For the first time this season, The Football Beat crew did not have anyone at a United Football League venue this weekend. And Birmingham made history. The Stallions, defending USFL champions and now defending USFL Conference champions, defeated Memphis, 39-21,
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was a real-time update on the 2024 NFL Draft. Read back through it to see TFB editor/publisher Mitch Lucas’s thoughts as they happened on the first round. OK, we’re officially live. The 2024 NFL Draft begins at
A “sleeper,” by definition, isn’t Rip Van Winkle. Although that’s funny. Not really. A sleeper is basically an underdog, a team or a person that you might not think would succeed at something, but ultimately does. They’ve got a story
Everybody and their brother does a mock draft these days. We decided to chime in. Last year, our editor / publisher – well, that’d be me – got 11 of the 32 picks exactly right. So I decided to throw
The Dallas Cowboys have picked up the fifth-year option for a fairly-popular member of their roster, you might say. The Cowboys have picked up the 2025 fifth-year option on edge rusher Micah Parsons, the franchise said Wednesday afternoon. But the
HOUSTON – Two teams looking for their first win of the season, and their first-ever United Football League win, met here at Rice Stadium Sunday, in a game where defense was king (at least in the first half). In the
It sounds like the Los Angeles Chargers are a team willing to deal out of the number five overall pick in next Thursday night’s first round of the NFL Draft. And it sounds like they’re wanting everyone and their brother
Wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk wants to be traded from the San Francisco 49ers. Unless he doesn’t. Aiyuk, under contract for the upcoming season, is in contract negotiations with the team, who hope to get an extension done prior to training
The Birmingham Stallions got their championship rings – the final championship rings ANYBODY will get from the USFL – on Friday. And then they won big on Saturday. The Stallions got a 33-14 win in front of the home crowd
EDITOR’S NOTE: A gallery of outstanding photos from the UFL’s Arlington-D.C. Defenders game Saturday, April 13, by The Football Beat’s own Dennis Jacobs. D.C. won the game, 29-28, with a late comeback, and on a 49-yard kick as time expired