We recently received word from our friend Billy Koch at Little Red Feather Racing, that earlier this month the stable’s talented filly Tebowing broke her maiden. Tebowing’s rally to a dramatic victory in the closing … MORE ►
Posted: February 21st, 2013
The Material Girl meets a Man on Wire
Beyonce’s Super Bowl XLVII performance was only the latest reminder that the NFL has come a long way from the days of Up With People or trumpeter Al Hirt serving as the halftime entertainment at … MORE ►
Posted: February 20th, 2013
When the Red Sox and Patriots shared the Green Monster
The Patriots won’t be on the field again for months. But with their rose hose-wearing cousins the Red Sox opening their 2013 spring training schedule tomorrow, we’re taking a look back at the story of … MORE ►
Posted: February 18th, 2013
Peyton, the Wonderlic, and the Evolution of Scouting
This Wednesday in Indianapolis, the 2013 edition of the NFL Scouting Combine begins. Like every part of professional football the player evaluation process has undergone an almost immeasurable evolution since the league was formed. Here’s … MORE ►
Tags: featured, nfl draft, peyton manning
Posted: February 8th, 2013
The Newest Super Kids
A Super Bowl win makes grown men giggle like children, and lets their children bask in a blizzard of confetti and glee. To the long, great tradition of players and their families celebrating a world … MORE ►
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Posted: January 30th, 2013
The long strange trip of the 49ers Jim Tomsula
Media Day unraveled the many roads that participants in Super Bowl XLVII took to get there. Among them, none was longer or stranger than Jim Tomsula’s. Long before he was part of the 49ers “Quest … MORE ►
Posted: January 29th, 2013
The one man who might have more Ravens passion than Ray Lewis does
Earlier this season, we brought you the story of Sports Steve, a Baltimore football fanatic known as “The Iron Fan.” Steve has attended more than 360 consecutive professional football games in Charm City. To say … MORE ►
Tags: featured, ravens, super fans
Posted: January 28th, 2013
More from Steve Sabol’s Harbaugh Roundtable
If there’s one thing great coaches aren’t so skilled, it’s home repairs. We were reminded of that by the excerpt from Steve Sabol’s 2009 roundtable with the Harbaugh Family that we posted last week.
Today, … MORE ►
Tags: 49ers, chris barlow, featured, harbaugh, indiana, ravens, steve sabol
Posted: January 25th, 2013
Three Harbaughs, a Hoosier and Steve Sabol Walked Into a Bar …
Just kidding. But they did all gather around a table back in 2009, when Steve hosted John and Jim Harbaugh, their father Jack, and their brother-in-law, Indiana men’s basketball coach Tom Crean, in a discussion … MORE ►
Posted: January 23rd, 2013
Films Encore: Rick Telander’s “Like a Rose”
In the summer of 1971, Rick Telander was cut from the Kansas City Chiefs’ training camp. It was football’s way of writing him a “Dear John letter.” Forty years later the veteran sportswriter wrote back.… MORE ►
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