The New England Patriots recently cut Tim Tebow, causing President Obama to issue a warning to the citizens of Bristol, Conn., because there might have been fatal riots at ESPN headquarters. Or, at least,...

Two weeks ago, Miami Dolphins’ tight end Dustin Keller suffered a season-ending knee injury during a preseason game, tearing his ACL, MCL and PCL in a helmet-to-knee collision.  In a sport troubled...

For years, the powers that be and fans alike have searched for a better system to determine college football’s champion. With the Bowl Championship Series imminently being replaced with playoffs —...

For all the talk on campus and around the country about racial tolerance, diversity and acceptance, Washington, D.C.’s most famous team continues to represent the progress still needed on racial issues...

Put simply, momentum is vastly overrated in professional sports. Usually, it’s just employed as a narrative that allows fans and analysts to depict one moment as the turning-point of an entire game when...

‘Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary …” Though Super Bowl XLVII finished close to midnight due to a 30-minute power outage in theSuperdome, these famous words from Edgar...

This past week, NFL safety Bernard Pollard, President Barack Obama and actress (and Jay Cutler fiance) Kristin Cavallari all voiced concerns about football’s future. With the differences in their professions...

Elite: adjective. Representing the most choice or select; the best. We may know Merriam-Webster’s definition of the word, but when it comes to NFL quarterbacks, fans and pundits alike struggle to...

American real estate magnate and sports capitalist Stan Kroenke had a lot on his plate this weekend: The owner of five major sports teams has to constantly battle jet lag, sleep deprivation and media attention. Kroenke,...

When the Houston Texans took a commanding 31-11 lead against Peyton Manning’s Denver Broncos in Week 3 of the NFL season, most would have assumed that the game was all but over. In the season following...

Robert Griffin III stepped onto FedEx Field for his first regular season home game last Sunday amidst overwhelming fanfare. Fireworks were set off, and the entire crowd of rabid Redskins fans erupted into...

Dominance is a tricky thing. In a sporting world that places so much emphasis on training, research and meticulous athletic perfection, it is almost impossible to be dominant in a sport. It is the best...