The NFL has become a pass-oriented league, with quarterbacks and receivers rewriting the record books weekly. However, running backs are still valuable in both...
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Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones knows how to make money. He bought the franchise for $150 million in 1989 and built it into the...
The Hail Mary pass is one of football’s most magical plays. It’s an intoxicating feeling for both players and spectators. Teams on the verge of...
The Indianapolis Colts naming Jeff Saturday as their new head coach is a slap to the face of every NFL assistant coach. The drinking buddy of Colts owner Jim...
The 10th week of the 2022 NFL season is upon us, and the playoff picture is slowly taking shape. In the AFC, the Buffalo Bills remain the top dog but are...
The 2022 NFL season has hit the midway point, and the playoff picture is beginning to take shape. In the NFC, the unbeaten Philadelphia Eagles lead the pack...
The end of the road seems near for future Hall of Famers Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers. The two grizzled veterans have led their teams to disappointing 3-5...
Having success on defense in the pass-happy NFL is no easy task. A combination of injuries, salary cap decisions, and strength of schedule all play a role in...
The NFL trade deadline is fast approaching and unlike previous years, a flurry of moves has already been made with more expected over the next few days. The...
The NFL has a serious quarterback problem. The league has an abundance of top signal-callers including Josh Allen, Pat Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow, and...
The NFL division races are heating up with only the Minnesota Vikings enjoying a three-game lead in the NFC North. No other division front-runner has more than...
The NFL has become the business of battered brains. America’s most popular professional sports league and its teams collected 17.19 billion U.S. dollars...
With the first six weeks of the 2022 NFL season in the books, a bevy of preseason Super Bowl contenders are now looking like pretenders. Although there is...
The swagger is back in the Big Apple. The Giants are 5-1 and the Jets are 4-2. Bing Bong! None of the football pundits expected one, let alone both, New York...
The 2022 NFL campaign has officially surpassed the 25% mark heading into the Week 6 slate of games. Although a lot can change over the next 13 weeks...
The contenders for the Super Bowl LVII title continue to change every week, but a few teams have established themselves as legitimate threats to win the Vince...
The NFL season is entering its fifth week, and more than a few head coaches are already on the “hot” seat. Matt Rhule’s time in Carolina...
Responsible Gambling Guide Although gambling can be fun, it does carry certain risks. Most people understand these risks and can manage them effectively...
The PGA tour is without a doubt something no golf enthusiast wants to miss. TV is sometimes a good source of live PGA tour events but often times some of the...
Of the various positions and responsibilities of players on a baseball field, the two that have the most influence (arguably) include the batter and the...
This is a question that most horse racing fans wonder about, and there is no simple answer, in all honesty. Sure, being a jockey can be an incredibly rewarding...
For many NBA fans, following the latest NBA trade rumors is often just as fun as is watching the games. This is no surprise, especially around the NBA trade...
Major League Baseball is one of the most popular US leagues on this side of the globe and they have plenty of fans in and outside of the US. Not everyone can...
The NFL has managed to stay on top of all sports markets in the USA and we see the league trying hard to make its way onto the world stage. Currently, the NBA...
Not everyone can be a role model for the future generation of sporting stars out there, but perhaps being a role model is the last thing on the mind of a...
Signed in 1991 from Shakhtar Donetsk for a fee worth £650,000, Andrei Kanchelskis was Manchester United’s first out and out right-winger since Steve Coppell...
On April 5, 2009, Sir Alex Ferguson entrusted a 17-year-old with the responsibility of getting United back into a must-win game against Aston Villa in an...
Interviewed by ‘FourFourTwo’ in May 2018, Rafael van der Vaart remarked, “I shouldn’t have left Tottenham, but AVB wasn’t the right coach for me.”...
Pedro Neto has already had a larger part to play in Wolves season when compared to last season. So far, Neto has featured for 841 minutes in 11 games, less...
On 3 December 2018, Andrey Arshavin announced his retirement from the game. While such a declaration didn’t exactly provoke shock waves within the game...
For players at clubs such as Real Madrid, breaking through from the academy ranks can be the sternest of challenges. To do so at a time when Los Blancos were...
Never a certified starter during a 7-year spell with Manchester United, Ji-Sung Park did, however, make a name for himself by being a go-to man in the so...
In the summer of 2005, just after José Mourinho had made Chelsea the champions of England for the first time in fifty years, Michael Essien signed for the club...
In the panopticon of the footballing world, wherein the players are watched via satellites, in the flesh, or printed on the front pages, their character and...
Born in February 1967 – a full three years before PSG were formed – it’s fair to say that Kazuyoshi Miura has been about for quite some time. He...
Jack Grealish is the free-range creator England need to take hold of the game and pull it in their direction. And against Wales, Grealish showed how a creator...
Composed, tough in the tackle, and equally effective in the air as he is on the deck, Aston Villa’s Ezri Konsa is well on his way to establishing himself as...
So the story goes, Schmeichel wrote to Liverpool in 1991 professing his admiration for the recently dethroned league champions and asked for a trial. With...
If there’s one thing that the history of football teaches us, it’s that nothing is forever. The wheel always turns. There’ll always be a faster gun riding into...
Ibrahim Afellay is a name known by many, despite playing just 21 times for Barcelona and having played at such other teams as Stoke City, Schalke 04 and...
Not far from the football-adoring city of Naples in southern Italy in 1967, a soon-to-be monster in the world of sport was born. Just one year later, a young...
After finishing in 11th place at the end of the 2000-01 Premier League season, Sir Bobby Robson’s Newcastle United enjoyed a progressive 2001-02 campaign...
With the Premier League season restarting this weekend, Fantasy Football is once again re-emerging in football fans’ consciousness. There are a host of...
David ‘I drive a’ Bentley was one of a rare breed of footballers. He walked away from the game on his own terms with no regrets at exactly the moment he chose...
The name of Freddy Adu has become synonymous with that of unfulfilled promise within the game, yet his story deserves more than a cursory glance accompanied by...
Leeds United have released a statement of intent upon arriving back to the Premier League with the signing of Spanish international Rodrigo from Valencia for a...
Luis Nani, a curious case of ‘what if’ transpires when reminiscing on a career that promised so much, but effectively fell off the wheels. After departing...
It was approaching half-time with Portugal and Iran locked in a goalless draw in their final Group B qualifying match. After a pulsating draw against Spain in...
Goran Pandev is perhaps the best-known Macedonian footballer of all time and certainly one of the most highly-decorated and celebrated. In March 2019, he won...
Gabby Agbonlahor’s playing career with Aston Villa, ended with the completion of the 2017-18 season when the club declined to renew his contract, despite the...