The ugly side of football
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IT BEGAN as a court case in which Liverpool boxing promoter John Hyland was accused of blackmailing Wayne Rooney&#39;s agent, Paul Stretford.
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There&#39;s nothing like going from the penthouse to the outhouse in matter of one week, just ask the Browns. After Week 1 the Browns looked like giant killers
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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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Football players aren&#39;t into moral victories. It goes against the grain of their rough exteriors and win at all cost mentality.
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It&#39;s hard to know what to do with Terrell Owens, laugh at him, or rebuke him and bemoan his comportment as further evidence of the extinction of sportsmanship.
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Heinz Field, the site for Saturday nightâs wild-card game between the Steelers and Jaguars, is considered by many N.F.L. players to be the worst grass field in the league.
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Hype from the media, fans, players and coaches can make a college football game seem like a life-or-death situation. Not at the service academies.
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Two of the NFL&#39;s most disappointing teams put on quite a show in prime time. And after all the wild plays and big offensive numbers last night, a phantom penalty that preceded
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If emotion is the key to great football, tomorrow&#39;s showdown between Alabama and Tennessee should be a classic. That&#39;s because the Vols are coached by Phillip Fulmer - insultingly
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Wasted chances, edgy crowd, gradual retreat into defence, late panic, strange negative substitution, two points wasted. A pessimistic Liverpool supporter turned around at half-time and said: &quot;It can&#39;t get any worse than this.
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Matt Cassel is every New England Patriots fan's worst nightmare.
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Eli Manning got his first dose of real NFL defensive schemes and it had to taste awful.
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Here we go again! Notre Dame is really getting on my nerves. Why don&#39;t we let the biggest whiner in the student body, the richest/baddest whiner from the alumni and Athletic Director Kevin White coach the football team next year?
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By now, most of us can agree that ABC&#39;s &quot;Monday Night Football&quot; opening was lasciviously over-the-top, a crass effort at cross-promotion and titillation.
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Troy Brown has had to make a lot of adjustments while playing both sides of the football. &quot;You always want to score when you get the ball -- offense or defense
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This wasn't a football game. It was a series of unfortunate events.
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Over the years, there have been many jokes about NFL standing for No Fun League, demanding uniformity and squelching individuality.