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The U.S.F.L. Isn’t Back. The U.S.F.L. Is Here.
The nicknames are familiar to those with long memories: the New Jersey Generals, the Philadelphia Stars, the Tampa Bay Bandits.…
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Art Briles, Who Coached Baylor During Sexual Assault Scandal, Is Hired at Grambling State
Art Briles, the former Baylor football coach who was fired in 2016 after a university investigation found that he and…
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Super Bowl’s Hollywood Moment Outshines N.F.L.’s Problems
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Blue and yellow confetti rained down on the field after the final whistle blew in the Super…
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Once a Youth Football Mecca, L.A. Now Struggles to Find Kids Who’ll Play
LOS ANGELES — Susan Miller Dorsey High, a public school tucked away in one of Los Angeles’s historically Black neighborhoods,…
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How John Madden Became the ‘Larger-Than-Life’ Face of a Gaming Empire
Trip Hawkins first met John Madden in the dining car of an Amtrak train traveling from Denver to Oakland, Calif.,…
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Jets and Giants Lose, but Jets May Be Starting to ‘Lose Close’
Our N.F.L. playoffs calculator has an up-to-date look at the latest playoff picture. Time is a flat circle, but we…
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Unfulfilled Promise
Isiah Miller sat in his Bronx apartment, staring into his iPhone at what looked like a new world. On the…
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In New Era for College Sports, Army-Navy Is a Student-Athlete Showcase
Ten years ago, Steve Erzinger was an undersized senior linebacker at 210 pounds and one of the captains of the…
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College Football’s ‘Great Man Theory’ Gets a New Test at U.S.C.
College football’s allegiance to its version of the great man theory, to the idea that a single coach can prove…
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After a Year Off, and an Off Year, Ivy League Crowns Familiar Champions
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Ivy League football standings don’t look much different this season: Dartmouth and Princeton, one of which…
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