Football

Football blitzes Bill Clinton speech in TV match-up
Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton fired up the Democratic National Convention and sparked more than 22,000 tweets per minute, but millions more Americans tuned into footballthan watched him on television. Some 21 million ...
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College football structure has NFL feel to it Boston.com College football has taken on a power structure similar to the NFL -- which is king of the sports world with its on-field product and popularity across the country. While there are those who are fighting to hold off the change, Wake Forest coach Jim ... See all stories on this topic »

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Rookie QB Fantasy Football Rankings for Week 1: Fan Take
Yahoo! Sports
Five rookie quarterbacks will be making their NFL debuts in Week 1, and some of them are widely owned in fantasy football leagues. Managers looking for the next Cam Newton may be tempted to trot one of these rookie signal-callers out into their ...
See all stories on this topic »Final Preseason NFL Team Power Rankings: Fantasy Football Impact
Yahoo! Sports
Brian Music is one of five inaugural inductees to the 2011 Toyota Legends of Fantasy Football Hall of Fame on Yahoo! Sports. He has participated in fantasy football for 23 seasons. He participated in his first Yahoo! fantasy football league in 2001 and ...
See all stories on this topic »Kevin Ogletree Worth a Fantasy Football Flier: Fan Take
Yahoo! Sports
With Tony Romo, DeMarco Murray, and Dez Bryant starting on a variety of my fantasy footballteams last night, I watched the game between the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Giants with baited breath. Not only was I excited about the start of the 2012 ...
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UVa focused on football, not PSU storyline ESPN (blog) “We understand things that happened, the news that was covered,” coach Mike London said. “We understand the tradition of Penn State. We understand the prestige of Penn State. In the end it's a football game we have to be concerned about. So our focus ... See all stories on this topic »

ESPN (blog)

Sharing some football thoughts
ESPN (blog)
Sharing some football thoughts. September, 6, 2012. Sep 6. 9:30. AM ET. By Mike Reiss | ESPNBoston.com. Recommend0 · Tweet0 · Comments0 · Email · Print. Sharing some thoughts this morning on the NFL season getting underway (Cowboys 24, Giants ...
See all stories on this topic »College Football's Cupcakes: Savvy Or Shameful?
Forbes
The opening week of college football, despite the fanfare surrounding the sport's long-awaited return, is mostly quite meaningless. The majority of top teams schedule games against far inferior competition, college football's so-called “cupcakes,” to ...
See all stories on this topic »Football players increasingly getting outside help
Detroit Free Press
Rockwood (Mo.) Summitt player Eric Beisel, right, who played for USA Football U19 team this summer, has supplemented his high school coaching with outside position coaches since the eighth grade. Rick Streiff, defensive coordinator of the 2012 U.S. ...
See all stories on this topic »Pac-12 football: Picks of the Week (Is UCLA ready for Nebraska?)
San Jose Mercury News (blog)
It's a big Saturday for the Pac-12 — a huge Saturday, actually — and my thoughts on the weekend were posted earlier Thursday morning. Of the four teams facing ranked opponents, UCLA has the best chance to pull an upset, at least according to the ...
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