Word: footballâ
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Turn on a football??game, and you'll see cheerleaders with seam-popping breast implants, aging sportscasters with suspiciously tenacious hairlines and commercials for pills that promise Olympian erections. Turn on the news, and you'll hear about how athletes have got the notion that it's O.K. to use artificial substances to improve their bodies. Appalling! Where would they get an idea like that...
...size too small, behind the stony visage, resides a genius of the game. As a player-coach in the 1950s, Landry refined the 4-3 defense, using a slide rule to work out the odds on given plays in given situations. His Cowboys play the most intricately calibrated football???on both offense and defense?ever concocted...
...charging that it will sully the game's reputation and lead fans to believe the sport is being fixed. In fact, an estimated $15 billion to $30 billion in illegal bets are already being wagered on sports nationally?$1.5 billion in New York City alone, much of it on football???without stirring grave suspicions of foul play. Top officials of organized basketball, baseball and hockey also vociferously oppose legalized betting on their sports though this nonetheless seems likely to follow across the nation. The more deeply held moral objection to sports betting stems from the fear that the states...
...first five clobbered unbeaten Ohio State 27-0, the year Texas did not win the Southwest Conference championship, the year mighty Mississippi had to settle for a tie with weak little Vanderbilt. It was the year free substitution and the platoon system came back to college football???if the coaches were willing to take penalties to get their subs into the game. It was the year collegians outdrew the pros?when attendance in the Big Ten averaged 59,000 a game to 49,000 in the National Football League. And, most of all, this was Ara Parseghian's year...
...FOOTBALL?...