By: Ethan Tyrrell, KCOU Sports While it may currently be the most prestigious division in football, the NFC West was once better known as the NFC Worst. In 2010, before the arrival of Jim Harbaugh, Pete Carroll, Russell Wilson, and Colin Kaepernick, the division was a mess. After the dust settled in the final week […]
By: Jonathan Janas, KCOU Sports Almost halfway through the 2014-15 NFL season and I am finally morally allowed to start talking about the award races around the league. The Rookie of the Year Award race is heating up and is about to welcome a young star into the company of Cam Newton, Robert Griffin III, […]
By: Tyler Wornell, KCOU Sports Thursday Night Football ratings are on the rise, but it’s not because of the on-field product. According to zap2it.com, Thursday Night Football has nearly doubled its TV ratings since last year, and is achieving record highs since its inception in 2006. This is hard to fathom, especially considering the games […]
By: John Saltzman, KCOU Sports Jim Brown, OJ, Simpson, and Jamal Lewis; such an exclusive list of former NFL greats is nothing to scoff at. Before this season DeMarco Murray, the running back for the Dallas Cowboys, would be laughed at if he were included on such a list. However, Murray is on pace to […]
By: Ethan Tyrrell, KCOU Sports JaMarcus Russell’s story is no mystery to NFL fans. He was the first overall pick in the 2007 Draft and was anticipated to be a sensational quarterback. He quickly proved that this would not be the case. He got little playing time in his rookie season, and the time he […]
INDIANAPOLIS — I shuffled into a cab outside of the JW Marriott hotel just after 1 a.m. and immediately heard the cab driver sigh in exasperation. He remembered two years ago and the last time he’d been this busy. “Super Bowl week was great,” he said. “I’ve never seen so many people here in my life.” […]