Winning the 2003 national championship in dramatic fashion with a 31-24 upset of top-ranked Miami in what many called the greatest college football game of all time undoubtedly ranks as one of the most memorable moments in OSU football history.
For more than 120 years, the University of Southern California Trojans have maintained a tradition of football excellence that has placed the team among the perennial elite in the collegiate ranks.
Ohio coaching legend Paul Brown said he wanted to create "e;the New York Yankees of pro football"e; when he assembled the Cleveland Browns from scratch in 1946.
To most of us "e;wash-ashores,"e; the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket are resort destinations, summer homes for the Kennedys, the Obamas, and--yes--Bill Belichick.
From the hilarious to the surreal, from inside the huddle to inside the broadcast booth, twenty-eight-year Seattle Seahawks veteran Steve Raible takes fans to places they never knew existed.
Back to the start and behind the scenes on the Dawgs recruiting trailThe University of Georgia boasts one of the nation's premier football programs, and the recruiting acumen of coaches like Kirby Smart plays a major role in that.
One the greatest NFL broadcasters distills the wisdom of two of the greatest coachesAs both a tight end and a place kicker for the 1958 Giants (back when special teams were part of the defense), Pat Summerall was the only person to be coached by both Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry, the team's offensive and defensive coaches, respectively.
They are known as "e;cupcake games"e;--lower division teams get paid to travel to college football Meccas where the hosts make a nice profit from an extra game.
From Art Modells founding of the Baltimore Ravens in 1996 to the decision to draft Ray Lewis and Jonathan Ogden, to victories in two Super Bowls in the past 15 years, the Baltimore Ravens short history has been full of highlights.
The West Virginia University Mountaineers and the University of Pittsburgh Panthers, separated by less than eighty miles of highway, have battled it out on the football field for more than one hundred years.
From "e;ankle breaker"e; to "e;zebra,"e; How to Speak Football includes over 125 football terms paired with amusing illustrations that decode the words and phrases that fly around the field.
In the first and only all-inclusive football fan's bucket-list book, author Steve Greenberg gives readers a full-color, full-speed ride through 101 must-see and must-do gridiron experiencesfrom high school to the NFL, from coast to coast, from must-have eats to the game's best seats, from the sport's greatest rivalries to its meccas and museums.
Under the leadership of head coach Bump Elliott, the 1964 Wolverines won Michigan's first Big Ten championship since 1950 and their first Rose Bowl since 1951, and finished fourth in the national college football polls.
A behind-the-scenes perspective on Fighting Irish historyAfter making his mark in the Notre Dame record books as a running back and later joining the school's athletic department, Reggie Brooks knows what it means to live and breathe Fighting Irish football.
This first-ever volume focusing on sports pulp fiction devoted to America's two most popular pastimes of the 1935-1957 era--baseball and football--provides extensive detail on authors, along with examination of key plots, themes, trends and categories.
The inspiring story of an unlikely Buckeye legend, in his own wordsIn the days before college football's first four-team playoff field was announced in 2014, there were doubts that Ohio State would even make the cut.
This reference work, updated since the 1997 edition, provides comprehensive information on the major professional leagues in North America--baseball, basketball, football, hockey and soccer.
Telling the story of LSU football through coverage of each of the Tigers' 50 bowl games--from 1907 through 2019--this book provides summaries of the team's regular season, and their opponents' season, along with quarter-by-quarter game highlights, important stats, and quotes from players and coaches.
In a follow-up to his Clearing the Bases-Sports Illustrated's book of the year for 2002-syndicated columnist Allen Barra turns his eye from America's pastime to America's passion.
Through 100 evocative, often stunning photographs, as well as the stories that accompany them, Sports Illustrated visits the great arc of football, America's most popular spectator sport.
As a powerfully built, third-year tight end with the Buffalo Bills, Kevin Everett had it all: a promising NFL future, a beautiful girlfriend whom he planned to marry, and an engaging personality that made him one of his team's most popular players.
This revealing look at the New England Patriots captures the stories of passion, power, and struggles of one of the most remarkable franchises in sports.
For the young men of Dunbar-the low-income, historically segregated neighborhoods of Fort Myers, Florida-avoiding the path that leads to easy money as a drug dealer often means choosing complete devotion to football and dreams of NFL stardom.
In every sport, in every country around the world, there are fans on the losing side who know that something other than skill and luck beat their favorite team or player.
