Dave Golokhov has written for Playboy.com, BETUS Sportsbook, Sportsfanmagazine.com, FOX, Askmen.com, Sports-central, and the FOXSports.com Funhouse.
Like the car company that the team’s stadium is named after, the New Orleans Saints have the power to take it from 0-60 in seconds when playing at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, and have proved it with four straight wins to open the home portion of their schedule.
This was definitely a game that Kansas City Chiefs’ quarterback Matt Cassel had circled on his calendar when the NFL regular season schedule was released. That will only make it tougher for him to watch as his current team looks to get back on track against his former team with a trip to Foxborough to face the New England Patriots.
How many experts projected that after clinching the Wild Card in the final game of last season and peaking in the postseason on their way to a Super Bowl championship, the Green Bay Packers would be even stronger when they returned to the field this season?
When an established NFL contender loses consecutive games, there is a sense that a specific aspect of their game has gone wrong and that once that problem is corrected the team will carry on as a true Super Bowl threat.
No home-field conference losses since 1998. No home-field losses since 2005. A 35-game home-field winning streak. No halftime deficits faced since 2007. Three perfect regular seasons in the past five years.
There’s an outside chance that the Iowa State Cyclones could make the Oklahoma State Cowboys sweat on Friday night in a contest that, unexpectedly, has national championship implications.
When the New England Patriots watched Eli Manning and the New York Giants march down the field and steal the game from them in a fashion eerily similar to the 2008 Super Bowl, it was as though the levee finally broke.
It wasn’t very long ago that when the Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings met, it was a battle between two future Hall of Fame quarterbacks, with the intriguing sidebar of mentor versus student and all of the excitement that went down in Wisconsin along the way. For years it was Aaron Rodgers learning behind Brett Favre in Green Bay.
If there was ever any doubt about the importance of a quarterback to his team in the NFL, then this weekend’s matchup between the Washington Redskins and Miami Dolphins is the perfect illustration to reinforce that theory.
After gutting out an ugly 24-17 win last week at Wake Forest, Notre Dame travels to FedEx Field to take on Maryland. The Irish shut out the Demon Deacons in the second half last week to claim the win and move to 6-3 on the season.
There’s ample of history in this game for two teams who have never been in the same conference before… and will only be in the same conference for this single season, since TCU will head to the Big 12 next year.
Do not look now, but the Philadelphia Eagles are heating up. For all of those critics that bashed the “dream team”, we could very well be witnessing the same thing that NBA fans saw with the Miami Heat team that went to the NBA Finals a year ago.
Regardless of records or importance, there is no NFL rivalry quite like when the Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers get together on the gridiron.
After its first-ever conference game against Air Force, Boise State used a valuable bye last week to regather its strength before traveling to Las Vegas to play UNLV this weekend.
Last year, the Miami University RedHawks enjoyed a magic carpet ride of a season under then-coach Mike Haywood.
The Temple Owls and the Ohio Bobcats have been at the forefront of the race for the Mid-American Conference’s East Division title the last few years.
