 words)

  
 Sam Adams takes the field for charity - Weekly Specialty Beer Report - Boston Beer Co. donates to the Life Steps ...
The Boston Beer Company, brewer of Sam Adams (the beer), picked up on the similarity in names of their product and the professional football player and decided to put them to good use, donating $5,000 last month to Life Steps Foundation in celebration of Adams' 22 tackles and 2 sacks during the 2002 season.
Adams, who was on hand in Oakland when the check was presented.
Sam Adams' father also bears the name of the brewer/patriot who was a forefather of the nation.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3469/is_7_54/ai_98351201   (317 words)

  
 Pro Football Talk
It suggests that the player is somehow in the wrong, which enables the reporter to demonstrate implicit support for the local team.
Though all doctors face the possibility of malpractice suits, the potential for liability is even greater where the team and the players typically are pushing for a quick return to the practice field and/or the lineup.
In the wake of the judge's decision that her lawyers won't be permitted to obtain medical information regarding other Viking players who suffered heat-related illnesses, she suggested that the team is hoping to wear her down.
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 Bengals study free agents
Although coach Marvin Lewis declined to name specific players who interest him - "It doesn't help us a bit to tell anybody about anything," he said - the Bengals are expected to seriously consider free agent upgrades on the defensive line and in the secondary.
Adams, who played for Lewis in Baltimore in 2000 and 2001, visited Cincinnati last year as a free agent.
Lewis said the Bengals are five or six players away from competing for the division title and making the playoffs - a number he does not consider unusual or unreachable.
bengals.enquirer.com /2003/02/23/wwwben1a23.html   (1036 words)

  
 Seahawks draft picks at a glance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Kentucky player of the year and a Parade and USA Today All-American at Boone County High School after rushing for 3,166 yards and 54 touchdowns as a senior.
Earned nine letters in football, wrestling and track at St. Johns (Ariz.) High School, where he was an all-state football player as a senior and junior.
First player in Harvard history to be drafted before the fifth round -- previous high pick was OG Roger Caron, a fifth-round pick by the Colts in 1985.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /football/hbio17.shtml   (2547 words)

  
 Pro Football Talk
Also, we recently reported that free-agent defensive tackle Sam Adams, who also is represented by Barnes and Parker, had turned down a deal with the Ravens before hitting the open market, and that Barnes and Parker have since tried to get the deal they'd rejected, but to no avail.
Another player asked why fluids were not being given intravenously to the player, and an unidentified trainer said the Vikings didn't believe in them.
The big-name players typically focus on the size of the loan that the agent will give them, or the kind of car that the agent will purchase on their behalf.
www.profootballtalk.com /6-12to6-30archive.htm   (13877 words)

  
 Player - Sam Adams - Cincinnati Bengals
Lewis was his coordinator in 2000 with the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens, and Bresnahan was his coordinator in ’02 with the AFC champion Oakland Raiders.
COVER BOY: Adams made the cover of Sports Illustrated after his Buffalo Bills debut in 2003, as the magazine featured a photo of his 37-yard INT return for a TD in a 31-0 win vs. New England.
Was Seattle Seahawks 1998 team nominee for NFL Man of the Year Award, based on his on-field play and his community involvement … Father, Sam Adams, was a guard with the New England Patriots (1972-80) and New Orleans Saints (’81).
www.bengals.com /team/player.asp?player_id=93   (586 words)

  
 Sam Adams News
Sam Adams news continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
Sam Adams spent three successful seasons with the Buffalo Bills.
The first-year Bengals defensive tackle was a Pro Bowl player after 2004 and an all-star game alternate last season.
www.topix.net /football-players/sam-adams   (589 words)

  
 PowerinMuscles.com - The nutrition resource for coaches, athletes and trainers in all sports.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
He won two Georgia State Championship titles and was twice named Player of the Year in high school, and at the University of South Carolina he notched 21 goals and 8 assists in 43 games before turning pro.
Previously, Joe coached at Adams State College for 29 years, winning 19 NCAA Division II National Championships titles, producing 425 All-Americans, and winning 14 Coach of the Year awards.
Sam is President of the United States Track Coaches Association.
69.94.64.50 /poweringmuscles.com/user_details.php   (2586 words)

  
 :: Welcome to Everett Hawks Football ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Adams, who now plays for the Buffalo Bills, said he feels good about his chances heading into the league vote.
Adams said he knows the Everett Hawks could make a positive contribution to the league, and to Everett.
Adams said that by asking hard questions, and a lot of them, the Everett Public Facilities District board took the "proper precautions" to make sure the Everett Hawks would be a viable tenant.
www.everetthawks.com /news.php?id=59   (953 words)

  
 Sam Adams | NFL Football at CBS SportsLine.com
Sam Adams can help a line that has struggled to hold its own during Marvin Lewis' three seasons -- if he's in shape, that is. The bulky tackle signed with the Bengals on April 3, and spent the team's minicamp trying to improve his conditioning.
Adams is a pretty decent defensive lineman option in IDP leagues.
Consider him to be a very solid No. 3 DL, and a No. 1 or 2 DT in leagues that start position-specific linemen.
www.sportsline.com /nfl/players/playerpage/3006   (255 words)

  
 ESPN.com - NFL - Sam Adams - Cincinnati Bengals - Player Card
Sam Adams has not been involved in any transactions this season.
Defensive tackle Sam Adams is finally ready to get back on the field.
Fortifying a position that represented one of their biggest needs, the Bengals reached a contract agreement in principle with unrestricted free-agent defensive tackle Sam Adams, who played the past three seasons with the Bills.
sports.espn.go.com /nfl/players/profile?statsId=2825   (101 words)

  
 Player Bio: Greg Mattison :: Football
Mattison demands superior effort from himself and his players, an approach that has resulted in some of the best defenses in the nation the past seven seasons with the Irish.
Mattison competed in football and wrestling at Wisconsin-LaCrosse and was team captain in both sports as a junior and a senior.
Mattison is married to the former Ann Busse and they have two children - Lisa, who is a 2003 Notre Dame graduate and a three-time all-BIG EAST softball player, and Bryan, a sophomore football player at the University of Iowa.
und.cstv.com /sports/m-footbl/mtt/mattison_greg00.html   (725 words)

  
 News 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In 2004, Cousins was voted by owners and coaches of the California Football Association as the CFA Defensive Player of the Year.
All four players will be back with the Blackhawks in mid July to get ready for the 11 man season that is set to kickoff July 16th as the Blackhawks travel to Las Vegas Nevada to take on the Las Vegas Cobras.
The Blackhawks would like to congratulate all of these players for their great accomplishment and wish them will in their upcoming NIFL season which is set to kickoff on March 13th against the Lincoln Capitols in Lincoln Nebraska.
www.blackhawkfootball.com /news2.html   (3257 words)

  
 Fantasy Football: Latest Player News
Impact: He missed practiced Sunday and his status is believed to be "week-to-week." We looked at many old cases and most players missed only two weeks, sometimes three, so Big Ben looks questionable for Week 2.
Impact: Dallas can't be happy to lose both players to former coordinator Sean Payton.
Impact: Both players are likely to end up on New York's practice squad.
www.head2head.com /scripts/playernews.cgi?sport=1&originated=OHI   (761 words)

  
 Rocky Mountain News: Sports
The group of University of Colorado football fans who built a Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course in Nebraska celebrated the private course's grand opening last week.
But there will be some debating amongst voters when Davis, who gained 7,607 yards in only 81 regular season games, is eligible for election into the Class of 2007.
He also earned the Most Valuable Player award in Super Bowl XXXII and league MVP honors in 1998, when he gained 2,008 yards.
blogs.rockymountainnews.com /denver/samadams   (685 words)

  
 FOOTBALL OUTSIDERS: Football analysis and NFL stats for the Moneyball era - Authors of Pro Football Prospectus 2006 and ...
Football Outsiders is dedicated to bringing you the best NFL analysis on the Web free of charge, but we still need money to pay the rent and feed our kids.
I don’t follow college football, so I don’t know if you are right about Perry, but the basic thrust of your SEC vs. Big 10 argument makes a lot of sense.
I don’t want someone who yields to other players, or goes the PC route of saying "we’re all good." They guy said that he has absolute confidence in his skill that he thinks he is the best WR in this years draft.
www.footballoutsiders.com /2004/04/02/open-discussion/189   (14715 words)

  
 May 9 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1955 - Sam and Friends debuts on a local U.S. television channel, marking the first television appearance of both Jim Henson and what would become Kermit the Frog and the Muppets.
1939 - Ion Ţiriac, Romanian tennis player and businessman
1978 - Leandro Damián Cufré, Argentine football player
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/May_9   (1523 words)

  
 Spin - 041700 - Sam Adams
Shortly before the draft, the Ravens were able to work out a deal with DT Sam Adams, formerly of the Seahawks.
Buchsbaum: Sam Adams, if he ever gets in shape and plays hard, can be a Pro Bowl-type defensive tackle.
Getting Sam Adams meant the Ravens shifted their top pick from Corey Simon to Jamal Lewis.
archive.profootballweekly.com /content/archives/features_1999/spin_041700.asp   (404 words)

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