Trivia: NCAA players and the draft
Many college players of basketball and football have dreams of turning professional. What percentage of football players and men’s basketball players are drafted into the NFL or the NBA, according to...
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“The Shame of College Sports”: Our cheat sheet to the month’s...
A major investigative piece took the sports media world by storm this month. Historian Taylor Branch’s massive article in The Atlantic magazine traces the history of the NCAA, and examines with a...
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Post-game attack sends high school coach to the OR
Tales of horrific sportsmanship don’t get much worse than the story out of rural East Central Georgia last week, in which a visiting team’s football coach was brutally attacked after a game, and ended...
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When the homecoming queen and the defensive back are the same person
Boys will be boys and girls will be girls, and sometimes boys and girls don’t happily remain in easily defined boxes. This fall, stories from around the country offer varyious perspectives on the issue...
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Is the post-game handshake worth keeping? Cast your vote.
In the NFL this month, 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh and Lions head coach Jim Schwartz made headlines after their scuffle following a tense post-game handshake. Harbaugh was “exuberant,” Schwartz was...
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Compton California’s Centennial High Excels With Only 15 Football Players
Grit, character, leadership, and teamwork. Any football team needs those to get to sectional playoffs. But if you only have 15 players, you’d better have extra helpings of each. Luckily, Centennial...
View ArticleTrivia: Joy and chaos in Stillwater after the OSU win
Q: On Saturday, Oklahoma State University Cowboys won their home football match-up against their bitter archrivals, the Oklahoma University Sooners. Thousands of OSU fans stormed the field, resulting...
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Hazing in Football: Is it Going Overboard?
The return of football each August is also often accompanied by the return of hazing incidents, and this year is no exception. As teams practice twice-a-day in 90-degree heat, they often need to blow...
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New Orleans Saints’ Player Suspensions Overturned
In what is surely a setback to the NFL league office and Commissioner Roger Goodell, a three-member appeals panel overturned the suspensions of four players implicated in the New Orleans Saints’...
View ArticleHigh School Football Team Helps Victim of Bullying
So often we hear sad stories of bullying incidents in schools across the country, so it’s nice to hear one where students took action together and righted a wrong. In Queen Creek, Ariz., a sophomore...
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Trivia: Loudest Crowd?
What is the loudest crowd ever recorded at a college football game? According to Wikipedia, the University of Washington’s Husky Stadium had the loudest crowd during a night game in 1992 against...
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