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Everyone Johnny Manziel Blames in His Interview With Shannon Sharpe
Turns out, everyone from former Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin to the ghost of Mickey Mantle helped cause Johnny Football’s downfall.
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August 11, 2023
What Did We Learn From the Johnny Manziel Netflix Documentary?
As the NFL (and CFL, and AAF) washout prepares a College Station comeback, a new film tells Johnny Football's story.
Sports
January 30, 2020
Who Would Have Guessed Patrick Mahomes Would Be the Best Texas Quarterback of the 21st Century?
There’s been no shortage of hype and huge names in Texas college football, but there’s only one Mahomes.
Sports
July 25, 2018
Johnny Manziel and Mike Sherman Are Reuniting in Montreal, of All Places
Johnny Canada gets his last, best shot.
Sports
April 12, 2018
Will Johnny Manziel’s #ComebackSZN Work?
The former Texas A&M star tries to move beyond his past in a scrappy Austin development league.
Sports
February 12, 2018
The Johnny Manziel Redemption Tour Is Officially Underway
The former A&M star appeared on ’Good Morning America’ on Monday to ask for a second chance.
Sports
February 9, 2016
Johnny Manziel Isn’t A Joke To The Woman He’s Accused Of Beating Up
Football fans have had their fun with the struggling quarterback, but it’s time for the conversation to shift.
Sports
October 29, 2015
How The NFL Prioritizes Disciplining Players For Uniform Violations, But Not Violence
Making a statement against domestic violence on the field is a $6,000 fine, but there are no consequences for Greg Hardy or likely for Johnny Manziel.
Sports
June 17, 2015
Johnny Football Is Dead. Long Live Johnny Manziel, Backup Quarterback.
The Browns’ #2 quarterback gave an on-field press conference this afternoon in which he retired the Johnny Football persona in favor of being plain ol’ Johnny Manziel, the NFL’s highest-profile second-string quarterback.
Sports
February 3, 2015
Everybody Is Crowing about Johnny Manziel Checking Himself into Rehab
The troubled quarterback checked himself into rehab last week, and the pundits are punditting.
Sports
January 26, 2015
All Sorts of Dirt about Johnny Manziel Is Coming out Now That the Season Is Over and His Coaches Have Left
It appears that Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam may regret listening to that homeless guy.
Sports
December 10, 2014
What Can We Expect From From Johnny Manziel’s First NFL Start?
Johnny Football officially becomes Johnny Cleveland on Sunday. What sort of situation is he walking into?
Sports
October 20, 2014
A&M Fans Went Through the Five Stages of Grief on Saturday
How else do you react to a 59-0 thumping?
Sports
June 5, 2014
There Is an Epic Rap Song About Johnny Manziel and the Cleveland Browns Already
Just one?
Sports
May 7, 2014
What Does The Draft Have In Store For Johnny Football And The Houston Texans?
The most intriguing quarterback prospect to come out of Texas in years has a big day ahead of him, and his local team has the very first pick.
Sports
January 21, 2014
If NFL Fans Had a Problem With Richard Sherman, What Will They Think of Johnny Manziel?
Johnny Football, Future Role Model?
The Daily Post
January 17, 2014
Texas Business Report: Don’t Mess With (the University of) Texas
UT, which is notoriously protective of its Longhorns brand, is cracking down on retailers selling merchandise that riffs on the name of its new head football coach, Charlie Strong.
Sports
August 29, 2013
A&M Will Make It Two Straight Over ‘Bama, But Could UT Have the Better Season?
College football predictions—some more serious than others—heading into the first weekend.
Sports
August 15, 2013
Preview: Who Is Johnny Football?
An excerpt from S.C. Gwynne's September cover story on Johnny Manziel, which will officially hit newsstands (and the web) on August 21. (Illustrations by Nathan Fox. Color by Jeromy Cox.)
Behind the Scenes
August 14, 2013
The Making of Our Johnny F—ing Football Cover
From a ladder, contributing photographer Randal Ford pointed his camera lens down at Johnny Manziel in his maroon Aggies uniform, instructing him, as before, to look like a superhero. On the count of one…two…He was not flying enough. “You need to look like you’re really going,” creative director TJ
Sports
August 13, 2013
It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane…
Why we put Johnny Manziel on the cover as a superhero.
Editor's Letter
August 12, 2013
Why We Put Johnny Football on Our Cover
By nine p.m. Eastern Standard Time on the second Saturday in December last year, we knew exactly who would be on the cover this month. That was the night that Johnny Manziel became the first freshman ever to win the Heisman Trophy. As soon as the holidays were over, we began
Sports
August 9, 2013
Who Is Johnny Football?
Johnny Manziel seemed like a superhero, the Manziel of Steel, able to leap tall linemen in a single bound. Is he something else?
Sports
August 7, 2013
College F—ing Football
Johnny Manziel is not the issue. It’s finally time to occupy the NCAA.
Sports
July 15, 2013
Generation Y’s X’s and O’s
Texas Tech’s new head coach is disarmingly young, stylish, and hip. He also seems to have the Midas touch.
Sports
June 20, 2013
2012 Sanction Against Johnny Manziel Likely a “Conduct Probation”
Texas A&M’s dean of student life describes the policy that Manziel says almost kept him off the field last season.
Sports
June 19, 2013
How Johnny Football Almost Didn’t Play for Texas A&M
UPDATED: In an exclusive interview with S.C. Gwynne, Johnny Manziel confirmed that Texas A&M suspended him last summer. His successful appeal changed college football history.
Sports
June 18, 2013
Johnny Manziel’s Life, Your Entertainment
The latest Johnny Football social media non-story, in which the Aggies' Heisman Trophy winner disses College Station in a tweet (and then deletes it).
Sports
March 27, 2013
@JManziel2 Has Left the Building
Texas A&M's Heisman Trophy-winning QB Johnny Manziel decides to live in public just a little less, telling ESPN.com that he's giving up on Twitter.
Sports
March 4, 2013
VIDEO: Johnny Manziel’s ESPN Sunday Conversation
A&M spring practice started Saturday, and The Longhorn Network ESPN was there. The reigning Heisman Trophy winner sat down with Kirk Herbstreit on SportsCenter.
Sports
January 31, 2013
Breaking: Johnny Football is a College Student
A&M QB Johnny Manziel has a little fun post-Cotton Bowl, to the delight of TMZ, and the distress of some prigs in the media.
Sports
January 25, 2013
VIDEO: Johnny Football’s Latest Unbelievable Performance
It may not be as high-stakes as the Alabama game or Cotton Bowl, but Johnny Manziel’s video with basketball trick shot specialists Dude Perfect is still jaw-dropping.
Arts & Entertainment
January 23, 2013
Bum Steer: The Judge Who Facebooked Johnny Football’s Speeding Ticket
This is no way to revive The Battle of the Brazos: Ennis municipal court judge W. Lee Johnson, a Baylor alumnus, was publicly reprimanded for his none-too-subtle post about the A&M QB’s apparent moving violation.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Breaking: Johnny Football is a College Student
A&M QB Johnny Manziel has a little fun post-Cotton Bowl, to the delight of TMZ, and the distress of some prigs in the media.
Sports
January 21, 2013
10 Hilariously Incorrect Predictions About Texas A&M
Anybody (including many Aggies) who said they expected Texas A&M's first season in the Southeastern Conference to go so well is lying. But it's still funny to look back at all the naysayers.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Six Thoughts About the Cotton Bowl
Kansas St. and Oregon who? Arlington's the center of our college football universe, as Texas A&M plays Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl on Friday.
Sports
January 21, 2013
“Air” Kingsbury Flies Back to Lubbock
Texas Tech takes all of four days to pick the head coach everybody wanted: 33 year-old former Red Raiders quarterback & Texas A&M offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury.
January 21, 2013
Five Questions: What’s Next for Johnny Heisman
Now that Johnny Football is officially Johnny Heisman, what’s in store for Texas A&M and its star quarterback? Besides the Cotton Bowl and tonight's Letterman Top 10, that is.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Johnny Football’s Going to Win Heisman
Update: The Stiff Arm Trophy website calls it for the Texas A&M QB, its earliest ever projection. The Tyler/Kerrville native will take the home the Heisman Trophy Saturday.
Sports
January 21, 2013
VIDEO: Kerrville High Schooler’s Illicit Johnny Football Haircut
Rob the Original, San Antonio’s infamous hair artist, strikes again, paying tribute to Texas A&M star quarterback Johnny Manziel on the scalp of Kerrville teen Christian Chavez.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Meet Johnny Football
Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel finally speaks, UT-TCU, the Cotton Bowl, UTSA-Texas State and other highlights from the college football week that was.
Sports
January 21, 2013
The Aggies’ Stunning Win Dominated College Football News
The Aggies own the college football weekend, upsetting top-ranked Alabama. Plus: UT's DKR tribute, Tommy Tuberville's ill temper, and the latest UT-A&M conspiracy theory.
Sports
January 16, 2013
Could the NFL Draft Be a 1-2 Aggies Sweep?
ESPN guru Mel Kiper Jr.’s first NFL draft projection of 2013 has Texas A&M offensive tackle Luke Joeckel as the top pick, followed immediately by Aggies defensive end Damontre Moore.
Sports
January 8, 2013
10 Hilariously Incorrect Predictions About Texas A&M
Anybody (including many Aggies) who said they expected Texas A&M's first season in the Southeastern Conference to go so well is lying. But it's still funny to look back at all the naysayers.
Sports
January 8, 2013
Breaking: Johnny Football is a College Student
A&M QB Johnny Manziel has a little fun post-Cotton Bowl, to the delight of TMZ, and the distress of some prigs in the media.
Politics & Policy
January 7, 2013
The Aggies and the Ecstasy
I attended the AT&T Cotton Bowl game on Friday, which is no longer played at the Cotton Bowl but rather in Jerry Jones’ mammoth Cowboys Stadium, often referred to in extraterrestial terms like “The Death Star” or “the mother ship.” The place to be during the game was the Chancellor
Sports
January 3, 2013
Six Thoughts About the Cotton Bowl
Kansas St. and Oregon who? Arlington's the center of our college football universe, as Texas A&M plays Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl on Friday.