On New Year’s Eve, when Illinois takes the field in sunny Orlando, Florida, to face South Carolina in the Citrus Bowl (2 p.m.

leading into eventual College Football Playoff quarterfinal action. Zain Bando is a freelance writer for The Sporting News. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and ...

Now, Illinois isn't able to send their players out in leather helmets or without facemasks ... then had a two-year stint with the brief New York Yankees football team before returning to the ...

Ex-MIT linebacker Kodiak Brush helps design the Apache helmet, earning the highest safety rating ever from Virginia Tech.

Brookside Jr. Cardinals, which serves youth football and cheer participants grades K-6, will receive $4,500 for new helmets and reconditioning of current equipment. The three programs receiving ...