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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The one-handed naked bootleg can mar a season faster than you can say Scott Starks. And it can make all the chatter about Kyle Orton and the Heisman trophy seem so trivial.
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As a trash talker, Bill Belichick is undefeated. One trash-talking game, one win. Put that loudmouth with the Mr. T haircut, Chad Johnson, in his place last week. Good going, Coach Double-B. You told the world that Johnson was a fraud, that he pushed off, that he probably was paying off the officials. You intimated that the Patriots would teach ...
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It was a Hall of Fame day for the Washington Redskins, with Art Monk and Darrell Green elected to the shrine Saturday. Former commissioner Paul Tagliabue failed to get in for the second straight year.
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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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By the time Joel Statham walked into the Gossett Team House cafeteria around 8 pm last night, the delirious crowd had dispersed from the Byrd Stadium field.
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The Hall of Fame pitched another shutout. Ron Santo, Jim Kaat, Marvin Miller and all the other candidates were left out Tuesday when the Veterans Committee admitted no new members for the third straight election.
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In the week leading up to the 2003 Fiesta Bowl, Maurice Clarett was denied the chance to attend a friendâs funeral in Youngstown.
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Some of the glitter was missing: No top-five national rankings, no Heisman Trophy front-runners, no one talking seriously about a national championship.
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Not like the pointless rankings calculation changes that have taken place the last couple years. The system thatâs been used to select the four major bowl match-ups since 1998 has been criticized in the past.
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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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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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Embarrassed. There's no other word for it. The only male in North America not to be involved in a fantasy football league? That was me.
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A new spying charge has nicked the New England Patriots. A member of the Patriots' video staff taped the St. Louis Rams' last walkthrough before they played in the 2002 Super Bowl, an unidentified source told the Boston Herald for a story Saturday.
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Dick Jauron is inside the RCA Dome this weekend worrying about players who are not there.
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FOXBOROUGH -- The Patriots didn't raise another Super Bowl banner before yesterday's season opener against Buffalo, but somebody forgot to tell that to Bills quarterback J.P. Losman, who kept referring to Bill Belichick and Co. as ``the champs."
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Neither the league nor the playersâ union consider dementia a football-related condition.