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Aaron Hernandez: Patriots Tight End Violent Evolution
How a top NFL player for the Patriots became a murder suspect. Intimate details about Hernandez’s troubled family life, PCP use, and gang influence.
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Hess: Raiderette sues team for fair pay
Fed up with working long hours for meager wages, a Raiderette named LACY T. recently filed a lawsuit in search of fair pay. She might just end up changing the system.
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Just Cheer, Baby
Fed up with working long hours for meager wages, a Raiderette named LACY T. recently filed a lawsuit in search of fair pay. She might just end up changing the system.
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5 Reasons Why Robert Griffin III Is Poised to Rebound
After a disappointing sophomore season in the NFL, Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III Fantasy season was a tough one, here are five reasons why that won't happen again.
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An 18-Year-Old Intern Who Kept Screwing Up Brain Surgery On Mice Accidentally Stumbled On A Scientific Breakthrough
Last year, Stanford University graduate Theo Roth and researchers from the National Institute of Health published a paper in the journal Nature on how the brain responds to trauma. The researchers found that brain damage could be significantly reduced if an antioxidant is applied immediately after the trauma. The study, which was of great interest to the NFL world, was based on the observation of mice immediately after brain trauma.
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Ten Years Later: Questions Still Surround Pat Tillman’s Death
We should demand the truth about the death of Pat Tillman.
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When the Game Goes Dark
Jaguars linebacker Russell Allen thought he had his bell rung against the Bills in Week 15 last season. He played through the injury and double vision, but two days later found out he’d suffered a stroke on the field. A dead spot in his brain means he’ll never play football again...
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Football team settles suit over text messages to fans for $3 million
The Buffalo Bills went to court over texting fans one (or two) too many times.
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The Origins Of Amateurism; Or, Why College Sports Are So Fucked Up
As president of the NCAA, Mark Emmert has $1.7 million a year riding on the premise that college sports are integral to the mission of higher education in general, a number that frankly lends a certain insight to his cause. Sympathy, even. After all, if you made that kind of money, you'd probably find that preserving the integrity of the beleaguered "student-athlete" was one of your "core values," too.
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Extreme Paper Football
Two friend playing paper football when things get too intense!
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Is It Time to Rethink College Sports?
This year’s N.F.L. draft brings into focus a couple of timely, overlapping crises, and all of them point to the same thing: that the ideal of the “student-athlete,” long crumbling, is now pretty much in rubble.
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The Most Botched NFL Draft Pick Ever
One ill-fated 1982 phone call jump-started the NFL's longest run of ineptitude. The bizarre and calamitous story of Booker Reese only got worse from there
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A Beautiful Corpse: An oral history of the fast life and quick death of the XFL
The XFL jumped off the top turnbuckle in 2001 and landed with a blow equal parts short-lived and long lasting. A merging of the schlocky promotions of Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation and the passion and violence of football, the league died after one season, its demise hastened more by a failure of an ill-advised and ultimately doomed business arrangement than a repudiation of the product on the field.
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NFL Draft Dynasty Breakdown: Day 1
Day one of the 2014 NFL Draft has come and gone. Dynasty fantasy football owners have been dying to see where these prospects end up, so they can get prepped for their upcoming rookie drafts.
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NASA astronaut Leland Melvin's story, from NFL to space
Even as a former standout athlete—he was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the 1986 NFL Draft—with a masters in Materials Sciences, Leland Melvin never dreamed of becoming an astronaut until a colleague at NASA convinced him to enter the trials. Despite a debilitating ear injury sustained during training, Leland served among the first flight crews that led America back into space following the space shuttle Columbia disaster. He is now a NASA educator, helping to raise the profile of the U.S. spac
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Michael Sam Becomes First Openly Gay Man Selected In The NFL Draft
To break the next barrier, he'll need to make the team this summer.
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How to Talk to Your Kids About Michael Sam
Michael Sam was recently drafted by the St. Louis Rams, making him the first out gay professional football player. Clearly, your children are going to have some questions. We are here to help you.
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Former players: NFL illegally used risky drugs
A group of retired NFL players says in a lawsuit that the league illegally supplied them with risky painkillers that numbed their injuries and led to medical complications.
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Fifty senators sign a letter asking NFL to change Redskins name
The politicians in Washington continue to make themselves clear about the Redskins name controversy.
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Former Player: ‘The NFL Is A Cult’
Former NFL player-turned-actor Terry Crews claims the league is a “cult.”
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