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With team rosters officially locking on August 8, the European League of Football has entered the home stretch after Week 8 offered some of the best gridiron action anywhere in the world this weekend.

There was […]

In the immortal words of Bonnie Raitt, let’s give ’em something to talk about.

That’s what quarterback Philip Juhlin and Team Sweden were hoping to do heading into the European Championship semi-final. They […]

Over the course of a career, an athlete can rack up any number of meaningful accomplishments. Statistical records will pad the ego. MVP awards will carve you a place in history. Championships will make sure that […]

International competitions always come with an added intensity, but there is nothing in sport quite like a national rivalry. A perfect mix of proximity and tangled history fueled by a healthy dose of patriotism […]

Parity. It’s the type of buzzword that is catnip to sports leagues everywhere, but over the first half of the European League of Football season, it didn’t look like they had much of it. Just three dominant teams […]

The Swarco Raiders have won four Austrian Bowls since Sean Shelton arrived in Innsbruck, but as he trotted around Tivoli Stadium clutching the game ball to his chest, it was clear that the fifth was […]

It has been said that managing a Canadian Football League roster is the toughest job in pro sports. While the NFL operates quite simply with the best athletes in the world at their disposal, a CFL team is a […]

If you are an athlete from the Netherlands, chances are that at some point someone has tried to dub you the Flying Dutchman.

It’s as lazy as it comes for sports’ nicknames, overplayed and unoriginal, but in the […]

Dacia Vienna Vikings versus Swarco Raiders. Winners of the 2020 Austrian title series against the 2019 Austrian Bowl champions. It might just be the best football rivalry in all of Europe.

Eight times since […]

What happened to the Swarco Raiders?

As the Austrian regular season wound to a close, that was the question everyone was asking.

Sitting second in the league, the 2019 Austrian Bowl champions looked as good […]

It seems only yesterday that the European League of Football kicked off its inaugural campaign, but in the blink of an eye we’ve reached the mid-way point of the regular season. If Week 6 is any indication of what […]

Running backs don’t matter.

If you’ve followed football at all over the last decade, it’s a phrase you’ve probably heard before. The belief, driven by data analytics, is that success at the running back […]

It takes a lot of things to make a good football team. You need quality coaching, defining stars, and reliable play in the trenches, but above all else a good team needs hope. A belief that no matter the […]

Canadian football is back and so are the pro football dreams of more than 30 international athletes fighting for a job through the CFL’s Global program.

High hopes for the league and its Global players were […]

This week, all the talk in the European League of Football was about All-Star games. Unfortunately, it wasn’t an all-star slate of matchups on the field.

As might have been predicted in a brand new eight-team […]

The Eidsvoll 1814s have signed a new quarterback for the 2021 season, bringing in a player that is no stranger to success in Norway.

Dustin Hawke Willingham, a self-described football nomad, returns to the […]

You never forget your first.

It’s a cliché so overused that it can hardly be written without an audible groan and accompanying eye roll, but when it comes to the result in Polish Bowl XVI, it could hardly be […]

There are plenty of storylines to watch heading into the Austrian playoffs and Sunday’s semi-final between the top-seeded Dacia Vienna Vikings and the 4-4 Projekt Spielberg Graz Giants has more than its fair […]

The Bydgoszcz Archers have put together an undefeated season for the ages, rolling through Poland with a purpose. Along the way, there have been victories large and small, but for quarterback Jake Schimenz, it’s […]

A lot can change over the course of two months, but you don’t have to tell Gabriel Losada that.

Rewind to mid-May and you’d find him pouring shots as a long-haired bartender back in Glendale, Arizona. On […]