Please welcome guest blogger and GoGameFace newcomer SHELLY MARIE JOHNSON (not her real middle name), and savor her Top 10 Observations about the game and all of the spectacular-spectacular that was this year's Super Bowl (2013). Drum. Roll. Please. 1. Jennifer Hudson killed it. Someone … [Read more...]
Saturday Sports Reader: Discovering the Atlanta Falcons
Tweet All of this national media attention being foisted on my hometown team, after a regular season of obsessing over the Giants, Jets, Redskins, Cowboys, 49ers, Eagles and Packers — and more or less in that order — is making me very, very nervous. The Atlanta Falcons have home field … [Read more...]
Indy Cheerleaders Go Bald for Coach Pagano
Since being diagnosed with Leukemia in September of this year, Indianapolis head coach Chuck Pagano has seen vast amounts of support from everyone in the Indy nation; fellow coaches, players, fans and this past weekend the cheerleaders added their support to the mix. Earlier this month … [Read more...]
An extra helping of Thanksgiving week’s best sports links
Tweet With college football rivalry games on the slate this weekend, The Wall Street Journal’s Matthew Futterman takes a long look at a signature event that’s threatened by continuing realignment, conference championship games and, starting in 2014, a four-team playoff for the national … [Read more...]
NFL Legend Carl Banks Talks Female Fan Gear & New G-III 4her Collection
Women account for more than 45% of the NFL viewing population so fan gear options must keep pace with a growing female audience. The league has made a concerted effort to target female fans over the past few years, as evidenced by the NFL’s dedicated women’s apparel campaign. Gameday … [Read more...]
CFB Suit-ables: Rivalries and Random Hugs
At first glance, Week 2 looked like it was going to be lackluster for college football. No signature games. Nothing to get us excited. Boy, did that change in a hurry. There were upsets galore. (Kudos to you if Louisiana-Monroe was on your radar prior to last Saturday.) Shuffling in apparent … [Read more...]
CFB Suit-ables: Of Penguins and triple-options
The opening weekend of the college football season offered thrilling wins and huge upsets. None may have been bigger than Youngstown State’s surprising win at Heinz Field. Alabama rolled over Michigan. A new Heisman candidate was born. One division title may have already been decided. And now, … [Read more...]
The haunting legacy of Art Modell
Tweet Art Modell wasn’t the first owner to relocate a storied professional sports team, and he won’t be the last. When he packed up the Cleveland Browns for Baltimore in 1995, he was moving them to a city that had had its Colts dispatched to Indianapolis in the middle of the night 11 … [Read more...]
Florida High School Student is First Female Quarterback
Erin DiMeglio is like a lot of teenage girls. She attends high school, babysits in her free time and has to do chores around the house. When it comes to sports though, Erin is a bit different. She recently became the first female quarterback in Florida history. Now, that’s pretty … [Read more...]
High School Notes: A Girl Quarterback, a Giant Screen and a Skunk
It was just a preseason game, but it was historic nonetheless for one Florida high school. With time ticking down in the fourth quarter of its game against Loxahatchee (Fla.) Seminole Ridge, Plantation (Fla.) South Plantation put its third-string quarterback in to finish the game. Nothing out of the … [Read more...]