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DIED. Lamar Hunt, 74, soft- spoken oil heir who founded the American Football League; in Dallas. Hunt enlisted fellow millionaires to start a new league in 1960, after the NFL refused to sell him a team. He became owner of the Dallas Texans and in 1963 moved the team to Kansas City, where it became the Chiefs. Hunt later coined the term Super Bowl for the big, season-ending match (the name came to him while he watched his daughter play with a Super Ball) and co-founded pivotal soccer groups, including the North American Soccer League and today...
ARIZONA CAN'T GRADUATE The Cardinals long bore the stigma of being the only NFL team to play on a college field (Sun Devil Stadium). Now it has its own turf, sporting the ironic name of a sponsor that paid $155 million: University of Phoenix Stadium...
...coach of the Denver Broncos—Mike Shanahan is.He’s the coach of a Denver team that sits at 7-4, tied for second in the AFC West and still poised to grab a Wild Card spot in the NFL playoffs less than six weeks away. And it was his decision to name rookie Jay Cutler the starter for the final five Bronco games, replacing the inconsistent, oft-criticized Jake Plummer at quarterback.Being from the Mile High City, it’s no surprise that I’m a pretty big Broncos fan. Besides...
...years of beaming data on the planet back to Earth-more than double its expected life "I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project." RUPERT MURDOCH, News Corp. CEO, announcing the cancellation of a TV interview with O.J. Simpson, the former NFL star acquitted in 1995 of murdering his ex-wife and her friend Ron Goldman. Murdoch also canceled Simpson's book, If I Did It "It is possible to use studio makeup to have a person look like me." ZAHRA AMIR EBRAHIMI, Iranian soap-opera star, denying that...
...three-time Super Bowl champ didn't just waltz through the competition. He shimmied, funky-chickened and Hammer-timed his way to the trophy. All the same, sports fan Jimmy Kimmel felt compelled to ask Smith whether this was "the gayest thing" he had ever done. The all-time NFL rushing leader fired back: "It's only gay for guys who think they can be gay by doing it." (Translation--we think: I'm comfortable with my manhood, so I'm comfortable with my shirt.) Smith urged others to get out of their safety zone and try something...