Tag: Football

TCU Football Coach Shares Powerful Message on Consent That Every Man Should Hear

Screenshot: TikTok/eronhodges Texas Christian University football had its best football season in program history in 2022. But, what they’re doing with their players in the offseason may pay more dividends off the field than anything they are doing on it. While football in many ways is just a kid’s game, it can also be used […]

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Chiefsaholic, the Fan Who Dressed as a Wolf, Is Said to Be on the Lam

Before this year’s Super Bowl, the Kansas City football superfan known as Chiefsaholic was a source of fascination in the sports world. How, people wondered, did a man known for wearing a wolf mask to games and placing large bets end up in jail on charges that he robbed a bank in Tulsa, Okla.? Now […]

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Lamar Jackson Publicly Breaks Up With Baltimore Ravens With Trade Request

Someone get the Baltimore Ravens some ice cream and a Mary J. Blige playlist because things are about to get emotional. The ongoing contract drama between the Ravens and superstar quarterback Lamar Jackson has just reached nuclear levels. On Monday morning, the 2019 NFL MVP tweeted, “As of March 2nd I requested a trade from […]

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College Sports Are a Treasure. Don’t Turn Them Into the Minor Leagues.

In a teary locker room this month, after the Notre Dame men’s basketball team ended its season with a close loss in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, the coach spoke not about lost opportunities on the court, but rather about the six master’s degrees (in addition to undergraduate degrees) that members of the team had […]

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The Night Willis Reed Became Immortal

Photo: Ross Lewis (Getty Images) There’s a small group of professional athletes in world history who can define their career in one moment, especially NBA players. It’s normally reserved for the most legendary of players on the biggest stage. Examples of this include Michael Jordan with his “last shot” against the Utah Jazz; LeBron James […]

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Cam Newton Set to Throw Passes at Auburn’s Pro Day

Photo: Chris Graythen (Getty Images) With the NFL Draft approaching on April 27, top college players are looking to increase their chances of being drafted by showing off their skills at their school’s Pro Day. These events are important because there’s often so much going on and so many players to keep track of at […]

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Will New Footage Absolve Michael Irvin From Sexual Misconduct Allegations?

Michael Irvin’s attorney has stuck to his word and released a video that he believes will exonerate his client from the sexual assault allegations made against him. CC Off English If you haven’t been paying attention, the week leading up to the 2023 Super Bowl has haunted NFL Hall of Famer Michael Irvin. He was […]

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Imagine A White Coach Saying What Deion Sanders Said About Only Recruiting ‘Dual Parent’ QBs

NewsOne Featured Video Deion Sanders attends SiriusXM At Super Bowl LVII on February 9, 2023, in Phoenix, Arizona. | Source: Cindy Ord / Getty Listen: When Deion Sanders left HBCU Jackson State University to become the head football coach at the University of Colorado, a Power Five PWI, I was on the fence about how […]

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Georgia’s Jalen Carter Accused in Car Crash That Killed Two People

Arrest warrants have been issued for Jalen Carter, a potential top-five pick in the coming N.F.L. draft, in connection with a car crash in January that killed two people, including a University of Georgia teammate, hours after the team’s parade for winning the national championship. The Athens-Clarke County Police Department said Wednesday that Carter, who […]

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Howard University Becomes 1st All-Black Swim & Dive Team to Make the Cover of Sports Illustrated

Members of the Howard University swim team cheer as Howard University competes with Georgetown University at the Howard University Swimming Battle at the Burr, on October 1, 2022 in Washington, D.CPhoto: Michael A. McCoy/For The Washington Post (Getty Images) For HBCU athletic programs, it’s a constant struggle to even the playing field with their counterparts […]

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Howard University’s All-Black Swim & Dive Team Gets Its Flowers

Members of the Howard University swim team cheer as Howard University competes with Georgetown University at the Howard University Swimming Battle at the Burr, on October 1, 2022 in Washington, D.CPhoto: Michael A. McCoy/For The Washington Post (Getty Images) For HBCU athletic programs, it’s a constant struggle to even the playing field with their counterparts […]

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At Halftime, Patrick Mahomes Got a Little Tape and Gave a Little Talk

PHOENIX — It was right before halftime of Sunday’s Super Bowl, and Kansas City trailed Philadelphia, 21-14, when Eagles’ linebacker T.J. Edwards chased down Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and landed on his already-tender ankle. Mahomes labored to get up. When he did, he tilted his head back in a grimace and then skipped gingerly toward […]

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Did a Referee’s Call Unfairly Cost the Eagles a Super Bowl Win?

What’s the one play that is most remembered from a really big game? A ninth-inning strikeout from an ace reliever? A leaping save by a keeper? A powerful dunk in overtime? Not infrequently, it is a disputed call by a referee. Many fans, especially those from the Philadelphia area, are going to look back on […]

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Conservatives Cry The Saltiest White Tears Over ‘Black National Anthem’ Being Sung At Super Bowl

NewsOne Featured Video Sheryl Lee Ralph performs “Lift Every Voice and Sing” before Super Bowl LVII between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles at State Farm Stadium on February 12, 2023, in Glendale, Arizona. | Source: Rob Carr / Getty Predictably, conservatives were unhappy about “Lift Every Voice And Sing,” aka the “Black […]

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2023 Super Bowl: ESPN’s Chris Berman Said What About the Black QBs During the Postgame?!

Photo: Rob Carr (Getty Images) The 2023 Super Bowl was meant to celebrate football, two amazing Black QBs and Rihanna and, for most of the night, that’s what happened. CC Off English But during ESPN’s postgame show, veteran sportscaster Chris Berman made some appalling comments that raised the eyebrows of everyone who watched him recap […]

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Super Bowl 2023: 10 Moments You Might Have Missed

Forget Thanksgiving. Super Bowl Sunday is America’s true unleashing of its national id, the day the country gorges itself on beer and chicken wings, patriotism, pop culture, hero worship, machismo, fireworks, sanctioned violence and consumerist yearning. If you were watching on Sunday night — of course you were! — you know all this. But there […]

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The Eagles Came as Close as Close Can Get

Sometimes, a team can win the regular season and lose the postseason. That’s what the Philadelphia Eagles learned on Sunday, when the Kansas City Chiefs and their hobbled yet transcendent quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, ripped the Lombardi Trophy out of their grasp and won their second Super Bowl title in four years. The Eagles were riding […]

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Rihanna Returns on the Super Bowl Stage and Confirms Second Pregnancy

Performing live for the first time in nearly four years, Rihanna returned to the stage on Sunday to headline the Super Bowl halftime show, running through a rapid-fire medley of her hits and making a major personal announcement without saying a word: A representative for the singer confirmed that she is pregnant. Clad in ruby […]

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Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts Represent Progress and Lost Opportunity for Black Quarterbacks

“If you come to Grambling,” Robinson told Harris, “in four years, America will be ready for a Black quarterback.” During those four years, Harris closely followed the progress of other Black quarterbacks, often heading to the library on Monday mornings to research how they had played that weekend. Harris stood 6-foot-4 and worked since high […]

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Lil Uzi Vert Gave the Eagles the Soundtrack to Their Season

PHOENIX — Like all N.F.L. teams, the Eagles employ many exceptionally large men. But as they left their locker room ahead of the N.F.C. championship game against the San Francisco 49ers, they were led by a musician who stands just 5-foot-4. The artist, clad in a midnight-green No. 16 Eagles jersey and diamond chains, was […]

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Lil Uzi Vert Gave the Eagles the Soundtrack to Their Season

PHOENIX — Like all N.F.L. teams, the Eagles employ many exceptionally large men. But as they left their locker room ahead of the N.F.C. championship game against the San Francisco 49ers, they were led by a musician who stands just 5-foot-4. The artist, clad in a midnight-green No. 16 Eagles jersey and diamond chains, was […]

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How Watching (and Listening to) Sports Made Me Who I Am

On Oct. 1, 1975, when I was 14, my best friend and I went to the closed circuit broadcast of the epic, brutal third and final fight between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. We were in a crowded high school gym in Richland, Wash., watching the match on a large screen. I have vivid memories […]

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Jill Biden Is Ready to Cheer on the Eagles at the Super Bowl

WASHINGTON — To hear President Biden tell it, his wife is not merely a Philadelphia Eagles fan. She is, in Mr. Biden’s own words, “obnoxious” about her fandom and so much of a self-proclaimed “Philly girl” that if he wasn’t an Eagles fan, too, “I’d be sleeping alone.” “You all think I’m kidding,” he joked […]

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Postcard From Phoenix: A Day Inside Sport’s Party Vortex

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The wind was whipping like a blender working overtime on a margarita Thursday morning, and the more than 17,000 people bellied up to the 16th hole at the Phoenix Open acted as if it were last call. If you want cemetery-like quiet, kneel politely before the golf gods at the Masters’ “Amen […]

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Why Bettors Favor Super Bowl Props

As last year’s Super Bowl kickoff grew near, the mobile sports book DraftKings reported it was taking 21,000 bets per minute. Mega-operators like DraftKings are able to offer as many props as Kornegay’s SuperBook Sports, if not more, and their customers have come to expect it. “We’re never going to be able to duplicate the […]

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2023 Super Bowl Prediction: Mahomes vs. Hurts Could Be the Best QB Duel Ever

Photo: Jamie Schwaberow // Focus on Sport (Getty Images) If nothing else, Super Bowls were made for predictions and hot takes. So here’s mine: there’s never been a Super Bowl featuring two more accomplished quarterbacks facing off against each other this early in their careers—and they both just so happen to be Black. CC Off […]

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