The Oakland Raiders appeared to have finally found at least modest success when Jason Campbell broke his collarbone earlier this month. Rather than resign to a disappointing fate or struggle with their backup quarterbacks on the roster, the franchise went out and acquired former Cincinnati Bengal Carson Palmer to pick up where Campbell left off. Will the questionable move pay off in the end for an organization desperate to “win now”?

It’s hard to truly describe the college football experience to an individual who has never witnessed, first-hand, a football campus on gameday. TheGP Football’s Josh Koebert took to the masses at Camp Randall to describe the Nebraska/Wisconsin clash from the fervid confines of the student section.

The Denver Broncos have two quarterbacks that were drafted in the first round of the NFL Draft, two quarterbacks who played for a pair of the most storied college football teams in the nation. One of those players has a Heisman trophy and two national championships, the other won the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award. […]

In a preseason game against the Chicago Bears on Aug. 22, the New York Giants lost their leading tackler from each of the last two seasons. He’ll miss the entire 2011 campaign. On the same play they lost the 2010 team leader in interceptions. That’s because cornerback Terrell Thomas was the leader in both. New […]

The University of Illinois football team has gone 28-45 since 2005. In that time the Fighting Illini have only finished higher than eighth in the Big Ten twice, including back-to-back seasons where they finished 11th and then 10th in the conference. 2005 is a significant year in documenting the team’s struggles, as that’s when Ron Zook was named head coach, a […]

Though now one of the NFL’s top defensive players – a ferocious linebacker who recorded 13.5 sacks, two forced fumbles and an interception with the 2011 champion Green Bay Packers – Clay Matthews III wasn’t even a starter for his high school team in Agoura Hills, CA. His father Clay Matthews Jr., a four-time Pro Bowl linebacker with 19 years of NFL […]

Big changes are coming to the increasingly inaccurately named Big Ten this fall. With the addition of the Nebraska Cornhuskers, the conference finally has enough members to divide into divisions and play a championship game. Over at Ohio State, head coach Jim Tressel is out after nearly a decade of success with the Buckeyes. Both of those developments are going […]

We are guaranteed professional football on Sundays this year, starting in August. And that has nothing to do with the National Football League. At the end of last season, the United Football League announced their intent to play on Sundays in anticipation of a work stoppage in the NFL, a plan they are sticking with […]

Between my sophomore and junior years of high school in 2006, my parents came to me and asked if I would be okay with a foreign exchange student living in our home for a year. I quickly agreed that it would be a wonderful experience, as did my little brother. That summer we received a […]

And then there were 12? Twelve teams in the increasingly inaccurately named Big Ten, that is. For the 2011 season, the Nebraska Cornhuskers will be joining a conference that was already saddled with a misnomer thanks to the addition of Penn State in 1990. In the process, they’ve made college football’s conference names look even […]