More coverage: Vick dogfighting case

Sports Digest: Vick goes to Kan. prison to serve sentence

Michael Vick left Richmond, Va., yesterday, being transferred to a Kansas prison to serve the rest of his 23-month sentence on a federal dogfighting charge.

Co-defendant in Vick case gets 2 months

U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson sentenced Tony Taylor to two months in prison yesterday for his role in a dogfighting operation that involved suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick.

Michael Vick Sentenced

Not sorry enough?

Michael Vick was sentenced to 23 months in prison yesterday on a dogfighting charge by a federal judge skeptical of the quarterback's apologies. The sentence completed a freefall during which Vick tumbled from one of pro football's most marketed stars to a scorned perpetrator who arrived at the courthouse in a prison jumpsuit.

NFL Notes

Judge sets Vick's trial for April 2

A judge yesterday scheduled an April 2 trial date for jailed Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick on two state felony dogfighting charges.

Vick surrenders, starts serving his time early

Michael Vick got a head start on a possible long prison stretch yesterday, surrendering three weeks before he was to be sentenced for his involvement in a dogfighting ring.

NFL Notes

Vick owes team about $20M

Michael Vick has taken another hit - and this one could cost him nearly $20 million.

Vick indicted on Va. charges

Michael Vick's legal woes compounded yesterday, when a Surry County grand jury indicted him and three associates on local charges related to dogfighting.

NFL Notes

Vick, Goodell to meet regarding suspension

Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick will get a chance to explain himself to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, although no date has been set for a meeting.

Vick offers 'deepest apologies'

NFL star quarterback Michael Vick pleaded guilty yesterday to a dogfighting charge, then took his first steps toward what he hopes will be redemption. Saying "I need to grow up," the quarterback apologized to the league and to the "young kids that I've let down who look at Michael Vick as a role model."

Pit bull adoption deadline is today

More than 50 pit bulls seized from Michael Vick's property must be claimed today. If no one comes forward, they could be euthanized.

Falcons trying to deal with ramifications of a post-Vick era

The Atlanta Falcons are hurt and confused. They're struggling to comprehend how the guy they knew as a star on the field and a friend in the locker room could have gotten himself into this much trouble.

Other Voices

Sacking Vick with a rush to judgment OK in this case

Now that Michael Vick has passed judgment on himself, is it safe for the rest of us to do the same?

The Vick Case

Vick to enter guilty plea

Atlanta Falcons star Michael Vick, one of the NFL's most exciting and marketable quarterbacks the past six seasons, will plead guilty to career-threatening federal charges tied to a dogfighting ring operated on his Virginia property, his attorney said yesterday.

Rick Maese: Maese: Falcons star's best play would be heavy remorse

There will come a day - perhaps a year from now, maybe more, maybe less - when Michael Vick will have paid his court-ordered debt to society. Under the tenets of our justice system, he'll be a free man, and history suggests he'll still be young enough to return to the NFL and be a productive player.

The Vick case

Eventual comeback isn't out of question for Vick

On Christmas Eve of 2004, the Atlanta Falcons gave Michael Vick a 10-year, $130 million contract, more in recognition of his promise than his production.

Vick case timeline

April 20: Davon Boddie, Michael Vick's cousin, is arrested in the parking lot of a Hampton, Va., nightclub after a police dog alerted its handler that marijuana might be in Boddie's vehicle. Boddie, 27, is charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.

David Steele: Steele: Vick case leaving no stains on NFL

In the past month or so, a lot of people have said or written that this Michael Vick mess, coming at the end of more than a year of raging player misconduct, is enough to make them swear off the NFL for good.

2 more plead guilty in Vick case

Michael Vick's last two co-defendants pleaded guilty yesterday to federal dogfighting charges and said the Atlanta Falcons quarterback actively participated in killing about eight dogs.

Beamer, Va. Tech standing by Vick

Michael Vick's former Virginia Tech coach says he's standing by the embattled quarterback, and the school has no plans - at least not now - to remove a portrait of Vick from the athletic complex or a Vick flag that flies over the stadium.

NFL Notes

No plea deal struck yet in Vick case

Michael Vick and his attorneys were still negotiating with federal prosecutors yesterday, hoping to strike a deal on a plea agreement, according to a lawyer familiar with the case.

NFL Notes

Vick offered plea deal, report says

Federal prosecutors have offered Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick a plea deal that would recommend he serve at least one year in prison on a felony dogfighting conspiracy charge, two sources familiar with the discussions told The Virginian-Pilot.

NFL Notes

Co-defendants abandon Vick

Prosecutors have more leverage against Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick now that his remaining two co-defendants decided to plead guilty while he has maintained his innocence in a federal dogfighting conspiracy case.

Vick distractions are something Ravens can relate to

The charges brought against Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick for his alleged involvement in a Virginia-based dogfighting operation don't have an impact on the Ravens, but if any NFL team can relate to what the Falcons are going through, it's the team that opened training camp at McDaniel College yesterday.

Co-defendant says Vick bankrolled dogfighting ring

One of Michael Vick's co-defendants pleaded guilty Monday to his role in a dogfighting conspiracy he says was financed almost entirely by the Atlanta Falcons quarterback.

Dogfight fans aren't so easy to categorize

The details of the dogfighting indictment against Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick are as gruesome as they are shocking: starving pit bulls forced to tear one another apart for hours, and animals beaten to death, shot, hanged and electrocuted when they did not perform well.

Vick's Nike deal suspended

Nike suspended its lucrative contract with Michael Vick on Friday, while Reebok took the unprecedented step of stopping sales of his No. 7 jersey.

Vick pleads not guilty in U.S. court

Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick pleaded not guilty yesterday to conspiracy charges related to dogfighting.

Pro Football

At NFL's request, Falcons will delay action on Vick

Horrified by the dogfighting allegations against their star player, the Atlanta Falcons planned to suspend quarterback Michael Vick for four games until the NFL asked the team to hold off while it conducts its own investigation.

NFL to Vick: Stay away from camp

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell yesterday ordered quarterback Michael Vick to stay away from the Atlanta Falcons' training camp until the league reviews the dogfighting charges against him.

David Steele: Steele: Vick will need a replay of Lewis' major image rehab

If anyone had said to you seven years ago that today Ray Lewis would be hosting a radio show in the coming season, you'd probably ask how he can broadcast from state prison. That is, once you'd have stopped laughing.

Protesters want Vick suspended

While commissioner Roger Goodell was meeting with officials of the ASPCA, about 50 people urged the NFL to "Sack Vick" yesterday in a demonstration outside the league's headquarters after the indictment of Michael Vick on dogfighting charges.

NFL waits to blow whistle on Vick

This much we know: Michael Vick won't be on the field when the Atlanta Falcons open training camp next Thursday. He'll be in a federal courtroom.

The Michael Vick case

Peter Schmuck: Schmuck: Enough facts are known for indefinite suspension

Welcome to the ultimate test of the Roger Goodell Doctrine.

David Steele: Steele: Guilty or not, Vick deserves everything coming his way

Let's all take a deep breath. Neither the NFL nor the Atlanta Falcons should kick out Michael Vick just because of an indictment, and just because he "sounds" guilty. It didn't happen with Kobe Bryant or Ray Lewis, and as we know now, it shouldn't have happened to the Duke lacrosse players.

Falcons' Vick indicted

NFL star Michael Vick was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday on charges of sponsoring a dogfighting operation so grisly that the losers died in the pit or sometimes were electrocuted, drowned, hanged or shot.