Word: nfl
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...American people have spoken on that issue. But I loved campaigning. Everywhere you go, people are saying, "Go, Pat, go!" It's like the NFL play-offs, and you're captain of one of the teams. But as [British politician] Enoch Powell once said, "All political lives end in failure...
...NFL Commish Tagliabue hangs up his spikes Roger Goodell, the National Football League's chief operating officer and a 24-year league vet, was elected to succeed commissioner Paul Tagliabue, who will retire before the season begins Sept...
Heath Shuler, an ex-NFL quarterback who lives in North Carolina, resisted Emanuel's entreaties because, Shuler said, he was worried that a race would stop him from spending time with his family. Emanuel started barraging Shuler with several phone calls a day last summer, leaving messages like, "Heath, Rahm. I'm taking my kids to day care." The implication: You can do it too. Shuler signed up for the race, and polls show he's already even with Republican Charles Taylor in the Asheville district. Emanuel's army includes a sheriff, a former FBI agent and several Iraq...
...stayed around mostly because two of its founders, Lamar Hunt and Phil Anschutz, kept it afloat (unlike the women's professional league, which disappeared last year). Hunt, an oilman who also owns the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs, and Anschutz, an oil and technology entrepreneur who owns too many things to count, have had a burning passion for the game that has consumed better than $100 million of their money. Hunt owns three and Anschutz four of MLS's 12 teams. The original idea was to unload all but one each as the franchise values increased. That was 10 years...
...abusive, alcoholic father, the death of his mother during his senior year of high school, and a poor upbringing meant plenty of hardship for Kacyvenski, whose story has been fodder for numerous national newspaper pieces and a segment on NFL Films...