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Donald Driver Takes the Mirror Ball Trophy and the Other Athletes Who Have Won “Dancing with the Stars” (Yahoo! Contributor Network)

On Tuesday, May 22, 2012, "Dancing with the Stars" crowned a new champion. Donald Driver and his partner Peta Murgatroyd were in the finals along with Katherine Jenkins, and her partner Mark Ballas, and William Levy, and his partner Cheryl Burke. Levy took third, Jenkins took second and Driver, a wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers, took the win. The victory had likely been secured by Driver's great freestyle which featured a county theme. Driver is not the first athlete to win the show. Here is a look at some of the other athletes who have taken home the mirror ball trophy.

 

Steelers RB Redman ready to carry heavy load (The Associated Press)

PITTSBURGH (AP) They don't celebrate NFL backups in southern New Jersey. Trust Isaac Redman on this.

 

Mendenhall vows to play in 2012 (National Football Post)

Steelers running back tore his ACL in January.

 

Browns' McCoy hoping for fair fight for job (The Associated Press)

BEREA, Ohio (AP) Colt McCoy has been promised a fair fight by the Browns.

 

Steelers open OTAs without WR Mike Wallace (The Associated Press)

PITTSBURGH (AP) Mike Wallace has one of offensive coordinator Todd Haley's playbooks. What the Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver doesn't have is a new long-term contract.

 

Tom Brady's father would be 'very hesitant' to let his son take up football in concussion era (Yahoo! Sports)

Tom Sr. waited until his only boy was 14 to let him play football, and he would be more reluctant now.

 

Seau's suicide prompts worries about post-NFL life (The Associated Press)

Junior Seau's suicide is troubling NFL players.

 

Madden ’13 will include ‘Tebowing’ (Shutdown Corner)

Forget the new schemes and routes, the advanced player modeling, and the always-impressive realism of the Madden game. The question you've all been asking has now officially been answered: Will we be able to "Tebow" as we're playing Madden '13, which will be released on August 28? The answer, apparently, is an affirmative "yes." If you choose to celebrate a great play by getting on one knee as the Jets' quarterback does, you'll be able to do so in a virtual sense. Michael Young, the Creative Director and Sports Photographer for the Madden game franchise, let the cat out on Twitter: That's all well and good, but here's our question: Where are the other celebrations? Where's Steve Smith's little rowboat end zone thing, or Chad Ochocinco's Riverdance? Moreover, why doesn't the NFL have a problem with this, as paranoid as they are about their players expressing themselves no matter the circumstances? What we do not know is if other players will be Tebowing in the game, or whether the gesture will be the sole province of the man himself. As the Denver Broncos' starting quarterback over the second half of the 2011 season, Tebow got to run that namesake move quite often as he helped the Broncos to an unexpected playoff win over the Pittsburgh Steelers. The move then caught on across the country, in some truly bizarre ways.

 

AFC East players in the crosshairs (Pro Football Weekly)

As training camp approaches, we take a look at the players on each team who will be most heavily scrutinized. The list contains a fair amount of quarterbacks — no stunner there — but we tried to highlight as many non-QBs as we could. The players highlighted range from rookies to veterans with 10 or more years of experience.

 

Deep Posts: Winslow not wanted in Tampa Bay? (Shutdown Corner)

Winslow not wanted in Tampa Bay? Ross Tucker of SIRIUS NFL Radio broke the news on his Twitter account this morning -- while hosting his show and talking to guest Kellen Winslow, Jr., it was revealed that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers under new head coach Greg Schiano want to go in a different direction, and are looking to trade the veteran tight end. Winslow said that he got the news Saturday night -- the Bucs will look to trade him to the right team, and if that doesn't work out (which it won't now ... public knowledge tends to kill trade value), he may be released. Winslow had one of his best seasons in 2010 , but declined along with the rest of Tampa Bay's offense in 2011. Schiano may prefer more traditional blocking tight ends in what projects to be a run-heavy offense. He also said that the team was unhappy about his choice to work away from the facility this offseason. Oh, look! It's the curl/flat again... Our buddy Chris Brown over at the indispensable Smart Football site has a brilliant article up today on the relatively simple passing concepts put together by the Indianapolis Colts of the Peyton Manning/Tom Moore era, and why they were so tough to stop despite the fact that the playbook was relatively simple and predictable (especially from a formation concept; the Colts were the ultimate three-WR/one-back team through most of the 2000s). Great read, as is most of Chris' stuff. If you want to get more into the schematic aspects of the game, check out his new book here . The real value of minicamps. Matt Bowen at the National Football Post writes about the true meaning of OTAs -- despite what many think, it's less about finding sleeper prospects and more about getting back in shape and up to speed. For rookies, the real secret to those first "voluntary/mandatory" sessions is the ability to start real playbook install. In my opinion, it will be interesting to see if any second-year players will see ancillary benefits from this, as they were prevented from early install by the 2011 lockout.