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Dr. Ann McKee, an associate professor of neurology and pathology at Boston University who has been studying the brains of deceased football players, wanted to illustrate the damage that repeated hits to the helmet can cause. This slide of a cross-section of a human male brain, magnified 100 times, showed scores, maybe hundreds, of tiny […]

John Madden has burst upon the American scene as few others in sport, but contrary to his bull-in-a-beer-ad image, he loves nothing more than good quiet conversation, and his skill as a communicator is the key to his success both as a football coach and as a broadcaster.

Football dealmaker David Canter on what he knows before the mock drafts, how he pits teams against each other, and what kind of a stomach you need to make it in the sports-agent game

In Parkersburg, Iowa, it was a high school coach who led the townspeople out of the rubble of a tornado, showed them how to live a Christian life and brought honor to a football field he mowed himself. What they can’t understand is why Ed Thomas was gunned down by a former player

Seattle is leading the charge to make soccer into an American sport. If “we” don’t do it, who will?

How different are dogfighting and football?

The oldest field player in the NFL is Brett Favre. The second-oldest is Jeff Zgonina. He’ll never make it to Canton, but he and players like him are the soul of football.

Under Coach Paul Knox, football offers a haven from the streets where players can learn to break free of tackles, on field and off.

The magic carpet ride began for Boise State with the unbelievable finish to the 2007 Fiesta Bowl, but what became of the heroic prince and the beautiful princess who waltzed into a nation’s embrace that night? How did their fairy tale turn out?

Never, it seems, have punters been more valuable to NFL teams. So who are these guys—and why hasn’t a single punter been voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame?