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New NFL Concussion
Rules Debut This Week

Dec 3, 2009 8:23 AM CST

New NFL Concussion Rules Debut This Week

Amnesia, poor balance will keep players sidelined for the day

(Newser) - The NFL today introduced its new rules governing concussions, expected to result in fewer injured players returning to the field when their symptoms subside. Players can be cleared to go back in the game only by independent experts, and if a player exhibits certain symptoms—amnesia, balance issues, or an...

Domestic Violence Linked to Football Upsets

Nov 23, 2009 6:42 PM CST

Domestic Violence Linked to Football Upsets

Local-team upsets match to an 8% upswing in abuse

(Newser) - Losses by local NFL teams may trigger episodes of domestic violence among their fans, a new study suggests. Researchers examined domestic violence reports in 1995-2006 and found that upsets of home teams matched up with an 8% bump in incidents of domestic violence. The surge in violence almost doubled when...

Full Moon Illuminates
Bears-Eagles Game

caught with his pants down

Nov 23, 2009 3:30 PM CST

Full Moon Illuminates Bears-Eagles Game

Wide receiver unintentionally moons crowd

(Newser) - As if losing to the Eagles wasn't enough, Devin Hester mooned the Sunday Night Football audience on national TV last night. In the fourth quarter of Philadelphia's 24-20 victory, the Bears receiver was going for a pass from Jay Cutler when Eagle Dmitri Patterson grabbed a little more than he...

NFL Adds Concussion Rules

Nov 23, 2009 7:48 AM CST

NFL Adds Concussion Rules

Teams must now keep independent neurologists on hand

(Newser) - Facing heat from both players and Congress, the NFL is adopting new policies designed to protect players in the event of a concussion. Teams will soon be required to keep an impartial, independent neurologist on hand to treat players for concussions. Players won’t be allowed to return to the...

Bullock Shines in
Crowd-Pleasing Blind Side

movie review

Nov 20, 2009 1:25 PM CST

Bullock Shines in Crowd-Pleasing Blind Side

Football chick flick lacks suspense, delivers happy ending

(Newser) - The Blind Side lacks inherent suspense—it's based on the true story of Michael Oher, a rookie offensive tackle for the Baltimore Ravens. But the tale of a homeless African-American teen adopted by big-hearted white yuppies, at bottom a Sandra Bullock vehicle, goes over big in football country.

Writer-director John

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LeBron in NFL? Browns Coach Says Suit Up

Nov 18, 2009 2:29 PM CST

LeBron in NFL? Browns Coach Says Suit Up

Woeful Cleveland willing to give NBA star a shot

(Newser) - If LeBron James really wants to try football, Eric Mangini will find room on his roster. “I think he should come on down,” the Browns coach tells the Cleveland Plain Dealer . “The guy’s a freak athletically.” James may be an NBA star now, but he...

NFL Fines Titans
Owner $250K for
Flipping Bird

octogenarians gone wild

Nov 16, 2009 6:25 PM CST

NFL Fines Titans Owner $250K for Flipping Bird

Tennessee's Bud Adams dinged for 'detrimental' conduct

(Newser) - The NFL fined 86-year-old Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams $250,000 for "conduct detrimental to the league"—namely, flipping the bird toward the Buffalo Bills' sideline in the waning moments of yesterday's 41-17 Tennessee victory. He later repeated the display on the field, the Tennessean reports. "I...

Pats Lose on Belichick Stunner

Nov 16, 2009 5:33 AM CST

Pats Lose on Belichick Stunner

Colts capitalize on fourth-down screw-up

(Newser) - Bill Belichick’s vaunted genius got the better of him last night, when a gutsy fourth-down gamble cost the Patriots a win in Indianapolis. Up by six with 2:08 left on the clock, New England decided to go for it on fourth-and-two from its own 28. Kevin Faulk made...

The Who Bound for
Super Bowl: Source

paging janet jackson

Nov 13, 2009 12:02 PM CST

The Who Bound for Super Bowl: Source

British band will rock halftime show, says source, but NFL won't confirm

(Newser) - The Who may be joining the ranks of recent Super Bowl performers Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, and Prince. A source tells Sports Illustrated the British rockers will play the Feb. 7 halftime show, but an NFL rep says only, “When we have something to announce, we’ll announce it....

NFL Scores Ratings Touchdown

Nov 6, 2009 7:41 AM CST

NFL Scores Ratings Touchdown

Recession keeps people on couch on Sunday

(Newser) - NFL ratings are through the roof this year, as the recession keeps fans on the couch on Sunday afternoons...and Sunday nights and Monday nights. Ratings are at a 20-year high, with an average 17.2 million watching each game. “The NFL and television are actually getting the so-called...

Jets Star
Charged
With Assault

Oct 27, 2009 3:02 AM CDT

Jets Star Charged With Assault

Braylon Edwards could face jail, suspension in club bust

(Newser) - Jets receiver Braylon Edwards could be catching a sentence of up to 6 months in jail for an alleged assault outside a Cleveland nightclub. Edwards, who may also face suspension from the NFL, is accused of punching a friend of NBA star LeBron James in the incident earlier this month,...

Patriots Rule
Brittania, Bucs

(inter)national football league

Oct 25, 2009 5:11 PM CDT

Patriots Rule Brittania, Bucs

New England cruises past winless Tampa Bay, 35-7

(Newser) - Tom Brady threw three touchdown passes and had more than 300 yards as the Patriots (5-2) beat the winless (0-7) Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 35-7, today at Wembley Stadium in the NFL's third regular-season game at the iconic London venue. The game drew a sellout crowd of 84,254. NFL commissioner...

McNair-Kazemi Texts Released

Oct 20, 2009 9:32 AM CDT

McNair-Kazemi Texts Released

As CBS questions investigation, police paint Sahel Kazemi as unstable

(Newser) - Nashville police released 50 text messages between Steve McNair and Sahel Kazemi, the woman they believe killed him before killing herself, last night—on the heels of a CBS Early Show report claiming the investigation was flawed, the AP reports. The text messages show McNair transferred $2,000 into Kazemi's...

Beck Weeps for
'Simpler America'

Oct 16, 2009 4:21 AM CDT

Beck Weeps for 'Simpler America'

He recalls kinder, gentler football players

(Newser) - Glenn Beck had a weepy "Kodak moment" when he shared old commercials with viewers yesterday and recalled a "simpler" America when "we used to be united." One of the oldie ads he played—a day after fellow right-wing commentator Rush Limbaugh was bounced from a Rams...

Rush Got Bum Rap
on Racist Slurs

nate silver

Oct 15, 2009 11:19 AM CDT

Rush Got Bum Rap on Racist Slurs

Face it, liberal media: Claims he said that stuff look pretty bogus

(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh is getting such a raw deal in the media that even Nate Silver—who got his start on the Daily Kos—has come to his defense. Lately CNN and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch have repeated racist statements that appear to be "completely made up," Silver writes....

'Race Hammers'
Crushed Rush
Deal: O'Reilly

Oct 15, 2009 5:38 AM CDT

'Race Hammers' Crushed Rush Deal: O'Reilly

Limbaugh 'should sue' NBC, CNN for '1984 attack'

(Newser) - "Thought police" in the media who have unfairly skewered Rush Limbaugh as a racist spoiled his bid to become an owner of the Rams, charged right-wing media maven Bill O'Reilly. Now that he's been dumped from the buyers' group after the controversy over his participation, Limbaugh should sue media...

No NFL Team
for Rush: Investors Dropping Him

Oct 14, 2009 3:19 PM CDT

No NFL Team for Rush: Investors Dropping Him

Controversy too intense, say sources

(Newser) - It looks like Rush Limbaugh's hope of becoming an NFL owner is kaput. Dave Checketts—the man putting together a team of investors to buy the St. Louis Rams—is dropping Limbaugh, three league sources tell ESPN. Checketts, who already owns the St. Louis Blues, has concluded that the...

Columnist Backtracks, Slightly, on Limbaugh Quote

Oct 14, 2009 12:08 PM CDT

Columnist Backtracks, Slightly, on Limbaugh Quote

Rush still has no business trying to own the Rams

(Newser) - Columnist Bryan Burwell acknowledges that he is among those who ran with an old quote attributed to Rush Limbaugh on the "merits" of slavery without verifying it. Limbaugh insists he never said it, and Burwell is fine taking him at his word on that. It doesn't change his view...

Dog Fighting, Football
Share Brutal Similarities

glossies

Oct 13, 2009 5:12 PM CDT

Dog Fighting, Football Share Brutal Similarities

We despise one and love the other. But willful injury is inherent to both

(Newser) - Malcolm Gladwell is serious when he asks the question, in the New Yorker, whether football is really any different from dog fighting. He doesn't just mean that both inflict grievous injury to combatants—though the brain damage sustained by football linemen takes considerably longer to kill them—but that there...

Colts Owner, NFL Chief Slam Limbaugh Comments

Oct 13, 2009 2:36 PM CDT

Colts Owner, NFL Chief Slam Limbaugh Comments

Rush's bid to be an NFL owner looks unlikely

(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh's bid for the St. Louis Rams is looking increasingly hopeless: Colts owner Jim Irsay said today he "couldn't even think of voting for him" and didn't plan on discussing the bid with other NFL owners, reports NBC's Pro Football Talk. "I'm very sensitive to know...