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Say Hello To Offensive Coordinator Brett Favre
According to a pair of reports out of Mississippi, Brett Favre is expected to soon be named offensive coordinator for Oak Grove High School in Hattiesburg. It's not yet official, but the school board will meet on Monday night, Favre will meet with the Warriors' head coach within the next week....
Women Can Do Anything Men Can Do, And That Includes Bench-Clearing Brawls Between Football Teams
Football's best rivalry might just be between the Boston Militia and the D.C. Divas, a pair of teams that compete in something called the Women's Football Alliance. On Saturday, the two met for the third time this season, and according to CBS Boston, police eventually had to intervene to break up ...
NFL Pushes Back Start Times, So No More Getting <em>Heidi</em>-ed By Your Own Team's Kickoff
I enjoy football. Do you enjoy football? If you do, you're going to be able to watch even more football, starting this season. Ten whole minutes more football! This is the greatest innovation since Sunday Night Football, which in turn was the greatest innovation since football. (Thursday Night Footb...
A.J. Hawk Shoves Guy Into Lake During Pickup Football Game
A number of Buckeye alums in the NFL, including A.J. Hawk, Troy Smith, Doug Datish and Bobby Carpenter, took part in a charity golf tournament over the weekend. The event, in Warren, Ohio, raised money for a group providing after-school programs for at-risk youth, so that's great. Even better was ...
Why Did Terrell Owens <i>Really</i> Get Cut By His Indoor Football Team?
Yes, yes, it's fun to believe, and goes perfectly with every T.O. stereotype we have, that Terrell Owens was released by the Allen (Texas) Wranglers because he's just too much of a diva. And it's probably true—Owens is kind of a selfish jerk who was dicking around in the IFL for some quick cash and ...
Jeff Garcia Is Trying To Get Yet Another Spring Football League Together
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: A new USFL tries its hand....
The USFL Is Making A Comeback, Will Be Nothing Like The Old USFL
The United States Football League is apparently being reborn next March, with teams in eight cities playing a 14-game schedule through June 2013. Not everything is cemented yet, including which cities will actually get franchises, but the effort has attracted some noteworthy investors and advisors, ...
Todd McShay's Mock Drafts Have Beaten Mike Mayock's And Mel Kiper's Four Years In A Row
We graded the 2012 Round 1 NFL mock drafts of Mel Kiper (ESPN), Todd McShay (ESPN), and Mike Mayock (NFL.com), and once again, McShay came out on top. This marks the fourth consecutive year in which McShay bested his two fellow pundits in mock draft accuracy....
What's Terrell Owens Up To These Days? It Involves The Phrase "I Hope You Like Anchovies, Shrimp!"
When last we left Terrell Owens, he was catching touchdowns for the Allen Wranglers of the Indoor Football League, and getting knocked into the stands, and still harboring dreams of an NFL comeback. That may not be in the cards, but Owens is finding the time to squeeze in his second passion: acting....
The Wonderlic Test Proves The NFL Is Stupid
Here is an indisputable fact, one of the very few that exist surrounding the mysterious and dreaded Wonderlic Test: the Wonderlic is not meant for football. Over 75 years, only a few thousand of the more than a hundred million test takers have been NFL hopefuls. It is a test of problem solving and c...
Bobby Petrino Admits Having "Inappropriate Relationship," Placed On Paid Administrative Leave
University of Arkansas football coach Bobby Petrino has been placed on paid administrative leave by the university, after he failed to disclose that 25-year-old Jessica Dorrell, a recent hire to the football staff, was his motorcycle companion during last Sunday's crash that put him in a neck brace....
Glory Days: I Came Off The Bench To Score A Touchdown And Helped Postpone A Rival Coach's Retirement
An occasional series featuring our readers' tales of momentary sports glory. If you've got a video of your own brush with athletic greatness, send it to [email protected], subject: Glory Days....
Pittsburgh Arena Football Team Released Its Entire Roster During Pre-Game Meal; Left Players In Orlando
Arena Football League players presumably aren't in it for the money, since, at roughly $400 per game, most of them don't make all that much money to begin with. Those who would like to the league improve player salaries don't have much leverage, either, since it's pretty easy for a league composed m...
Glory Days: I Knocked Out Randy Moss In The High School State Championship Game
An occasional series featuring our readers' tales of momentary sports glory. If you've got a video of your own brush with athletic greatness, send it to [email protected], subject: Glory Days....
How Drunk Football Fans Used To Get Their World Series Fix
Yeah, we're a pretty spoiled bunch these days. Smartphones and tablet computers allow us to catch real-time video wherever we are. It wasn't so easy back in 1986. If life, the universe, and everything decided that two of your favorite teams just had to play on the same night, you had some big deci...
Glory Days: Our Team Stank And My Homecoming Date Was Seeing Someone Else, But I Made The Greatest Garbage-Time Catch In School History
An occasional series featuring our readers' tales of momentary sports glory. If you've got a video of your own brush with athletic greatness, send it to [email protected], subject: Glory Days....
A Look Inside NBC's Playbook For The Super Bowl Broadcast
With 18 seconds left in the first half of Super Bowl 43 and the Cardinals on the doorstep, James Harrison picked off Kurt Warner and barreled 100 yards for a touchdown, dancing along the sideline as he went and narrowly breaking the plane of the end zone before Larry Fitzgerald dragged him down. As ...
This Man Will Pay You To Teach Him About Football, Because He Lied To Impress A Woman
So, yes, humorous Craigslist postings are usually fake. But on the off-chance this one's not, and because it's funny enough to deserve it, read the tale of one sad Brooklynite who took to Craigslist to find a football tutor. He needs a crash course in what it's like to be a quarterback, and his very...
Some High School Football All-Stars Pout When They're Assigned Jersey Numbers They Don't Want
The U.S. Army All-American Bowl is Saturday, and the surfeit of hype has produced a surfeit of bitchy entitlement on the part of some of those players who've been invited to participate. There are only so many jersey numbers to go around, you see, and that's creating a bit of a problem:...
What Dose Of Defeat Tastes Most Bitter?
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....