Brandon Marshall caught six passes for 176 yards and a Pro Bowl-record four touchdowns, and the AFC used a second-half surge to beat the NFC 59-41 on Sunday. The Miami Dolphins wide receiver had a touchdown catch in each quarter, including an early 74-yarder and a 3-yarder in the fourth, in a game filled with highlight-reel [...]
49ers rookie standout Aldon Smith was charged Saturday with driving under the influence in Miami Beach, Fla. The 22-year-old Smith, who nearly broke the NFL record for sacks as a rookie, was arrested Friday night and booked into jail by Miami Beach Police at 9:32 a.m. EST Saturday, according to various reports. Smith’s bond was [...]
Four years ago, coach Tom Coughlin had a decision to make in the New York Giants’ final regular-season game. The Giants had clinched a playoff spot and had nothing to play for in the game against the New England Patriots, who came in with a 15-0 record. Coughlin didn’t rest his starters. He played to win. Even [...]
When Eli Manning started out, there were doubts he would live up to his brother. With every playoff victory, he’s quieted skeptics. It was around breakfast time in Miami on Feb. 5, 2007, when Peyton Manning was collecting his Cadillac as MVP of Super Bowl XLI. A news conference had been arranged at the convention [...]
The last decade should be remembered as the era of the ‘Changing Landscape of College Football.’ Boston College goes south. West Virginia goes southwest. Colorado goes west. San Diego State goes east. Yet sooner rather than later the dust will settle and fans will continue to see their teams play on any given Saturday, or [...]
Ex-Cincinnati player Isaiah Pead helped the North beat the South 23-13 in the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala. Washington running back Chris Polk of the North gained 15 yards on six carries. Isaiah Pead took a stutter step forward, then raced to the left sideline and traveled 60 yards up the field before finally getting [...]
Now that the NFL has labor peace for the next decade, Commissioner Roger Goodell has job security through the 2018 season. Not only did Goodell get through one of the league’s most contentious and troubling periods — a 4 ½-month lockout of the players — but he oversaw a highly successful season once a 10-year [...]
Some in the college football bowl business want to raise the standards. They believe 6-6 teams should not be in bowl games. They have many compelling arguments, and Brett McMurphy of cbssports.com wrote an interesting piece on it, which you can read here. Short version: requiring teams to have a winning record and/or seven wins would [...]
Wide receiver Kyle Williams of the San Francisco 49ers made two costly mistakes in Sunday’s NFC Championship game that likely cost his team a spot in Super Bowl XLVI. But the real drama happened after the game, on Twitter. Outraged fans used the social network to post a cavalcade of hateful, vile messages — including death threats [...]
If it’s true, as the saying goes, that “defense wins championships,” the NFL’s conference title games offered ample evidence that special teams can lose them. “You’re going to need special teams. A kick will win a game more often than a run or pass will win the game, and a special teams tackle can make a [...]
Ten local college football players now facing charges for an attack. An attack on another college athlete. Charges against football players for Notre Dame College in South Euclid. An attack – ten on one. The attack reportedly happened at an off-campus house on Ellison, just steps away from the Notre Dame College football field. The [...]
The Commitment Project: studying recruits, college football edition During a visit to Clemson in August 2008, I asked then-coach Tommy Bowden why basketball coaches got so much more offended when recruits broke commitments than football coaches did. Bowden laughed, and he explained that most college football coaches understand that a verbal commitment is essentially meaningless [...]
The New England Patriots ended the Baltimore Ravens’ season one agonizing step shy of the Super Bowl Sunday and continued to carve a place in history as one of the NFL’s most enduring dynasties with a 23-20 victory in the AFC championship game. New England quarterback Tom Brady failed to put on his typical display of passing [...]
Joe Paterno, who racked up more wins than anyone else in major college football but was fired from Penn State amid a child sex abuse scandal has died. He was 85. His family released a statement Sunday morning to announce his death. “He died as he lived,” the statement said. “He fought hard until the end, stayed [...]
UCLA #39 Dye all set to confirm he’s healthy Tony Dye is back on a football field, but it’s different this time. For one thing, he’s healthy. “I feel like I’ve never been injured in my life,” said Dye, the defensive back from Corona Santiago on Friday before a final walk-through for today’s NFL Players [...]
NFL notes: Wander on the dark aspect Bad boys, bad boys, what they gonna do… Nothing good, it turns out. It is another unsettling time on the legal and public perception front in the NFL. First comes news the league has decided not to investigate claims reported in the Kansas City Star that former Chiefs [...]
University all-stars will play at Residence Depot Center (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Instances) By Gary Klein Two players from USC and three from UCLA are among those who will try to catch the eye of pro football scouts Saturday when they participate in the inaugural AstroTurf NFLPA Collegiate All-Star game. The question: Will any NFL teams be [...]
2012 University Football Do's And Don't's, The Premature Edition By Spencer Hall – Featured Contributor What do we know about the 2012 college football season? We know a few things you should and shouldn’t expect to happen. Jan 18, 2012 - Do: Covet others’ experienced quarterbacks. As far as high-profile, battle-tested products go, only the Matt Barkley model at [...]
Bengals WR Jerome Simpson indicted on marijuana trafficking cost Cincinnati Bengals receiver Jerome Simpson was indicted on Thursday for marijuana trafficking, leaving him subject matter to a jail sentence and punishment from the NFL. A Kenton County grand jury indicted the 4-yr veteran on one count of marijuana … Study much more on Washington Publish [...]
On Joe Flacco, Ed Reed, Rob Lowe, Peyton Manning and, oh yeah, NFL Playoffs In successive days, 21st century mega-quarterbacks Drew Brees and Aaron Rodgers ended up knocked out of the playoffs by the San Francisco 49ers and the New York Giants, respectively, and it is people two classic NFL powerhouses, now rejuvenated, … Go [...]
KORCEK’S CORNER: Is the 2011 football staff the greatest ever at NIU? Ultimately, that storied ten-2 NIU MAC championship squad in 1983 created 5 personal Hall of Famers, 7 NFL draft picks, 8 various All-Americas and 19 specialist gamers general (NFL, USFL, CFL and Arena League draftees and cost-free agents) … Read far more on [...]
While fans in San Francisco have been celebrating “The Grab” that thrust Alex Smith and Vernon Davis to the national scene, there’s a pair of hands on the New York Giants making just as much news. No! Not Victor Cruz. Try Hakeem Nicks. Nicks came into the season as the Giants’ No. 1 receiver and [...]
The Green Bay Packers scorched their way through the 2012 regular season with only one loss on the back of Aaron Rodgers and their tremendous offense. The New Orleans Saints smashed several offensive records en route to a thirteen-win season with the help of the most productive season a quarterback has ever had. Both of [...]
Former Alabama cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick, who is leaving school early to enter the NFL draft, was arrested early Tuesday on a marijuana possession charge. An arrest report on the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office web site said Kirkpatrick was arrested at 12:48 a.m. and charged with possessing less than 20 grams of marijuana. He was released on $120 bond. [...]
