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A Jackson State football player went into cardiac arrest while at a hospital on Wednesday, February 15. William Vauls said his son, Kaseem, was experiencing stomach pains for two weeks before going to the hospital on Tuesday, February 14. He said Kaseem went into cardiac arrest on Wednesday, and doctors had to resuscitate him.

It's safe to say that University of North Carolina head coach Larry Fedora is not a fan of the trends in football. Fedora spoke to the media on Wednesday, saying "our game is under attack" and expressing a number of unpopular opinions, including the idea that football does not cause CTE. [snip] Fedora believes that rule changes involving the physicality of the game will make football "unrecognizable" within ten years.

This is a must read for both college and pro football fans. The best NFL coach of this generation has been friends for more than 30 years with the best college football coach, a fact that is remarkable but not entirely surprising. This is the story of a friendship that has made a lasting impact on the sport. They agreed to meet in West Point, N.Y., at a little hotel with a name neither can remember. For two men with deep connections to Navy, the locale was a surprising choice. All the better. This was in the late 1980s,...