Father of Texans’ Cushing Stands Fast in Son’s Defense

Brian Cushing will play football Sunday at the Meadowlands, and his parents, Frank and Antoinette, plan to drive 20 minutes or so from their home in Park Ridge, N.J., to watch. They will sit with relatives of one of Cushing’s college teammates, Mark Sanchez. Cushing is a second-year linebacker for the Houston Texans, who will [...]

College Football Edition

Welcome to the 2010-11 edition of NCAA Football Marketwatch. The team at Sports Insights gives sports fans unprecedented insight into the NCAA Football point-spread market. If you ever wanted to know what was really happening on the sportsbook side, you now have an all-access pass with Sports Marketwatch! Every week we speak directly with the [...]

COLLEGE FOOTBALL MAILBAG

If it’s mid-October, and if the consensus preseason No. 1 team just lost, that can only mean one thing: That all other topics go out the window, and the Mailbag dost overfloweth with e-mails complaining about the polls. So, why is Ohio State a consensus No. 1? You picked on Nebraska’s résumé a couple weeks [...]

Back To Football

Every player, coach and fan is ready. The NFL returns this week. It’s “Back to Football” time. That means the next five months will be packed with the sizzle and suspense that comes only with the National Football League. Everybody is ready for the unique unpredictability of the NFL. And every team enters the new [...]

College Football Odds

College Football Odds: Handicapping the Big Ten Though it wasn’t always the sexiest college football conference to watch take the field in 2009, the Big Ten was one of the most competitive leagues in the land. The Ohio State Buckeyes reigned supreme in the Big Ten once again and went to the Rose Bowl, where [...]