The San Francisco 49ers released outside linebacker Aldon Smith on Friday after he was arrested by Santa Clara, Calif., police on Thursday night on suspicion of hit-and-run, DUI and vandalism.
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Vanderbilt University’s football team apologized for tweeting on Thursday “we don’t need your permission,” a phrase that raised concerns about its attitude toward sexual assault two years after four former players were first accused of rape.
The NFL will play five regular-season games — one per season — in Mexico starting in 2017 or 2018, according to a report from the Spanish news organization AS.com.
Being bad and boring is an unenviable combination for any team, the same way that being dumb, drunk and broke is no way to go through life. The UNLV football team is almost always terrible and rarely entertaining, so that’s why Tony Sanchez was the right hire.
Our long wait is over. Football is back.
UNLV football fans are constantly reminded these are different times under first-year coach Tony Sanchez, from his aggressive approach to recruiting to his willingness to promote the program at every opportunity. And now one more thing.
Tom Brady threw jabs at Peyton Manning and Mark Brunell amid a prodigious pile of the Patriot quarterback’s private emails that were made public Tuesday as part of the NFL Players Association’s lawsuit against the NFL over Brady’s four-game suspension.
Former Canyon Springs High School defensive lineman Melvin Johnson was UNLV first-year coach Tony’s Sanchez’s first commitment. But Johnson failed to qualify academically, and he said Wednesday he will attend Victor Valley College in Victorville, Calif.
Former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice believes he has changed his ways since the domestic violence incident that cost him his NFL career.
When you’ve been down for as long as UNLV has in football, you’re going to have to take an occasional risk on the recruiting trail — you might have to accept an Alabama reject or two, or maybe go for a quick fix via the junior colleges. Longtime observers of the local football scene are aware of this.
The Baltimore Ravens continue to deny tipping off the Indianapolis Colts about deflated footballs before the AFC Championship against the New England Patriots.
The National Football League players union on Tuesday made public a full transcript of star New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s June 23 appeal of his four-game “Deflategate” suspension before league Commissioner Roger Goodell.
With the return of Jim Harbaugh to Michigan, few fan bases are more pumped for football season than backers of Big Blue.
Houston Texans running back Arian Foster suffered a serious groin injury in Monday’s training camp practice and might require surgery.
Tony Romo was apparently joking when he blamed an enlarged sty under his left eye on “wearing too much makeup” but the Dallas Cowboys quarterback — who returned to practice Saturday — did undergo quite the transformation for his new DirecTV commercial.
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