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America’s Game
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The art, violence, mystery, and failure of the XFL

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The Wood Chipper
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How the National Football League shops for players

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Common Cause
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By Alix Rule. Rule is a doctoral student in sociology at Columbia University.

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Questionable Ball

From an investigative report commissioned by the National Football League and released in May. The league hired Exponent, an engineering-consulting company, to determine whether footballs used by the New England…

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New Books
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In the year 564 b.c., a pankratiast named Arrichion stepped into the ring at the Olympic games. Pankration was a nasty mélange of wrestling and boxing, very popular with the…

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Not Everyone Can Be a 49er
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How Arena Football League players fare in the NFL

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The blind man and the elephant
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Stevie Wonder, the Rolling Stones, and thousands of overweight teenagers party in the ruins of Detroit for Super Bowl XL

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Field Goal
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A Punt Is a Pass Is a Kick
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Sportswriting made really, really easy
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The giant in the tube
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