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Sports Central August 18, 2015 Brad Oremland |
Roger Goodell Sucks Some good things have happened during Roger Goodell's time as NFL commissioner. |
Sports Central May 3, 2011 Brad Oremland |
Boycotting the NFL Draft For now, the league is locking out the players with one hand and promoting its annual draft with the other. It's hypocrisy. It's not football, and it's not fun. Call me in September, Commissioner Goodell. |
Salon.com September 22, 2000 Allen Barra |
The NFL's minor league? The marketing firms and New York pundits who want a college football playoff system have one thing in common: They don't like or understand college football. |
Sports Central May 8, 2012 Brad Oremland |
Junior Seau and CTE Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) has become an epidemic in contact sports. It's most prominent in football, but this also applies to ice hockey, boxing, mixed martial arts, and other contact sports. |
Sports Central January 27, 2015 Brad Oremland |
NFL State of the Union The state of the NFL is strong, of course. It's the most popular sports league in North America, and it will remain so for the foreseeable future. But even a strong league has areas for improvement. |
Sports Central March 24, 2015 Brad Oremland |
Chris Borland and the Future of Head Injuries Linebacker Chris Borland is drifting toward the back page, or perhaps off the page entirely. And I'd like us to keep considering this uncomfortable topic a while longer. |
Sports Central April 15, 2013 Adam Russell |
MLB Should Consolidate the Leagues Could there ever be the possibility of MLB proposing a unified organization with consistent rules and a more objective schedule? If enough fans jump on the bandwagon, it most certainly could be possible. |
Searcher December 2010 Irene McDermott |
The Gridiron on the Web -- Football Online Am I doomed to be shut out from the world of football forever? No! The internet has arrived to save the day with zillions of sites to explain and celebrate American football. |
Sports Central February 4, 2009 Diane M. Grassi |
NFL, Retirees Remain in Tussle on Benefits Is any moral obligation to ill and/or financially-strapped former players by the NFL, the National Football League Players Association, or even individual players. |
Sports Illustrated October 9, 2002 Frank Deford |
Reality bites Do NFL fans favor fantasy games over real action? |
Sports Central September 2, 2005 Kevin Ferra |
It's Just American Football, or is it? The NFL is the top American sports leagues and is looking to expand into many international markets, including Europe, Canada, China and Mexico. |
Sports Central July 22, 2014 Brad Oremland |
How to Do an NFL Team in London It's been clear for a couple years now that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell wants a team based in London. |
Sports Central July 11, 2011 Bill Hazell |
Locked Out Twice? The NFL labor dispute is on the edge of being resolved, but the NBA lockout has just started and thus, they are nowhere near an agreement. |
BusinessWeek January 27, 2011 |
The Average NFL Player Don't let Brett Favre fool you. Most NFL careers are much shorter and a lot less sweet. |
Sports Central September 20, 2010 Justin Shagrin |
London Calling Is the NFL selling out because of its international game in London? |
Sports Central August 3, 2010 Brad Oremland |
SC's Interview With Tony Gonzalez With NFL training camps getting under way, Tony took time to answer a few questions about the past and the present. |
Sports Central March 27, 2007 Ryan Day |
Football is Not For the Well-Adjusted Looking for a more effective way to keep players out of the courtroom, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is expected this week to announce new strategies and more severe penalties for players that land in trouble with the law. |
Salon.com February 7, 2001 Allen Barra |
Smashmouth football sucks The XFL thinks its brutal, dumbed-down product is what fans want. Actually, fans want more scoring and fewer commercials... |
Salon.com November 29, 2001 Allen Barra |
Bring back the arbitrary college football polls! Sure, the old championship polls were bogus -- but the current system is just as bogus, and it doesn't even give fans anything to argue about... |
Sports Central January 31, 2011 Josh Galligan |
NFL Labor Dispute 101 The potential 2011 NFL Lockout means the Super Bowl may very well be the last NFL football we see in quite some time. |
Sports Central February 11, 2008 Adam Russell |
The Patriots and a Lesson in NFL History Even if the Pats had beaten the Giants, would we all be convinced they were better than Miami or Cleveland? |
Sports Central May 31, 2007 Kyle Jahner |
Goodell: My House, My Rules? Just about every move new NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has initiated has been good for the game, especially his policy regarding off-field conduct. |
BusinessWeek November 4, 2010 Kuriloff & Boudway |
NFL Owners and Players Are in a Pain Conflict Safety on the field has become a divisive issue in labor negotiations between team owners and the players' union. |
Sports Illustrated July 30, 2003 Frank Deford |
King Hut Pro football rules in America; here's why |
Sports Central August 21, 2006 Bob Ekstrom |
NFL Preseason Pleases No One Players hate it. Coaches hate it. Even Major League Baseball hates it. It seems only those who sell tickets or advertising like it. |
Sports Central August 6, 2015 Ross Lancaster |
Handling of Deflategate is Embarrassment If you don't think there are bigger warning signs for the NFL, you're really whistling past the graveyard. |
Sports Central October 29, 2008 Luke Broadbent |
An English Perspective on the NFL This year's NFL International Series game was clearly the perfect advertisement for offense, while last year's was an advertisement for British weather. |
AskMen.com Joel Balsam |
Weed In The NFL On the cusp of the most popular viewing event of the year, the Super Bowl, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is talking about marijuana. Why? |
Sports Central January 27, 2014 Brad Oremland |
Fixing the Pro Bowl Even though the Pro Bowl might not be broken, and might even be trending in the right direction, it can still be dramatically improved. |
Salon.com July 25, 2001 Allen Barra |
Throw the bums out! It's time to eject baseball's owners for arguing balls and strikes... |
Sports Central August 23, 2011 Brad Oremland |
Hines Ward and Head Injuries Once upon time, Hines Ward had all the qualities sports fans admire. He was a great player with a well-rounded skill set, a college quarterback turned Pro Bowl wide receiver. |
AskMen.com February 5, 2003 Mark Simmons |
Why The NFL Is So Fantastic As the NFL powers into the 21st century, it is head and shoulders above all other professional sports circuits. It is firing on all cylinders; both in terms of financial metrics and public relations goodwill. |
Fast Company September 2015 KC Ifeanyi |
Can the NFL trounce FIFA to define "football" once and for all? The stateside popularity of American pigskin has always been as fierce as soccer's unshakeable foothold in Europe and Latin America. |
Sports Central August 20, 2008 Corrie Trouw |
Preseason Football: Time to Get Used to It In its annual test of just how blindly NFL fans worship their favorite uniform, the league's 32 teams are in the middle of the charade of fake football in half-full stadiums at full price. |
Sports Central April 4, 2004 Gary Geffen |
Keep the NFL Playoffs the Same At the annual NFL league meetings, there was talk of expanding the playoff field from 12 to 14 teams. Finally, the idea was tabled for another year's agenda. |
Sports Central January 9, 2009 Luke Broadbent |
The Most Influential Man in NFL History "On any given Sunday, any team can beat any other team." -- Bert Bell |
The Motley Fool September 29, 2011 Robert Eberhard |
Spending Money to Make Money With the NFL Various NFL partners are responsible for games every week and will benefit from the league's popularity. |
Sports Central August 14, 2013 Andrew Jones |
An Anti-Conference Approach The past few years have seen a plague of movement in college football conferences to the point where the names don't even make any sense anymore. |
Salon.com August 30, 2002 Allen Barra |
Strike 4 The baseball deal will either make the game worse for fans or it'll be a sham that won't hold salaries down. The owners came close to wrecking the season for this? |
Sports Central October 9, 2011 David Exum |
Just Win, Baby: Remembering Al Davis As a kid growing up in Boston in the 1970s and completely obsessed with anything to do with professional sports, I couldn't help admiring Al Davis, who passed away Saturday at the age of 82, and his rebellious Oakland Raiders. |
Sports Central May 11, 2010 Brad Oremland |
Infotainment Comes to Sports It seems like legal experts get more face time on ESPN these days than coaches and GMs do. With each passing year, less and less of SportsCenter is devoted to game highlights, while more and more of it is devoted to off-field transgressions. |
Fast Company October 1, 2007 Patrick J. Sauer |
Tough Guys How the NFL and its corporate partners have been able to avoid a permanent black eye despite persistent drug and violence problems. |
Sports Central August 3, 2011 Corrie Trouw |
Selling Canton Every year since 1967 (and the four years before 1966), the NFL season kicked off in Canton, Ohio, at least in spirit, if not chronologically. |
Salon.com November 23, 2002 Allen Barra |
Of bowls and polls College football's weird champion-choosing process has taken the arguments -- and the fun -- out of New Year's Day. |
Sports Central September 8, 2007 Greg Wyshynski |
Delay of Fantasy Game There are some benefits to holding a draft after Week 1. |
Sports Central September 17, 2008 Wailele Sallas |
Is Fantasy Football Killing the Game? The more people play fantasy football, the more fantasy football becomes a priority over reality football. |
Sports Central February 17, 2004 Brad Oremland |
The NFL Offseason Desert We're in the offseason now, but there's a lot to discuss in the NFL: the Pro Bowl, the Kurt Warner situation, Maurice Clarett, coaching changes, free agency, and the draft. |
Salon.com January 17, 2003 Allen Barra |
Penalties, Part 2 The NFL's dreadful officiating can't be ignored anymore. One solution: Give one ref a TV. |
BusinessWeek March 24, 2011 |
DeMaurice Smith on the NFL Labor Dispute The NFL Players Assn. leader sees decertification as "the only decision they left us with." |
Sports Central April 2, 2007 Mark Janzen |
Goodell Should Be Pacman's Ghost The NFL is making the correct steps to try to erase the "bad boy" behavior from the league. |