Boltergeist

0-0 at the Emirates: City 2nd, Sunderland safe - Arsenal all but clinches 3rd Hull/Newcastle gets relegated. Hull needs to win and if they do Newcastle will need to win as well to avoid.

Pot 1 for next year confirmed Barcelona, Bayern, Chelsea, Juve, PSG, Benfica, Zenit, Eindhoven

Villa would go Europa instead of team 7 if they win the FA Cup. As far as Fair Play, from what I read West Ham has the inside track, provided Liverpool qualifies through league standings.

The Europa rules changed - if a cup winner qualifies for the CL, then the Europa spot goes to the next spot down the league standings and not cup runner-up. Since Chelsea won, now 5 and 6 qualify for Europa. Arsenal winning the FA cup would bring 7th place in the mix.

promotion playoffs will be Ipswich-Norwich and Brentford-Boro - Derby needed a tie but ended up losing 0-3.

2nd round

J"Marcus Webb signs with the Raiders - if he ever sees the field then RIP Derek Carr

Patrick Robinson signs a 1-year deal with San Diego

never mind

It's done - Stills to MIA for Ellerbe and a 3.

an ex-Duck not passing his physical? Isn't that Chip Kelly bingo?

Ryan Mathews is already twisting in the wind in Philly - he hasn't signed yet and if DeMarco Murray does, Mathews probably won't.

I can't wait for the inevitable play where Bradford and Mathews both go down for the year on a botched handoff

Buster Skrine to the Jets

I'd like Gach to return to SD, but can't fault him for looking around. For a while last year, he was probably playing the best of the ILBs, but the best he could do here is the 3rd behind Butler/Te'o.

Mike Iupati is staying in the NFC West - saying he's going to be a Cardinal. ...also there is a potential renege, Frank Gore is having 2nd thoughts about Philly.

The Jags have another tackle to go with Joeckel, signing Jermey Parnell from DAL at 5/32.5M

Pernell McPhee is going to the Bears 5 for 40M

Terms are in for Franklin's deal in SD 5/36.5M. Also overspending season has started in OAK - 5/44.5M for Rodney Hudson

the McCourty deal is 5 yr/47.5M

per the U-T's Michael Gehlken, the Flowers deal is 4 yr/36M - kind of surprised it wasn't more given the Maxwell deal in place with PHI

around 8M per is the high deal - I'm wondering if the Chargers interest in Franklin means that they're out of the Iupati sweepstakes

So far DEN has announced Demaryius will be the Thomas they tag. No tag for Suh in DET. And KC will tag Justin Houston, but this one could get messy. Houston wants to be tagged as a DE, not an LB. There's also already rumors that he may wait til Week 10 to sign.

Pardew may not be around much longer himself, since Crystal Palace is negotiating for him

Leicester, West Brom, and Palace beat ManU, Spurs, and Everton today: just like everyone thought.