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"Friday Night Lights" embraces the agony of defeat "Friday Night Lights" embraces the agony of defeat

Coach Taylor and his scrappy new team of losers are still cause for celebration during the show's fourth season
  • As goes Tennessee football, so goes the GOP

    Lane Kiffin, the new coach of the Volunteers, garners a Sarah Palin comparison. Get ready for a blowout loss
  • Should we forgive Michael Vick?

    Science says we'll be healthier if we do, but some argue there's room in a healthy life for a good grudge
  • Best! Game! Ever! Played!

    The trend in sports books is to claim that a single contest changed the course of history. Sure it did.
  • The party of prima donnas

    Obama is trying to build a country that works together like a great football team. The Republicans want to take their ball and go home.
  • Favre retires -- this is not a drill

    It appears the future Hall of Famer is going to keep trying until he gets it right.
  • Kurt Warner, Hall of Famer?

    In the wake of his third fine Super Bowl performance, the readers write about that and other big-game subjects.
  • Steelers rally beats Cardinals rally

    Super Bowl 43 looked like a grinding Pittsburgh win before the two teams started trading thrilling comebacks.
  • Super Bowl 43 preview

    The Steelers are defensive beasts with a pedigree and a quarterback. The Cardinals -- well, they have a quarterback too.
  • Computer ties for Panel o' Experts title

    Accuscore, the electronic version of a dart-throwing monkey, ties Merril Hoge, also of ESPN, for the NFL game-picking championship.
  • How super are the Arizona Cardinals?

    If you believe the playoffs, very. But if you believe the regular season, they don't stand a chance against the punishing Steelers.
  • They're playing a title game where?

    In Phoenix. Phoenix! And the Eagles are there too. It's nuts. The Ravens-Steelers slugfest in the AFC makes more sense.
  • The real national champion -- and it isn't Utah

    The undefeated Utes, ineligible for the title, are this year's poster team for a playoff system. But one school has an even better claim.
  • Outdoor hockey, MLB Network, NFL predictions

    A great day for sports on TV -- even without college football -- gives way to a couple more as the playoffs get under way.
  • The year in sports: Believe the hype

    2008 was a series of did you see thats that are destined to become do you remembers.
  • NFL Week 17: End of the road

    The season winds up with some teams fighting for the playoffs and some playoff teams fighting not to laugh.
  • The crazy bowl system, explained

    Yahoo's Dan Wetzel on why college football outsources its best product to old dudes in colored blazers.
  • NFL Week 16: Game of the week picks

    Huge games with home field in the playoffs at stake in each conference, and the last roundup at Texas Stadium.
  • NFL Week 16, Part 1

    The Colts should be able to clinch another playoff spot by winning in Jacksonville.
  • NFL should make the easy fixes to replay

    Sunday's mess in Baltimore showed that the league needs to remind its officials what "indisputable" means and put cameras on the goal line.
  • NFL Week 15: Cat entrail picks

    This column, leading only a porn star and a 3-year-old in the Panel o' Experts standings, turns to science.
  • Saints march to Chicago doom again?

    In a Thursday-night game that at last is worth watching, the Bears try to end New Orleans' hopes for the third straight year.
  • NFL Week 14: Police blotter picks

    Everyone who isn't suspended, please report to the field.
  • Raiders-Chargers: Must-miss TV

    The NFL Network's live package pops out another pooch of a game, so again you don't have to worry about not getting it.
  • NFL Week 13: Turkey picks

    You're driving to Grandma's, not reading this, so let Queen Elizabeth worry about who's going to beat whom.
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