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SI.com has dispatched writers to report on NFL training camps across the country. Here's what Don Banks had to say about Packers camp in Green Bay, Wis., which he visited on July 30. For an archive of all camp postcards, click here.In Green Bay, Wis., aka "Titletown,'' where the Packers players still practice that quaint and time-honored tradition of borrowing bikes from kids to ride rather than walk the short hop across the street from Lambeau Field to the team's Ray Nitschke Field practice site. Everybody was on their Schwinns Saturday night before Green Bay's first practice of camp, which was attended by an enthusiastic crowd of roughly 2,000.1. Green Bay got better just by getting healthy. It's not mere hyperbole. Players such as running back Ryan Grant, tight end Jermichael Finley, safety Morgan Burnett, linebacker Brad Jones and defensive end Mike Neal have all returned healthy this year after missing most of last season on IR. [Read the full article] NEW YORK (AP) -- The NBA has filed an unfair labor practice charge and a federal lawsuit against the NBA Players Association, accusing the players of failing to bargain "in good faith" and of "impermissible pressure tactics" in labor talks.The unfair labor practice charge was filed with the National Labor Relations Board. It accuses the players of making "unlawful" threats to break up their union and pursue an antitrust lawsuit against the NBA, a strategy used this year by NFL players to fight their lockout.The lawsuit was filed in federal district court in New York. It asks the court to declare the NBA lockout does not break antitrust laws. The NBA also says it wants to void existing player contracts if the NBPA sheds its union status.Copyright 2011 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. [Read the full article] He scored when he wanted to score, cooperated when he wanted to cooperate and acted out when he wanted to act out.Moss spent 13 seasons doing things on his own terms, which is why perhaps the loudest career the NFL has ever seen - both in terms of the roars he induced on the field and the aggravation he caused off it - ended so quietly on Monday.No farewell speech from maybe the most physically gifted receiver to don a helmet. No tearful goodbye from a record-setting performer who changed the way defense is played in the NFL. Just a one-sentence statement from his agent saying one of the most colorful careers in league history was over."Randy has weighed his options and considered the offers and has decided to retire," Joel Segal said on Monday.It was vintage Moss, a revolutionary talent who was never very much interested in doing things the conventional way.Fans were awed by his once-in-a-generation blend of size, speed and intelligence. [Read the full article] 
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