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Vince Lombardi, Terrance Knighton, and the Meaning of Football

If you look across I95 from the Vince Lombardi rest stop, you can see MetLife Stadium where the Broncos and Seahawks will play for the Vince Lombardi Trophy Sunday night in the state where Vince Lombardi coached high school football.

Vince Lombardi, Terrance Knighton, and the Meaning of Football

Missing Marshawn: Back Bails on Reporters

Just call Marshawn Lynch the anti-Richard Sherman.  While the Seahawks running back’s teammate on defense comfortably held court with reporters, Marshawn Lynch bailed on the NFL’s Super Bowl Media Day after six minutes and twenty seconds.  He admitted that he

Missing Marshawn: Back Bails on Reporters

Richard Sherman: Not Anyone's Puppet

Richard Sherman attracted more reporters on the NFL’s Super Bowl Media Day than his coach, his quarterback, and even Peyton Manning. “I don’t think a defensive player since Deion Sanders has got this kind of attention,” the opinionated defensive back

Richard Sherman: Not Anyone's Puppet

Manning on Beer, Retirement and His Favorite Word

NEWARK, N.J. — Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning addressed reporters for nearly an hour during Super Bowl media day on Tuesday. “It definitely feels special being back in the Super Bowl,” Peyton Manning reported from his perch at Super Bowl Media

Manning on Beer, Retirement and His Favorite Word

Breitbart Sports at Super Bowl Media Day

NEWARK, N.J. — Breitbart Sports is at Super Bowl media day. Stay tuned for news, notes, photos and interviews from Breitbart Sports editor Daniel Flynn as the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks talk to the media before they clash on Sunday

Breitbart Sports at Super Bowl Media Day

Pete Carroll: Russell Wilson Has Turned Heads

It’s easy to overlook Russell Wilson. At five-foot-eleven, he stands as the shortest starting quarterback in the NFL. When Super Bowl talk turns to quarterbacks, it’s all Peyton Manning all the time. Journalists even noted double their number waiting to

Pete Carroll: Russell Wilson Has Turned Heads

Hall of Famer Mike Haynes: I Love Football

Breitbart Sports caught up to nine-time Pro Bowler Mike Haynes and three-time Super Bowl champion Ted Johnson in Times Square on Monday at a forum on concussions held at the NFL’s Super Bowl week hotel headquarters. We asked the retired

Hall of Famer Mike Haynes: I Love Football

Manning's Final Game? QB Addresses Future

Peyton Manning addressed challenges to the Broncos, such as the midseason heart attack of Coach John Fox, this season at Sunday’s Super Bowl press conference. He addressed challenges to the Broncos this coming Sunday, such as the cold weather freezing

Manning's Final Game? QB Addresses Future

Strahan on Sherman: Unfair to Bash Him

Richard Sherman made a lot of enemies with his outburst following the Seahawks Sunday win over San Francisco. NFL sacks leader Michael Strahan isn’t one of them. The former New York Giant relayed on a Fox Super Bowl conference call

Strahan on Sherman: Unfair to Bash Him

Strahan, Bradshaw Memo to Manning: Don't Retire

Former Giants defensive lineman Michael Strahan and former Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw don’t always agree in their picks on Fox’s Sunday NFL pre-game show. But on Peyton Manning, the duo sees things the same way: Don’t retire. Reports that the

Strahan, Bradshaw Memo to Manning: Don't Retire

Fox Bosses, Terry Bradshaw Clash on NYC Super Bowl

Don’t call Terry Bradshaw a company man. As his Fox bosses celebrated their broadcast in ten days as the “biggest, boldest, and coldest Super Bowl,” the Hall of Fame quarterback offered a reality check that he acknowledged was politically incorrect.

Fox Bosses, Terry Bradshaw Clash on NYC Super Bowl

Dear Mr. Goodell: Please Keep the 'Foot' in Football

Does Roger Goodell forget that the organization he leads calls itself the National Football League? “The extra point is almost automatic,” Goodell observed on the NFL Network in floating the idea of eliminating extra-point kicks. “I believe we had five

Dear Mr. Goodell: Please Keep the 'Foot' in Football

Yankees Sign Masahiro Tanaka

The Yankees wanted a top-of-the-rotation pitcher. Masahiro Tanaka wanted top-of-the-rotation money. So, the pairing seemed inevitable since the sought-after pitcher gained the ability to negotiate with Major League clubs.  The Yankees signed the Japanese ace for seven years at $155

Yankees Sign Masahiro Tanaka

Super Bowl Snowstorm?

“Let it Snow!” read the press release from the NFL announcing a media event at MetLife Stadium for today at 11 a.m. But with a blizzard blanketing the northeast, dropping over a foot of snow outside Philadelphia and dropping the

Super Bowl Snowstorm?

Super Bowl Ad Depicts Kim Jong-un the Romantic

Axe, the body spray for men, has sparked past controversy in its advertising by depicting women as latent sex maniacs awaiting the smell of its product to unleash their inner-nymphomaniac. The cologne company’s commercial at this year’s Super Bowl may

Super Bowl Ad Depicts Kim Jong-un the Romantic

Super Bowl Gets National Anthem Singer

She’s not Whitney Houston. But she’s not chopped liver, either. The NFL and Fox announced the “Star-Spangled Banner” performer for Super Bowl 48 today. She is world-renowned opera singer Renee Fleming. Actress Amber Zion, and thankfully not that expressive man

Super Bowl Gets National Anthem Singer

NY Pols Seek Youth Football Ban

Viewers of this weekend’s AFC championship glimpsed a moving pre-game vignette of the game-winning quarterback tossing the pigskin as a kid. If an Empire State assemblyman has his way, New York children aspiring to be the next Peyton Manning would

NY Pols Seek Youth Football Ban

SB Bettors Flip the Favorite

The bookies like the Seahawks. The bettors like the Broncos. Seattle opened as early favorites in numerous Las Vegas sports books Sunday night, only to have the early action transform the minus next to the Seahawks to a plus. Within

SB Bettors Flip the Favorite

Richard Sherman Frightens Erin Andrews

What do you do for an encore when you single-handedly–was it his right or left hand that tipped Colin Kaepernick’s pass?–send your team to the Super Bowl? If you’re Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman, you taunt the losing team’s players

Richard Sherman Frightens Erin Andrews

Rockets Set Bizarre NBA Record in Collapse

Kobe Bryant once called Dwight Howard “soft.” Can we accurately apply that pejorative to all of Howard’s Houston Rockets teammates now, too? The Rockets played like their name in the first half of Thursday night’s game against the Oklahoma City

Rockets Set Bizarre NBA Record in Collapse

Derrick Coleman's Empowering Message

Derrick Coleman tells a powerful story. So it’s appropriate that a battery maker would tap into his message to generate sales. It’s not that Coleman made the Seattle Seahawks after being overlooked in the draft or that he caught on

Derrick Coleman's Empowering Message

Magic Assists ObamaCare

Magic Johnson sold millions of Converse sneakers and hundreds of cans of Slice to young people during the 1980s. Now, the fifty-four-year-old retired Los Angeles Laker sells ObamaCare to that healthy demographic. Was Bob Cousy unavailable? In a video featured

Magic Assists ObamaCare

No TV for Aaron Hernandez This Weekend

Aaron Hernandez caught Tom Brady’s last Super Bowl touchdown pass, but when his former quarterback faces off against Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos this weekend for a Super Bowl berth, Hernandez won’t be watching. The accused murderer sits 21-hours

No TV for Aaron Hernandez This Weekend

Federal Judge Blocks NFL Settlement

A federal judge has denied a settlement in the lawsuit brought by more than 4,000 retired NFL players against the league. The parties agreed on a $765 million settlement just prior to a the negotiating deadline set for early last

Federal Judge Blocks NFL Settlement

Angry Cubs Fans Mock Unbearable New Mascot

The Chicago Cubs unveiled “Clark,” a backwards-cap wearing mascot dubbed “unbearably cute” in promotional literature, on Monday. By Tuesday, the long-suffering team’s fan base had reacted more like a hungry grizzly bear than a smiling teddy bear. “THIS IS BRUTAL,”

Angry Cubs Fans Mock Unbearable New Mascot

Genealogy of a Lie: Tracing the Origins of NFL Suicide Epidemic Myth

Tracing the provenance of the myth that NFL players kill themselves at dramatically elevated rates is a lot like playing the children’s game “operator,” only in reverse. The pattern generally sees one article attribute the claim that an astronomically high

Genealogy of a Lie: Tracing the Origins of NFL Suicide Epidemic Myth

The NFL Suicide Epidemic Myth

The supposed epidemic of NFL suicides joins acid rain, the Y2K bug, and the once imminent invasion of South American killer bees as a media narrative long on hype and short on evidence. A Harvard Medical School researcher is the

The NFL Suicide Epidemic Myth