EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — The NFL may be headed back to a lockout.A federal appeals court in St. Louis late Friday granted the owners’ request to temporarily put on hold U.S. District Judge Susan Nelson’s ruling that lifted the lockout.Rea…
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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — Welcome back, players.The NFL cleared the way for some basic football operations to begin at 8 a.m. EDT Friday, five days after a federal judge declared the lockout illegal and nearly seven weeks after it began.Re…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Carolina Panthers have selected Auburn quarterback Cam Newton with the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft, gambling that the Heisman Trophy winner will overcome questions about his character and work ethic to become the …
More NFL players are weighing in on the lockout and lashing out at the owners.On Wednesday, Chicago Bears kicker and player representative Robbie Gould told the Chicago Tribune that the lockout is the owners’ fault. “Look fans don’t buy tick…
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has been receiving plenty of criticism from NFL players and former players, but ex-New York Giant Amani Toomer took it to a new level on Thursday morning. Michael David Smith of ProFootballTalk reported that To…
NEW YORK — The NFL has released its preseason schedule, even as lawyers for locked-out players have been meeting with a judge in Minneapolis prior to court-ordered mediation with the league on Thursday.The first preseason game will match th…
MINNEAPOLIS — This NFL players-owners feud has developed into one of the all-time nasty disputes in sports, given the strength of their convictions, the intensity of their rhetoric, and the money, power and popularity at stake.Now they…
The Rams didn’t need to leave Southern California under the cover of darkness like the Colts did when they fled Baltimore. By the time Georgia Frontiere took her own Mickey Mouse operation out of Anaheim, there weren’t many fans left to even…
Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison seemed to enjoy the Super Bowl XLV media day on Tuesday. He joked around with reporters, compared players getting hurt to kids stubbing their toes and then seized an opportunity to mock NFL Commi…
Don Banks of SI.com reported Thursday that Jeff Fisher will no longer be the head coach of the Tennessee Titans. According to the report, it is unclear whether Fisher is getting fired, resigning or mutually parting ways with Tennessee.Fisher…
NEW YORK — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will cut his salary to $1 if there is a work stoppage after the collective bargaining agreement expires in March.Goodell, who makes about $10 million a year including bonuses, said in a memo to…
Several NFL players, former players and sports writers criticized Jay Cutler on twitter after he left the NFC Championship game with a knee injury. Jacksonville Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew was one of those players, but backtracke…
CHICAGO — The NFL has warned players to cut out the trash talk, specifically when it threatens other players.”Ray Anderson reminded players that comments of a physically threatening nature are always taken into account in evaluating di…
Former pro quarterback Joe Theismann was discussing the strengths of the New England Patriots on the NFL Network on Thursday and made a verbal gaffe that made fellow analyst Deion Sanders fall out of his chair, literally. “You can do what yo…
Los Angeles has not had an N.F.L. team since the Raiders and the Rams left town 16 years ago. But now it may have the next best thing: a bruising fight over how to reclaim the game. Read More…
Do you think you know all there is to know about the NFL? Do you think you know which teams will go deep into the playoffs and which teams will go home early? Then try predicting the winners of this weekend’s playoff games. The beginning of …
The schedule for the 2011 NFL playoffs has been announced. The New Orleans Saints will take on the Seattle Seahawks in the Wild Card round on Saturday, Jan. 8 at 4:30 p.m. ET. At 8 p.m., the Indianapolis Colts will face off against the New Y…
PHILADELPHIA — Are you ready for some Tuesday Night Football?The NFL moved the Vikings at Eagles game from Sunday night to Tuesday because of an expected blizzard that could dump more than a foot of snow on Philadelphia.Read More…
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PITTSBURGH — Steelers linebacker James Harrison was fined $25,000 on Tuesday for his penalized hit on Buffalo quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick.Harrison has four fines this season totaling $125,000.Read More…
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WASHINGTON — A former running back for the Washington Redskins and Carolina Panthers is suing the NFL’s pension plan, saying he should receive the highest level of disability benefits because of a spine injury from a helmet-to-helmet h…
DENVER — Busted one day, beaten the next.Rookie Sam Bradford had his first 300-yard game and tossed three touchdown passes as the St. Louis Rams escaped Denver with a 36-33 win Sunday, a little more than a day after the NFL fined the B…
(ASSOCIATED PRESS)ATLANTA (AP) — A federal appeals court sided with the NFL and its players union Tuesday and upheld a judge’s ruling against six former NFL players who claimed $20 million in losses to an investment scheme fronted by a hedg…
NEW YORK — Take pro football out of the mix, and NBC’s ratings problems are glaring.The NFL’s Sunday night shootout between the New England Patriots and the Pittsburgh Steelers was seen by nearly 21.2 million people on NBC, the only pr…
DAVIE, Fla. — Thanks to new video evidence that surfaced from Sunday’s game between the Miami Dolphins and Baltimore Ravens in Baltimore, Dolphins coach Tony Sparano is confident that Ravens fullback Le’Ron McClain will no longer be able to…
WEMBLEY, England — Backup Troy Smith found his range in the fourth quarter to lead the San Francisco 49ers to a 24-16 win over the Denver Broncos on Sunday in the NFL’s fourth regular-season game in London.In his first start as a 49er,…
