Matt Chaney
"Slaughter of the Innocents": When D.C. Considered Banning High School Football
In 1909, one woman kicked off a heated debate in the nation's capitol, pitting skeptical educators against football supporters about whether the sport belonged in schools at all.
Teddy Roosevelt Loved Football, Except When It Brutalized His Son
President Theodore Roosevelt is remembered as an ardent football supporter, but his son Ted's high school and college playing injuries complicated his feelings about the sport's inherent violence.
'Living in the Dark Ages': Why Scientists Say the NFL's hGH Test Is BS
Thanks in part to John McCain, the NFL is adopting a scientifically dubious hGH test that many experts are openly bashing.