As the pro football season kicks off, the Marketplace Wealth & Poverty Desk is looking beyond passing yards and fumbles. Our W&P power rankings put the NFL team with the highest median income on top.

The National Football League has agreed to pay $765 million to settle a lawsuit with over 4,000 former players over head injuries.

The popular football video game turns a quarter-century old; but is the Madden Curse still intact?

Vanderbilt still has the poorest attendance record in the Southeastern Conference even though it’s coming off its best season in a century.

Big data competes with gut instinct in determining how multimillion dollar contracts are meted out in the NFL draft.

You've heard of a bullseye. What about a ball's-eye? A Carnegie Mellon post-doc student and Japanese researchers have come up with a way to get smooth video from inside a spinning football.

The players will spend $100 million on a 10-year study to find out just how hazardous football is to their health.

College football fans paid a variable price for the right to buy a championship game ticket based on their team's chances to win a slot.

Terminated NFL coaches often resurface elsewhere in the league… along with a fat paycheck.

Undies and pigskin: a match made on the gridiron?