Slate magazine published an interview April 30 with writer Malcolm Gladwell on the links between football and brain damage. Gladwell cited football’s link to head injuries as the most compelling reason to end college football. He also maintained that the culture of the sport is another reason to end it. The timing of Slate magazine’s [...]

I was raised with a powerful love for football and continued loving it years after the Los Angeles Rams broke my heart when they left for St. Louis. Since then, I’ve been a Green Bay Packers fan through and through, and somehow they’ve kept my love for the league alive despite the fact that the [...]

The Mannings. When most football fans hear those words, they know exactly who is being talked about. They have been called the royal family of football, and with good reason. Archie Manning played quarterback in the NFL for 12 seasons and had two sons that would succeed him and play that same position. Peyton and [...]

According to ESPN, a 29-year-old man became the first plaintiff to file suit against former Penn State football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky. The man, identified only as John Doe, accuses Sandusky of molesting him over 100 times and threatened to harm his family if he did not keep quiet. The lawsuit claims Sandusky abused the [...]

If you have ever been to a college football game, you understand. For any college that actually has a football team, football is a big deal, especially for a school like Penn State. Therefore, it seems understandable the students have erupted in such chaos after the firing of former Head Coach Joe Paterno. Paterno is [...]

More than a hundred students and faculty members showed up Friday afternoon for a special lecture called “Physics of Football” at Cal State Fullerton. This one-hour lecture was given by Physicist Tim Gay, known for his one-minute stadium lectures before thousands of University of Nebraska football fans, and shared his brand of science — the [...]

A professor who taught the largest physics class in the world, is visiting Cal State Fullerton to discuss the Physics of football. Professor Tim Gay, who taught the 78,000 fans that attended the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers home football games in Memorial Stadium. The discussion will be Dec. 3 at 1 p.m. at McCarthy Hall [...]

Now that Reggie Bush has given his Heisman Trophy back to the NCAA knowing that it would soon be stripped, I have mixed feelings about him. I commend him for finally taking some of the responsibility for this huge mess at the University of Southern California (USC). It was in fact, NBA star O.J. Mayo [...]