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Drew Brees Still Has Two Milestones To Eclipse 28 Dec 2011 | 05:34 am
Last night, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees broke Dan Marino’s single-season NFL passing record in a blowout win over the Atlanta Falcons. Marino set the old record of 5,084 yards with the M...
Does The Europa League Matter Now? 9 Dec 2011 | 05:37 pm
I’ve written in the past about searching for meaning in trophies, and whether winning a competition — any competition — means more to top-flight clubs than the financial windfall that comes with finis...
A Photo Five Years In The Making 22 Nov 2011 | 05:44 am
It took five full seasons and a whole lot of grief, but last night, Major League Soccer finally got the photo it had wanted for so long: David Beckham, the most famous footballer on the planet — whic...
International Rules Football Is A Dog’s Game 28 Oct 2011 | 12:00 am
Yesterday, our pals at Dirty Tackle decided to highlight a Copa Sudamericana match in which a dog invaded the pitch and held up play for 3 minutes. The suggestion that this dog might have been “the mo...
USA Eagles Earn First Rugby World Cup Win Since 2003 16 Sep 2011 | 05:03 am
While most of you were paying more attention to the Philadelphia Eagles, a completely different team of Eagles beat the Russians 13-6 in New Zealand. That win was the USA Eagles’ first Rugby World Cup...
Join the Dave’s Football Blog Fantasy Champions League, Sponsored by SoccerPro.com 10 Sep 2011 | 01:52 am
Right. I promised you a Fantasy Champions League competition this year, and that’s exactly what I’m going to give you. Dave’s Football Blog is officially opening its 2011-12 Fantasy Champions League ...
Want to Watch the Rugby World Cup in America? Pay Up or Find a Pub 8 Sep 2011 | 02:23 am
If you need any further proof that the 2011 Rugby World Cup lacks any pull in the USA, just examine the television coverage. Universal Sports, the barely-known over-the-air digital channel that accom...
Football Is Still What We Make It 10 Aug 2011 | 12:30 am
The best thing about football is that we can play it any way we want it. This is also the worst thing about football. That’s because fans have this nasty tendency to prattle on about the superiority ...
Join the Dave’s Football Blog Fantasy Premier League, Sponsored by SoccerPro.com 8 Aug 2011 | 05:02 am
Have we reached the point in our civilization where our favorite football games exist only so we can play our own games on top of them? If the NFL lockout were still going on, would we have missed our...
NFL Owners, Players Sort It Out 26 Jul 2011 | 10:30 am
NFL football is back. Technically, of course, NFL football never left, as this all happened from March to July, but even that thought didn’t piss on the parades of gridiron fans today as NFL commissio...
