Associated Press

By Ralph Russo
College football will attempt to return to normal in 2021 after a season roiled by the pandemic while also adapting to a new paradigm in which the athletes have more power than ever before.
A […]

By Tom Withers
CLEVELAND (AP) — Baker Mayfield hasn’t thrown a football in four days. The Browns haven’t practiced this week.
Cleveland’s return to the NFL playoffs feels cursed.
For the second straight day, th […]

By Dave Campbell
For the eight NFL teams guaranteed to host at least one game in the playoffs this month, the comfort of familiar surroundings sure can’t hurt their quest to reach the Super Bowl.
Staying in t […]

By Tom Withers
CLEVELAND (AP) — Amid a masked, muted celebration in the locker room after the Browns ended the NFL’s longest playoff drought, coach Kevin Stefanski asked for a game ball and then told Pro Bowl gua […]

By Barry Wilner
The Associated Press will hand out its individual NFL awards on the night before the Super Bowl in Tampa. Until then, here are some off-the-beaten track honors to consider.
BEST GAME: In Week 9, […]

By Barry Wilner
During the summer, with baseball just returning from its hiatus and the NHL and NBA scrambling to build “bubbles” to complete their interrupted seasons, many scoffed at the prospect of the NFL goi […]

By Arnie Stapleton
Through plenty of potholes, seas of empty seats and enough piped-in crowd noise to make broadcasts sound like sitcom laugh tracks, the NFL is about to put the wacky and worrisome 2020 season […]

By Ralph Russo
The Saturday night after winning an afternoon home game is one of the best times to be a college football player.
Family and loved ones usually await with congratulatory hugs. Then there is a nice […]

The Music City Bowl between Missouri and Iowa was canceled Sunday because COVID-19 issues left the Tigers unable to play.
The game scheduled for Wednesday in Nashville, Tennessee, is the second bowl called off […]

DALLAS (AP) — Ty Jordan, a star freshman running back for the University of Utah who grew up in the Dallas area, has died, school officials announced Saturday.
Authorities in Texas and Utah have not released d […]

By Barry Wilner
Now this is a week NFL fans can truly celebrate.
First off, it appears the league will complete the 2020 portion of the schedule on time and with no cancellations. Secondly, there are only two […]

By Joe Reedy
Fred Gaudelli wasn’t worried if NBC could successfully air “Sunday Night Football” games in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. His bigger concern was if the NFL could make it through the seaso […]

By Eddie Pells
The coronavirus was only one factor in a chain of events that consumed college sports in 2020, and is poised to do more of the same in 2021 and beyond.
The virus, combined with the harsh spotlight […]

By Barry Wilner
Many NFL players have been leaders on the social justice front, and some of them are being considered for the NFL’s Walter Payton Man of the Year award. None of them is dedicated to the cause w […]

By Ralph Russo
Back in August, when there was still doubt about whether a college football would be played during the pandemic, Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said he would look at the season as a success if he […]

By Ken Maguire
When Brandon Collier first called college football coaches on behalf of European kids, one of them asked, “Are they kickers and punters?”
He doesn’t get that question anymore.
Europe has becom […]

By Steve Magargee
The personal touch that helps coaches sell their programs to blue-chip prospects is missing this year.
Restrictions brought about by the pandemic prevent face-to-face communication between […]

By Teresa M. Walker

NFL teams won’t be allowed to create local bubbles during the postseason by mandating that players stay in a hotel, except for the night before a game.
“Clubs may not require players and s […]

By Teresa M. Walker
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Sarah Fuller became the first woman to score in a Power Five conference football game, cleanly kicking a pair of extra points for Vanderbilt in a 42-17 loss to T […]

Detroit Lions defensive end Everson Griffen was placed on the COVID-19 list a day before he was expected to play a key role against Green Bay.

The Lions announced Griffen is on the list created for players who […]