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Adrian Peterson may plummet in NFL draft End Zone Buzz

Courtesy Adrian-Peterson.com The top running back prospect in the 2007 NFL draft and one of the top five players overall, Adrian Peterson, may drop out of the top ten. Recent reports indicate that Peterson, who missed much of the 2006 college football season with a broken collarbone, may need surgery, which could cause him to miss all of mini-camp and a large portion of preseason. An NFL team, banking on Peterson [...] Read More


Vikings wait pays off with healthy Adrian Peterson End Zone Buzz

courtesy VikingsUpdate.com On draft day, the Minnesota Vikings had to wait nearly two hours for their future to change. Now, with one report from a team physician, several NFL teams who selected ahead of the Vikings may be feeling pretty sad, while the Minnesota brass is feeling pretty darn good. The Vikings selected Adrian Peterson, the Oklahoma running back who has been favorably compared to LaDainian Tomlinson and Marshall Faulk, with [...] Read More


In your fantasy football draft, go with experience over promise End Zone Buzz

In the middle to late first rounds of many fantasy football drafts, Jacksonville's Maurice Jones-Drew will be a very sexy pick. Some fantasy owners will be thrilled to get the second-year running back, who ran for 941 yards and scored 16 total touchdowns in 2006. These owners are likely the inexperienced ones; those who will draft teams that look good on paper but won't look so good come playoff time. Then, there [...] Read More


The Dangers of Draft N The Wireless Weblog

Techworld's Peter Judge today notes that while the Wi-Fi Alliance is issuing brands and logos for Draft N equipment, "it is not testing the most controversial part of the specifications -- whether the new Wi-Fi kit will cripple existing 802.11g networks." "The 802.11n standard from the IEEE standard group will improve Wi-Fi performance to 100 Mbit/s or even 200 Mbit/s, but part of this improvement comes from using 40 MHz radio [...] Read More


Java EE 6 Platform Draft Published Java Entrepreneur

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 2267590 As InfoQ's Dionysios G. Synodinos reports, "The public draft of the Java EE 6 Platform specification has been published and will remain open for public review and feedback until the 23rd of Feb, 2009. Maybe the most notable part of this delayed draft is the Web Profile, which is first profile in the history of the Java EE platform." "There is a poll running at java.net [...] Read More