Special Teams Coach Steve Hoffman Talks UDFA Punter Marquette King (5/17/2012)
During today's rookie minicamp, newly signed youtube sensation UDFA Marquette King from Fort Valley State University would see the field, but alas...

Bironas rested, ready to get back to kicking again (5/17/2012)
Rob Bironas made 90.6 percent of his field goals last year, including 15 in a row to end the season. He made all 34 of his extra-point attempts and tied for second in the AFC with 44 touchbacks...

Teggart on the signing 'I was caught off guard'  (5/17/2012)
Dave Teggart is sitting in a hotel in the Chicago area right now with one pair of clothes, and no plans to return home to Northborough ...

Bandits kick around new strategy for Mid-Mo  (5/13/2012)
He is indoor football's equivalent to a knuckleballer. Every time Derek Doerfler tees up, the Mid-Missouri Outlaws' kicker places the ball sideways and boots a line drive with top spin on it. It's sort of like a long, onside kick -- and a nightmare for opponents to handle...

Is it necessary to offer kickers? Maybe not (5/9/2012)
Just about every college football program in the country would love to have Missouri's recent track record with placekickers...

Rookie kicker Tucker looks forward to duel with Cundiff  (5/9/2012)
Ralph Cindrich may have an answer to the kicking problems that have cropped up over the past week for the Pittsburgh Power. How about a Chinese import?...

Chinese kicker could be answer for Power (5/9/2012)
Ralph Cindrich may have an answer to the kicking problems that have cropped up over the past week for the Pittsburgh Power. How about a Chinese import?...

NFL Draft: punters/kickers (4/23/2012)
Cream of the Crop...

Power Ranking the Conference Specialists (4/23/2012)
Unlike other squads or position groups, it is impossible to give a year-to-year prognostication of collegiate special teams...

Georgia's specialists hoping for Draft Day calls (4/23/2012)
Draft history is loaded with tales of teams surprising even those whom they select...

Football kicking quandry at Cal Poly (4/15/2012)
Coming out of football-crazed Texas, leaving soccer behind was like coming home for Stephen Pyle. Marco Tavecchio did the academic work to get into Cal Poly. All the while, the economics major was plotting to bring his love affair along, too...

NFL 'evolving toward' eliminating kickoffs (4/15/2012)
The NFL's decision last year to move kickoffs from the 30-yard line to the 35 may have been the first step toward moving kickoffs out of football completely...

Kick-starting his college career  (4/9/2012)
The place was a fever pitch. Top-seeded Wayne Hills and fourth-seeded Sparta were tied at 35 in overtime of their North 1, Group 3 semifinal at Wayne Hills in November 2009...

Lauren Luttrell gives kicking a shot (4/8/2012)
On a July afternoon inside Famous Dave's BBQ restaurant in Fredericksburg, Va., David Turner decided to try again. Almost every day Turner, a 24-year-old bartender and shift supervisor, had nagged one of his co-workers, hostess and incoming Virginia Tech freshman Lauren Luttrell, about trying out for the Hokies football team...

Stanford kicker focuses on future (4/8/2012)
Stanford's Jordan Williamson made a 42-yard field goal Saturday during a spring football scrimmage -- a good sign for those wondering how he will rebound from his disastrous Fiesta Bowl...

National Camp Series Newsletter (4/8/2012)
NCS monthly newsletter from Michael Husted...

Kickers Draft Review (3/21/2012)
With this year's NFL draft coming up at the end of next month, we take a quick look back at the last two decades of kicker drafting. Looking over the results in the table below, the following factoids emerge...

Punter Riley Stephenson working to replicate bowl performance (3/21/2012)
At times during spring camp, BYU senior punter/kicker Riley Stephenson has seemed almost like the forgotten man...

Subpar bowl performance motivates NU's Maher (3/21/2012)
If Brett Maher needed anything to drive him into the offseason, the All-Big Ten kicker and punter found it after the Capital One Bowl...

Several kickers get franchise tags before deadline (3/8/2012)
It pays to play a skill position in the NFL, like New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees, or receivers Wes Welker and Dwayne Bowe...