Football Page 1136 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Which TV Market's Getting Screwed Today? Your Week 9 NFL Viewing Maps
A guide to the best and worst of the NFL slate (and to which fans are stuck with the most of worst). Maps via 506sports.com....
Where Does Your NFL Team's Offense Come From?
This week we took another look at where each NFL team's production comes from, position by position. The visualizations are very cool, and give a surprisingly accurate look at each team's strengths and weaknesses. Or just weaknesses, if you're the Jaguars. ...
Report: John Fox To Undergo Heart Surgery, Miss At Least A Month
Denver Broncos head coach John Fox will have heart surgery on Tuesday and miss roughly four to six weeks to recovery, as first reported by Jay Glazer....
NFL's New Cover Girl A Former Teen Porn Model?
If you're unfortunate enough to receive junk mail from the NFL, you recently received the holiday issue of the NFL Shop catalog, which features a big Patriots fan named Jaime Morente. Several individuals familiar with the Florida modeling scene contacted us and said they recognized a previous itera...
Nebraska Beats Northwestern 27-24 On 49-Yard Hail Mary
It was shaping up to be the worst week ever for the Pelini family since that time the Youngstown Slovak Club ran out of pierogi. Then Cornhuskers quarterback Ron Kellogg III threw a tip-drill Hail Mary completion from midfield to steal victory away from the Northwestern Wildcats on the last play of...
Sacred Heart WR Fumbles, Forces And Returns Fumble For TD On One Play
Sacred Heart wide receiver Moses Webb caught a pass and fumbled it after being hit. A Monmouth defender recovered the fumble and started running the other way. The defender fumbled, and Webb, who had caught up to him, recovered that fumble and ran it back for a touchdown....
Missouri Southern State Football Coach Shot, Killed At Movie Theater
Derek Moore, a first-year offensive line coach for Missouri Southern State, was shot and killed Friday night outside of a movie theater in Joplin, Mo. He was 37 years old....
Nobody's Perfect: Your Miami-FSU <em>GameDay</em> Sign Roundup
College GameDay's in Tallahassee today for Miami-Florida State. On to the signs!...
Report: Richie Incognito Played Main Role In Bullying Jonathan Martin
The NFLPA is investigating Jonathan Martin's "emotional breakdown," and according to one report, offensive lineman Richie Incognito was one of Martin's main harassers since Martin was a rookie in 2012....
Carl Pelini Was Turned In By An Assistant Coach
According to documents obtained by SBNation and the Associated Press, Carl Pelini resigned as FAU coach after two witnesses reported seeing him use drugs. One of them also added that he saw Pelini use cocaine. That witness? According to the Sun Sentinel, it was FAU's D-line and special teams coach M...
Chris Mortensen Takes A Phone Call On Live TV
On this afternoon's NFL Insiders, Mort received a phone call he just had to take. I'm so disappointed that it was time for a commercial break, because his mic was still on. We were this close to TV viewers getting breaking news before Twitter users for the first time this decade....
NFL Statheads Are Losing Their War With The Spread. Here's Why.
In last week’s post, we showed that several of the larger statistically-inclined websites which offer NFL picks have had a rough go of it to start the season, at least as far as their picks against the spread. This was a surprise, because these results come on top of a string of several successful s...
Justin Blackmon Suspended Again, Done For The Season
Jaguars WR Justin Blackmon has been suspended for at least the final eight games of the year under the NFL's substances of abuse policy, the team announced. It's the same thing that kept him out the first four games of this season. Nice job, guy....
Infographics: Where Does Your NFL Team's Offense Come From?
The NFL season is just about half over, which means most teams are what they're going to be. But what does that look like, exactly? Here's a quick visual guide for every NFL team's offense....
Former College Football Player: Here's Why Fans Owe Us Their Support
Earlier this week, a former Oregon Duck blasted fans for being ignorant and disrespectful to players. We received this, from a former player at a different school, on what he believes about a spectator's obligation to a team....
This Graduation Photo Of Rex And Rob Ryan Is Fantastic
The NFL Network's upcoming retrospective on Rex and Rob Ryan's playing days at Southwest Oklahoma State will air Sunday morning. To promote it, network is circulating this photo. We can't believe there's much more to see besides the matching mustaches, the matching mullets, and Buddy in a white suit...
Tom Landry's Widow Says Tom Landry Died A Giants Fan
For the first 29 seasons of the Dallas Cowboys' existence, they were coached by Tom Landry, who was best known for his formal sideline attire, most prominently that ever-present fedora. Landry was the Cowboys, at least until Jerry Jones bought the team in February 1989 and promptly fired him, among ...