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Jason Campbell enters his first training camp with the Oakland Raiders as their starter at quarterback. Raiders Coach Tom Cable named Campbell the team's starter Wednesday on the eve of training camp. "I'm excited about Jason," Cable said at a news conference. "And while we're at it right now, Jason is the starter.... He's going to go out in the first huddle, and he's going to do that." The Raiders open their camp Thursday after an offseason in which they obtained Campbell in a trade with the Washington Redskins. Campbell was displaced as the starter in D.C. by the Redskins' trade for Donovan McNabb.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is scheduled to begin a tour of NFL training camps next week, joining former coach and broadcaster John Madden on Madden's famed bus. The league announced that Goodell would visit eight training camps in six days, beginning Monday. He will be in 11 cities in 10 days, including visits late this week to Green Bay and Kansas City, according to the NFL's announcement. According to the league, Goodell will visit the Jacksonville Jaguars and New Orleans Saints on Monday; the Philadelphia Eagles on Tuesday; the Baltimore Ravens and Washington Redskins next Wednesday; the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns Aug. 5; and the Indianapolis Colts Aug. 7.

UPDATED (6:55 p.m.)... There might not be enough passes from quarterback Carson Palmer--or attention--to go around for the Cincinnati Bengals' wide receivers this season. Terrell Owens is joining Chad Ochocinco, after all. Owens has agreed to a one-year contract with the Bengals as a free agent, according to the team's Web site. Ochocinco confirmed the signing, writing on Twitter that the deal was completed and "all of our games have been moved to pay-per-view." Owens had been a free agent all offseason. His contract with the Buffalo Bills expired after last season and the Bills did not re-sign him. There was speculation in recent days that the St. Louis Rams and New York Jets also were interested, and agent Drew Rosenhaus had written on Twitter that multiple teams were in the Owens chase. But Ochocinco wrote Saturday on Twitter that he expected Owens to sign with the Bengals, and

The NFL has produced a new poster to hang in locker rooms league-wide to warn players about the effects of concussions, the New York Times reported. The poster, according to an image of it accompanying the report, lists medical facts about concussions and symptoms, and instructs players to report symptoms of concussion. It warns players that "according to the CDC, 'traumatic brain injury can cause a wide range of short- or long term changes affecting thinking, sensation, language, or emotions.' These changes may lead to problems with memory and communication, personality changes, as well as depression and the early onset of dementia. Concussions and conditions resulting from repeated brain injury can change your life and your family's life forever."

According to multiple reports, the St. Louis Rams and New York Jets also are among the teams giving consideration to the possibility of signing free agent wide receiver Terrell Owens. Those reports have come after Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco wrote over the weekend on Twitter that he expects the Bengals to sign Owens. Owens remained without a job all offseason after his contract with the Buffalo Bills expired and the Bills did not re-sign him. But agent Drew Rosenhaus wrote recently on Twitter that there were several teams interested in Owens. It remains unclear when Owens might be signed.

The owners are scheduled to conduct a one-day meeting Aug. 25 in Atlanta. The possible switch to an 18-game season could be among the topics of conversation. But Atlanta Falcons President Rich McKay, the co-chairman of the NFL's competition committee, said during a recent telephone interview he did not know if the owners would take an official vote on the measure during that meeting. The owners have presented the possibility of increasing the regular season from 16 to 18 games per team, and reducing the preseason from four games to two, to the players' union during the two sides' labor negotiations. But the owners have not formally voted on the measure and have said they don't yet consider it a formal proposal to the union. The union has referred to it as a proposal by the owners, however. Green Bay Packers President Mark Murphy, a member of the owners'

The NFL reportedly will not discipline Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick in the aftermath of a shooting at a birthday party for Vick last month in Virginia Beach. The league has informed Vick of the decision, ESPN reported. According to the report, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell spoke to Vick by telephone and will meet with Vick on Aug. 3 at the Eagles' training camp at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. Goodell cautioned Vick to be more careful in his personal life, according to the report. The Associated Press reported that a league spokesman said there had been no change in Vick's playing status but declined further comment.

Wide receiver Terrell Owens remains unsigned as a free agent after his contract with the Buffalo Bills expired and that team did not re-sign him. With NFL teams opening their training camps, speculation about which team might sign Owens--or if any club will sign Owens at all--is intensifying. And, not surprisingly, Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco is having his say. Ochocinco has lobbied regularly for the Bengals to sign Owens, and he wrote Saturday on Twitter that he expects it to happen. Ochocinco wrote that he is "so excited for training camp, especially since Batman is coming to join me." Later, Ochocinco wrote that Batman is Owens.

The NFL sent results of its concussion-related helmet testing to teams Friday, with instructions for the information to be shared with players. League officials said they considered the testing of 16 helmet models to be a first step toward improving helmet technology to attempt to prevent players from suffering concussions. The study, which was conducted by two independent laboratories, was supported by the NFL Players Association, which prepared a written summary of the testing results jointly with the league. "We thought there was a substantial reason to believe this was valuable data, and the Players Association felt this was important and should be shared with the players," said Jeff Pash, the NFL's executive vice president of labor. But "this is not the final word or anything close to the final word on helmets." NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell wrote in a two-page memo to teams that the league and union

USA TODAY previews the training camp storylines as NFL teams set for the start of the 2010 season.