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GOLDEN'S NUGGETS: Ready for exciting NFL Kickoff Sunday

Submitted by Brian Golden on 7 September 2010 - 6:26am

The National Football League kicks off its 91st season Thursday night in New Orleans. Sports USA is proud to bring you a doubleheader that includes divisional champions and debuts. It kicks off in Foxborough where the defending AFC North champion Cincinnati Bengals challenge the defending AFC East champion New England Patriots. Our second game marks Pete Carroll's return to the NFL with a matchup of the San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks.

GOLDEN'S NUGGETS: 'Cats-n-'Dogs get college season started

Submitted by Brian Golden on 30 August 2010 - 6:10pm

HAPPY NEW YEAR -- Welcome to another year of memorable college football on Sports USA!  This will be our 13th year of carrying college football play-by-play  on the nation's airwaves.  Since we started full-time with the Sports USA College Football Game of the Week in 2001,  the two teams who eventually met in the BCS Championship Game have been heard from at least once each -- and usually, multiple times -- that season  on Sports USA.

GOLDEN'S NUGGETS: Recommended summer reading

Submitted by Brian Golden on 3 August 2010 - 3:51pm

There's plenty to do before we bring you the debuts of Terrell Owens with the Cincinnati Bengals and Pete Carroll with the Seattle Seahawks in our Sports USA NFL Kickoff Weekend doubleheader on Sept. 12.  We have a recommended reading list, in fact.

GOLDEN'S NUGGETS: Certainly a busy offseason week

Submitted by Brian Golden on 11 June 2010 - 11:36am

It has been a momentous week in college football. More to the point, it has been a sad week in college football. Nebraska's move to the Big Ten Conference, after Colorado's acceptance of an invitation to join the Pac-10, will begin the utter destruction of one of College Football's greatest new traditions since  1996, the Big XII Conference. Tradition is the very foundation of College Football.

GOLDEN'S NUGGETS: Lott truly making an IMPACT

Submitted by Brian Golden on 16 April 2010 - 6:50pm

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- Ronnie Lott left a trail of running backs, receivers and quarterbacks in tears and  pain along a path of punishment leading to both the College Football and Pro Football Halls of Fame. But on April 15, at his annual luncheon to announce the Watch List for the Lott Trophy, it was the greatest defensive back ever to play the game who was fighting back tears.