Speaking of the culture of celebrity and media saturation, an ironic aspect of the ridiculous levels of worshipful coverage that Brett Favre has gotten over the years is that it has made it eas(ier) to overlook that he's in the midst of one of the...
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Somerby notes the unfortunate parallels: Undying love of conventional wisdom: Many sports pundits have seemed genuinely angry about the fact that Belichick did something unconventional. (Trent Dilfer, come on down!.
My throwaway intuition notwithstanding, there seems to be good evidence that Belichick was right. [via Neyer.]...see also Beaudrot. I also think Belichick was right not to concede a touchdown --.
From the Jacksonville-Jets game:"It included a Jets defense trying to allow a touchdown to give Jacksonville the lead and the Jaguars refusing to score it. And it had nothing to do with either team trying to lose.Jaguars running Maurice Jones-Drew, one of the stars of...
One explanation for why people who advocate transparently idiotic policies that result in national disasters (the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, our current health care system, our drug laws, our.
Joe Posnanski points out the rather amazing statistical quirk that Washington's NFL franchise won't play a team that will have won a game until the seventh week of the season.
Malcom Gladwell asks a very good question.I'm a huge college football fan and like my NFL fix too. This article is to put it mildly extremely disturbing.I don't know whether it's a function of watching games in HDTV on a bigger screen or just getting...
This is a little story about a top high school football recruit whose life seems to be falling apart for all too common reasons. Of course you can multiply this.
No matter what we happen to think of the outcome of tonight's game, I think we can all agree that the Steelers' victory is good news for John McCain.
Straight-up, you obviously have to pick the Steelers; they're probably the best team in the league, going up against a team that is better than its regular season record but not that much better. If the game was at Heinz Field, I would take the...
I sure hope that 98% of EPSN's news coverage consists of breathless reports about whether and where the 27th best QB in the NFL will play in 2009, just like.
It's being reported that Notre Dame is going to bring back Charlie Weis for a fifth season, despite the fact the team racked up the most losses in any two-season.