Greatest Super Bowl halftime show, Forget about Dre

‘Now all I get is hate mail all day sayin’ Dre fell off’

THE Super Bowl LVI half time show is being hailed as the greatest ever but the ultimate Super Bowl Sunday performance remains that given by Prince in a wild and wet Miami in 2007.

Amid all the stars to have played the 12 minutes between the second and third quarters of America’s biggest game Prince is still probably the most unlikely one to have agreed to it.

Few at Super Bowl XLI (41) however would have predicted that in 15 years time Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg would be the headline act.

American Football charges back into life in Hereford

“Wanna bring the 80s back/That’s OK with me, that’s where they made me at”

IT was July 11, 1980 something and me and my big brother were watching an American football game somewhere in Cardiff.

Back in the 1980s it appeared everywhere in Britain had an American Football team and the Birmingham Bulls were one of the most successful sides in the country. But it wasn’t just the big cities that had clubs it seemed every provincial town and even small cities, like Hereford, had taken up gridiron.

Fighting Irish weary of history repeating itself in the Holy War

Notre Dame unseated top ranked Clemson last weekend and now face Boston College 

Boston College wide receiver Zay Flowers Pic @BCFootball

NOTRE DAME has one of the most illustrious histories in college football but this Saturday will be weary of history repeating itself when it travels to Boston. 

Piecing together the College Football Play Off picture

This week is the first with all 10 conferences in action

THE final piece in College Football’s play off picture will emerge this weekend but it’s unlikely to prove to be the missing part needed.

Election and Covid cast a shadow over college football

College football has already featured in the election campaign and the sport is no longer ignoring the political contest

COULD college football play a decisive role in this Tuesday’s US Presidential election? The sport was dragged into the political battleground due to coronavirus which this week struck its biggest star.

The Big Ten is back

The battle for statues, axes and jugs kicks-off this weekend

SEVEN weeks after the season officially started some of college football’s most famous teams will finally take the field this weekend.

Nick Saban will dominate as Georgia visit Alabama

Saturday night’s match up pits two powers and college football’s coaching master against one of his many apprentices

HEAD coaches occupy a special place in college football as while players spend a short few years at their university coaching careers can last into the decades.

Showtime for Miami in Death Valley

Saturday night sees the Miami Hurricanes challenge number one ranked Clemson Tigers

DYNASTIES dominate college football in every sense, from the teams that define the ages, to how the sport venerates its most famed institutions.

Donald Trump can enjoy the game he ‘brought back’ from his hospital bed

DONALD TRUMP has famously spent most weekends during his presidency playing golf but this Saturday he is likely to have to settle for putting his feet up in front of the television.

The SEC: football’s ‘best conference’ tells the history of the South

This Saturday BT ESPN coverage features three games from the SEC ‘the best conference’ which tells the history of the old South

SATURDAYS in the South matter because it is where college football matters as do its traditions and customs but when does holding on to the past become a barrier to progress?