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Finally, a first-round draft choice has agreed to a contract with an NFL team. The Dallas Cowboys announced Thursday that wide receiver Dez Bryant, a first-round pick in April, agreed to a deal with the team. Bryant is scheduled to participate in Saturday's first practice of training camp in San Antonio, Tex. The Oklahoma State product was the 24th overall selection in the draft.

NFL training camps begin to open Friday when the Cleveland Browns' rookies are scheduled to report to their camp in Berea, Ohio. The Dallas Cowboys are scheduled to report to their camp in San Antonio, Tex., on Saturday, and rookies for the New England Patriots and San Diego Chargers report to camps Sunday. All NFL teams are scheduled to report to their training camps by Aug. 1. According to a written release by the league, 17 of the 32 NFL teams will hold their training camps in their home cities. Only five teams stayed home for training camp in 2001. The Green Bay Packers will be at St. Norbert College in DePere, Wis., for a 53rd straight summer for training camp. The Minnesota Vikings are in Mankato, Minn., for a 44th camp, and the Pittsburgh Steelers are in Latrobe, Penn., for a 44th camp.

The Green Bay Packers announced Wednesday that they had posted an operating profit of $9.8 million over the last year. That was down more than $10 million from the team's $20.1 million operating profit the previous year, club officials said. Packers President Mark Murphy said the franchise took in its largest amount of revenue ever. But player costs have risen at twice the rate of revenue gains in recent years, according to Murphy, who said the financial figures illustrate that the NFL's current labor situation is "not a sustainable model." The Packers are the league's only publicly owned franchise, and the announcement of the franchise's financial report comes as the NFL is attempting to negotiate a new labor deal with its players' union. "It really highlights the concerns we've had," Murphy said in a conference call with reporters. "It's obviously not a good situation when you have player costs

Chris Berman, the host of ESPN's NFL studio show, was named the winner of the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award Monday. Berman is scheduled to receive the award Aug. 6 at the dinner in Canton, Ohio for players being enshrined in the Hall of Fame. The award is given in recognition of "long-time exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football," according to the Hall of Fame's announcement. "I embraced pro football a long time ago," Berman said in a written statement. "I'm honored and humbled beyond belief, that pro football in turn, has embraced me."

According to the Associated Press, quarterback Brett Favre worked out with high school players Monday in Hattiesburg, Miss. Favre has not said whether he will play another season for the Minnesota Vikings, but he has been working out at Oak Grove High School as he recovers from offseason ankle surgery. Favre did not speak to reporters following Monday's workout. Instead he ran to his truck and drove away, the AP reported. Favre helped the Vikings reach the NFC title game last season.

According to a report by a Philadelphia television station, Eagles quarterback Michael Vick has been prohibited at least temporarily from traveling out of state in the wake of a shooting at a birthday party for Vick in Virginia Beach. WCAU-TV reported that Vick missed two scheduled appearances, one at a football camp Friday in Baltimore and another at a golf tournament in Atlanta over the weekend. According to the report, Vick's travel plans must be approved as part of his probation. He played for the Eagles last season after missing two NFL seasons while serving a federal sentence for his role in a dogfighting operation in Virginia. A prosecutor said that Vick was involved in a confrontation before the shooting at his birthday party last month but left the restaurant three to five minutes before the shooting and was not involved in it. No charges have been filed in

Police said Tuesday they know who was responsible for shooting another man following Michael Vick's birthday celebration, but the shooter will not be charged "at this time" because the victim has not cooperated with investigators, according to the Associated Press. Vick was not the shooter and there are no suspects other than the shooter, police spokesman Adam Bernstein said. The decision not to press charges was made by the prosecutor's office, but could be reversed if the victim decides to cooperate.

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick said he had "nothing to do" with a shooting that occurred early Friday at a birthday party for Vick in Virginia Beach. Vick said he did not witness the incident. "After I left the event, I learned that a man was shot outside the restaurant," Vick said in a written statement, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. "I want to assure everyone that I had nothing to do with that incident. I left the restaurant prior to it occurring and did not witness what happened." Vick said in the statement that he has cooperated with the investigation of the shooting.

According to the Associated Press, Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick has not been ruled out as a suspect or a person of interest by police in a shooting incident early Friday morning at a birthday party for him in Virginia Beach. Spokesman Adam Bernstein said police did not immediately look at Vick as a suspect because detectives had not begun their investigation, the AP reported. There had been previous reports that the police had no interest in Vick in relation to the incident.

Security camera video taken at the Virginia Beach restaurant that hosted Michael Vick's birthday party shows a different version of events prior to Friday's shooting than the one provided by the Eagles QB's attorney, according to a report in the Daily Press of Newport News. The paper quotes Allen Fabijan, spokesman for the Guadalajara restaurant, saying Vick "and his entourage" drove off from in front of the restaurant at 2:07 a.m. Three minutes later, shots rang out from that direction, Fabijan said. "You can see everybody duck at 2:10," Fabijan said of bystanders on the video. "I'm not saying that Michael Vick did the shooting. But he did not leave (long) before" as Vick's attorney, Larry Woodward, said his client told police Monday. Woodward responded: "I stand by what I said, that Michael was long gone before the shooting, does not know who did the shooting and had nothing to