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Chip Kelly has been busy revolutionizing the Philadelphia Eagles. I think it was Lenin who said all revolutions have casualties. The first casualty in Chip Kelly's revolution was Mexican cuisine. Kelly banned "Taco Tuesdays," a staple of the Andy Rei...

The Philadelphia Eagles' selection of USC quarterback Matt Barkley in the fourth round of this year's draft appears, by any logical measure, to be a great value pick. At one time, Barkley was talked about as a high first-round pick, and there's no do...

For defenders of the NFL draft as must-see TV, last night was tough. A total of five skill-position players in the first round, including just one quarterback, is a pretty tough sell to the casual fan. There was one group, though, who couldn't have e...

Before making his fourth move in five years, Dana Holgorsen needed a little convincing. West Virginia had contacted the Oklahoma State offensive coordinator and expressed interest in grooming him to be its next head coach. But prior to any commitment...

Anyone in my life can tell you that I have a serious problem when it comes to Fear of Missing Out. I could be off having a good time — a great time — but the moment I hear that something else is happening somewhere else, the fear begins t...

The annual T-shirts-and-shorts craziness is under way in Indianapolis, and with all the stories flying around, we rounded up the biggest bits of news from this year's NFL combine. Chip Kelly wasn't the least bit shy in expressing his feelings ab...

Sometimes there are terrible ideas, but you support them nonetheless. This is a safe place for you to defend those ideas. This Is a Terrible Idea Yesterday the Philadelphia Eagles announced they were re-signing Michael Vick to a one-year contract...

In case you were busy fixating on that piece of popcorn stuck between your molars, here's what you missed in sports on Monday. The San Antonio Spurs took down the Bulls in Chicago, 103-89, despite missing their trio of future Hall of Famers, Tim...

Robert Mays and Ephraim Salaam talk coaching hires, the conference championship games, and the future of NFL quarterbacking. Listen to this podcast here. Subscribe to the Grantland Network on iTunes, and check out our podcasts page....

In case you were busy deleting everything interesting from your Facebook account before Graph Search goes live, here's what you missed in sports on Wednesday. LeBron James reached a major milestone Wednesday night, becoming the youngest NBA play...

Chip Kelly is the new head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles. This is more exciting than it probably should be; obviously, coaches change jobs all the time. But this feels different, somehow. Kelly is the best contemporary offensive mind in America (t...

It's Rivalry slash Thanksgiving Week, when teams who have historically aggravated one another by virtue of shared geography, but who may not even be in the same conference in 2012, meet up for an annual gathering of bad feelings. This is the week for...

It can't be overstated just how impressive Stanford's 17-15 overtime victory over Oregon was. Stanford almost entirely shut down Oregon and its record-setting offense, the same offense that shredded the Cardinal 53-30 last season. Last year, Oregon's...

A century before the Saturday evening that will forever be recalled for the painful death of Bill Snyder's 16 precepts in Waco, and for the gumming up of Phil Knight's fast-twitch widget-production apparatus in Eugene, and for Les Miles's epic Lebows...

The success of Chip Kelly's Oregon offense is more familiar than it seems.

There's limited value in writing about things that didn't actually happen ("What if the South had won the Civil War?" "What if Winona Ryder had been cast in The Godfather III instead of Sofia Coppola?" Etc.). But something almost happened on Sunday t...