NFL commissioner Roger Goodell says teams aren't blackballing Colin Kaepernick for kneeling during the national anthem last year. "No, teams make decisions (based) on what's in the best interest of their team . . . and they make those decisions individually," Goodell said Thursday following ...
As a new American football season is set to begin, researchers examining the brains of deceased NFL players have found that 99 percent of them showed signs of degenerative disease — believed to be caused by repeated blows to the head. Researchers found striking evidence ...
The NFL is delaying plans to try staging a game in China until 2019, when a contest could kick off 100th anniversary celebrations, a league official told Sports Business Journal. NFL executive vice president of international Mark Waller said the league could look at launching ...
Some New Year's Sports Resolutions MAS would love to see made for 2017 — and, more importantly, KEPT. We'll cut to the chase: ■ The NBA and NHL agree to shorten each's joke of a six-month regular season that merely serves to determine postseason seedings for ...
The NFL will stage four regular-season games in London next year. Teams and venues for the four games will be announced on Tuesday. The NFL started playing regular-season games in London in 2007, and has recently played three games per season in the British capital. The ...
Reading the tweets as they scroll below NFL games shown live on Twitter has become my new Japanese study obsession.
The Rams were a certifiable hit in their return to Los Angeles for the first time in nearly 22 years. Now if they could just score a touchdown. They have yet to find the end zone since leaving St. Louis, yet still managed to win ...
Opening day in the NFL saw Kansas City cornerback Marcus Peters raise a black-gloved fist during the U.S. national anthem, a protest amplified later Sunday when four Miami Dolphins kneeled on the sideline as "The Star Spangled Banner" played in Seattle. The protests were inspired ...
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says opponent Hillary Clinton and other Democrats "are trying to rig" the fall debates by scheduling two of the events opposite NFL games. The football league has complained to him about the debate schedule in a letter, the billionaire ...
Just as one can never be too rich or too thin, if you are an NFL ball club, you can never have enough quality at the quarterback position. As summer camps opened this week, this principle has never been more in evidence. A whole host of ...
Four-time Pro Bowl running back Arian Foster took a big step Monday in his comeback from a torn Achilles tendon, signing a $1.5 million, one-year contract with the Miami Dolphins. "I still feel like I'm a Pro Bowl-caliber player, and I intend to show it," ...
Quarterback Tom Brady's last best chance to avoid serving a four-game "Deflategate" suspension to start the new season was flatly rejected Wednesday by an appeals court. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan issued a one-sentence rejection of requests by the National Football ...
