American Football

In the mid-1960s, George Plimpton talked his way into the Detroit Lions pre-season training camp and in doing so set the bar for participatory spor...

Pat Tillman was well-known to American sports fans: a chisel-jawed and talented young professional football star, he was on the brink of signing a ...

Buryl Baty (19241954) was a winning athlete, coach, builder of men, and an early pioneer in the fight against bigotry. In 1950, Baty became head fo...

The 1970 merger between the American Football League and the National Football League laid the foundation for a stronger brand of gridiron compe...

Each year, more than 575 awards and trophies are presented to college football players and coaches around the country. This comprehensive refere...

A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER One of the best insider-football books ever written. --Douglas Brinkley A riveting chronicle of Michigan''s ...

ESPN's Sal Paolantonio takes readers inside the Eagles' improbable 2017 season, one which culminated in the franchise's long-awaited first Super Bo...

The USC Trojans football program has been one of the winningest and most recognizable college football teams to ever play the sport. There have bee...

The 2003 Army football team achieved futility in major college play that might never be equaled, losing all 13 of its games. The squad that took th...

Savor stories from generations of Lone Star football. Here are tales from under the Friday Night Lights: Future Hall of Famer Drew Brees never got ...

In 1927 Cuban national Ignacio S. Molinet was recruited to play with the Frankford Yellow Jackets of the old NFL for a single season. Mexican natio...

The All-American Football Conference was the only challenger to the NFL (except for the American Football League of the 1960s) to survive more t...

College football teams today play for tens of thousands of fans in palatial stadiums that rival those of pro teams. But most started out in humb...

Football is an unmistakable part of the culture of Penn State, though the experience of a Nittany Lions home gamefrom the crowds and tailgates to t...

I guarantee it. Three days before the now-legendary 1969 Super Bowl III, quarterback Joe Namath promised the nation that he could lead the New Yo...

This book is a complete guide for using Creative Attacking Play against teams that defend within the middle or defensive third. Learn the tactic...

The New England Patriots are one of the most successful teams in the NFL, with five Super Bowl championships and a perpetual playoff presence. Auth...

Anne was one of five women who reported to police that they were either raped or assaulted -- in incidents from October 2009 to April 2012 -- by a ...

The All-America Football Conference and the National Football League battled for supremacy from 1946 through 1949. In the end, the players from ...

Of the many storylines to the Patriots' incredible 2016 season, the continuing domination of the team's star wide receiver Julian Edelman was one o...

With the most victories and highest winning percentage in college football history, the University of Michigan Wolverines have a long and storied h...

From the No.1 bestselling author of This Town comes a thrillingly raw and hysterical account of the billionaires, crooks, charlatans ...

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of America's greatest game. From its inauspicious beginnings as 'The First World Championship Game between the AFL...

Under the leadership of head coach Bump Elliott, the 1964 Wolverines won Michigan's first Big Ten championship since 1950 and their first Rose B...

In Super Bowl XLVIII, the Seattle Seahawks triumphed over the Denver Broncos to secure the franchise's first championship. This commemorative editi...