The name of the first professional football player seems too perfect to be true. Pudge Heffelfinger sounds like a mythical Midwestern gridiron god more than a living, breathing human being. Heffelfinger’s fable is actually nonfiction fare. He was as real as the broken ribs he brutally delivered to a poor college kid while scrimmaging for kicks and giggles with the …
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Texas football head coach Steve Sarkisian named highly touted sophomore Arch Manning as the starter heading into the Longhorns‘ Week 4 matchup with Louisiana Monroe. Manning did not start in any games during his freshman season, and Quinn Ewers was once again named the starter entering the 2024 campaign. Manning stepped in for Ewers after the quarterback suffered an abdominal …
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ESPN personality Peter Burns became teary-eyed during his show Monday when he recalled the moment aMissouri football fan stepped in to save his life after he began choking during dinner over the weekend. Burns, who joined the SEC Network in 2014, took a moment during the broadcast to thank a heroic bystander who jumped in to help when he began …
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Colorado Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders has never shied away from confronting members of the media, and on Tuesday, he took aim at certain reporters who he said were “envious and jealous” as the new landscape of college football has allowed players to make “more money than y’all.” During a press conference ahead of Colorado’s first Big 12 matchup in …
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Texas Longhorns quarterback Arch Manning seized the opportunity on Saturday when he was thrust into the game against UTSA following Quinn Ewers’ injury. Manning electrified the offense with a 67-yard rushing touchdown to go along with four passing touchdowns in the Longhorns’ 56-7 win. Manning’s wheels were something most fans hadn’t seen from someone with his football background. His grandfather, …
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The Ole Miss Rebels went on the road and shellacked the Wake Forest Demon Deacons on Saturday, 40-6, showing why they were considered to be one of the best teams in the country. Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin revealed afterward that Wake Forest decided to cancel their home-and-home contract that would have seen them head to Oxford, Mississippi, next …
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Former President Trump will be on hand for one of the most anticipated college football matchups in Week 5, according to political commentator Mark Halperin. Trump, the Republican candidate in this year’s presidential election, heads to Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa to watch the No. 4 Alabama Crimson Tide take on the No. 2 Georgia Bulldogs on Sept. 28. Both the …
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Florida Gators fans were not having a good time on Saturday as they watched their football team drop to 1-2 on the season with a 13-point loss at home against Texas A&M. ESPN broadcaster Jesse Palmer, who also was a quarterback at Florida, added insult to injury when he roasted a fan who was surrounded by several young women in …
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The Texas Longhorns entered Week 2 with a major test against UTSA and performed admirably as Arch Manning had to enter the game for an injured Quinn Ewers. In its aftermath, Texas was voted as the No. 1 team in the nation in the latest AP Top 25 college football poll. That’s just the tipping point of the weekend that …
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The Texas Longhorns may have to use Arch Manning as a starter for the first time in the redshirt freshman’s college career, as head coach Steve Sarkisian described Heisman candidate Quinn Ewers as “questionable” this week against Louisiana-Monroe, per Yahoo Sports. Ewers went down in the second quarter against UTSA with what Texas called a strained abdomen. Ewers was in …
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