Articles filed under Football
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Notre Dame prepares for powerful Ohio State defense in national championship gameJan 17, 2025 3:23 pm - Quarterback Riley Leonard and the Notre Dame offense have faced a fierce gauntlet of defenses in their path to the College Football Playoff title game.
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CFP championship by the numbers: Ohio State could give Big Ten 1st back-to-back titles since 1942Jan 17, 2025 10:57 am - The Big Ten could puff out its chest over having two of its teams in the College Football Playoff semifinals. The conference will have another point of pride if Ohio State beats Notre Dame for the championship Monday night.
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Which NFL offensive coordinator would make the best Bears head coach?Jan 16, 2025 7:13 pm - Bears general manager Ryan Poles has made it clear that he’s open to coaches of all backgrounds, but many of the names on his lengthy list have come from the offensive side of the football.
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Stage is set for Ravens’ Lamar Jackson to face Bills’ Josh Allen in divisional playoff at BuffaloJan 16, 2025 6:32 pm - The only thing Ravens coach John Harbaugh figures is missing in preparation for Baltimore's divisional round playoff showdown in Buffalo is having the deep and resonant voice of late NFL Films broadcaster John Facenda serve as narrator.
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Ohio State and Notre Dame built rosters the old-fashioned way, mixing in a few high-impact transfersJan 16, 2025 6:07 pm - Ohio State and Notre Dame have reached the same destination with rosters built much the same way. The teams set to play in the College Football Playoff championship game in Atlanta on Monday night sign elite high school recruiting classes year after year.
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Silvy: Maybe the Bears shouldn’t make a panic hire for a changeJan 16, 2025 6:00 am - The Bears got burned. Everyone knew it was time to move on, but the team doubled down, believing he could turn it around. And finally, after it was obvious with all of th...
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Johnson says he spent the last year preparing to be a head coach, but does he want the Bears job?Jan 15, 2025 5:54 pm - Ben Johnson is better prepared to take an NFL head coaching job than ever before. A big part of that has been spending the off-season, and really the past calendar year, approaching the game from a head coach’s mindset.
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Gould helped set a gold standard for football and other programs at St. Charles NorthJan 15, 2025 4:52 pm - Mark Gould, St. Charles North’s first varsity football coach, will be among those inducted in the first class of the school’s athletics hall of fame on Saturday.
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Notre Dame, Ohio State in uncharted territory: They're playing 16-game seasons for the 1st timeJan 14, 2025 6:14 pm - MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The year was 1894. Yale put together a football schedule that was daunting: Games on Wednesdays and Saturdays, basically every week from late Septem...
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Rams overwhelm Vikings 27-9 in wild-card playoff game moved to Arizona because of LA wildfiresJan 13, 2025 10:49 pm - GLENDALE, Ariz. — Matthew Stafford threw two touchdown passes and the Los Angeles Rams overwhelmed the Minnesota Vikings, sacking Sam Darnold an NFL playoff record-tying ...