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On the phone with Ron Rivera, I brought up the 2015 season — and its conclusion. If you don’t remember, the Denver Broncos beat the Carolina Panthers 24-10 in Super Bowl 50. Rivera, now the Cal Bears’ GM, was the Panthers' head coach. A decade later, the fine details of that game remain vivid in his mind. Rivera mentioned an incompletion to Carolina receiver Jerricho Cotchery that he felt was […]

Mossing cornerbacks down the sideline. Throwing nasty stiff arms to gain a few extra yards. Juking helpless defenders in space, making them whiff on tackles. The NFL’s best offensive skill players do these things at a higher clip than everyone else. Quarterbacks, of course, are the most important players and franchise faces, but it's the skill guys around them who create most of the highlights in the open field. So […]

The cold war brewing on the bayou has temperatures running hotter than a stovetop. Five days after SEC commissioner Greg Sankey took the stand in Baton Rouge, the SEC amended a complaint in an Alabama federal court Tuesday morning, disclosing the league will hold a meeting this week to "decide whether to terminate" LSU as a member of the SEC over its attempts to add former professional athletes to its football roster, […]