I've said this before, but one really wonders about the end of football as we know it as parents just bail on a sport that destroys their kid's brains.
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Evidently, mentioning that football leads to massive brain trauma is a liberal conspiracy against real America. In other news, I think we all are cheering for Oregon to crush Tennessee.
Heisman winner Johnny Manziel's class schedule: Johnny Football still finds time to be a college student too, even though the Texas A&M star doesn't have to be on campus very.
Yesterday, seven people were elected to the NFL Hall of Fame: Bill Parcells, Jonathan Ogden, Larry Allen, Warren Sapp, Cris Carter, and veterans committee candidates Curley Culp and Dave Robinson. A few thoughts. 1. While I can't speak to the veterans committee guys (more on...
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The news that you can scan for CTE in living football players is a pretty big deal. Ta-Nehisi Coates thinks it will lead to the end of football. I am.
Wow. One of the most bizarre episodes in the entire occupation of Japan took place less than two months later, on January 1, 1946, in Nagasaki. Back in the States, the Rose Bowl and other major college football bowl games, with the Great War over,...
This is a couple weeks old, but is still awesome in every way: Dear Pro Football Hall of Fame selection committee members, I had the dubious pleasure of reading an.
I'm a bit outraged by Paul Anderson's piece arguing essentially that NFL players have the right to play after they've had a concussion. Anderson argues that our national concussion outrage.
So how did the scab refs do in Week 1 of the NFL? Pretty bloody awful. The Green Bay-San Francisco game was particularly egregious: Midway through the second quarter at Lambeau Field, there was an offensive pass interference call on Green Bay's James Jones that...
Travis Waldron has a very good piece up at Think Progress about the referee lockout and player safety. The National Football League Players Association, a year removed from being locked.
As some of you probably know, the NFL has refused to sign a new contract with the referees union and has pulled together crews of scab referee labor. They are.