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...know the NFL has its share of problems, starting with a rap sheet longer than a Brett Favre bomb. Michael Vick and his dogfighting, Tank Johnson and his guns, Pacman Jones and his Vegas strippers, the Cincinnati Bengals and their voluminous arrests. But like it or not, in America the icons rule. With the Patriots and Colts so superior in the NFL right now, and Brady and Manning so much the face of those franchises, fans take a little pass on that other stuff. And just look at the other non-criminals at the top of their games...
...helmet tests out far better than existing models.” Cantu, one of Ferrara’s advisors and a leading expert on concussions in sports, said that Ferrara’s model is the most dramatic advance in helmet technology in 30 years. National Football League (NFL) and National Collegiate Athletic Association players are targets for the new helmet, Ferrara said. He and his team have already spoken with NFL representatives, though no specific plans have been discussed. Xenith has also contacted a limited number of college teams around the country. One of these teams is Harvard. Although...
...Something totally unexpected - a betting scandal, a riot, an Eddy Curry assist - is going to happen this season. Why? Because something unexpected always happens in the NBA. Yi Jianling could defect. Darko Milicic could justify the hype. Ron Artest could punch out a ref, or vice versa. If the NFL is the No Fun League, the NBA is the Never Bet Against it league. What - too soon...
...lucrative example both the NFL and NBA hope to emulate is the English Premier League, the world's most profitable soccer division. Like the NFL and NBA, the Premiership enjoys tremendous domestic support - league-wide attendance averaged 92% in 2006-2007. But it's the Premier League's global expansion model that has rivals drooling. "It wouldn't surprise me if one of the things that may have caught the eye of the U.S. sports is the massive increase in value of overseas rights deals," says Alex Byars, a senior manager in the sports business group at Deloitte, the business...
...NFL's plans for Europe aim at elevating the league to a similar level. But part of the mission Sunday was merely briefing prospective fans on the game's nuances. A recurring segment during television timeouts explained the finer points of the game - how to crouch in a three-point stance, for instance. Exuberance may have trumped insight among the crowd, but that shouldn't dim the league's optimism. Rather, it underlines the potential for growth...