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Sporting News , originally The Sporting News ( TSN ), is an American sports website and former print magazine . It was established in 1886 , and it became the dominant American publication covering ___MASK62___  so much so that it acquired the nickname " The Bible of ___MASK62___ ." It is currently owned by Sporting News Media . ___MASK60___ , referred to as football in the United States and Canada , and also known as gridiron , is a sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end . The offense , the team with control of the oval - shaped football , attempts to advance down the field by running with or passing the ball , while the team without control of the ball , the defense , aims to stop their advance and take control of the ball for themselves . The offense must advance at least ten yards in four downs , or plays , or else they turn over the football to the opposing team ; if they succeed , they are given a new set of four downs . Points are primarily scored by advancing the ball into the opposing team ' s end zone for a touchdown or kicking the ball through the opponent ' s goalposts for a field goal . The team with the most points at the end of a game wins . William Mack Brown ( born August 27 , 1951 ) is a former American college ___MASK92___ coach . He was most recently head ___MASK92___ coach of the Texas Longhorns ___MASK92___ team of the University of Texas at Austin . He is currently a college ___MASK92___ commentator for ESPN . The 2005 Texas Longhorn ___MASK92___ team represented the University of Texas at Austin during the 2005 NCAA Division I - A ___MASK92___ season , winning the Big 12 Conference championship and the national championship . The team was coached by Mack Brown , led on offense by quarterback Vince Young , and played its home games at Darrell K . Royal -- Texas Memorial Stadium . The team ' s penultimate victory of the season , the Big 12 Championship Game , featured the biggest margin of victory in the history of that contest . They finished the season by winning the 2006 Rose Bowl against the USC Trojans for the national championship . Numerous publications have cited this victory as standing among the greatest performances in college ___MASK92___ history , and ESPN awarded the 2006 ESPY Award for the `` Best Game '' in any sport to the Longhorns and the Trojans . The Longhorns finished as the only unbeaten team in NCAA Division I - A ___MASK92___ that year , with thirteen wins and zero losses . Texas earned its second Big 12 Conference ___MASK92___ championship to make 27 conference championships total , including 25 in the Southwest Conference . It was their fourth national championship in ___MASK92___ and the ninth perfect season in the history of Longhorn ___MASK92___ . The team set numerous school and NCAA records , including their 652 points which set an NCAA record for points scored in a season . After the season ended , six Longhorns from this championship team joined professional ___MASK92___ teams through the 2006 NFL Draft . Seven more Longhorns followed suit in the 2007 NFL Draft and they were joined by two free agents . Another nine followed through the 2008 Draft and free - agency to make a total of twenty - four players who entered into the National ___MASK92___ League ( NFL ) . The Big 12 Conference is a ten - school collegiate athletic conference headquartered in Irving , Texas . It is a member of the NCAA ' s Division I for all sports , except ___MASK69___ and men ' s soccer ; its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ; formerly Division I - A ), the higher of two levels of NCAA Division I football competition . Its ten members , located in Iowa , Kansas , Oklahoma , Texas , and West Virginia , include eight public and two private Christian schools . The Big 12 Conference is a 501 ( c )( 3 ) nonprofit organization incorporated in Delaware . Canadian ___MASK92___ is a form of gridiron ___MASK92___ played in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team ' s scoring area ( end zone ). In ___MASK80___ , a huddle is an action of a team gathering together , usually in a tight circle , to strategize , motivate or celebrate . It is a popular strategy for keeping opponents insulated from sensitive information , and acts as a form of insulation when the level of noise in the venue is such that normal on - field communication is difficult . Commonly the leader of the huddle is the team captain and it is the captain who will try to inspire his fellow team members to achieve success . Similarly after an event a huddle may take place to congratulate one another for the teams success , or to commiserate a defeat . The term " huddle " can be used as a verb as in " huddling up ". The Pro Bowl is the all - star game of the National ___MASK92___ League ( NFL ). From the merger with the rival ___MASK60___ League ( AFL ) in 1970 up through 2013 and resuming in 2016 , it is officially called the AFC  NFC Pro Bowl , matching the top players in the ___MASK60___ Conference ( AFC ) against those in the National ___MASK92___ Conference ( NFC ). Between 2014 and 2016 , the NFL experimented with an unconferenced format , where the teams were selected by two honorary team captains ( who are each in the Hall of Fame ), instead of selecting players from each conference . The players were picked in a televised " schoolyard pick " prior to the game . History . Even after the emergence of the professional National ___MASK92___ League ( NFL ), college ___MASK92___ remained extremely popular throughout the U . S . Although the college game has a much larger margin for talent than its pro counterpart , the sheer number of fans following major colleges provides a financial equalizer for the game , with Division I programs  the highest level  playing in huge stadiums , six of which have seating capacity exceeding 100 , 000 . In many cases , college stadiums employ bench - style seating , as opposed to individual seats with backs and arm rests . This allows them to seat more fans in a given amount of space than the typical professional stadium , which tends to have more features and comforts for fans . ( Only two stadiums owned by U . S . colleges or universities  Papa John ' s Cardinal Stadium at the University of Louisville and FAU Stadium at Florida Atlantic University  consist entirely of chairback seating .) Vincent Paul Young , Jr . ( born May 18 , 1983 ) is a former ___MASK60___ quarterback who played in the National Football League ( NFL ) for six seasons . Young was drafted by the Tennessee Titans with the third overall pick in the 2006 NFL Draft . He spent the first five seasons of his career with the Titans . In his rookie season , Young was named the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year and was named to the AFC Pro Bowl team as a reserve . In 2009 , Young earned his second Pro Bowl selection and was named " Sporting News " NFL Comeback Player of the Year . The National ___MASK92___ League ( NFL ) is a professional ___MASK60___ league consisting of 32 teams , divided equally between the National ___MASK92___ Conference ( NFC ) and the ___MASK60___ Conference ( AFC ). The NFL is one of the four major professional sports leagues in North America , and the highest professional level of ___MASK60___ in the world . The NFL ' s 17 - week regular season runs from the week after Labor Day to the week after Christmas , with each team playing 16 games and having one bye week . Following the conclusion of the regular season , six teams from each conference ( four division winners and two wild card teams ) advance to the playoffs , a single - elimination tournament culminating in the Super Bowl , played between the champions of the NFC and AFC . The Tennessee Titans are a professional ___MASK60___ team based in Nashville , Tennessee . The Titans compete in the National Football League ( NFL ) as a member club of the ___MASK60___ Conference ( AFC ) South division . Previously known as the Houston Oilers , the team began play in 1960 in Houston , Texas , as a charter member of the ___MASK60___ League ( AFL ). The Oilers won the first two AFL Championships , and joined the NFL as part of the AFL  NFL merger in 1970 . The 2006 National ___MASK92___ League Draft , the 71st in league history , took place in New York City , New York , at Radio City Music Hall on April 29 and April 30 , 2006 . For the 27th consecutive year , the draft was telecast on ESPN and ESPN2 , with additional coverage offered by ESPNU and , for the first time , by the NFL Network . Having signed a contract with the Houston Texans on the evening before the draft , Mario Williams , a defensive end from North Carolina State , became the draft  s first pick . The selection surprised many commentators , who predicted that the Texans would draft Southern California ___MASK2___ back Reggie Bush or Texas quarterback Vince Young . Ohio State produced the most first round selections ( five ), while Southern California produced the most overall selections ( eleven ). Twenty - seven compensatory and supplemental compensatory selections were distributed amongst seventeen teams ; Tampa Bay , Baltimore , and Tennessee each held three compensatory picks . The league also held a supplemental draft after the regular draft and before the regular season . The 255 players chosen in the draft were composed of : The 2005 NCAA Division I - A ___MASK92___ season ended with the little controversy surrounding the Bowl Championship Series ( BCS ) title game . The Texas Longhorns ___MASK92___ program is the intercollegiate team representing the University of Texas at Austin ( variously Texas or UT ) in the sport of ___MASK60___ . The Longhorns compete in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision ( formerly Division I - A ) as a member of the Big 12 Conference . The team is coached by Tom Herman and home games are played at Darrell K Royal  Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin , Texas . A quarterback ( commonly abbreviated to QB ) is a position in American and Canadian ___MASK92___ . Quarterbacks are members of the offensive team and line up directly behind the offensive line . In modern ___MASK60___ , the quarterback is usually considered the leader of the offensive team , and is often responsible for calling the play in the huddle . The Bowl Championship Series ( BCS ) was a selection system that created five bowl game match - ups involving ten of the top ranked teams in the ___MASK89___ ( NCAA ) Division I ___MASK92___ Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ) of American college ___MASK92___ , including an opportunity for the top two teams to compete in the BCS National Championship Game . The system was in place for the 1998 through 2013 seasons and in 2014 was replaced by the College ___MASK92___ Playoff .