Super Bowl 2011: The Big Game Gets Bigger Every Year

In a recent article about the “Never Missed A Super Bowl Club,” one of the members said Super Bowl I cost him less than $100, and that included money spent on his date and travel.  Accounting for inflation, the numbers still don’t add up when the cost of one of the cheapest tickets just to [...]

Jets and Patriots Are More Alike Than Portrayed

From inside the conference room at his Rockefeller Center office last week, Woody Johnson projected confidence and calm. On Monday night, his Jets play the Patriots in Foxborough, Mass., and with both teams boasting identical and league-leading 9-2 records, this marked perhaps the most important regular-season game in Johnson’s tenure as the team’s owner. To [...]

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 [...]

NFL Quarterback

Too many NFL quarterbacks are getting hit. Too many NFL quarterbacks are getting hurt. That position is the focal point for both offense and defense on Sunday afternoons. He is the franchise. The offense must keep him upright to have a chance at victory. The defense must knock him down to have a chance. Sixteen [...]

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 [...]