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By Ken Maguire
Dedrick Dodge has two Super Bowl rings — not bad for a guy who was working at an Anheuser-Busch plant after his Florida State career.
So how did Dodge go from being passed over by every NFL team o […]

By Teresa M. Walker
Playing a season through a pandemic did not take the NFL’s attention off other health issues, specifically concussions, with the league finding those dropped about 5% in 2020.
Jeff Miller, N […]

By Tim Dahlberg
The Super Bowl is always defined by numbers, this one perhaps more than others because there’s one number — positive tests for COVID-19 this week — that no one wants to see.
Still, this Super […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs placed a pair of backups, wide receiver Demarcus Robinson and center Daniel Kilgore, on the COVID-19 list as close contacts Monday as they begin final preparations f […]

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tom Brady says his parents are doing well after recovering from COVID-19 early this season and will be among family in the stands to root for him and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in next week’s Sup […]

New York Giants co-owner John Mara could have been speaking for all in the tight-lipped world of NFL finances by saying his club’s pandemic-induced losses in revenue have been substantial but not crippling.
The b […]

By Dave Skretta
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs had a pretty good idea what kind of COVID-19 protocols they would have to wade through in defense of their Super Bowl championship the moment they f […]

Washington promoted Jennifer King to assistant running backs coach Tuesday, making her the first Black female assistant position coach in the NFL.
She is the second woman in league history to be an assistant […]

By Rob Maaddi
The NFL partnered with the Centers for Disease Control to share its extensive work to reach the Super Bowl on time during a pandemic-altered season, hoping the general public can learn from its […]

By Josh Dubow
Fourth downs in the NFL used to be reserved for kicks, except in the most dire of circumstances.
But with teams scoring at a record pace and becoming more analytics friendly each year, teams are […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Sarah Thomas will cap her sixth NFL season by becoming the first female to officiate the Super Bowl in NFL history.
Thomas, a down judge, is part of the officiating crew announced Tuesday by the N […]

By Barry Wilner
Gutsy or insane?
Depends on the outcome.
Andy Reid’s gamble on fourth-and-inches at the Kansas City 48 with 1:14 remaining in Sunday’s 22-17 divisional-round win over Cleveland fits the cat […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Sarah Fuller, the first woman to score in a Power Five conference football game, says she’s been invited to attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednes […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Even after canceling the Tournament of Roses parade during the summer and scaling back the pregame festivities normally associated with the Rose Bowl, David Eads and his staff were still p […]

By Eric Olson
One college football season just ended, and another one starts in just over a month.
All but a few teams in the Football Championship Subdivision shut down in the fall because of the COVID-19 […]

By Rob Maaddi
The NFL has clarified its eligibility requirements for the draft to allow college players who would’ve played a fourth season during the pandemic-altered 2020 season to be eligible.
In a memo s […]

By Steven Wine
The end of the college football season began with a scene that would have looked bizarre 12 months ago — and will likely appear just as strange looking back years from now — but seemed entirely unr […]

By Rob Maadi
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Doug Pederson lost his job less than three years after he led the Philadelphia Eagles to the franchise’s only Super Bowl title.
Pederson was 42-37-1 in five seasons. He gui […]

By Paul Newberry
Let’s just get this over with.
There’s nothing to celebrate as college football hobbles to the finish line of a grim season in the midst of a horrific pandemic, which is only getting worse as  […]

By Joe Reedy
Regular-season ratings for NFL games declined this season following two straight years of increases. But in a year that saw the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and a presidential election, the […]