Raiders Owner Al Davis said it best when he coined the phrase “just win baby” and turned it into the motto of the Raiders for years. Players and coaches will go to great lengths to get an advantage on the opposition from week to week. Each stadium in the NFL is unique in its own right, but there are some… Read more →
A strange phenomenon has taken over college football for the 2016 bowl season. Star players projected to be drafted in the first round are deciding to sit out of their team’s bowl game to prepare for the combine. With the introduction of the four-team playoff system last season, the rest of the bowl games are merely another chance for fans… Read more →
With just two games left in the regular season, the sights of many an NFL fan turn to the playoffs. For some–for most, really–this means choosing a team to follow and root for throughout the postseason after your team has been eliminated. Browns fans have luckily had quite a few weeks (and years) to get accustomed to this practice, making… Read more →
The 2016-17 NFL season has been anything but predictable. With the first overall pick in the 2016 NFL Draft before the start of the season, the Los Angeles Rams selected quarterback Jared Goff out of the University of California Berkeley; a player projected to be the team’s starter right out of the gates. He has been, for lack of a… Read more →
Think back to the 1998 NFL draft, the clash of the two future NFL MVPs battling for the coveted position of the first overall draft pick. One–the man who wound up going first, was Peyton Manning, five-time NFL MVP and 14 time Pro Bowler. The other was Ryan Leaf, whose 14:36 TD:interception ratio has solidified him as one of the… Read more →
Why is the Super Bowl played in a neutral location? Every year in February millions of people–literally millions–gather around their televisions to watch the biggest sporting event of the year. There are parties planned around the Super Bowl, with meals, commercial watching and camaraderie abound in what becomes an evening to remember for most, football fans and otherwise. But… Read more →
The North Carolina Tar Heels (8-4) will travel to El Paso, Texas to take on Stanford Cardinal (9-3) in the Sun Bowl on December 30. North Carolina finished second in the ACC Coastal division while Stanford’s record landed them in third place of the Pac 12 North. Stanford and North Carolina both had high hopes coming into the 2016 season following… Read more →
With OTAs well underway and the good majority of players having already reported, one of the most exciting aspects of the NFL offseason (other than the draft, of course) has made its way under the microscope: inter-team position battles. At the forefront of almost every competition for a starting spot around the league–at least in the eyes of the fans–is… Read more →