NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was made the interlocutor of an inconvenient subject matter last Wednesday during a speaking engagement at the annual Carl Blythe Lecture for UNC’s Chapel Hill Department of Exercise and Sports Science.
While preseason Major League Baseball games will be given the major sporting network spotlight on several occasions throughout the coming weeks, the WBC will be receiving the Thursday Night Football treatment.
Most of us operate under the delusion that our parents can do no wrong. Jay Paterno, Joe’s oldest son, was simply adhering to this psychological principle this past week while making appearances on several prominent television and radio programs to promote the agenda of a 238-page report commissioned by the Paterno family.
The fantasy football postseason is officially under way after last night’s game in Oakland, implying that for at least one more Sunday you’ll be forced to politely decline an invitation to any establishment without a guarantee of Internet access and Joe Buck’s voice hollow-heartedly emanating from the television speakers.
Though relative position in the standings alone allows for an uneven distribution of bragging rights to exist within the league, occasionally gamers achieve something to be proud of that eclipses quantifiable success.
If you currently own either Peyton Manning or Adrian Peterson, you may be able to attest.
Head coaches in the National Football League have but one supreme goal in mind from year to year: job retention. The easiest way to keep a job is by winning, and winning teams predominantly implement diverse offensive strategies so complicated and intricate that some players take weeks to absorb all of the terminology. Chad Johnson...
It’s difficult to label a receiver who contends with double coverage on a weekly basis a ghost, though Calvin Johnson owners should certainly be horrified given the lack of production they’ve witnessed up to this point in the 2012 NFL season.