A Story From The Stands - What Have Former Nebraska Football Players Learned From The Game - Kent M

A LIFETIME IN FOOTBALL Kent McCloughan worked in a Broken Bow, Nebraska grocery store and listened to Husker games on the radio when he was a boy. That would be the last job he held that didn't have anything to do with football. Today, this legend of the early Devaney years works for the Oakland Raiders organization and pushes the Raiders shopping cart through the halls of college football looking for just the right match of talent and attitude to make silver and black history. "I spend a lot of time on the road, " he said during an interview from his Colorado home. "Most of my job involves talking. I talk to trainers, and coaches, and other players and try to find out how much a guy loves football and how tough he is.

Football Teams - What s In A Name?

In this modern age we are constantly hit with the idea of brand loyalty. How will customers, or fans, be able to make that connection with a company or team without continuity in a name? While Green Bay has always been the Packers, not every team has always played under the name they have today. The Chicago Bears started out as the Decatur Staleys. The Decatur Staleys? Try picturing fans nowadays cheering for the mighty Decatur Staleys. When the AFL came about in 1960 the New York team was the New York Titans. After two unproductive seasons, the new ownership changed the name to the New York Jets. Years later, Titans would resurface in the NFL when Tennessee changed its name from Oilers to Titans after moving from Houston to Nashville (with a brief stay in Memphis as the Tennessee Oilers).

How Late Is Too Late?

So that you won't be sweating it out at your next fantasy football draft, fantasy football projections wants to present to you a strategy so simple, yet so effective, you'll wonder why you haven't thought of it first. The effectiveness of the draft strategy that follows will vary, depending on your league size. The smaller the league, the better it will work. It can be adapted to larger leagues, however, and I will show you how to do that as well. While quarterbacks are the most important position on the field in the NFL, they are one of the least important position in terms of fantasy points. You want to draft your quarterback before your kicker and defense, of course, and you probably already know that you should wait as long as you can to take a quarterback.

Your Fourth Youth Football Practice, What Now?

Our Fourth Football Practice Today in practice we concentrated exclusively on defense. Many youth football coaches often neglect to put in the defense until the last week before their teams first game. While my personal teams are known for scoring copious amounts of points and our offense, we spend as much time on our defense as we do the offense. Our teams focus on defense is not just in word, but in deed. We always angle form tackle in the first 10 minutes of EVERY practice. Proper Tackling is a critical success factor when coaching youth football and we show our commitment to being a great tackling team by angle form fit tackling in the first 10 minutes of every practice.

Shifting in Youth Football

The Rules on Shifting and Motion in Youth Football Shifting and Using Motion in Youth Football: Youth football coaches often have questions pertaining to the legalities of shifts or motion. While I"m not a huge believer in shifts for teams aged 9 and under, we have used motion with these groups all the way down to age 6. We have successfully used both shifts and motion from age 10 on up and with teams of 8-9s where at least half the kids have at least 1 year of tackle experience under their belts.. These tactics often put your team at a huge numbers advantage pre-snap. Here are a few simple guidelines to remember: You have to have a minimum of 7 players on the Line of Scrimmage.

Michael Vick s Redemption - America - The Land of Second Chances

Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone. The media and the world seems to be whipped into a furor over the dog fighting charges that have been leveled against Michael Vick, charges that he will plead guilty to sometime in the coming weeks. Dog fighting is a cruel and inhumane spectacle of animals at their basest level. Dogs bred and raised solely to fight and kill one another at the prompting and glee of people who seem to have no soul. For anyone who disagrees with me - go watch the movie Amores Perros - from the acclaimed director Alejandro González Iñárritu. As disturbing as dog fighting is to those of us who have never been directly confronted with it, we must accept that dog fighting is a sad fact of life in most of the inner cities.

The Workhorse Comes Back To Work

Larry Johnson has finally ended his holdout with the Kansas City Chiefs. The pro bowler concurred to a six year contract extension earlier this week. The Chiefs running back set the all time NFL record for attempts last season with 416; furthermore, he set the all time Chiefs franchise record in rushing with 1749 yards. The details of the contract is a $ 43.2 million and $ 19 million guaranteed. This negotiation would make Larry Johnson in a Kansas City Chiefs uniform until 2012. Due to the long and arduous 25 day holdout, the superstar running back will be fined $357, 000. The Kansas City Chiefs went 0 - 2 without Larry Johnson in the lineup, so having number 27 back on the roster is a welcome addition.

A New York Giants Feud

During halftime of an NFL pre-season game between the New York Giants and the Baltimore Ravens, Tiki Barber heavily criticized Eli Manning's leadership skills. The former Giant stated, He didn't feel like his voice was going to be strong enough and it showed. Sometimes it was almost comical the way that he would say things. Eli Manning did not take to those words kindly and retaliated by saying, "I guess I could have questioned his leadership skills last year with calling out the coach and having articles about him retiring in the middle of the season. As a quarterback you're reading that your running back has lost the heart to play the game and it's about the 10th week, I can see that a little bit at times.

2007 Special Kick-Off Edition - College Football s Top Ten Blowouts

At last! The 2007 college football season is about to burst upon all those new wide-screen televisions! Although we are about a week to the summer side of Labor Day, why not get excited now? After all, our treasured autumn pastime is about to launch it"s annual smear/wipeout/butt-kicking season. Schools are looking at their 2007 schedules with anticipation and dread. Winning and losing in the first few weeks of the season can make or break one"s chances in the BCS. This year, perennial FirstWorst favorite Duke has taken losing to a brand new level by losing the ACC Championship - for 1965. Owing to a fluke of scheduling and some kind of previous misapplication of the rules, the Conference this week awarded the 1965 title exclusively to South Carolina - stripping Duke of it"s share of the ACC crown.

Fantasy Football Preview - WR Rankings

WR Rankings Tier 1 1. Chad Johnson(Bengals) -Ocho Cinco once again had a brilliant season in 2006 as he caught 87 passes for 7 TD"s. His rapport with QB Carson Palmer is a thing of beauty and they should continue to produce more of the same in 2007. The emergence of WR TJ Houshmanzadeh last year should also help Johnson in that he will mainly see one-on-one coverage. Draft the biggest sure-thing fantasy WR. 2. Steve Smith(Panthers) -Carolina"s emotional star WR recorded numbers that were a drop-off from his ridiculous 2005 season due to a hamstring injury that caused him to miss two games and affected his running ability for the entire first half of the year.