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Revived USFL Announces Eight Teams for 2022; Birmingham a Possible League Host

The revived USFL, the much-celebrated spring football league from the early 1980s that is being brought back in an attempt to capitalize on nostaglia, has announced its inaugural eight teams that will have plenty of familiar names to those who used to follow the league. The eight teams will be the Philadelphia Stars, New Jersey […]

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Allegiant Stadium to Host 2021 Nevada High School Football Championships

The presence of a professional football stadium along the Las Vegas Strip continues to attract events to the home of the Las Vegas Raiders. The Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association has announced that the One Nevada Credit Union State Championship football games in three divisions will be played November 18 at Allegiant Stadium. The Class 5A […]

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Russ Brandon will serve as president of the XFL.

XFL Announces New Leadership Team

The XFL and its ownership group have announced a new group of executives that have been hired to lead the new version of the upstart football league owned by Dany Garcia, Dwayne Johnson and RedBird Capital Partners. The league intends to return to play in 2023. Joining the leadership team are several former NFL executives, […]

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L.A. Chargers Unveil Training Facility Plans

The Los Angeles Chargers have released plans for a 14-acre training facility and corporate headquarters in El Segundo, California, with everything from practice fields to an esports facility encompassing the site that has a targeted spring 2024 completion date. “When searching for a location to establish our hub of football and business operations, we didn’t […]

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Greg Sankey: Expanding the SEC, the College Football Playoff and NCAA Gender Equity

Greg Sankey has been the commissioner of the Southeastern Conference since 2015 and is generally regarded as one of the more powerful people in collegiate athletics, given the SEC’s dominance over college football. But Sankey’s career spans multiple regions and divisions across the NCAA, from working in Central New York as the director of intramural […]

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Seats at Fedex Field display the Washington Football Team logo during pregame warmups between Washington Football Team and Philadelphia Eagles in Landover, Maryland. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Washington Football Team Partners With Grubhub for In-Seat Ordering at FedExField

The Washington Football Team has announced the launch of its partnership at FedEx Field with Grubhub, the first time a professional sports property has partnered with Grubhub. As part of this partnership, Grubhub has a custom ordering experience for FedEx Field that fans through the Grubhub app or by scanning QR codes on the back […]

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Allegiant named Official Airline of the Pac-12 Conference

The Pac-12 Conference has announced a multi-year partnership with Allegiant Airlines,making it the league’s official airline partner in the Pac-12’s debut year at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas for the Pac-12 Football Championship Game. The multi-year partnership establishes Allegiant as the official airline partner of the Pac-12 Football Championship Game on December 3 as well […]

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Durham Sports Commission to Host 2021–2022 NAIA Football National Championships

The 2021 and 2022 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics football national championship games will be held in Durham, North Carolina, for the first time. The NAIA Senior Football Classic will also be part of the week’s events that will be hosted by the Durham Sports Commission. The game will be played at Willie Bradshaw Field […]

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The sun sets behind Allegiant Stadium, new home of the Las Vegas Raiders. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Allegiant Air Offering Raiders Ticket Packages

Allegiant Air is looking to put its naming-right sponsorship to the home of the Las Vegas Raiders to good use now that fans are allowed, offering travel packages for fans who want to go to games at Allegiant Stadium this season. Packages are available for purchase by all passengers booking any Allegiant flight arriving at […]

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Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority to Sponsor National Football Foundation Awards Event

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority will serve as the presenting sponsor of the 2021 National Football Foundation Annual Awards Dinner on December 7 at the Aria Resort & Casino in Nevada, where the 63rd annual dinner will feature the induction of the 2020 and 2021 College Football Hall of Fame Classes. In May, […]

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