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Ranking NFL team campaign contributions to federal elections

Manipulate the graph above by selecting or unselecting your favorite team. 19 NFL teams donated to federal campaigns over the

Saturday’s nation-wide Women’s March may have turned out to be this country’s largest nation-wide movement ever, and a number of

What to expect from the O.J. Simpson parole hearing July 20, 2017
Sometime Thursday, O.J. Simpson is expected to learn whether the Nevada Board of Parole will vote to free him in the fall or whether he will continue to serve a nine-to-33-year sentence for 12 convictions, including kidnapping and armed robbery, stemming from a 2007 sting operation in which he tried to recover sports memorabilia from […]
Cindy Boren
Vick/Kaepernick ‘hair’ issue sends Chris Long on a tweetstorm of strong opinions July 20, 2017
Michael Vick caused plenty of headlines by suggesting on Fox Sports 1 that Colin Kaepernick should get a haircut. He also caused Eagles defensive end Chris Long to embark on a multiday tweetstorm, one in which the 10th-year NFL veteran argued that Kaepernick’s skills easily merited a job in the league and scoffed at the “relevance” […]
Des Bieler
A Steelers rookie and cancer survivor has one of the hottest-selling NFL jerseys July 20, 2017
One of the hottest-selling NFL jerseys, right there with those of Tom Brady, Dak Prescott and Marshawn Lynch, belongs to a running back taken in the third round of April’s draft, eighth at his position and 105th overall. Of course, fans, especially those in Pittsburgh, do have good reason to feel strongly about James Conner. The Erie, […]
Des Bieler