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International players who had an impact in the NFL in 2020
The 2020 NFL regular season came to its scheduled conclusion last weekend, somehow miraculously surviving a major disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic. When the...
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Browns don’t practice again as COVID-19 wreaks havoc on team
By Tom Withers CLEVELAND (AP) — Baker Mayfield hasn’t thrown a football in four days. The Browns haven’t practiced this week. Cleveland’s return to the...
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Historic African Flag Ladies Cup kicks off January 8
Flag football tournaments are soaring in popularity throughout the world and the latest entry is the first ever African Flag Ladies Cup, AFLC, set for...
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German Football League’s Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns sign DB Monteze Latimore
Four-time German Football League champions, the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns, have signed defensive back Monteze Latimore for the 2021 season. The 6′, 190 pound, 26-year-old from...
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Maximilian Pircher: The rapid rise of Italy’s next great lineman
Two years ago, 19 year old Italian, Maximilian Pircher showed up to try out for Austrian powerhouse, the Swarco Raiders. The 6’7″, 300 pounder had...
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Bielefeld, Germany’s Niklas Gorny scores success in Poland
Earlier this past summer, the American Football Federation of Germany was forced shut down all football due to the pandemic. For German quarterback Niklas Gorny,...
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No place like home? Host advantage vanished in year of virus
By Dave Campbell For the eight NFL teams guaranteed to host at least one game in the playoffs this month, the comfort of familiar surroundings...
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Cruel twist: Browns lose coach for playoffs due to COVID-19
By Tom Withers CLEVELAND (AP) — Amid a masked, muted celebration in the locker room after the Browns ended the NFL’s longest playoff drought, coach...
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France’s Yoann Miangue: Kicking at the NFL’s door
Taekwondo is a sport that requires athleticism, strength, strategy, quick hands and feet, and of course tenacity. Not so different from playing defensive line. France’s...
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Jacob Templar: Germany’s unlikely Aussie All Star
On September 27th 2019, the German Football League released its list of All Stars. The Hildesheim Invaders, coming off an excellent season, had seven players named...
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And then there were two – Chinese semifinals produce one winner and a COVID-19 finalist
The finish line for the Chinese National Football League 2020-2021 season is fast approaching, although the semifinals produced only one winner. The outcome of the...
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Hungary: Fehervar Enthroners sign Jaime Hill as new head coach
The Hungarian Football League’s reigning champions, the Fehervar Enthroners, have signed Jaime Hill as their new head coach. Hill replaces Jim Ward. A San Diego...
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Bernhard Seikovits: another chance at his NFL dream
Some people say America is the land of second chances. Austrian Bernhard Seikovits hopes NFL scouts see it that way. The 23-year-old Vienna native has...
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AFI’s All Pandemic Team – The Full Squad
In case anyone missed it, throughout December we presented our picks at each position for the AFI All-Pandemic Team. Since late July, leagues in Finland,...
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Kadel King: Chasing his football dream on two continents
Wham! The sidelines erupted as 6’3′, 230 pound Mallorca Voltors linebacker Kadel King slammed into the Murcia Cobras ball carrier, sending him flying in Spain’s...
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On Football: From 2020′s best play to its weirdest moment
By Barry Wilner The Associated Press will hand out its individual NFL awards on the night before the Super Bowl in Tampa. Until then, here...
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AFI’s Top 5 Stories of 2020
It goes without saying that the story of the year was not one but all the stories related with the COVID-19 pandemic which has ravaged...
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Chris Jeffrey-Griggs: Off the beaten the path
The sound of the Danube’s flowing waters and the ringing of the Petrovaradin Clock Tower might be have been taken for granted by locals of...
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Impressive numbers earn Germany’s Aaron Donker a spot in the NFL International Player Pathway Program
The numbers are head turning. 6’2″, 240 pounds, 4.46 40-yard dash No, these are not the combine numbers from the NFL’s leading rusher, Derrick Henry....
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Darius Lewis returns to Carlstad, his “new home” in Europe
On October 24, as the clock showed all zeros, Sweden’s Carlstad Crusaders stormed their home field embracing each other after winning the 2020 Swedish Championship,...
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Liberty’s NT Ralfs Rusins set sights on NFL after succeeding as the NCAA’s lone Latvian
The year 2020 has been a year of surprises in college football but when tiny Liberty University toppled undefeated No. 12 Coastal Carolina in the...
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NFL International Pathway Program picks 11 new candidates
The NFL has announced the names of 11 athletes from nine countries who will compete for a spot in the 2021 International Player Pathway Program....
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Ashley Bailey: Growing as a player from Sandwell to the German Football League
In signing with the Allgäu Comets of the German Football League recently, young British quarterback Ashley Bailey was joining his seventh European team since playing...
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Special teams in focus as Teams Talk builds momentum during pandemic
When the ball drops on New Year Eve, millions of people all over the world will begin their annual quest for self-improvement but for many...
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COVID-19 changed NFL in 2020 and some shifts are permanent
By Arnie Stapleton Through plenty of potholes, seas of empty seats and enough piped-in crowd noise to make broadcasts sound like sitcom laugh tracks, the NFL...
