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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Back-to-back winning seasons were not enough for Brian Flores to keep his job as coach of the Miami Dolphins. The Dolphins fired Flores on Monday, a somewhat surprising move that came less than 24 hours after the team finished a 9-8 season. Flores went 24-25 in...

LAS VEGAS — It seemed only fitting the Las Vegas Raiders needed every second of an overtime game to earn their first playoff berth since 2016, a microcosm of their roller coaster season. And as they’ve done five other times this season, the Raiders won on the final play of...

PHILADELPHIA — Dak Prescott ran into Dallas’ locker room with a message for any NFC team he’ll play next week in the playoffs. “The real (stuff) starts,” he said. It starts with finding out the Cowboys’ wild-card opponent, and Prescott will be like millions of football fans every Sunday and...

DENVER — Linebacker Nick Bolton’s 86-yard fumble return after Melvin Ingram III darted into Denver’s backfield untouched and stripped Melvin Gordon powered the Kansas City Chiefs to a 28-24 victory over the Denver Broncos on Saturday. With their 13th consecutive win over the Broncos, the Chiefs (12-5) kept alive their...

Louis Riddick realizes he is in a favorable position. He is an analyst on the NFL’s most iconic television package — ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” — and still has hopes of running a franchise as a general manager. But with the offseason starting for many teams on Monday, will this...

When Eric Church sang about “havin’ a record year,” he wasn’t referring to the NFL. The country music star could have been. For the 2021 season that ends this weekend with the first set of 17th games in league history, a slew of marks are about to be set. Major...

By BetMGM staff writer / When looking at the NFL odds and football spreads for Week 18, several favorites stick out as likely to cover. Want to know which favorites I think are in the best position this week? Read on for my top three picks. Saints (-4.5) at Falcons...

Both Jacksonville and Detroit have home games to close out the 2022 season. The Jaguars face an Indianapolis Colts squad who will clinch a playoff spot with a victory. The Lions are matched up with the Green Bay Packers, who have already locked up home-field advantage by virtue of tiebreakers...

LOS ANGELES — Cooper Kupp only knows he’s finishing up one of the greatest seasons by a receiver in NFL history because people won’t stop telling him about it. The Los Angeles Rams’ star wideout insists he doesn’t watch any sports television heralding his achievements, and he refuses to read...

Greg Robinson, who won two Super Bowl rings with the Denver Broncos while spending nearly four decades coaching in the NFL and college, has died. He was 70. Robinson’s wife, Laura, said he died Wednesday from a form of Alzheimer’s Disease. “A lot of special memories,” she said Thursday. “That’s...

TAMPA, Fla. — The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have officially severed ties with Antonio Brown, terminating the contract of the mercurial receiver who claimed he was fired in the middle of a game for not playing through an ankle injury. The Bucs announced the move Thursday, one day after Brown broke...

Antonio Brown says he was forced to play injured by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and that an MRI on Monday revealed damage to his ankle. While not specifying which ankle was hurt, Brown — through a statement released by his attorney Wednesday — said the MRI showed broken bone fragments,...

Dallas Cowboys star rookie linebacker Micah Parsons and Cincinnati Bengals running back Joe Mixon were the latest big-name players added to the covid-19 reserve list Wednesday. Penn State’s Parsons likely will miss the season finale for the Cowboys on Saturday against Philadelphia when Dallas has a chance to improve its...

NEW YORK — The NFL, not surprisingly in the midst of a rise in covid-19 cases, has looked into other potential sites for next month’s Super Bowl. That’s not unusual because the league does so every year. But with Los Angeles the site for this year’s title game, and restrictions...

CINCINNATI — The AFC North champion Cincinnati Bengals won’t play quarterback Joe Burrow in the regular-season finale against the Cleveland Browns on Sunday to make sure he is healthy for the first round of the playoffs. Burrow is nursing aches and pains, including his right knee and pinky finger on...