At the beginning of each week, members of the New York Jets wander over to a computer in the player’s lounge and select video clips they’d like to review ahead of the next game. But rather than burning these clips to a DVD they’ll watch on their laptops or sitting in a darkened room staring at a screen, players have the films sent to their Apple iPads.

The Jets are but one example of how the ubiquitous tablets are changing how teams throughout the National Football League prepare for, and review, games. The iPad is quickly replacing traditional “films” and even printed playbooks in the NFL, muc...

Nassar al-Awlaki may have made an online video encouraging people to follow in the footsteps of his dead son Anwar, al-Qaida’s infamous online propagandist. But he wants Danger Room to know that he’s not similarly calling for the deaths of Americans. He just thinks his son’s message was all about peace and harmony.

Danger Room “recently misunderstood me to be endorsing violence,” al-Awlaki wrote to us through his lawyers at the American Civil Liberties Union, “but that was not what I intended, nor is that what I have ever endorsed.”

Last week, Danger Room came across the elder al-Awlaki’s s...