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The 18-game season idea remains a perennial elephant in the room. It is not the best idea considering the issues with injuries and player safety that already exist. Sixteen is a more acceptable number of games. But a 16-team post-season? Guess what – On this one, I’ll take the Commish up!
The Green Bay Packers lost to the Seattle Seahawks due to a blown call by replacement officials, but the biggest loser is NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
Roger Goodell has been at the helm for six NFL seasons. In many ways, he was the right man for the job at the right time when he stepped into the role. But is he still?
The New Orleans Saints’ bounty system scandal has been the biggest story of the offseason outside of Peyton Manning’s status. Lost in all the high and mighty soapbox hand wringing is the fact that the bounty system did very little to alter play on the field.
According to emails and interviews, AmericanizeSoccer.com can confirm the National Football League (NFL) received a proposal in 2007 to start a pro Soccer league to compete against Major League Soccer (MLS) for the months of March through August/September.
Although it’s not very “Tebow” of him, Keith Mullett readily admits that he treats fights – especially those between wealthy, famous people – like car crashes; he just can’t look away. Here are 11 sports feuds that Keith thinks deserve to have a resolution.
Adding 8 more teams/cities to the NFL would amount to a total of 40 teams, up from the current 32. The eight divisions would have 5 teams each instead of 4. The question is, who should new franchises be awarded to?
Do sports really make anything better? Do sports really make the pain go away? Do sports really solve life problems? Of course they don’t. Sports help us to forget…for a couple of hours. September 11th, 2011 should NOT be a day to forget.
Before being picked by the Oakland Raiders, Terrelle Pryor was suspended for the first six weeks of the season and . Yesterday, it was announced that Jim Tressel would similarly miss games during the first part of the season. This is good and a trend that needs to continue.
Tim Tebow transcends sport and region into being a national topic of conversation, which is why everyone has an opinion on Tebow’s current situation with the Denver Broncos. This and more is the subject of Jerod’s latest photo story.
Jason Whitlock never fails to get a reaction from people. Today, he wrote an article for Fox Sports shattering our ideas of the concept of “amateur” athletes and, further, how NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has a vested interest in preserving the outdated structure of collegiate athletics.
In the latest episode of the MSF Podcast Jerod interviews Robert Littal of Black Sports Online about the ever-expanding power of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, who Littal labeled “Roger Goodell Gotti” in the wake of Terrelle Pryor’s surprising five-game suspension and Michael Vick’s revelation in a recent GQ article that Goodell helped steer him to Philadelphia.
In today’s edition, Shakira stops by to say hi, Joe Posnanski gives Roger Goodell the smack down, I inform you of the coolest town in Massachusetts, and Kobe Bryant reminds us all of Kobe Bryant.
It was announced on Monday night that judge Susan Nelson had temporarily lifted the NFL lockout. However, the players arrived and were informed by security that they could not train.
You might not know that Mike Tomlin and Roger Goodell have already discussed the potential awkwardness of the trophy presentation if the Steelers win the Super Bowl. Let’s just say it wasn’t the friendliest conversation, as our newest photo story shows.
