Trick plays

Yeah, sure, it’s possible for a team to score a touchdown on a boring old flea flicker, but if you could jazz things…

Reasonable people can debate the Broncos’ decision to run a fake punt early in the second quarter of Thursday’s…

UCF’s 27-game unbeaten run in regular-season play ended this weekend, as the Knights lost on the road to Pitt in a…

The Trine University (Indiana) Thunder made use of what was either a sublimely inventive or sneakily underhanded…

The early games on Week 17 Sunday are not that interesting. Everything with some drama was flexed to 4 p.m., so fans…

With reports circulating that the Cardinals won’t bring him back next season, Steve Wilks and the rest of his…

We are thick in the middle of the most hilariously named bowl games, and while Wednesday’s Frisco Bowl can’t compete…

The Buffalo Bills went deep into the playbook on their opening drive tonight, running LeSean McCoy and Chris Ivory…

The Seattle Seahawks called a unique play to ice the game against the Detroit Lions today: A nine-yard run by the…

Michigan State showed a national audience on Saturday that their in-state rivals, Michigan, were doing something…

Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz’s alter-ego “New Kirk” made a scintillating return to the football field on Saturday…

The bulk of Deadspin’s staff declared the Eagles’ fourth-down, trick-play pass to quarterback Nick Foles their…

Boy, for what was ultimately a three-point game that came down to Blair Walsh facing a 52-yarder...it sure would…

Michael Pittman Jr. went 72 yards for a punt return touchdown on a play that faked out UCLA and ABC/ESPN’s camera…

Let me list all the things I’m aware of from the football game: It was 3-2 at halftime. Sam Bradford broke down…

No. 13 Duke edged No. 8 Louisville 58-55, but the Cardinals ran the cleverest play of the night. To start the second…

With 40-odd bowl games to sit through, you have to appreciate Western Kentucky’s efforts to spice up a game between…

Cincinnati’s going to finish this season with a losing record, but the Bearcats aren’t total losers after pulling…

Kansas is, as in most years, a miserably bad football team. But today they did something neat:

The winless Browns need to be innovative if they want to possibly beat the Cowboys today, so they ran a play out of…