American football: Influential NFL coach Walsh dies (The New Zealand Herald)
American football: Influential NFL coach Walsh dies (The New Zealand Herald)
SAN FRANCISCO - Former San Francisco 49ers head coach Bill Walsh, who led the National Football League (NFL) franchise to three Super Bowl victories in the 1980s, died on Tuesday, the team announced.
Kiwanis, ex-NFL man bring football to kids (San Bernardino Sun)
RIALTO - The Kiwanis Club of East Rialto and former NFL player Greg Bell are teaming up to bring a football camp, as well as the NFL’s Punt, Pass & Kick program, to the Inland Empire.
Gatorade and NFL Launch Annual Beat the Heat Campaign to Educate Youth Football Players and Coaches About Heat-Related … (KXXV Waco)
All 32 NFL Teams to Participate in Safety Campaign to Help Boost Awareness and Raise Charitable Funds CHICAGO, July 31 /PRNewswire/ — As teams around the National…
Gatorade and NFL Launch Annual Beat the Heat Campaign to Educate Youth Football Players and Coaches About Heat-Related … (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
As teams around the National Football League and from schools across the country prepare for two-a-day preseason practices, The Gatorade Company will join forces with the NFL to lead a nationwide “Beat the Heat” campaign aimed at educating parents and football coaches about the importance of hydration in order to keep athletes safe and on the field during the annual summer sessions.
Bill Walsh, 75; legendary 49ers coach reshaped football (Los Angeles Times)
Bill Walsh, known in football circles as “The Genius” for taking his San Francisco 49ers to three NFL championships and designing the “West Coast offense” that has countless devotees in both college and professional ranks, died Monday. He was 75.
Locals to play NFL flag football (Miami Herald)
NFL flag football stars from the Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center in North Miami Beach will represent the United States at the NFL Flag Football World Championships Aug. 7-10 in New Orleans.
NFL Greats Shake Off the Rust in All-Pro Football 2K8 (The Village Voice)
NFL greats shake off the rust in All-Pro Football 2K8 (By Gary Hodges)
Dr. Z: Walsh’s take on life in the NFL (Sports Illustrated)
Bill Walsh and I were having dinner one night, and some coach had just been fired. I forget who it was. Walsh took a deep breath and, almost in a stream of consciousness, issued a description of life in the NFL that has stayed with me for many years. I wrote it down, as accurately as I could. I used it in my book, The New Thinking Man’s Guide to Pro Football:
Imagining what the NFL would have been without Bill Walsh (USA Today)
He was not beaten very often. Bill Walsh could think his way past most opponents, but you cannot X-and-O leukemia. So the NFL lost a genuine genius Monday, and it made you wonder what pro football might have looked like the past 25 years without him. Imagine an NFL world without the West Coast offense. Whatever would Joe Montana have done for a living? And how many seasons in a row would the San …
Gatorade and NFL Launch Annual Beat the Heat Campaign to Educate Youth Football Players and Coaches About Heat-Related … (14 WFIE Evansville)
CHICAGO, July 31 /PRNewswire/ — As teams around the National FootballLeague (NFL) and from schools across the country prepare for two-a-daypreseason practices, The Gatorade Company will join…