Category Archive: The Trenches

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Alicia Keys tapped to deliver national anthem at Super Bowl XLVII

Alicia Keys

Alicia Keys will “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the Super Bowl This year, before Super Bowl XLVII kicks off, the national anthem will be performed by songstress Alicia Keys. Keys, who recently released her fifth studio album, Girl On Fire, sang “America The Beautiful” during Super Bowl 39, in 2005 at EverBank Field (then Alltel Stadium) …

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Former NFL RB Thomas Jones plans to leave brain to science

Thomas Jones

Thomas Jones will donate his brain for degenerative brain disease research Thomas Jones is retired from the National Football League, yet his heart is still there. He proved it by announcing that upon his death, he will donate his brain to science, so that it may be studied for traces of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, referred …

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Kasandra Perkins shot 9 times by drunk Jovan Belcher, autopsies reveal

Kassandra Perkins

Kasandra Perkins shot 9 times Jovan Belcher shot his girlfriend and mother of his child, 22-year old Kasandra Perkins, nine times, an autopsy report reveals.

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PHOTOSTORY: Ray Lewis, Peyton Manning

Ray Lewis Peyton Manning

Ray Lewis and Peyton Manning share a private moment after Saturday’s game Ray Lewis. Peyton Manning. Two men. Two football players. Two NFL legends. Two future Hall of Famers. Mutual respect. …and a little boy who will grow up and be mind blown over being included in this moment caught in time.

Kaepernick, 49ers beat Packers, advance to NFC Championship

San Francisco 49ers

Kaepernick, 49ers best Packers to get to NFC Championship The San Francisco 49ers closed with a 45-31 victory over the Green Bay Packers Sunday night. But, it was, without a doubt, The Kaepernick show.

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Baltimore Ravens advance to AFC Championship

Baltimore Ravens

Double OT win for the Baltimore Ravens over Denver Broncos In what has to be one of the best NFL playoff games played in a long time, the Baltimore Ravens defeated the Denver Broncos, 38-35 in double overtime, to advance to the AFC Championship game. A 47-yard field goal by Justin Tucker sealed the deal …

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COVER CANDY: Beyonce gets in football mode for GQ Magazine

Beyonce talks career, family, and her pending Super Bowl performance with GQ Magazine Over the years it has become more and more clear that BeyoncĂ© is a perfectionist. With motherhood (Blue Ivy) and wife (Jay-Z) on her resumĂ©, new music on the horizon, an HBO documentary on deck, a new Pepsi deal, and a much …

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CTE diagnosis for Junior Seau

Junior Seau

Junior Seau suffered from brain disease at time of death Degenerative Brain Disease was discovered in the brain of deceased NFL linebacker, Junior Seau. With his family’s consent, a study of Seau’s brain was conducted at the National Institutes of Health that revealed chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Of the findings, Seau’s son, Tyler Seau, told …

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