Mar 12th, 2010 · Natalie Randolph, a 29-year-old biology and environmental sciences teacher, was introduced Friday as the coach of Washington, D.C.'s Coolidge Colts. She's believed to be the nation's only female head coach of a high school varsity football team.
Mar 12th, 2010 · Washington, D.C.'s H.D. Woodson High School has a new coach for its boys varsity football team: Her name is Natalie Randolph. Randolph could be the only female high school varsity football coach in the country. She discusses her new job.
Mar 11th, 2010 · The Hall of Fame defensive lineman went on to a successful career in sports broadcasting and commercials, as well as a continuing role on Little House on the Prairie. He was 69 and had been suffering from cancer.
Feb 8th, 2010 · Saxophonist John Ellis is not a football fan. But he does love New Orleans — he lived there for five years, and still works with musicians from the city. And last night, when he finally grasped that the New Orleans Saints had won the Super Bowl, he cried.
Feb 7th, 2010 · One thing football fans hear over and over again is that a team must run in order to be successful. You can't win in the NFL, TV experts still say, without a ground game. But that doesn't seem to be the case in the Super Bowl, and it doesn't seem to be the case overall in the NFL. NPR's Mike Pesca discusses the decline of the run as a means to victory.
Feb 5th, 2010 · In 1993, McDonald's aired a Super Bowl ad featuring NBA stars Larry Bird and Michael Jordan facing off on a basketball court — vying for a Big Mac. McDonald's is bringing back the ad, but this time NBA stars Dwight Howard and LeBron James are playing the fast-food challenge. We'll find out who wins that showdown — and the one on the football field — on Sunday.
Feb 4th, 2010 · When the Saints captured the NFC Championship two weeks ago, music roared from every neighborhood and spontaneous brass-band parades shut down streets: New Orleans rhythms exploded across the city in a way that seemed natural for celebrations of football glory. Now, you can hear 10 songs which typify the music in the New Orleans air right now.
Jan 25th, 2010 · A national coalition of women's groups called on CBS on Monday to scrap its plan to broadcast an ad during the Super Bowl featuring college football star Tim Tebow and his mother, which critics say is likely to convey an anti-abortion message.