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Sports Illustrated
January 10, 2001
Frank Deford |
The hot stove league Once upon a time there was an offseason. Super Bowl? NFL Playoffs? The NBA? Hard to imagine today, but for much of the 20th century, perhaps as late as into the 1960s, the sports calendar effectively ended with the New Year's Day bowl games...   |
Sports Illustrated
October 11, 2000
Frank Deford |
Saturday secession Northeasterners adrift when it comes to collegiate football... |
Sports Illustrated
April 18, 2000
Ivan Maisel |
If I were commissioner If they made me commissioner of college football... |
Sports Illustrated
September 6, 2000
Frank Deford |
Pray by play Many Christians are angered that the Supreme Court has banned official prayers at football games. The passion which this matter invokes surprises a great many people, but football has always been our sport most connected with religion... |
Sports Illustrated
March 22, 2000 |
Football is the real villain The NCAA tournament always draws an inordinate amount of critical interest about how much money is involved in college athletics... |
Sports Central
February 10, 2010
Kyle Jahner |
Chasing the Dragon: Recruiting Coverage College football recruiting is the most obsessive following of high school boys that isn't prosecutable by federal law. |
Salon.com
November 29, 2001
Allen Barra |
Bring back the arbitrary college football polls! Sure, the old championship polls were bogus -- but the current system is just as bogus, and it doesn't even give fans anything to argue about... |
Sports Illustrated
January 31, 2002
Frank Deford |
Roots Black coaches still can't make headway in football... |
Searcher
December 2010
Irene McDermott |
The Gridiron on the Web -- Football Online Am I doomed to be shut out from the world of football forever? No! The internet has arrived to save the day with zillions of sites to explain and celebrate American football. |
| AskMen.com |
Scout.com's Recruiting Picks Everson Griffen and Joe McKnight sign to USC and Florida signs 10 five-star recruits. |
Sports Central
May 29, 2007
Adam Russell |
The Sports Fan's Cable/Satellite TV Paradox There are now so many specialized sports networks on cable/satellite TV that executives are forced to find anything to fill their programming schedules. |
Sports Central
October 9, 2009
Corrie Trouw |
Poll Im-Position Just as baseball has moved past the gospel of scouts and into a world ruled by advanced metrics, so too should our evaluation of college football teams. |
AskMen.com
August 22, 2001
Mark Simmons |
NFL Coaches Go Back To School School's back, and students aren't the only ones going back to school; find out why so many NFL coaches are getting back to their roots in the NCAA... |
Sports Illustrated
July 30, 2003
Frank Deford |
King Hut Pro football rules in America; here's why |
Sports Illustrated
October 9, 2002
Frank Deford |
Reality bites Do NFL fans favor fantasy games over real action? |
Sports Central
July 8, 2008
Brian Cox |
Five Reasons Why We Can't Wait For Football This is for all of those who sit in-between signing day and the beginning of summer workouts who wish to have more college football. |
Sports Central
March 10, 2010
Jean Neuberger |
Has Recruiting Gone Too Far? There are now high school recruitment companies whose purpose is to promote and help streamline the process for recruits. |
Sports Central
December 4, 2006
Ryan Day |
Congress to Tinker With BCS? House representative Joe Barton is heading up a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee of Congress to conduct research on the Bowl Championship Series and hold hearings, if necessary, if the BCS Bowl selections cause the uproar they did last year. |
Sports Central
November 23, 2015
Jean Neuberger |
The Pains of Complacency There is a price to pay in today's college football for being complacent. |
Sports Central
November 14, 2007
Ryan Day |
SEC: Overrated or Underappreciated? Don't be surprised if the Southeastern Conference takes home another national championship. |
Sports Illustrated
February 13, 2001
Ivan Maisel |
Back to Back Tennessee plugged a hole by landing two blue-chip ballcarriers... |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
The Business of Fantasy Football Here's a look at some of the major entities that are making money off the game -- and how much they're raking in. |
Sports Central
September 3, 2007
Ryan Day |
The Folly in Preseason Rankings Preseason rankings are completely meaningless and only serve to make teams look better than they ever are. |
Salon.com
June 30, 2000
Allen Barra |
Any given Monday night Dennis Miller won't pull the NFL out of its TV doldrums. Here are seven ideas that will. |
Sports Central
December 3, 2004
David Martin |
Bad Times For College Football Fans This college football season opened with as much hope and as great an expectation of success and great competition as any in recent memory. Now, we must consider what has gone wrong with the game of college football. |
Salon.com
February 7, 2001
Allen Barra |
Smashmouth football sucks The XFL thinks its brutal, dumbed-down product is what fans want. Actually, fans want more scoring and fewer commercials... |
Sports Central
April 21, 2009
Josh Galligan |
The MLB Powerless Rankings: April We all know and love (or possibly hate) the phenomenon known as power rankings. |
BusinessWeek
October 30, 2006
Mark Hyman |
Rescued By The Gridiron "The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game" is a penetrating look at how football has changed, via the story of one underprivileged youth. |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
Top 10: Highest Paid College Football Coaches Head coaches at big-name schools have seven-figure incomes, often making more money each year than the athletic directors and college presidents for whom they work. |
Sports Illustrated
June 12, 2001
Stephen Cannella |
Twin Delivery High-riding Minnesota made local schoolboy hero Joe Mauer the No. 1 pick in Baseball's draft... |
Sports Illustrated
March 14, 2001
Ivan Maisel |
'January Madness' just can't happen Each sport has its own charms. A playoff could be developed for college football, but don't think for a moment it would be March Madness come early. Here are a few of the things that would be missing... |
Sports Central
May 31, 2007
Kevin Beane |
In Praise of Losing Teams Love sports, but don't like the stress associated with being a hardcore fan? Then pick a poor team to support. |
Sports Illustrated
June 19, 2002
Frank Deford |
Solving the Title IX problem Making football a separate entity would benefit both sexes. |
Sports Illustrated
November 1, 2001
Frank Deford |
Coming of age Stars thrive in different stages of life... |
Salon.com
November 23, 2002
Allen Barra |
Of bowls and polls College football's weird champion-choosing process has taken the arguments -- and the fun -- out of New Year's Day. |
Salon.com
September 22, 2000
Allen Barra |
The NFL's minor league? The marketing firms and New York pundits who want a college football playoff system have one thing in common: They don't like or understand college football. |
Sports Central
November 21, 2005
William Geoghegan |
Is the BCS Really All Bad? From the moment the computers churned out the rankings that stuck Nebraska in the national championship a few years back, we had a travesty on our hands. |
Sports Illustrated
October 1, 2002 |
America's Best Sports Colleges Sports Illustrated combined a variety of factors in arriving at its 2002 rankings of Division I schools |
Sports Central
September 21, 2006
Wailele Sallas |
Why College Football Stands Above Rest It's not the matchups or the players, but the passion that lights the fire under college football. |
Sports Central
December 17, 2010
Josh Galligan |
NFL Powerless Rankings: Dec. 2010 As we head into the last days of 2010, I feel that it's prudent to revisit my attempt to popularize what I call the "powerless rankings." Like their name implies, they're akin to your atypical power rankings, except not so powerful. |
Sports Central
August 28, 2009
Kyle Jahner |
State of the Imperfect, But Glorious, Union I'm happier that college football is arriving next week than Donte Stallworth on sentencing day. |
Sports Central
October 1, 2012
Adam Russell |
Is the Offensive Explosion an Omen? With all this offensive production on both sides of the field, could this be an omen of things to come in college football? |
BusinessWeek
March 25, 2010
Jason Zengerle |
March Payday Madness No one makes more money from the annual NCAA tournament than big-time college basketball coaches. Are they worth their astronomical paychecks? |
AskMen.com
Ryan Murphy |
How To: Get Your Girlfriend To Like Football How do you mend the gender divide and convince your girlfriend to actually watch a game with you? The answer is easier than you may think. |
Sports Central
October 26, 2015
Jean Neuberger |
Your Move, Blake James Blake James' job is at stake. How Miami is seen as a football program for years to come is also very much at stake. A rise to glory or a decade of mediocrity. |
Sports Illustrated
March 5, 2003
Rick Reilly |
Extra Credit The best college tradition is not dotting the i at Ohio State. It's not stealing the goat from Navy. Or waving the wheat at Kansas. It's Picking Up Butch at Middlebury (Vt.) College. |
Sports Central
April 13, 2005
Jeff Moore |
Draft Dodgers: Draft vs. Free Agency In the off-season, NFL General Managers must decide between up-and-coming draft picks and seasoned free agents. |
Sports Central
August 14, 2013
Andrew Jones |
An Anti-Conference Approach The past few years have seen a plague of movement in college football conferences to the point where the names don't even make any sense anymore. |
Sports Central
September 17, 2008
Wailele Sallas |
Is Fantasy Football Killing the Game? The more people play fantasy football, the more fantasy football becomes a priority over reality football. |
Sports Central
November 18, 2010
Kevin Beane |
College Basketball Odds and Ends I'm just enthusiastic about life, and this is yet another one of those favorite-time-of-the-year periods: when college football and college basketball converge. |
