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EA may pay almost $1,000 per college athlete for sports game settlement
Student athletes whose likenesses were used in EA's NCAA football and basketball games will receive up to $951 for each year they were featured in the games, according to a proposed settlement being put forth for approval by a judge. While EA proposed a $40 million settlement in September 2013 for its ongoing litigation with student athletes over its college sports series stemming back to May 2009, it hasn't been clear how that money would divide among the parties in the lawsuit until now.
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Reilly's 3 Tire Toss
The CFL has obtained some video footage from an off-season photo/video shoot in Toronto, where Jon Cornish, Travis Lulay, Mike Reilly, Adam Bighill, Jason Vega, Andre Durie, Marc-Olivier Brouillette and Brian Bulcke were brought together to tryout some of Reebok's new sideline gear and apparel. In this video, you'll see Mike Reilly putting a unique twist on his off-season training routine.
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A 'Redskin' Is the Scalped Head of a Native American, Sold, Like a Pelt, for Cash
Native Americans pass down stories to preserve their history and heritage, because we don’t have much of it left. As tribes were systemically exterminated, so too were their respective cultures. But we have our stories, and when my mother was young, her parents shared one about the term “redskins.”
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NFL's Most Overpaid, Underpaid Players
From an economic standpoint, every player in the NFL is worth what someone is willing to pay him. That doesn't mean particular players' performances live up to what their respective teams are willing to pay them, however.
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Football Fans Are Going To Hate The NFL's New On-Field Advertising
If you watched Thursday night's Ravens vs. 49ers preseason football game, you probably noticed the awful on-field advertising any time either team got in the end zone.
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Sumo on the offense
He was once a rich and famous sumo wrestler in Japan, now he's going for broke, trying to make it in the NFL
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An NFL Player Got A Tattoo On His Face To Keep Himself From Ever Getting A Normal Job
St. Louis Rams rookie defense lineman Ethan Westbrooks made the final 53-man roster on Saturday, beating out Michael Sam for one of the team's final spots. Westbrooks has a remarkable story of his own. In 2011 he was working at a Toys "R" Us and playing for Sacramento City College. Three years later, he's in the NFL. According to Westbrooks, an unlikely motivational tool — a face tattoo — is part of the reason for his success.
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People vs. the NFL
After an offseason in which the NFL got almost everything wrong, a lifelong fan reflects on shame, love, fatherhood, and the future of the league.
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Good, Honest Football: Re-Watching the XFL
It's difficult to peruse the laundry list of things the NFL has done wrong recently without coming to the conclusion that we are witnessing the league's nadir. Their treatment of retired and ailing players, the mounting evidence of their willful ignorance towards the effects of concussions, their begrudging and scattershot reactions to cases of domestic violence—these things aren't merely blips, but rather representative of a pattern of behavior.
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How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football
Football is in crisis, and it’s not just a matter of public relations. Not even shocking recent headlines about off-field violence against women and children can fully overshadow the growing calamity on the field: The nation’s most popular pastime is marred by brutality that, we now understand, chews up those who play.
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Do the NFL's Problems Start in College?
The popularity of college football in American now rivals the professional National Football League (NFL) game. But with the NFL hit by abuse scandals and the behaviour of its athletes under scrutiny, some are now wondering if the culture of college, and even high school, football might be partly to blame.
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76 of 79 Deceased NFL Players Found to Have Brain Disease
As the NFL nears an end to its long-running legal battle over concussions, new data from the nation’s largest brain bank focused on traumatic brain injury has found evidence of a degenerative brain disease in 76 of the 79 former players it’s examined.
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Peyton Sets New NFL Mark with 509 TDs
Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning officially became the greatest touchdown passer in NFL history Sunday by setting a new all-time mark with his 509th regular-season scoring toss.
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Injury Lists Grow Longer, and High School Seasons Are Cut Short
The annual homecoming game was scheduled to end the football season at Cherry High School in Minnesota this month. By then, however, the game had been forfeited and the season canceled because of injuries. Instead, the Cherry High boys healthy enough to play lined up against a team of alumni in a game of flag football.
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Receiver's Blunder Turns 78 Yard TD Catch Into 100 Yard Fumble Return
Kaelin Clay should have had a 79-yard touchdown catch to put Utah up 14-0 on Oregon. Instead, the Ducks tied the game when Clay dropped the ball short of the goal line and Oregon's Joe Walker picked it up to go the entire length of the field in the opposite direction.
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Gordon sets rush record, Wisconsin routs Nebraska
Melvin Gordon had one magnificent night. Wisconsin's star running back rushed for a major college-record 408 yards
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Andrew Luck: The NFL’s Most Perplexing Trash Talker
Andrew Luck’s legend is growing. Sure, there’s buzz about how he has thrown for more yards in his first three seasons than anyone in NFL history. Or the fact he’s led the Indianapolis Colts to the playoffs in each of his NFL seasons, after clinching a spot this year with Sunday’s win. But among NFL players, the gossip around Luck concerns a peculiar brand of on-field chatter so confusing and brilliant that no one knows quite what to make of it.
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Williams Hurdles Defender For 54-Yd TD
ESPN Video: Minnesota QB Mitch Leidner connects with TE Maxx Williams who hurdles a defender for a 54-yard touchdown.
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Seahawks soar back to Super Bowl with stunning rally
Russell Wilson and the reigning Super Bowl champion Seahawks punched their ticket to Super Bowl XLIX Feb. 1 in Glendale, Ariz. in improbable fashion by rallying from a 16-0 halftime deficit to knock the Green Bay Packers out, securing a 28-22 overtime win in the biggest comeback in championship game history.
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Louis CK Is Okay With Deflated Balls
On David Letterman, Louis explains why he has no problem with what the New England Patriots did.
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