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The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - San Francisco 49ers - INSIDE SLANT Forget the fact that Lawrence Okoye has never played a down of football in his life. When the 49ers rookies gathered for the first time over the weekend, he certainly did not look...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - San Francisco 49ers - INSIDE SLANT As the 49ers began their rookie minicamp Friday, most of the attention was on two people -- one who probably won't be able to play this year and another who has never played...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - San Francisco 49ers - INSIDE SLANT Levi Strauss & Co. is reportedly offering $220 million over 20 years for naming rights for the San Francisco 49ers new, 68,500-seat stadium set to open in 2014 in Santa Clara....

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - San Francisco 49ers - INSIDE SLANT In what may could become an important reunion, the San Francisco 49ers signed guard Adam Snyder to a two year contract Monday. Snyder, 31, appeared in 121 games during his eight-...

NFL Team Report - San Francisco 49ers - INSIDE SLANT San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh, self-admittedly, has a new favorite player. The honor belongs to fourth-round pick Quinton Patton, a receiver from Louisiana Tech, and the rationale has...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - San Francisco 49ers - INSIDE SLANT As expected, the 49ers began the 2013 NFL Draft by swapping some of their original allotment of 13 picks to move into position to get a safety Thursday night. They did not take the...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - San Francisco 49ers - INSIDE SLANT The 49ers got little return on their 2012 draft class, but it didn't matter as they made their way to the Super Bowl. With most of the key pieces returning, there's the potential...

The NFL will soon reveal which teams will be awarded compensatory picks for free agents lost last offseason. The Ravens are expected to receive three or four compensatory picks -- likely four -- which would bring their number of picks for next month&...

The matchup for Super Bowl XLVII is set and it should come to no surprise to South Florida high school football fans that the area will be well represented on football's biggest stage.  Between them, the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers...

|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY| Tennis--Australian Open, same-day tape, 10 a.m. (ESPN2), 8 p.m., 2:30 a.m. (ESPN2) Women’s College Basketball--Iowa State at Oklahoma State, Noon (FXSP); Maryland at Georgia Tech, 2 p.m. (ESPN2); Alabama-Birmingham at...

||TV SPORTS| |SATURDAY| Men’s College Basketball--Georgetown at St. John’s, 10 a.m. (ESPN2); Duke at North Carolina State, 11 a.m. (ESPN); Marquette at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m. (ESPNU); Minnesota at Indiana, 11 a.m. (Big 10 Network);...

|TV SPORTS| |SATURDAY| Soccer--Premier League, Manchester City at Newcastle, 6:30 p.m. (ESPN2); Women’s National Teams, Exhibition, United States vs. China, 6 p.m. (NBCSN) Men’s College Basketball--East Carolina at North Carolina, 11 a....