Vikes trade for WR Moss

Minnesota pulls off a blockbuster yesterday, the Randy Moss to Minnesota deal has now come to fruition.

Twelve hours after reporting the deal was on the verge of happening, it has now been completed for a third-round pick, sources tell FOXSports.com.

In doing so, the Minnesota Vikings pulled off their biggest blockbuster since acquiring Brett Favre. ..

Connecticut cheerleaders want uniforms with more coverage

Earlier this year, cheerleaders in one Florida district had to get special permission to wear their skirts on game day, because the uniforms were too skimpy for a new dress code. In a fascinating twist, last week cheerleaders in Connecticut begged school officials to help make their uniforms less skimpy.

According to the Connecticut Post and NBC Connecticut, Heidi Medina, the captain of Bridgeport Central's cheerleading squad, stood before the Bridgeport Board of Education in her team's standard uniform, which bares athletes midriffs and uses either small shorts or baggy sweatpants as bottoms, to make a statement that it was inappropriate.

[Related: Team finally allows cheerleaders again - with a catch ]

Medina and fellow seniors insist that the Central uniforms do not meet regulations that require cheerleader uniforms to cover an athlete's midsection when they stand at attention..... More

Jags WR pistol-whipped in attack

Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Kassim Osgood was pistol-whipped in an attack when the ex-boyfriend of a 19-year-old Jaguars cheerleader he was visiting confronted them, according to a report on the Florida Times-Union’s website.

Osgood, 30, reportedly leaped out a second-floor window to get away from the armed man late Monday.

The gun-wielding intruder exchanged fire with the woman after putting a gun to her head, saying, "What did that football player say to his girlfriend, it's a good day to die," misquoting ex-Florida Gators player Chris Rainey's text message to a former girlfriend after an arrest, according to a Sheriff’s Office report.

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Osgood, also a standout on special teams, had minor bruises from being pistol-whipped and jumping out of the second-floor window, according to the report.

"He's fine," Jaguars coach Jack Del Rio said Wednesday. "I'm aware of it. I really can't comment on that whole deal. He's doing OK."

The reported gunman, Julian Armond Barletto, 20, was arrested on charges of aggravated battery, false imprisonment, armed robbery, burglary and violation of an injunction, according to police.

Mackenzie Rae Putnal and Osgood were watching television in a second-floor game room around 11:15 p.m. when a man wearing a plastic bag to cover his face walked in, pointed a gun at them and said, "I can't believe you're with that guy," the arrest report said. Barletto pulled Putnal around the room by her hair and hit her with his fists and gun before pistol-whipping Osgood, the report said.

The armed assailant tackled the woman as she tried to flee, taking her cell phone and holding the gun to her head as well as Osgood's. The woman escaped down the hall and leaped over a balcony to the floor below after the gunman told the couple to sit on the floor, the report said.

As the gunman chased after the woman, Osgood jammed a chair under the game room door handle and jumped out a window and onto the lawn, running to a neighbor's house to call police. Meanwhile, Putnal and Barletto confronted each other with guns downstairs, both shooting and missing, the report said.

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Barletto ran as Putnal called police but was arrested after being found at his home, police said.

The Jaguars declined comment on Putnal's status as one of the team's 32 cheerleaders. She is listed in the 2010 media guide as a dental hygiene major but is no longer on the team's website. The team has a rule forbidding cheerleaders to date players.

Osgood has two receptions for 29 yards this season, including a 24-yard TD catch in the opener against Denver. He played seven seasons for San Diego and made three Pro Bowls as a special teams ace before signing with the Jaguars.

Vick's 4 TDs leads Eagles over Jags

Michael Vick throws for 291 yards in win against Jacksonville.

Michael Vick made Andy Reid's quarterback decision look like the right one.

NFL SCOREBOARD

• Bengals 20, Panthers 7


• Cowboys 27, Texans 13


• Vikings 24, Lions 10


• Steelers 38, Buccaneers 13


• Ravens 24, Browns 17


• Titans 29, Giants 10


• Patriots 38, Bills 30


• Chiefs 31, 49ers 10


• Falcons 27, Saints 24 (OT)


• Rams 30, Redskins 16


• Eagles 28, Jaguars 3


• Seahawks 27, Chargers 20


• Cardinals 24, Raiders 23


• Colts 27, Broncos 13


• Jets at Dolphins


• Packers at Bears

Vick threw three touchdown passes, ran for another score and the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Jacksonville Jaguars 28-3 Sunday.

Vick completed 17 of 31 passes for 291 yards, mostly staying in the pocket and picking apart Jacksonville's beleaguered secondary. One of the few times he did run, he broke a tackle, juked another defender and scored from 17 yards out.

Vick found DeSean Jackson for a 61-yard touchdown and hooked up with Jeremy Maclin for two scores. Jackson finished with five catches for 153 yards, Maclin had four receptions for 83 yards, and the Eagles (2-1) improved to 2-0 with Vick as their starter.

Vick became the latest in a growing list of quarterbacks to torch the Jaguars (1-2). Denver's Kyle Orton and San Diego's Philip Rivers burned them repeatedly for big gains the last two weeks.

Jacksonville fans headed to the exits early in the fourth quarter, with their team trailing by 25 points and having seen enough of David Garrard.

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Eagles name Vick starting QB for Week 3

Michael Vick has been named the Philadelphia Eagles' starting quarterback, a day after coach Andy Reid said it was Kevin Kolb's job.

It wasn't immediately known why Reid reversed his decision on Tuesday. The team announced the move in a text message, and Reid was to discuss it at a news conference later in the day.

Kolb missed the last six quarters because of a concussion, and Vick played well in his absence. Kolb was cleared to practice and was expected to run the first-team offense on Wednesday.

Vick threw for 175 yards and one touchdown and ran for 103 yards in a 27-20 season-opening loss to Green Bay. He had 284 yards passing and two TDs in a 35-32 win at Detroit on Sunday.

Kolb started two games in his first three seasons before he became the team's No. 1 quarterback after Donovan McNabb was traded to Washington. Kolb struggled in the first half against the Packers.

Vick's start against the Lions was his first in nearly four years. A three-time Pro Bowl pick during six seasons in Atlanta, Vick missed two seasons while serving an 18-month sentence in federal prison for his role in a dogfighting operation. He signed a two-year contract with the Eagles before last season, then played sparingly behind McNabb and Kolb.

Vick has completed 63.8 percent of his passes and has posted consecutive games with a passer rating above 100 for only the second time in his career.

Bush's return of Heisman is wrong move

Nice try, Heisman Trust. You don’t get off that easy.

Good speech, Reggie Bush. Too bad you couldn’t have given it in person, many months ago, when it might have meant a little more.

This didn’t call for a vacation. Vacating the 2005 Heisman Trophy, won by Bush when he was an electric (but ultimately ineligible) running back at USC, is the easy way out. It’s a slick move to try to wipe the slate clean.

Not long ago Bush said it was “out of my hands” if he got to keep the trophy, which tells us this announcement probably ultimately was, too. The trust likely was going to take it away anyway in order to protect its brand.

But that’s the easy way out. Sometimes, it’s best not to shield one’s eyes. Sometimes, a brand shows its strength by the storms it weathers. By what it owns up to, and takes on.

Give it up, Reggie

Reggie Bush has relinquished the 2005 Heisman Trophy. Thayer Evans says the Heisman Trust should have stripped him of it.

One thing baseball’s performance-enhancing drugs scandal has taught us is that you can’t just wish these things away. They happened. Yes, those baseballs sailed over the fence. Yes, those sacred records were broken. Their shards are all over us, and there’s no putting them back.

There are some things king’s horses and king’s men can’t erase.

But the other thing baseball showed us is the power of the asterisk. If there’s no escaping what happened, put it in context. It’s a Yes, but …

Yes, they were national champions. But they cheated. And everyone remembers it, and will think of it every time the winners are listed. There will be no escaping it. Was it worth it? They will have to live on, in infamy.

It’s a heck of a thing, to live on in infamy. It’s some kind of punishment, to never allow anyone to forget.

And that’s what we would rather do — forget. We want to get ourselves off the hook when we blame everything on Reggie Bush. We want to move on, to wipe it all away. We want to live in our fantasy world, and I don't blame us. I do, too. But an asterisk wouldn’t let us.

The asterisk does more than shame its recipient. The asterisk is for all of us.

It forces us to live with what happened. It makes us come to terms with what sports can sometimes be.

And that’s why having Bush give it back is the wrong move here. If there’s no escaping what happened, at least own it. Him. Them. Us.

In 2005, the Heisman Trophy winner broke the No. 1 rule in the book and would have, should have been ineligible.

Would have. Should have. But Reggie Bush won the Heisman. He won it. The outstanding player in college football that season was taking improper benefits. Cash and prizes. That’s college football, sometimes, and now the Heisman Trophy, too. We have to live with that. The Heisman Trust does, too.

Guys who took performance-enhancing drugs hold many of our most beloved baseball records. We have to live with that.

And so do they.

And Reggie Bush should have to live with this, too. No give backs. You own it — you own all of it — for keeps.

They can’t erase this, he can’t escape this, we can’t forget this. It’s not that easy. And it shouldn’t be. But nice try, Heisman Trust.

I love the Heisman Trophy. Love, love, love, love it. But by (air quotes) “protecting its honor” in this way, are we saying every other winner was so pristine? Do we really want to ask that question? Do we really want to set a precedent? Do we really want to open that door?

It’s a nice statement from Bush. And as someone pointed out to me, it should be, he’s had months to get the wording just right. (Hey. LeBron? Hire whomever Reggie just used.)

If he can truly “(turn) a negative situation into a positive one” it would be his biggest cutback since his amazing grace against Fresno State.

Bush did his best to end on an emotional note:

“I will forever appreciate the honor bestowed upon me as a winner of the Heisman. While this decision is heart-breaking, I find solace in knowing that the award was made possible by the support and love of so many. Those are gifts that can never be taken away.”

He’s right. It’s true. He did win it. Nothing can erase it. He’ll always have won that Heisman Trophy.

For good and ill.