ATLANTA: At the Super Bowl everything is under a microscope. Everything in and around the game is picked apart and scrutinized. So many of these playoff games and championships have turned on one play. Look at the New England Patriots dramatic finish in Super Bowl XLIX when Malcolm Butler intercepted Russell Wilson on the goal […]
LANDOVER, Md. – One of Pat Shurmur’s core beliefs is that individual players, even great ones, do not win football games. “Teams beat teams,” Shurmur said. “We came down here as a 4-8 team. I feel like we’re getting better.” That is indisputable after the beating they administered to the Washington Redskins Sunday afternoon in […]
The Giants are starting to get that winning attitude back and it is obvious they like it. It wasn’t eas y Sunday against the NFC North leading Chicago Bears. Big Blue collapsed in the final minutes letting a 27-17 lead evaporate over the last 1:49 left in regulation. The Giants defense seem helpless as former […]
The regular season is half over for many teams while a couple highly-ranked teams have fallen from the ranks of the unbeaten (Oklahoma and LSU). The top four represent the four teams I think would be in the playoffs if they started today. Here is the FootballStories Top 20 1 – Alabama (6-0) 2 – […]
The first Saturday of October is here. There’s a few key conference matchups (LSU-Florida and Texas-Oklahoma) but nothing like the Ohio State-Penn State battle. Here is the FootballStories Top 20 1 – Alabama (5-0) 2 – Georgia (5-0) 3 – Clemson (5-0) 4 – Ohio State (5-0) 5 – LSU (5-0) 6 – Notre Dame […]
Chester, PA – It took until overtime for Rowan to get a lead in their battle with Widener in the season opening game for both schools but once the Profs got it, they held onto it and scored an improbable 41-34 win at Leslie C. Quick, Jr. Stadium. Rowan’s Elijah Rehm had a pair of […]
PHILADELPHIA: It was an unusual post-game atmosphere after Sunday night’s Arena Football League playoff game between the Philadelphia Soul and Baltimore Brigade at the Wells Fargo Center in front of an announced crowd of 8,164 fans Neither team seemed particularly thrilled with how the game ended. Baltimore won the game 57-45 but left the Soul […]
Standout Penn wide receiver Justin Watson is the FootballStories Magazine College Player of the Year for the Philadelphia region. Also, he joins an impressive list of players from the regions 15 schools that compete on the gridiron on FootballStories College Football All-Star Team. The senior from Bridgeville, PA rewrote the record book at Penn and […]
Even before the Philadelphia Eagles – finally – won the Super Bowl to allow the city to join the exclusive club of cities that have won championships in the other three major sports and a Super Bowl (Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York are the others) Philadelphia had as rich a sports history as […]
It is refreshing to see people who have been blessed with success in life give back to their community. This is the case with orthopedic surgeon Dr. Sean McMillan and former major league baseball pitcher Brandon Duckworth. The two have teamed up to put together a program of information for parents and coaches regarding throwing […]
