P.S. I am not a crank. One of my all-time favorite letters to the editor of @nytimes (1909) pic.twitter.com/Z68ddCocyJ— Adrienne LaFrance (@AdrienneLaF) June 14, 2014 Has anyone ever published a book of cranky complaints about football where people get upset about its name or any...
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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.
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 often for classes. His schedule this semester consists of four online classes in sports management,...
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..
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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 skeptical. I think it might lead to the end of upper class white kids playing...
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,.
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 should focus on college football--and he's right about that. During last week's Arizona-USC game, Arizona...
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.
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.