Shayne Graham News

With the July 15 deadline to sign Shayne Graham to a long-term deal, it appears as if the team and kicker remain apart on an agreement.

A few post-Fourth of July observations. With the smoke cleared and Rozzi's headed into its All-Star break getting their fireworks ready for Riverfest, there are just 24 days until the first practice of training camp.

Exactly two weeks from now, we will know for sure whether Terrell Suggs and Shayne Graham will get long-term deals or play on a one-year franchise tag they were awarded during this offseason.

When the Bengals released the two punters on their roster, Kyle Larson and Ryan Plackemeier, on April 28, Kevin Huber found himself in an interesting situation.

Shayne Graham won't be kicking footballs over the outfield wall at Champion Window Field, but he and the Ben-Gals, will be out to support the Northern Kentucky District 7 Special Olympics on July 9. Graham along with other local celebrities will be coming to Champion Window Field to play in the Bilz Insurance and Ohio Casualty Celebrity Softball ...

We've hit that period in the offseason where it gets really, really calm before all of the arguments and news that comes with training camp really takes off.

The Bengals elected to try something new. Marvin Lewis conducted Olympic-like competitions to bring the team some fun, as well as another way to get some work in.

The infamous Carson Palmer Pitch Count came into play Thursday afternoon when he only threw a couple of passes in the second workout of mandatory minicamp at Paul Brown Stadium to protect the elbow he injured last season.

BEREA: There's a 100 percent chance that Blame It on the Rain will never make Eric Mangini's playlist of practice music.

Looks like he's fitting in nicely, although when we were chatting, place-kicker Shayne Graham walked by and made some sort of comment about how the rookie Huber is going to pay for all his lunches this season.

Now that we think we know who is lining up behind Andre Smith as an agent the next question is where Smith is going to line up when voluntary workouts start Tuesday.

Here are the top stories Friday in the AFC North: ESPN.com did an interesting chat with Pittsburgh Steelers Pro Bowl safety Troy Polamalu.

A weakened economy off the field and a 4-11-1 record on it has not added up to a good equation when it comes to selling season tickets.

Since the Bengals will still allow me past "Checkpoint Charlie" and Jack Brennan and P.J. Combs are always accommodating, I took advantage of an "open locker room" Wednesday at Paul Brown Stadium.

Kicker Shayne Graham had an eventful offseason. He unhappily became the Bengals franchise free agent, but worked himself into what he called the best shape he's been in a long time while spending much of the winter in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area.

Kicker Shayne Graham met the Cincinnati media Wednesday for the first time since the Bengals made him their franchise free-agent back in February and admitted he was "disappointed" that there wasn't a "serious" effort to reach a long-term deal before they tendered him the one-year contract of $2.5 million.

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The New England Patriots have obtained tight end Alex Smith from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Their heads are spinning to fast.=== Andre Smith toured Paul Brown Stadium in a business suit the day after the Bengals made him their No.