October 18, 2011 | newscenter.verizon.com   One thousand teenage boys from Alexander Hamilton High School in Milwaukee gathered on Tuesday (Oct. 18) for Training Camps for Life, a partnership of the National Football League Players Association, A CALL TO MEN and the Verizon Foundation. The half-day, NFL-star-studded event addressed topics such as overcoming adversity, decisions and consequences, and healthy teen relationships –...

October, 18 2011 | Lori Nickel  | the Journal Sentinel   Green Bay – Not a whole lot in common between these two Green Bay inside linebackers. Desmond Bishop is a great, opinionated talker from California who reads novels and writes movie scripts and exhibits a pretty colorful sense of humor on Twitter. A.J. Hawk is a homebody with a wife, a baby and a now semi-famous family of dogs. He’s a weight room nut with a fairly...

October, 17 2011 | Rob Demovsky | Green Bay Press-Gazette When the Green Bay Packers’ defensive coaches grade film the day after a game, they compile their own tally of tackles, and it’s usually different from what the post-game statistics show. In the latest case, it showed just what kind of performance their two inside linebackers, Desmond Bishop and A.J. Hawk, turned in during Sunday’s 24-3 victory over the St. Louis Rams. For Bishop,...

October, 18 2011 | Monty | totalpackers.com I’ve mumbled it randomly the last two Sundays. Now I’m stating it for real — Desmond Bishop is going to the Pro Bowl. Hell, if he stays the course, he might even be an All Pro. He’s playing at that kind of level. Does he play mistake-free football? No, but he’s the steadiest member of the Green Bay Packers defense. He’s a tackling machine and, no offense, but unlike A.J. Hawk to his side and Nick...

October, 10 2011 |  Avinash Kunnath | bayarea.sbnation.com Desmond Bishop doesn’t get as much pub as Clay Matthews does for the Green Bay Packers, but he’s worked hard to find his way into the starting lineup and become a vital cog for a Packer linebacking corps. And he came up with a big play against Matt Ryan of the Atlanta Falcons that eventually forced an obvious throwing situation, which became a Packer game-clinching...

September 30, 2011 | Kareem Copeland | greenbaypressgazette.com Desmond Bishop has arrived — so it seems. He ranked No. 2 on the Packers with 121 tackles last season after being named a starter when Nick Barnett was lost for the season with a wrist injury. Bishop started 12 games, put up strong numbers, was a huge contributor to the Super Bowl run and was rewarded with a contract extension. Still, the fifth-year linebacker never opened an...