Winners and losers from the NFL’s week one
In one of the strangest games the NFL has seen, Hue Jackson walked away with a palindrome head coaching record of 1-31-1 to kick off his third year with the Browns.
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Tag Archives: NFL
Betting on Andrew Luck
The long-awaited second coming of Andrew Luck finally arrived, and it came like a thousand-pound weight off of Indianapolis’ chest.
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Don’t forget that Nike is in the business of moneymaking
The sports apparel giant recently launched a new, rousing ad campaign featuring former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. The new slogan? “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.”
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No guarantee: The NFL’s fatal flaw
Unlike the NBA, NHL or MLB, where contracts are fully guaranteed for the most part, the vast majority of player contracts in the NFL are only partially so or just flat-out not guaranteed.
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Professional sports lack recognition of LGBTQ+ community
Sports, especially at the professional level, have always seemed to have a primal relationship to homophobia — there is a culturally sustained oxymoron of LGBTQ+ presence and sports: gay men are perceived as inherently not masculine enough to compete on the same stage (or field or court or rink) as straight men.
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He won: Donald Trump’s decadeslong battle with the NFL
The truth is, Trump has held a grudge against the NFL for decades, long before political rallies and cries of patriotism
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Ex-Cal linebacker Mychal Kendricks leads Eagles into Super Bowl
Among the stars highlighted in this year’s Super Bowl, featuring the Philadelphia Eagles and New England Patriots, is former Cal linebacker and one of its greatest defensive players of this decade, linebacker Mychal Kendricks.
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Who are the best teams in the NFL?
With Week 9 in the books, we are more than halfway through the NFL season. Let’s check in on the top teams and distinguish between the contenders and the pretenders. Tier 1: At least one of these teams will be in the Super Bowl 1) Philadelphia Eagles (8-1) The
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Week 9 NFL Roundup
Week 9 of the NFL was full of drama both on and off the field, so let’s get right to the biggest stories of this past weekend and beyond. A boring Sunday for a boring season: Week 9 of the 2017-18 NFL season had perhaps the season’s least entertaining set
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The rhetoric of political spectacle
The president’s use of language, whether in a speech or a tweet, inundates our politics with polarizing personal drama.
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