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The need for workhorse NFL running backs is declining — it isn’t personal, it’s evolution ...

These are the worst Super Bowl matchups of all timeThe epicenter of American sports is the Super Bowl. The biggest performance in music every year isn’t at the Grammys. It’s in between grown men in pads smashing into each other. Good luck Rihanna. And just because it’s two of the best teams in the NFL every year competing for a championship doesn’t ...

The Bengals Really Could Break Their 8,400-Day Playoff Winless Streak TodayFor a summer in college I interned for the sports department of the Columbus Dispatch, which sent me for a few days to cover Cincinnati Bengals training camp. The 1990s had just come to a close—a dismal era even by the Bengals' standards—and the beat writers killed time during practice by stumping o...

Marcus Allen Is Smoking Something If He Thinks College Kids Hitting The Bong Is Like The Debt Crisis

Here we have a couple intelligent men discussing marijuana during Fox's college football halftime show. Marcus Allen, hall of fame running back, and this other guy are about to have a serious chat about athletes and drugs. Then we hear about the elephant in the living room—as though college kids d...

Athlete Run-Ins: Marcus Allen's Active Evening

Today's final athlete run-in story is amazing for three main reasons:...