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After a decade of mostly familiar names, Super Bowl XLVII is set to provide some welcome new blood under center. Sunday will mark the first title game in five years to feature two quarterbacks who've never been here before, but that's about where the...

On any given Sunday (or Monday or Thursday), your NFL Run & Shootaround crew will be gathered around multiple televisions, making inappropriate jokes and generally regressing to the mean. Catch up on all the NFL action right here. Anquan Boldin: H...

Atlanta falls short again, and the rest of the news you need to know from championship weekend.

Last Friday, two days before the NFC divisional playoff game, I gave highly scientific, feelings-based reasons for why the Atlanta Falcons would defeat the Seattle Seahawks. These reasons included trusting the blind confidence of Mark Wahlberg and Bi...

It was Sunday, January 17, 1999. I was in Augusta, Georgia, for the first big junior tennis tournament of the season, the Mayor's Cup. Two days earlier, I walked onto the court, unseeded, for my first-round match with the 9-seed. The end result: a th...

Ray Lewis Is Truly Awesome Ray Lewis has described many things as "awesome." He dieted and exercised before this season and showed up to camp at his lightest weight in some 15 years: "It's awesome," he said, "I feel great." Earlier this season he...

How Peyton's and Matty Ice's legacies were in other people's hands, and the rest of the notable news from divisional weekend.

The Atlanta Falcons are playing the Seattle Seahawks in the divisional round of the NFC playoffs on Sunday. Vegas has the Falcons favored by 2.5, but you get +3 for just being the home team, which essentially means Vegas has no clue what it thinks. ...

Smart Guy Wednesday: Aaron Schatz joins Bill Simmons to discuss Round 2 of the NFL playoffs. To listen to this podcast, you can download it on iTunes here or go to the ESPN.com PodCenter. Previously on the B.S. Report: Mike Lombardi, Cousi...

A few days before Christmas 2006, having just arrived home in Atlanta for my break between college quarters, I was driving near the Georgia Dome when I spotted a new arrival in the neighborhood — an odd, trailer-like setup erected in a parking ...

History has told us time and time again that judging someone by his early playoff record is a mistake.

No one is safe from the BQBL Summer Jam Screen. Atop the BQBL leader board this week are Matt Ryan, Andrew Luck, Peyton Manning, and Matt Stafford. While these "elite" quarterbacks (whatever that means) had surprisingly atrocious performances, there ...

The Cardinals coaches can't make up their minds, and the rest of the Week 11 news.

The Atlanta Falcons have an undefeated record going into Week 10. That is important. D-Block is more important. D-Block is also a talk show, on the Internet, hosted by D-Block. Who is D-Block? The five-man linebacking corps of the Atlanta Fal...

The Atlanta Falcons are 8-0. Undefeated. "Loss-less," if you will. Average ATLiens like myself, not used to success, have been handling this news in different ways. Some don't want to jinx the good news and have stayed relatively quiet. They're co...

While it might seem like football just started yesterday, incredibly, we're coming up on the halfway point of this NFL season this weekend. Week 9 is a good time to take a step back from the game-to-game grind and examine each team with a longer view...