The hits just keep on coming for the NFL, which only recently took down a 2014 video from its website titled “Rookies learn life lessons from Sapp and Carter” in which Cris Carter, the ESPN analyst and ex-NFL star, stressed the importance of having “a fall guy in the crew.”
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The Green Bay Packers confirmed Monday that No. 1 wide receiver Jordy Nelson will miss the season with an injured right knee.
USC head football coach Steve Sarkisian issued an apology on Sunday for his behavior at Saturday night’s Salute to Troy event.
When Xzaviar Campbell saw his fellow UNLV freshman running back and Houstonian Lexington Thomas pull off an amazing run Friday morning at Rebel Park, he knew he had to respond with one of his own.
Kent Baer would be smart to remind those UNLV football players he now coaches that you can’t begin the next chapter of your life by continuing to read the last one. One can only take so many horror stories.
EA Sports released a faux, over-the-top trailer for “Madden: The Movie” on Friday to help promote its Madden NFL 16 video game, which comes out Tuesday.
Steve Smith Sr. is retiring after this season, his 15th in the NFL, but the Baltimore Ravens receiver’s mouth shows no signs of slowing down.
Moises Alou and Jorge Posada each admitted to urinating on their hands to improve their batting grips, but the ex-big leaguers have got nothing on Ben Jones.
A jury in Waco, Texas that convicted a Baylor University football player of sexual assault heard testimony on Friday as it weighs his punishment, which could include up to 20 years in prison.
Bishop Gorman junior quarterback Tate Martell orally committed to Texas A&M on Thursday evening.
James Harrison on Monday made national news for something other than trying to add depth behind younger outside linebackers in Pittsburgh, writing on an Instagram post that he was taking away the participation trophies until his boys “EARN a real trophy.” The majority of responses that followed were as predictable as they were shortsighted.
Houston Texans coach Bill O’Brien could be headed for H-E-double hockey sticks — or at least he’ll catch plenty of it from his mother — unless he starts watching his mouth on HBO’s “Hard Knocks” show.
If we didn’t know any better, we’d think it was Bad Comedian Eli Manning talking and not New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning when he spoke recently about the personal hygiene perils of being under center.
Former NFL quarterback Erik Kramer was treated for a gunshot wound following an apparent failed suicide, authorities said.
While visiting family and friends in the summer of 2014, UNLV quarterback Blake Decker wondered aloud what he would look like if he let his hair grow long.