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2018 NFL mock draft – First Round predictions

The NFL Draft kicks off tonight, and television networks picked a good year to offer multiple broadcasts of the circus only eclipsed by the Super Bowl....

Opinion: Debating the NFL national anthem protests

It’s an American’s moral duty to stand for the national anthem It has been nearly one year since NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick made headlines...

NFL executive balances tradition with technology

In some aspects, Michelle McKenna-Doyle’s job is about balance. Balancing the time-honored traditions of a game that is 100 years old, while innovating...

HBO’s VICE explores the end of amateurism in college sports Friday

Ole Miss athletics is more than just sports. It’s more than days at the Grove or packing into Vaught-Hemingway on a blazing summer afternoon to watch...

Whose draft stock rose and fell at the NFL combine

Over the past week in Indianapolis, the NFL’s executives, coaches, scouts and media converged at Lucas Oil Stadium for the 2017 NFL scouting combine....

NFL fans are witnessing history: Tom Brady is a legend in the making

He was a chubby sixth-round pick draft pick from the University of Michigan who’s now a five-time Super Bowl champion. He’s won the Vince...

Kaepernick’s “sit down” during National anthem is wrong

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has caused controversy the past week, beginning with his intentional sit-down protest through the playing of the National Anthem before a preseason NFL game. The American public has been branding him either disrespectful and pompous or a champion of revitalized civil rights sentiments, depending on their political views....

Colin Kaepernick was right to sit down

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sent the nation into a media frenzy after he refused to stand for the playing of the national anthem last Sunday. Kaepernick told NFL media, “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my...

The big question: Is Joe Flacco an elite quarterback?

It’s officially “that” part of the NFL offseason. A time when there is no real news going on around the league and the pundits of the 24-hour sports...

Super Bowl 50: Cam Newton had every right to be upset

Cam Newton was brief in his press conference after he and the Panthers lost the Super Bowl. Newton’s answers consisted of the following phrases: “No,” “They outplayed us” and “I don’t know what you want me to say.” Then, abruptly, he got up. He left. It later came out that Chris Harris of the Broncos was answering questions regarding Newton’s performance...

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