Without Pollard, Football Hall Is a Sham
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Fritz Pollard was the first African-American to play quarterback in the National Football League and the first to serve as an N.F.L. head coach.
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Giving up a 72-yard kickoff return is never a good way to start a game.
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Adam Vinatieri carved out a living at his former address by insisting kickers should be seen and not heard.
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The resignation last week of Coach Pokey Chatman has fueld speculation and rumors in the absence of a specific explanation.
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Patriots Coach Bill Belichick has denied suggestions by a former employee that his club taped the St. Louis Ramsâ walkthrough before the 2002 Super Bowl.
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Tom Coughlin was never one to sit in the stands at the Super Bowl, the way some coaches do. If there's no one to coach, to harangue, to lead, what's the point?
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Southern Mississippi can ruin another late-season visitor's Bowl Championship Series dreams.
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Dick Jauron is inside the RCA Dome this weekend worrying about players who are not there.
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Unless there&#39;s an extenuating circumstance - see the University of Arizona last September - it&#39;s generally considered poor form to change football coaches in midseason.
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When the Associated Press announced this week that it no longer would allow its Top 25 football poll to be used in the Bowl Championship Series standings, the procedure for selecting teams to play in major bowl games again became the center of controversy
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It came down to simple math. Three teams trying to squeeze into two slots. No computer printout, no voter bias, no pleas by coaches could solve that problem for the Bowl Championship Series.
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The timing of Notre Dame&#39;s firing of Tyrone Willingham makes no sense . . . unless the board of trustees had a replacement not only in mind, but in hand.
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Redskins kicker John Hall is done for the season with a torn right quad muscle, his fourth leg injury in three months. The team signed Jeff Chandler to replace Hall.
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Jason Elam didn't get the luxury that Mason Crosby and Scott Suisham did. It hardly mattered.
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The Boston Globe was forced to scrap its planned commemorative book â19-0: The Historic Championship Season of New Englandâs Unbeatable Patriots.â
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CLEVELAND &#151; This area is football&#146;s mecca &#151; the Hall of Fame is about an hour away, in Canton &#151; yet the fans here have been deprived of good football for so long.
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Halftime lockerrooms are sacrosanct. Only the privileged few are allowed entry. Theyâre like the situation room at the White House, only with tighter security.