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It's that time of year again - the annual football spectacle. No, not the Super Bowl, but the 20th Scripps Howard Celebrity Super Bowl Poll. The rich and famous from movies, television, sports, politics and pop culture - like 30 Rock's Tracy Morgan, above - predict the winner of the Super Bowl between the Arizona Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday.

It was their shared view of how football should be played and the toughness it takes that convinced coach Mike Singletary to tab Jimmy Raye as the man to lead the 49ers on offense. Raye, 62, agreed Thursday night on the terms of a three-year contract as...

The secondary violations committed by new Washington football coach Steve Sarkisian and his staff in their first month of recruiting usually result in nothing more than administrative reprimands.

Before choosing to accept the Rhodes Scholarship he won, S Myron Rolle contemplated the implications a yearlong hiatus could have on his football career.

By CLARENCE E. HILL JR. Former Dallas Cowboys receiver ?Bullet? Bob Hayes died in 2002 of kidney failure.His grave in his hometown of Jacksonville, Fla., finally got a monument in 2007.But the legacy of Hayes, the only man with an Olympic gold medal and a Super Bowl ring, is not yet settled.And it won?t be until he reaches his final and rightful sports resting place ? the Pro Football Hall of Fame.So far Hall of Fame voters have snubbed Hayes despite his revolutionizing the NFL with his game-breaking speed. He was denied in 2004.Today, the ?World?s Fastest Man? from the 1964 Tokyo Olympics likely gets one final chance for glory.Hayes is on the Hall of Fame ballot as one of two candidates nominated by the seniors committee.Lucille Hester, his oldest sister who has taken up his fight for induction, is hopeful that the time has come for Hayes to be elected.?I?m so excited I can?t touch the ground,? Hester said. ?I would have loved for him to have had opportunity to witness something he w

Many intelligent football minds say the game is all about matchups and how coaches can exploits ones that are in their favor. We look at three potential game-deciding battles within the war.

For years, generations of Thomas Luck's family supported the University of Tennessee and its endeavors. But the Nashville lawyer on Friday squared off against his alma mater in a Nashville courtroom in a dispute over prime box seats at Neyland Stadium.

The flurry of changes for the St. Louis Rams continues with the hiring of Kevin Demoff as executive vice president of football operations and chief operating officer.Demoff worked as a senior assistant to the general manager at Tampa Bay the past three seasons. In St. Louis, he'll be responsible for all player contract negotiations and will serve as a liaison to ownership on football and business operations.

By now, Jay Cutler has become accustomed to the feeling of a football season ending without a championship. And he's sick of it.

Football Pools.com pundit John Barnes believes Robbie Keane will come good for Liverpool if he is given time