Big Night
Shaun AssaelOn an April night in 1980, eight NFL strongmen squared off in a TV spectacle -- and changed football forever. Now four of them are dead.
Story | Conversation | January 21, 2003Media Blitz: A few minutes with Coach Eli Manning
Sam Alipour...members of the 1993 Easton Area Red Rovers and Phillipsburg Stateliners (PA) football teams, deemed the greatest prep gridiron rivalry by USA Today, will replay their classic tie game in a full-contact, four-quarter...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 24, 2009The Back and Forth: Best Sports Day Of The Year?
Ted Bauer and Eric Angevine...Forth?" Seems a pretty simple discussion: what's the best sports day of the year? Is it today, 1.1 of the Madness, or is it something NFL (the new "national pasttime")? Hmm. (If you...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 19, 2009Condensing the NFL Combine
Chris Sprow...records fade and Vernon Gholston becomes Miss Delaware, "today wearing a lavender two-piece!" Jaws drop and...take pride in physically assaulting people on the football field." — Jason Smith, possible No. 1 pick...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 24, 2009May The Curse Be With You
Rick PaulasA word you'll be hearing a lot today is "paraskavedekatriaphobia", the fear of the day Friday...deterioration of skills after his year out of football. He is not the explosive punt returner or...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 13, 2009The Morning According to Us
Chris SprowIf you know anything about college football's Signing Day, which takes place today—millionaire college coaches sweating over fax machines like millionaire hedge fund managers...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 04, 2009Rare Air: Reggie Bush and Red Bull
Alyssa Roenigk...as athletes and extreme-action-stick-and-ball sports simply as sports. In this futuristic world, professional football players who grew up watching the X Games would snowboard in the off-season (as Houston Texans...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 30, 2009A Cold Day in Heaven
Andrew Kachel...from the experience. It served to make the game even more memorable. Those games were enhanced by "football weather", not the other way around. So why don't we give our Super Bowls a chance...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 30, 2009Without Express Written Consent
Lane Strauss, ESPN The MagazineIn the odd world of sports-video collecting, the socks are still high, the Raiders are still winners and big brother is always watching. Even if he isn't.
Story | Conversation | January 28, 2009
Without Express Written Consent
Lane Strauss, ESPN The MagazineIn the odd world of sports-video collecting, the socks are still high, the Raiders are still winners and big brother is always watching. Even if he isn't.
Story | Conversation | January 28, 2009
Report: Autopsy Reveals Sixth NFL Player Suffered From Head Trauma-Related Brain Damage
Peter Keating...researchers at Boston University School of Medicine announced today. Over the past two years, researchers have examined...Chris Nowinski, a former WWE wrestler and Harvard football player, to solicit and study the brains of...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 27, 2009Dear Flem: Questions for Conference Championship Weekend
David Fleming...the dude knows a lot about the National Football League, information he normally deals out in a...the style of last week's mailbag column, today Flem is fielding questions about conference championship weekend...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 15, 2009Auction Block: Old School Playoffs
Eric Angevine...old school. Some schwag to remind you of the "good old days"… Official Charley Trippi Wilson Football: Chicago Hall of Famer Trippi scored on a run and a punt return in '47. The autograph...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 12, 2009Dear Flem: Talking Divisional Weekend
David Fleming (and NFL fans!)...story on Jeremy Shockey earlier this season. Point being: the dude knows a lot about the National Football League, information he normally deals out in a back-and-forth with one (lucky?) fan per week...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 06, 2009Dear Flem: Lamenting the Bills
David Fleming...do I do this to myself? I had a healthy adult attitude about the proper place of football for the better part of that game. In fact, I was wrapping Christmas presents with the rest...
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