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CBS re-signed a veteran quarterback Tuesday and picked up some help on defense.

Dan Fouts, a CBS analyst from 1988 to 1993 after a Hall of Fame NFL quarterbacking career, will be an analyst on some CBS NFL games with a variety of play-by-play announcers, including Don Criqui, Bill Macatee and Dick Enberg. Fouts also will work some CBS Southeastern Conference games. After last season, Fouts was waived by ABC/ESPN, where he'd been a Monday Night Football analyst and worked college games with Keith Jackson -- and tried calling college play-by-play last season.

So why keep coming back? "It's what I do, a part of my life since I was born," says Fouts, whose father, Bob, was a longtime San Francisco 49ers sportscaster. "I enjoyed ABC a great deal. I just look forward to working."

Warren Sapp looks forward, along ...