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College football fans everywhere are excited about the upcoming changes to the sports post-season. The new College Football Playoff will start in the 2014-15 season. Here is how the playoff is expected to work:

Teams

A selection committee will pick and seed the four teams that will participate in the playoff. The group in charge of the College Football Playoff has yet to determine how the selection committee will be structured, but are currently expected to use the following criteria to determine the four teams: regular season performance, strength of schedule, head-to-head results, and championships won.

Semifinal Rotation & Games

The semifinal games will rotate between the following six bowls:

• Sugar Bowl
• Rose Bowl
• Orange Bowl
• Cotton Bowl
• Chick-fil-A Bowl
• Fiesta Bowl

When the bowl is not the site of a semifinal game, it will be the location of four matchups for eight other teams.

Each year, the semifinal games will take place during the New Year’s holiday. One semifinal game will match the #1 seed against the #4 seed and the other will be between the #2 seed and #3 seed. The winners will advance to the National Championship Game.

National Championship Game

The National Championship Game will take place at least a week after the semifinal games on a Monday night. Each year, a different U.S. city will be selected to host the National Championship Game.

First College Football Playoff

The first College Football Playoff is only 600 days away. The Sugar Bowl played in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana and the Rose Bowl held at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California will host the semifinal games on Thursday, January 1^st for the 2014-15 season. The National Championship Game will take place on Monday, January 12^th in Arlington, Texas at Cowboys Stadium.

To learn more about the College Football Playoff, visit their website: http://www.collegefootballplayoff.com/.

Tags: Chick-fil-A Bowl, college football, College Football Playoff, Cotton Bowl, Cowboy Stadium, Fiesta Bowl, National Championship Game, Orange Bowl, Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl

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Do you suffer from back pains or have recently had a back injury? Athlete or not, it is important to provide support to and immobilize the back to protect it from injury. Consulting a doctor after getting back pain is important to determine the cause of the pain, especially since untreated injuries can become worse over time. Back braces are sometimes prescribed as a solution to back pain problems.

Below are some points that show the importance of back braces.

Importance

a. Immobilization: Braces restrict the movement of the back reducing further damage to an injury site. Traumatic injuries to the back such as fractures require the back to be immobilized for a while to aid the recovery process. Braces meant to immobilize the back are usually designed to restrict the flexing, rotating and extension of the back.

Continue reading “When Should You Use A Back Brace?” »

Tags: athletes, back brace, back braces, back pain, injuries, injury

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People think catching a football is an easy task for a football keeper, which is not at all true! Although it looks quite easy from a distance, if you watch quite closely and get to know about the tactics of catching a football, you will definitely find it a very tough job to do.

In football, it is mandatory to learn how to catch a football. It is considered the most significant technique which must be mastered by every keeper while playing the game. If you possess extraordinary skills of catching a football, then you probably will never fumble the ball while dodging the opposing players.

Continue reading “Keeper’s Tips For Catching A Football” »

Tags: American football, college football, Football, football tactics, how to play football, pro football

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Or at least, we think so. The story broke yesterday afternoon after this Deadspin article was released, and since then, the news and social media has been abuzz with different aspects of the story. Perhaps he was in on it, but there’s a chance he wasn’t. Some people believe he had a hand in creating the tragedies to put him in a good position to win the Heisman (what better story than persevering after the loss of a girlfriend and grandmother?). Right now we’re kinda giving the poor guy the benefit of the doubt. At least the grandma was real.

What’s most amazing to me is how much the media messed up. They posted screenshots of her tweets, reported the story an awful lot, and didn’t do much fact-checking. It’s pretty crazy how many people get away with creating fake profiles that are believable, but honestly, there are ways to check to see if the person behind the profile is indeed who they say they are. Deadspin came out with another article about how much the media really messed up.

Continue reading “Manti Te’o: Catfished” »

Tags: Catfish, Deadspin, football scandals, girlfriend hoax, hoax, identity theft, Internet, Manti Te'o, NCAA football, Notre Dame, scandals

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Think of any top sport in the United States. What draws you to that sport? Does it have non-stop action? Does it involve superior athleticism, including agility, speed and brute strength? Does it involve a huge, loyal, enthusiastic crowd cheering their team onto triumphant victory? Are you answering “No” to any of these questions? If you are, chances are you’re watching the wrong sport. I’m talking about football and clearly, it’s the sport to watch.

Here are five reasons why American football is the most awesome sport in the word:

1.     Tailgating. It can be done in almost any circumstance- rain, shine, day or night. The entire point is to have fun despite whatever the weather is doing. Tailgating at it’s best involves games, grilled food and a few beers to get ready for the fun of attending the game.

Continue reading “Five Reasons Why American Football Rocks” »

Tags: American football, coaching, college football, defence, fantasy football, Football, pro football, rivalries, tailgating

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Thanksgiving is next week, which means Christmas will be here before you know it. The earlier the shopping starts, the more often the better. For one, you can get some great deals on items and for two, you can get all your shopping over and done with before the masses start to hit the stores – both online and in-person.

If your significant other is an LSU Tigers fan, they probably cannot get enough fan apparel. Men typically are a bit easy to buy for, since a lot of apparel in supermarkets and malls is men’s fit. However, form-fitting fan apparel for women is a bit more difficult to find unless you live on or near a college campus. That’s where online shopping comes in.

Continue reading “Christmas Ideas for Your LSU Fan Girlfriend or Boyfriend” »

Tags: Christmas, Christmas gifts, LSU, LSU hats, LSU necklace, LSU Tigers, LSU Tigers gifts, LSU watch, snowman, Thanksgiving

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Oh, Michigan State. How disappointed are Michigan State fans right now? They have lost two home games and angered a lot of fans as well as ticket holders. They put up a fight on Saturday, but still managed losing to Ohio State.

One of the events getting media attention lately involved MSU fans booing their own team during the Eastern Michigan game. At halftime, Eastern Michigan was beating MSU with a score of 7-3. There’s no question fans expected an easy win for MSU out of that game and they were frustrated. Although they won the game, the boos caused some lasting upset for players and MSU’s head football coach Mark Dantonio.

Continue reading “Booing Your Own Team: What’s Your Take?” »

Tags: booing, college football, college sports, Eastern Michigan, Football, Michigan State, MSU, Ohio State, OSU

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The Bill Cowher era

In 1992, Chuck Noll left and was did well by Kansas City Chiefs defensive coordinator Bill Cowher, a native of the Pittsburgh suburb of Crafton.
Cowher directed the Pittsburgh Steelers to the playoffs in each of his first six times of the year, a feat that had been carried out only by famous adviser Paul Brown of the Cleveland Browns. Overall, Cowher directed the Pittsburgh Steelers to the playoffs in 10 of his 15 times of the year, encompassing an look in Super Bowl XXX on the power of the “Blitzburgh” protecting against at the end of the 1995 season. However, the Steelers lost to the Dallas Cowboys. Cowher made the franchise’s record-tying fifth Super Bowl win in Super Bowl XL over the National Football Conference champion Seattle Seahawks 10 years later. With that triumph, the Steelers became the third group to win five Super Bowls, and the first sixth-seeded playoff group to come to and win the Super Bowl since the NFL amplified to a 12-team post-season tournament in 1990.

Continue reading “Steelers History Lesson, Part 2” »

Tags: Bill Cowher, Dallas Cowboys, Football, History, Mike Tomlin, NFL, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Steelers, Sports, Super Bowl, Super Bowl XXX

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The Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL first took to the paddock as the Pittsburgh Pirates on September 20, 1933, suffer forfeit 23–2 to the New York Giants. Through the 1930s, the Pirates not ever closed higher than second position in their separation, or with a record better than .500 (1936).Pittsburgh did make past files in 1938 by noting Byron White, a future Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, to what was at the time the largest bond in NFL history, but he acted only one year with the Pirates before noting with the Detroit Lions. Prior to the 1940 time of the year, the Pirates renamed themselves the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Continue reading “Steelers History Lesson, Part 1” »

Tags: Chuck Noll, Football, History, Jack Ham, Joe Greene, Lynn Swann, Media, Mel Blount, National Football League, NFL, Pittsburgh Steelers, Playoffs, Sports

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Tags: college football, Football, NCAA football, top 25

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