Alan Truex: Jaguars’ Blake Bortles gets no respect but keeps winning
Seems to me the NFL postseason peaked last weekend. Of course it’s too much to ask for Championship Sunday to
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Alan Truex: Minnesota’s Case Keenum is the ultimate game manager
No quarterback wants to be a game manager. As Brett Favre put it: “Sounds like you’re trying not to lose
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Alan Truex: Harrison fills Patriot needs, makes them Super Bowl favorites
Pro football’s postseason tournament begins this weekend with no truly dynamic team and one, the eternally cursed Buffalo Bills, that
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Alan Truex: With quarterbacks slumping, Todd Gurley takes a run at MVP
This NFL season has been the most disappointing in years. TV ratings down double digits, fans turned off by rules
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Alan Truex: Texans may lose a good coach, Bill O’Brien, by staying with Rick Smith
HOUSTON — Even before the Houston Texans lost 45-7 to Jacksonville, there was media buzz about the jeopardy their coach
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Alan Truex: Carson Wentz was the quarterback of the future. Now the future is murky
NFL teams crave mobile quarterbacks. They just don’t want them to run very often. So we see an inherent contradiction,
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Alan Truex: Can Jimbo bring a national championship to long-frustrated A&M?
LLANO, Texas – Jimbo Fisher was a great football coach. For seven years. His Florida State Seminoles were nationally ranked
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Alan Truex: The Iron Bowl turned college football upside down
Remember when the College Football Playoff was going to ensure that the championship team would be one of America’s four
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Alan Truex: Can NASCAR’s likable new champion turn around a skidding sport?
After steadily losing popularity for more than a decade, stock-car racing may take heart from a championship race with a
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Alan Truex: In the Golden Age of Team Owners, Mark Cuban can be president
One of the criticisms of Hollywood’s celebrated takedown of the NFL, North Dallas Forty, is a scene in which a
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