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Tuesday, Davis announced that for-mer Raider great Art Shell will be the team's new coach, replacing Mike Shanahan. Shell is the first Black head Coach in the 64-year modern history of the NFL...
...moment was indeed an historic one. Perhaps the NFL will finally get the clue that Blacks are just as qualified to coach as whites. But, as The Globe's Will McDonough so aptly wrote, "Art Shell is the first black head coach in the National Football League because he is a Raider...
...even with its electronic scoreboard flashing results from NFL games in progress, the field didn't quite measure up to the home turf, according to sophomore Brian Enge...
...first time in 39 years, placekickers are no longer allowed to use a tee on field goals and extra points in collegiate games, but must kick off the ground as NFL kickers currently do. The NCAA attributed the rule change to the constantly rising percentage of successful place-kicking since the 1970s, when soccerstyle kickers became predominant...
What athlete works in silence? Not baseball players. (Ask Kirk Gibson about his World Series home run.) Not basketball players. (Nobody shut up for Rumeal Robinson's Final Four-winning foul shots.) Not football players (Although the NFL now penalizes crowds that reach three-digit decibel levels, as well as quarterbacks who pretend they can't call signals when the decibel level is only 99.) What's that? No, golfers aren't really athletes. Just look at Craig "The Walrus" Stadler...