“Something about the Riverside Cubs pulled me in like metal to a magnet,” he writes in ‘The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory” (DoubleDay). Upon further ...

American football is often defined by sheer noise ... With the hearing teams, it’s not really rivals. But with a deaf team, it’s more intensity, because they know we can talk to each other.” ...

The NCAA has only approved the helmet for use in one game as a trial. A deaf football team at Gallaudet pioneered perhaps the most iconic sports communication innovation — the huddle.

In 2021, the football team at the California School for the Deaf made it to the state championship but suffered a disappointing loss. In 2022 and 2023, they made it back and won. A new book ...

“When you watch deaf players and coaches communicate with each other on the football field, you realize maybe hearing people have a disadvantage,” explains Fuller, describing the speed with ...

In 2021, the football team at the California School for the Deaf made it to the state championship but suffered a disappointing loss. In 2022 and 2023, they made it back and won.

It’s an inspiring story to begin with: The football team of Riverside’s California School for the Deaf had slogged through 51 losing seasons, and in nearly a dozen of those they lost every game.

Paulone was selected as a Deaf All-American football player and named one of the top 10 athletes of the year in Philadelphia. His hometown, Parkside, Pa., even honored him with a “Mike Paulone ...

On the field, coaches and players have learned ways to ... “Deaf people can do it. Deaf people can play sports, hockey, football, lacrosse anything. ... Just work hard and keep fighting.” ...

Then they won two — back-to-back — and don't plan on slowing down Adam Perez/The New York Times The California School for the Deaf in Riverside's football team, the Cubs, wide receiver Jory ...