Free agent wide receiver Braylon Edwards and the San Francisco 49ers  have reached an agreement on a one-year, $3.5 million deal, sources told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter on Thursday.  Read more after the jump. @Shay_Marie & @gametimegirl

NFL players ratified a new, 10-year collective bargaining agreement Thursday, hours after it was finalized, and the contract allows the NFL to become the first major U.S. professional sports league to use blood testing for human growth hormone, a source familiar with the talks told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter.  Read more after the jump. @Shay_Marie & @gametimegirl

Wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery has witnessed plenty of stunning departures in his seven years with the New York Jets but he always clung to the romantic notion that he’d be different, that he’d able to finish his career with the team that drafted him.  Not happening.  Read more after the jump. @Shay_Marie & @gametimegirl

Former NBA player and East St. Louis native Darius Miles was arrested Wednesday afternoon at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport for allegedly trying to bring a loaded firearm through security, authorities said.  Read more after the jump. @Shay_Marie & @gametimegirl

Charles Barkley and Tiger Woods, once fast friends, haven’t spoken to each other in nearly two years.  And now that Woods has parted with another of his friends, longtime caddie Steve Williams, Barkley has run out of patience.  Read more after the jump. @Shay_Marie & @gametimegirl

Lebron James took to his twitter account tonight to express anger over sports analysts’ unfair judgement of Tim Tebow.  He even took a shot at ESPN football analyst Merill Hoge.  Read more after the jump. @Shay_Marie & @gametimegirl