Mike Vick

• Mike Vick's Plea

Former Atlanta Falcons QB Michael Vick could be out of prison and back on a football field by summer, thanks to the plea deal he worked out last week with the Commonwealth of Virginia for operating a dogfighting racket at a home he owned in Surry County. By pleading guilty to a single state charge of dogfighting, separate from his federal conviction on similar charges, Vick was issued a recommendation for a suspended sentence and probation. He could have had five years on top of the 23-month sentence he is currently serving on federal charges. The deal also makes him eligible to serve the remainder of his sentence in a halfway house. So while the federal government sent a strong no-tolerance message by imprisoning the football superstar, the commonwealth caved. By all accounts, the plea...

• The Washington Times
• December 03, 2008

• Knights, Camera, Action

OLD TAPPAN -- Devin Fuller isn't sure who could play him in a movie. Mike Vick?" was his first answer.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• December 01, 2011

• Elbert Harrison Vick, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Mike Parsons, Warden, and the Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma, Respondents-Appellees., 941 F.2d 1213 (10th Cir. 1991)

Before LOGAN, JOHN P. MOORE and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges.* ORDER AND JUDGMENT...

• Federal Circuits

• National Football League: ; Brady, Vick Each Good Argument for Mvp

PHILADELPHIA - Where would the Eagles be without Mike Vick? Hard to say exactly, but they wouldn't be in a stretch limo on their way to their ninth playoff appearance in the last 11 years. They wouldn't be in the penthouse of the NFC East. They wouldn't be on NBC Sunday, making their flex-scheduled sixth prime-time appearance, against a 5-9 team.

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• December 27, 2010

• Sleepless Nights

FoxNews.com recently reported that "PETA will not televise an anti-dogfighting public service announcement with former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick unless he submits to a brain scan and full psychiatric evaluation." In an e-mail to Vick's attorneys, PETA President Ingrid Newkirk urged that "[Vick undergo a brain scan and a full psychiatric evaluation before being eligible to return to the NFL.]" If Vick has to have a brain scan it should be for absorbing too many hits. However, PETA and some of the people that support it should have a few brain MRI's to assure us that they do not believe that animals are more valuable than human beings. Please explain to me what the heck does [Mike Vick] represent? Is he a warm-blooded or coldblooded mammal? Is he a vertebrate or invertebrat...

• New Pittsburgh Courier; City Edition
• October 14, 2009

• Tackling the Desean Dilemma ; Eagles Should Think Twice Before Letting Him Walk Away

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Obviously, it's not at the top of their list today. But if Sunday night's survival in the Meadowlands accomplished nothing else, it reminded the Eagles that they're facing a tough decision on DeSean Jackson. Some folks will tell you this decision should already be behind Andy Reid and Joe Banner. They should have paid their gifted but often exasperating wide receiver months ago, especially since they weren't shy about doling out megadollars to any and every free agent that caught their eye, while also putting Mike Vick back in the penthouse after half a season of success.

• Intelligencer Journal Lancaster New Era - Saturday Edition
• November 22, 2011

• Memo to Reid: Give Vick Break ; Nwith Nothing to Play for On Sunday Against the Cowboys, a Rested Qb Is What the Eagles Need Most.

PHILADELPHIA - For Andy Reid, a guy whose coaching career has been based largely on a big-picture approach, this should be a no- brainer. No matter how badly he might want to recapture that winning feeling after a stinker of a Tuesday night loss to the Vikings, Mike Vick needs to watch while Kevin Kolb takes snaps against the Cowboys on Sunday afternoon.

• Intelligencer Journal Lancaster New Era - Saturday Edition
• December 30, 2010

• I Was Thinking: Nfl Commish Handling Vick Perfectly

I was thinking: NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has handled the Mike Vick case perfectly right from the beginning. He knew where this was heading, and rather than make any rash judgment, he's allowing the facts to condemn Vick. Minutes after Vick pleads guilty for his despicable acts of animal cruelty, I suspect Goodell will tack two years of NFL suspension onto the end of whatever prison time Vick must serve. If Goodell wants to be lenient, he'll allow Vick to apply for reinstatement after the first year of the NFL suspension, contingent on a whole lot of contrition from Vick.

• New Haven Register
• June 04, 2009

• Flying High with Jim Mora Jr.

On Michael Vick's not fitting into the typical quarterback mold: We become a little narrow-minded at times. People tend to want everyone to look the same at quarterback. You know what, Mike Vick is not Johnny Unitas; he's not Dan Marino; he's not Peyton Manning; he's not Tom Brady. He's Mike Vick. And he has a special way of doing things, a unique way of doing things and a very productive way of doing things.

• Sporting News, The
• August 05, 2009

• Which Bite Is the Most Vicious? It's a Doggone Mess

Now let's not lose sight of a more treacherous situation. What is more bothersome than [Mike Vick]'s situation is these other "bailers". These bailers make high six, seven and eight figure salaries, throwing tens of thousands of dollars at the ladies in the exotic nightclubs while the youth sports programs continue to suffer year after year all over the inner city. Some of the same youth programs that they were a part of, which no doubt shaped them into the ballplayers they are today. One evening with the ladies will fund four to six youth programs for the entire season. Let's redefine "ballin" to include "which professional player can outfit the most inner city youth athletic clubs," What if all of our 'ballers' matched, dollar for dollar, the amount of money they spend in the clubs to...

• Westside Gazette
• August 20, 2009