Even the worst NFL franchises get it right once in a while, and the Tennessee Titans got it right when it counted most. Marcus Mariota provides hope and a future, two things the team lacked at the end of last season.
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Some critical consumers of college football have asserted that Baylor’s offensive prowess under crafty coach Art Briles is a result of his system perhaps more than the athletes filling the various roles in the Bears’ point-a-minute machine.
Our handicappers share their picks for Saturday’s biggest college football games.
Here’s a look at some of this week’s most interesting high school football games.
Gary Pinkel, the head coach of the University of Missouri’s football team, said on Friday he has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and will resign at the end of the year.
A day after Dez Bryant’s tirade against the media, Dallas Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett acknowledged Friday that he talked to the star wide receiver and the rest of the team about conducting themselves like professionals.
A Pennsylvania court on Friday reinstated Jerry Sandusky’s pension, ruling that a state board had improperly stripped payments to the former Penn State assistant football coach after his 2012 conviction for sexually abusing boys.
Tony Sanchez had been a head coach, just not at the college level. Mike Bobo had been a college coach, just not the head man. Now, both 41-year-olds are in charge of college football programs that will go against each other this weekend.
Our handicapping experts share their picks for this weekend’s college and NFL football games.
Rex Ryan’s homecoming was a victorious one — barely. The Buffalo Bills raced out to a 19-point third quarter lead Thursday night before withstanding a furious rally by the New York Jets to hang on for a 22-17 victory at MetLife Stadium.
The color of Josh Norman’s shoes were fine. The words on the side got him in trouble.
Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant was limited in Thursday’s practice because of a knee injury and afterward went on a rant aimed at reporters.
Matt Youmans, Kelly Stewart and Golden Nugget sports book director Tony Miller preview the college football and NFL weekend.
Wisconsin running back Corey Clement was injured during an off-campus altercation early Sunday morning.
The Bills and Jets are led by a pair of defensive-minded coaches in Buffalo’s Rex Ryan and New York’s Todd Bowles, but lately the AFC East rivals have been involved in some shootouts.