JC Abbott

The Barcelona Dragons long ago proved that they wouldn’t be the ELF’s doormat. The league’s only Spanish franchise was perhaps the most fun to watch down the stretch in 2021 and opened the 2022 season last week […]

The Canadian Football League is set to kick off its 2022 season on Thursday, marking the first full 18-game campaign since before the COVID-19 pandemic. For the third straight season, international players will be […]

While it won’t be remembered as one of their classic matchups, the Vienna Vikings and Tirol Raiders opened a new chapter in their storied rivalry on Sunday.

Austria’s two most famous football clubs began their […]

The European League of Football is set to kick off its second season on Saturday and plenty has changed since we saw the league last. New faces and new places will be the talk of Week 1, with four franchises […]

Forget the neck-roll linebackers and the gap-plugging defensive lineman, a new style of defense has taken hold in Europe.

With pass-heavy modern offenses now the norm, you can’t win football games by simply […]

Defense may win championships, but offense sells the tickets.

We are just a couple of weeks away from the kickoff of the second season of the European League of Football and if the burgeoning league wants to […]

Since 2019, the Canadian Football League has looked abroad for talent, mandating teams bring in international athletes as a part of the league’s Global program. On Tuesday, 27 more will get the call to live out […]

The European League of Football is set to kick off their second season on June 4 after massive expansion, adding four new franchises to the equations.

That means new stars in the ELF landscape and there is no […]

The European League of Football is about to enter its second season and one of the league’s most recognizable stars is returning with it.

On Thursday, the Leipzig Kings surprised many when they announced that […]

Canadians often joke that Toronto is the center of the universe, but last weekend it was at the very least the center of international football attention.

For the second time in the event’s history, the […]

War and football. For many with no concept of conflict, they make fitting allegories. Men in armor clashing on a field of battle. The ultimate metaphor for violent masculinity.

For the hundreds of American […]

For the past five seasons, the story in Spanish football has been exactly the same. Upstarts have come and gone, but the Badalona Dracs have remained untouchable. Coast through the season, dominate the playoffs, […]

They say it’s not what you know, but who you know that is most important in pro sports. For Thonon Black Panthers quarterback Brett Hunchak, that has certainly proven true.

In a stellar five year career at York […]

While fans will have their eyes glued to the field until a Super Bowl champion has been crowned this weekend, another NFL season is already well underway off of it.

Regardless of who wins between the Rams and […]

The typical European import journey plays out in a predictable pattern. A wide-eyed American discovers the opportunity to continue his career overseas, blindly jumping at the first opportunity presented to them. […]

With its rabid fandoms, roaring student sections, iconic tailgates and elaborate marching band, college football is a spectacle unlike anything in the world.

No other country deifies student athletics in a way […]

Football is a sport built on brotherhood and this season, the Barbera Rookies will be taking that literally.

Making the jump to the Spanish first division this year, the team from the outskirts of Barcelona has […]

Arriving at the SPIRAL Tropical Bowl, it only took until the hotel lobby before Bailey Devine-Scott was asked the question. Checking in with his football gear in tow, he needed only to open his mouth for someone […]

Author H. Jackson Brown once wrote that nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity. If that is the case, then Digaan Gomis has made it his life’s philosophy to never pay out of pocket.

The French […]

Every year, the NFL selects a handful of players to join the league with a practice roster exemption through their International Player Pathway Program. Each spot is highly coveted, a potential launch pad to an […]