Football Page 991 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Plaxico Burress Blasts Nick Saban, His College Coach
Alabama lost to Ohio State 42-35 in the Sugar Bowl, and at SEC Media Days yesterday Nick Saban advanced a bizarre theory to explain that loss. He says that team chemistry was harmed by players learning about their NFL Draft grade in the days leading up to the game, and that somehow hurt preparation....
Justin Houston Is Finally Getting <i>Paid</i>
Chiefs’ pass-rushing linebacker Justin Houston has signed a massive extension to stay in Kansas City. It’s six years, $101 million, which are both big and somewhat imaginary numbers, but this one isn’t: $52.5 million in guaranteed money....
Fan From 49ers Bathroom Fight Sentenced To Five Years In Prison
Amador Rebollero, one of the men involved in a fight at a 49ers game last October that left one man with a severe head injury, has been sentenced to five years in prison. ...
Report: Tom Brady Will Sue If The NFL Doesn't Throw Out His Suspension
There are rumblings that a decision on Tom Brady’s appeal of his four-game Ballghazi suspension will be coming down very soon. But the union is already making a ton of noise: according to reports from ESPN and NFL.com, citing NFLPA sources, Brady and the union are already prepping a challenge in fed...
Why Marcus Mariota Hasn't Signed His Titans Contract Yet
The Titans report for training camp two weeks from tomorrow. Unless things change they will do so without their new franchise quarterback....
Ex-NFLer Will Allen Indicted For Role In Alleged Ponzi Scheme
Former NFL cornerback Will Allen—not to be confused with Steelers safety Will Allen—has been indicted in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts for his role in an alleged Ponzi scheme, which prosecutors say he ran with a woman named Susan Daub. Allen and Daub each face 23 felony c...
Report: NFLPA Is Ready To Charge Cowboys And Broncos With Collusion
The Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos have yet to sign their respective star receivers—Dez Bryant and Demaryius Thomas—to longterm deals, and the deadline to do so is this Wednesday. According to an ESPN report, if Thomas and Bryant don’t get new deals by the deadline, the players’ union will bring ...
Torrey Smith Has A Great Sports Baby
New 49ers wide receiver Torrey Smith is spending his summer vacation hanging around the house with his family, including one-year-old son TJ. And TJ? He’s a star....
NFL Coach Who Allegedly Hit A Kid May Go With The "It Was Dark" Defense
Bills offensive line coach Aaron Kromer, who was arrested on Sunday for allegedly punching a boy and then threatening to kill that boy’s family if he went to the cops, is going to have to come up with some kind of explanation for allegedly punching a kid. According to a source who spoke to Fox Sport...
Porn Star Calls Out NFL Player Who Slid Into Her DMs
Let this be a warning to anyone planning on on sliding into the DMs of porn star Mia Khalifa, as Bills safety Duke Williams recently did:...
It Won't Matter Who Starts At Quarterback For Ohio State
With Braxton Miller announcing his to return to Ohio State, the Buckeyes now have three of college football’s best-available quarterbacks—Miller, J.T. Barrett, and Cardale Jones—all with big-game experience and all finally healthy. Now, the question that has been looming since their national champio...
The Time Ken Stabler Maybe Planted Cocaine On A Sportswriter He Hated
Last Friday, we republished Pete Axthelm’s great old profile on Ken Stabler, the swashbuckling former NFL quarterback who died at the age of 69 last week. In that profile is an unbelievable anecdote about a “prank” that is impossible to imagine happening in today’s NFL....
Report: Bars Now Off Limits For Florida State Football Players
After a meeting with head coach Jimbo Fisher on Saturday morning, Florida State football players have been told bars are off limits, according to Jim Henry of The Tallahassee Democrat. The school will also bring in “professionals” to meet with players, per Henry....
Greg Hardy's 10-Game Suspension Reduced To Four
Defensive end Greg Hardy signed with the Cowboys in March after his domestic violence charges were dropped when the victim didn’t show up to court; the NFL gave him a 10-game suspension without pay in April. Hardy appealed the punishment, and today, arbitrator Harold Henderson reduced the suspension...
Former Raiders QB Ken Stabler Dead At 69
Former NFL quarterback Ken Stabler, who led the Raiders to victory in Super Bowl XI in 1977, died yesterday at the age of 69. According to his family, Stabler died due to complications with colon cancer, and donated his brain and spinal cord to Boston University to study degenerative brain diseases....
Two-time Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year Braxton Miller told The Columbus Dispatch that he will return to play for Ohio State in the 2015-16 season. After going down last season with a preseason shoulder injury, Miller was succeeded by J.T. Barrett and Cardale Jones—who he will battle this pres...