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Los Angeles Chargers to play at Farmers Field?

Reports are coming in from multiple sources that the new Los Angeles football stadium will be sponsored by Farmers Insurance and that the Chargers might play there. That the field has been approved and will be sponsored by Farmers is expected to be announced at Tuesday’s press conference.
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Super Bowl 45: Can’t ask for a more iconic matchup than this

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We are one week away from Super Bowl 45.
7 days. Roughly 160 hours. 9600 seconds.
Tick, tock.

Until two of the NFL’s most well-versed franchises square off for all the Lombardis.  Until two of the NFL’s biggest crown jewels do battle in the NFL’s shiniest palace.  Two old school teams, whose uniforms and colors harken back [...]

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Li Na, the first Chinese player to make it to a Grand Slam Final

“Tough to say how far I can go, but I always try as far as I can.”
MITCH BLATT
Li Na became the first Chinese player ever to make it to a Grand Slam Final last night when she beat number 1 seed Caroline Wozniacki in the Australian Open. Wozniacki has been slammed by the media [...]

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Just Retire, Al

The man who once helped spearhead the AFL’s historic merger with the NFL is now just old, and out of his freaking mind
BRAD CLARK
Special Contributor
(Clark started and writes for NFLsFuture.com)

In a week where the Super Bowl contenders were determined and a QB’s toughness was questioned, Al Davis went relatively unnoticed.  Al Davis is an enigma [...]

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JSB Exclusive: Our interview with Chris Gronkowski (The Audio)

Right in time for championship weekend we got ahold of Dallas Cowboys rookie TE Chris Gronkowski to talk family, football, collective bargaining, and everything and anything in between
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The odds of making it to the pros in any sport is slim to none.  Hence the NCAA’s long running commercials, “There are over 400,000 NCAA student-athletes, [...]

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JSB Exclusive: Our interview with Adonal Foyle (The Audio)

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You’ve read the interview (or maybe you haven’t) but here for the first time in it’s entirety is my chat with former NBA center Adonal Foyle.  Yup, now you can listen to the entire conversation, catch all the laughs, the highs, the lows, and any “umm,” I may have said.  The emotion always gets [...]

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NHL Guardian Project brings something interesting to hockey

MITCH BLATT
The NHL has found a great idea to bring interest to hockey: Unleashing each NHL franchise as a superhero!
They have partnered with Stan Lee to reveal one hero per day every day in January. We’re still waiting for 10 of the heroes to be unveiled, but the 20 they have so far look [...]

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As NFL lockout fight heats up, Players Association makes the first public moves

40 days to go to reach a new labor agreement.
MITCH BLATT
With 40 days to go until the NFL labor contract expires in March, the NFL players and the Players Association have started to heat up their publicity campaign this week. The NFL actually registered the domain NFL Lockout.com in 2009 but they didn’t post [...]

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