QB Pennington will stay with Dolphins with one-year contract

According to latest reports, quarterback Chad Pennington will continue wearing the Miami Dolphins jersey for at least another one year, proving the veteran’s wish to stay with the team to be true even if he is to be used as a backup in 2010 season.

Pennington is recovering from the third operation of his career on his throwing shoulder. Twice he has returned from injuries to win NFL Comeback Player of the Year, most recently in 2008, when he led the Dolphins to their first playoff berth in seven years. However, after he was sidelined last year, second-year quarterback Chad Henne did such a good job as replacement that he was rewarded with the starting job for 2010 season. And Pennington along with Tyler Thigpen and Pat White will be his backups.

White the contract with Pennington is said to be signed on Monday, the Dolphins has already signed linebacker Karlos Dansby a $43 million, five-year contract on the first day of free agency. By so far, there has been no visit of other free agents to Miami yet.

Former NFL RB Phillips will have stay in prison for 31 years

Lawrence Phillips, formerly a man who played football in NFL jerseys as running back, has been sentenced to more than 31 years in prison for attacking his girlfriend and driving his car into three teens, deserving it.

The 34-year-old ex-NFL player was sentenced Friday in San Diego for assault and other crimes. Choking his girlfriend twice in 2005 in San Diego and aiming his car and striking three teens after a pickup football game in Los Angeles later that year, he still told the judge he didn’t get a fair trial and he’ll appeal.

A Los Angeles judge gave him 10 years for that attack but he was re-sentenced to seven years on Friday.

Phillips was once one of the nation’s top college football players at Nebraska. He joined the St. Louis Rams in 1996 but got released for insubordination in 1997. He also used t o for the Miami Dolphins and San Francisco 49ers from 1997-1999.

Tom Brady returned with injury but did not help Patriots win

When the New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady went off field without taking off his No. 12 Patriots jersey, he meant to return as soon as possible to contribute as much as he could to help the team. However, he failed to save the team and the Patriots still lost Sunday’s game to the Miami Dolphins at 22-21.

The narrow win caused me to guess the Patriots should have won the game only if Brady did not get injury on arm and was able to stay on field for all the time. And it is just hard for any Patriot to accept that the 7-4 team could lose the game to previously 5-6 Dolphins just one week after they were beaten by unbeaten New Orleans Saints.

Brady already had injuries on right shoulder and finger before the game. Those injuries together with the arm injury suffered during game were supposed to be the main reason to explain why Brady threw two interceptions in the last ten minutes, although the quarterback himself did not acknowledge that.

Dolphins lost CB Allen to knee injury for the season

The Miami Dolphins cornerback Will Allen (not the Will Allen in Buccaneers jersey) will not play the remaining games for the season in his Dolphins jersey as he hurt the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in the third quarter of the Dolphins’ loss to the New Orleans Saints. The injury is just serious enough to end his season.

According to Coach Tony Sparano, Allen’s knee needs surgery and a lot of time to recover. The 2009 first-round draft pick Vontae Davis will take over Allen’s job to start in the lineup against the New York Jets this Sunday. Another rookie, second-round pick Sean Smith will start opposite Davis as he has been starting opposite Allen.

Sparano conceded he was unsure whether the rookies were ready to assume such a load.

“They need to mature really fast,” Sparano said. “I don’t know if they’re equipped for 10 games in a row of doing full-time duty without having Will Allen out there. But these guys are playing at pretty good levels.”

But he has to trust them. Their performance has not been bad. Davis has seen significant playing time as a reserve and on special teams, playing 28 snaps Sunday against the Saints. And for Smith, since he was able to win a starting job in training camp, he should be given to confidence that he would do the job well.

Williams sisters became first female African-American owner of Dolphins

After the Miami Dolphins ended their Tuesday workout, they were introduced to new minority owners of the franchise-the Williams sisters Serena Williams and Venus Williams.

The announcement was made almost one week after it was reported that the Dolphins owner Stephen Ross would have a deal with the Williams sisters, who live in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., about an hour’s drive from the Dolphins’ stadium.

The two star tennis players said they have been Dolphins fan for long time and felt honored to be the first female African-Americans to hold an ownership stake in an NFL franchise.

“To have this opportunity is really where our heart is,” Venus said. “We’re South Florida girls. When we get off the road, this is where we come home to. When we come home to Dolphins games, it’s going to be exciting.”

The sisters are the fifth and sixth celebrity Ross has brought into the franchise since he purchased the Dolphins from Wayne Huizenga in January. The other four owning partnership are singer Jimmy Buffett, musicians Gloria and Emilio Estefan and Marc Anthony.