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College Football 2011: Big Ten

Most conferences use geographical terms in naming their divisions like north and coastal but the Big Ten, not sure of their statement with Legends and Leaders. Whatever they choose as a moniker, of the TWELVE teams in the Big Ten, look for Nebraska and Wisconsin to take their respective division titles, but not without a fight. [...]

College Football 2011: SEC

Will the SEC will extend its streak to six straight BCS national championships? In the SEC West, Alabama is looking good despite the loss of solid starting quarterback Greg McElroy and 2009 Heisman winner Mark Ingram, and will look even better if senior linebacker Courtney Upshaw can overcome an ankle injury from last season. Junior running back Trent Richardson is Alabama’s key threat on offense as the offensive line returns four of five starters. Look for Nick Saban to roll his Tide through any opposition. [...]

College Football 2011: Big East

Certainly not one of the moré dominant conferences in college football, with an influx of new coaches (Pitt, Connecticut), more parity and bottom feeders like Louisville and Syracuse stepping up their game, the Big East hopes to trim back on the Big Least heckling of recent years. [...]

College Football 2011: Big 12

With Nebraska and Colorado bolting for the Big Ten and PAC-12, respectively the Big 12 will operate as 10-team league – at least for this year. Really just two less teams that won’t get past Oklahoma as the Sooners, with such explosiveness on both sides of the ball, I feel are poised to fight Alabama for the national championship. Missouri, Texas A&M, Oklahoma State and Texas will follow in the trail dust left by the Sooner Wagon. [...]

College Football 2011: PAC-12

The Pac-12 Conference boasts a pair of top 10 teams in the preseason USA Today Coaches Top 25 rankings with No. 3 Oregon and No. 6 Stanford. [...]

Ed Sabol Highlights Football Hall of Fame Induction Class

94-year-old former overcoat salesman from Philadelphia, Ed Sabol, in a long, long overdue tribute to the game of football will join the sport’s immortals this weekend after being inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The founder of NFL Films, who simply revolutionized how we experience the game, will be presented by his son Steve, NFL Films President who is battling brain cancer. [...]

NBC Is Ready for Some Football

With the flurry of programming announcements from NBC at the Television Critics Association (TCA) conference in Los Angeles touting mostly new dramatic, comedic and reality series, perhaps the most important was revealing plans for the highest rated prime time show in all of television, Sunday Night Football and using the powerful platform of Super Bowl XLVI to promote its new shows. [...]

NFL, Players Agree to New Collective Bargaining Agreement

National Football League owners and players have agreed to a new collective bargaining agreement ending the 136-day old lockout, the longest labor stoppage in league history. [...]

ESPN Classic To Become the New Cable Home for Friday Night Lights

Fans of the Friday Night Lights television series will once again be able to recapture the drama of the Dillon Panthers as ESPN will air the entire series with episodes set to premiere on July 12. [...]

Tribeca’s Endless Summer of Sports Movies

Tribeca, in partnership with ESPN Films, has announced a summer sale offering for the first time a handful of independent sports films to over 40 million homes via VOD. [...]