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  • A quick look at the A-11 offense

    Piedmont High doesn't get much of a chance to run its famous scheme in a first-round playoff loss.
  • NFL Week 12: Big-game picks

    It's rivalry week on campus, but as great as Auburn-Alabama might be, how can it compete with Texans-Browns? Wait, let us rephrase that ...
  • Ocho Cinco and you

    Finally, some good news about the NFL Network: You don't have it so you'll miss the Bengals-Steelers game, just like Chad Johnson.
  • Was this the greatest football game ever?

    OK, maybe not. But "Harvard Beats Yale 29-29" still spins an improbable, Fitzgerald-meets-Updike yarn about two elite schools, a turbulent year and an unbelievable ending.
  • The coach in waiting

    Texas makes defensive coordinator Will Muschamp the Lone Star State's Prince Charles.
  • BCS goes to "pay TV"

    Long-feared apocalypse for sports fans, a major championship on cable, is just a routine business deal.
  • Steelers clock management caused mess

    Had Pittsburgh been smarter about time, there would have been no last Chargers play for the officials to screw up.
  • Bad ending? You bet

    Maybe the fix wasn't in for the Steelers not to cover against the Chargers, but if it had been, the end could have looked the same.
  • NFL Week 11: Vacation picks

    No more bye weeks. Everyone works for the rest of the year. Unless the Browns call in sick.
  • NFL Week 10 picks: Perfection

    The Titans have achieved it so far, so where's the "halfway to 16-0" talk? Plus: The Lions have been perfect too. And: Giants-Eagles showdown.
  • Week 10, Part I: Brady at QB!

    Not that one. Quinn takes over in Cleveland as NFL Network's Thursday night football kicks off.
  • Panel o' Experts: The experts are winning

    Something is amiss in the standings: The smart people have been the best at picking NFL games.
  • NFL midseason prediction report

    The good, the bad and the really bad. Also the terrible. And the rotten.
  • Colts, wasted TO's do in Pats

    Bill Belichick might be a genius, but he can squander timeouts with the best of 'em.
  • NFL Week 9: Scary Halloween picks

    Boo! There won't be any spooky clichés in this rundown of the week's games.
  • Cleveland without rival in futility

    Buffalo and San Diego haven't crowned a champ in a while either, but they've had fewer teams.
  • Bears squib themselves

    Lovie Smith opts for the old "Let's give them great field position" play, and the Falcons get a win at the gun.
  • NFL Week 6: Playoff picks

    Baseball playoffs, that is. In other words: They're still playing football? And: What? Hockey?
  • The hot A-11 offense's female cousin

    Piedmont High's all-eligible scheme is the talk of football, but a coach in a women's pro league says he's been running it for three years.
  • NFL assumptions: Wrong again

    Unless you saw Atlanta (3-2) over Green Bay (2-3) coming, you didn't see this season shaping up this way either.
  • NFL Week 5: Debatable picks

    The question is which team is ready to break out. The answer: Let me talk about my energy policy.
  • NFL Week 4 picks

    Quarterbacks are being benched all over as desperate teams try to turn things around.
  • The greatest bye week ever

    A bunch of the NFL's most intriguing teams -- Patriots, Giants, Dolphins, Colts -- are sitting out Week 4. Plus: Is it the NFC's turn?
  • What next for Matt Millen?

    His tenure with the Lions was a disaster, but disaster would be an improvement for his old team, the Raiders.
  • Raiders snatch ax from jaws of victory?

    Doomed coach Lane Kiffin couldn't have committed self-sabotage, but if he had, it wouldn't have looked that different.
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