Jets star safety Jamal Adams requests tradeVideo
NEW YORK — A person with direct knowledge of the situation said All-Pro safety Jamal Adams has requested a trade from the New York Jets amid a contract dispute. The 24-year-old Adams has been seeking a contract extension, and the Jets have said they want the safety to remain a...
Dr. Anthony Fauci: ‘Football may not happen’ if there’s a second coronavirus wave
Dr. Anthony Fauci might not be too popular among sports fans right now. Days after recommending that baseball wrap up its season early because of an expected second wave of the coronavirus in the fall, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases had this to say...
49ers receiver Deebo Samuel has surgery on broken footVideo
San Francisco 49ers receiver Deebo Samuel underwent surgery Thursday after breaking a bone in his left foot during informal workouts with teammates in Tennessee. The 49ers confirmed a report from NFL Network that Samuel suffered a Jones Fracture, which is a break between the base and the middle part of...
L.A. story: Rams, Chargers to appear on ‘Hard Knocks’
LOS ANGELES — It will be lights, cameras, Los Angeles again for “Hard Knocks,” but for the first time the show will feature two franchises. With the Rams and Chargers both moving into SoFI Stadium in Inglewood this year, HBO and NFL Films announced Thursday that the show will include...
Anthony Lynn: Colin Kaepernick fits Chargers style, no workouts plannedVideo
COSTA MESA, Calif. — Los Angeles Chargers coach Anthony Lynn said Wednesday that Colin Kaepernick is on the team’s workout list because he is the style of quarterback Los Angeles is looking for, but the coach hasn’t spoken to him yet, and right now nothing is scheduled. The Chargers could...
First Call: ‘Madden Curse’ for Lamar Jackson? Reliving Jaromir Jagr’s draft. Pro Bowl to Vegas.
In Wednesday’s “First Call,” we relive the Jaromir Jagr draft of 1990. The Pro Bowl has a new home. Will the Madden Curse strike Lamar Jackson? And looking at Tom Brady as a Buccaneer. On Tuesday, the Penguins celebrated the 30th anniversary of drafting legendary winger Jaromir Jagr. On this...
2021 Pro Bowl to be played at new Las Vegas stadiumVideo
LAS VEGAS — The Pro Bowl is headed to Las Vegas. The NFL announced Tuesday the 2021 all-star game will be played at the new Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Sunday, Jan. 31 — one week before the Super Bowl in Tampa. Plans include what the league calls a...
Reigning NFL MVP Lamar Jackson will appear on Madden 21 cover
Lamar Jackson? Of course, Lamar Jackson. With no mystery. The EA Sports Madden cover release usually carries some suspense, but Jackson let it slip a couple of months ago that he had been approached about appearing on this year’s game cover. On Tuesday, EA Sports made it official: The Baltimore...
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell encourages teams to sign Colin Kaepernick
Roger Goodell would like to see Colin Kaepernick back in the NFL this season. The NFL commissioner said during ESPN’s “The Return of Sports” special Monday that he is encouraging teams to sign the 32-year old quarterback, who hasn’t played the past three seasons. Kaepernick was with the San Francisco...
Agent: Cowboys star Ezekiel Elliott tested positive for coronavirusVideo
Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott tested positive for the coronavirus, according to his agent. Rocky Arceneaux told the NFL Network on Monday that Elliott was feeling OK and recovering. Arceneaux did not immediately return messages seeking comment, but a person with direct knowledge of the diagnosis told the Associated...
Trump says he won’t watch NFL, U.S. soccer if players kneel during anthemVideo
President Donald Trump said he won’t be watching the NFL or U.S. soccer this season if players kneel during the national anthem. After two congressmen slammed U.S. Soccer, which oversees the U.S. men’s and women’s teams, for changing its policy requiring players to stand during the playing of “The Star-Spangled...
Browns’ Baker Mayfield ‘absolutely’ will kneel during national anthemVideo
CLEVELAND — Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield plans to kneel during the national anthem this upcoming season to support protests of social injustice, police brutality and racism. In answering a post from a fan on his Instagram account Saturday that pleaded with him not to kneel, Mayfield responded: “Pull your...
TV money gives NFL leg up if fans can’t fill team’s coffersVideo
DALLAS — Timing favored the NFL over other major pro sports leagues in trying to figure out how to keep the coronavirus pandemic from wrecking the 2020 season. America’s most popular sport has another big advantage if the games are played: TV money. While NFL owners could lose billions collectively...
Carlynton grad Angela Baker gets chance to coach with Cleveland Browns
Angela Baker’s journey through football has provided her with a lot of exciting experiences, but her most recent one might be the best yet. On Monday, Baker, a Carlynton alum and Pittsburgh Passion quarterback, started working with the Cleveland Browns through the Bill Walsh Diversity Coach Fellowship, a program that...
Fantasy Sports podcast: MLB frustrations, running back contract woes, Ryder Cup
We bust out the time machine for this week’s fantasy sports podcast with Jeff Erickson of RotoWire. First, we go into the future, forecasting what fantasy strategies may be like in a baseball season that lasts between 48 to 80-plus games. The big variable seems to be pitchers. With the...
Bills QB Josh Allen stays busy despite pandemic restrictionsVideo
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Josh Allen has hardly spent this coronavirus pandemic-altered offseason in self-isolation. The Buffalo Bills quarterback, instead, kept himself busy in seeking advice from Peyton Manning and Brett Favre on Zoom calls, to gathering his teammates together for workouts on both coasts. It all has been done with...
Despite far more support, kneeling might not be widespread in NFLVideo
NFL players who want to kneel during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racism have far more support than Colin Kaepernick did four years ago. Still, it might not be widespread for a few reasons. If organizations insist on unity, as some coaches and front-office executives have mentioned,...
Browns executive Adofo-Mensah proud to be part of diverse front officeVideo
CLEVELAND — The messages of congratulations came from strangers. They caught Kwesi Adofo-Mensah off guard. Hired last month as the new vice president of football operations for the Cleveland Browns after seven seasons with the San Francisco 49ers, Adofo-Mensah was inundated with unexpected notes from people he didn’t know. “A...
NFL extends virtual offseason until June 26Video
The NFL extended virtual offseason programs for teams through June 26 but no further. Although team facilities have opened for key personnel, coaches and players rehabilitating injuries, healthy players have been barred from those complexes because of the covid-19 pandemic. The remote programs have taken the place of on-site work,...
Mark Madden: Signing Colin Kaepernick now would put NFL teams in difficult position
Colin Kaepernick hasn’t played in the NFL since 2016. While he hardly sparkled then, Kaepernick wasn’t as useless as his 1-10 record quarterbacking San Francisco might indicate. It was a reflection of his team. His other numbers were solid: 16 touchdowns against four interceptions, for example. Kaepernick’s passer rating of...
DeAndre Hopkins, Deshaun Watson join petition calling for name change at ClemsonVideo
There’s a reason DeAndre Hopkins never says Clemson when being introduced before NFL games. Hopkins and fellow Clemson alum Deshaun Watson, like many other Tigers past and present, are ashamed of the school’s history — specifically of notorious slave owner and former U.S. vice president John C. Calhoun. They’ve joined...
Analysis: Colin Kaepernick has stronger platform outside footballVideo
It certainly would be a difficult decision for Colin Kaepernick to make. Yet if he comes to the realization his platform of advocacy is now stronger than ever, attempting a return to the NFL might be unwise. Kaepernick has been a leader in the fight for social justice by people...
Pro Football Hall of Fame to reopen on Wednesday
CANTON, Ohio — The Pro Football Hall of Fame will reopen Wednesday after nearly a three-month closure caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The hall closed on March 16, but permission has been granted by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine for museums, science centers and zoos to open. “Since its grand opening...
First Call: A dilemma for some players to consider before kneeling at NFL games
For “First Call” on Tuesday, I simply wanted to respond to a question I got in my email inbox from a reader. Albert — who emailed under the pseudonym “ALB” — posed the following conundrum for NFL players who may be planning on kneeling during the national anthem to start...
Column: Roger Goodell’s mea culpa is a good start — and no moreVideo
Never thought we’d see the day when typing the words “Roger Goodell” and “daring” in the same sentence wasn’t the set-up for a punchline. But here we are. Four years after piling on a few dozen men who were already down — on one knee — the NFL commissioner posed...
