The Lions might be wishing they’d mended fences with Calvin Johnson a long time ago. As the ice finally thaws between the Lions and the Hall of Fame receiver, the benefits are emerging. Johnson, for example, is saying he wants to help current Lions receiver Jameson Williams. “I connected with [Williams] yesterday really for the [more]
Kyle Larson, one of seven Cup drivers entered in Saturday's Xfinity Series race, will lead the starting field to the green flag at Sonoma Raceway.
Manchester City is on the chase for a historic treble and standing in the way is Inter Milan, one of Europe's precious few clubs to claim such an honor.
"You really just have to take it one possession at a time. Forget the game. It’s just one possession, one quarter, half to half," Kevin Love said.
The NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars could be looking for a temporary place to play if its stadium is renovated. Daytona International Speedway may be an option.
Yes, Daytona International Speedway could be a temporary location for games of the National Football League. Via Dustin Long of NBC Sports’ NASCAR Talk, Daytona president Frank Kelleher confirmed interest in hosting Jaguars games while the team’s stadium in Jacksonville is being renovated. “Daytona International Speedway is a world-renowned sports and entertainment venue and hosts [more]
Eric Carmona recently died in a car accident. He was 30. Carmona, known as the founder of the tongue-partially-in-cheek TuAnon fan club in support of Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, left behind a wife and four young children. A GoFundMe campaign, to which Tua donated $10,000, has now surpassed $100,000. You can contribute here, if you’d like. [more]
NASCAR displays the counterfeit part discovered on Chase Briscoe's car after the Coca-Cola 600 and showed what was wrong with the piece.
When Bills running back Latavius Murray signed in Buffalo last month, it was a homecoming for a player who grew up two hours away in Onondaga, New York. “I’m happy to be a part of this great organization, this great fan base” Murray told the Buffalo News. “Happy to be back in New York. I’ll [more]
Manchester City are the clear favorites to win the Champions League Final in Istanbul, and the oddsmakers are daring prognosticators to select Inter Milan.
Two weekends ago, Rams defensive coordinator Raheem Morris helped save the life of a three-year-old Wyatt Stanley, who was drowning in a pool at a Las Vegas hotel. On Friday, Good Morning America televised a reunion of Morris and the family. Morris found an AED while Dr. Andrew Oleksyn, an ER physician who was on [more]
Details for Sunday's Cup race on the 1.99-mile road course in Northern California.
When the Vikings not-surprisingly jettisoned coach Mike Zimmer and somewhat-surprisingly dumped G.M. Rick Spielman after the 2021 season, the new regime kept around an unexpectedly high number of existing players. This year, G.M. Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and coach Kevin O’Connell are tearing it down, a year after an unlikely 13-4 season. Gone, to date, are running [more]
Denver will not melt under pressure like every other team the Heat faced this postseason.
It didn’t take long for Jets cornerback Sauce Gardner and wide receiver Garrett Wilson to impress Aaron Rodgers. Rodgers said that after observing Gardner and Wilson at Organized Team Activities, he believes both of them have the potential to be the best players in the NFL at their positions. “We’ve got, at some point possibly, [more]
Saturday features Cup and Xfinity teams on track. The day ends with the Xfinity race on the road course.
New Ravens offensive coordinator Todd Monken is giving Lamar Jackson more authority to change plays than he had in the past, and Jackson says he appreciates the confidence the team is showing in him. “Coach [Monken] is basically just giving us the keys to the offense, really,” Jackson said, via ESPN. “I’m loving it.” Ravens [more]
If it wasn’t already clear that the NFL’s gambling policy is a big deal, the events of this past week have made it abundantly clear. On Friday, Panthers coach Frank Reich chimed in, confirming the obvious about a policy that has resulted in six player suspensions, the suspension of a coach, and at least two [more]
Last year, new Jaguars coach Doug Pederson scored points with the veterans by giving them a pass for mandatory minicamp. The end result was a berth in the divisional round of the playoffs. So Pederson is doing it again. Via Demetrius Harvey of the Florida Times-Union, Pederson has once again excused most of the team’s [more]
The 49ers soon will own a different kind of football team. According to Reuters, the 49ers have reached an agreement to buy full equity in Leeds United. 49ers Enterprises first acquired a stake in the club in 2018. The ownership had increased to 44 percent. The 49ers will now buy the remaining 56 percent from [more]
The Nuggets were -1 in more than five minutes without Jokić in the fourth. Bruce Brown just kept executing the offense.
Miles Sanders played 57 percent of the Eagles’ offensive snaps last season and set career highs with 1,269 rushing yards and 11 rushing touchdowns. But in the postseason, it was Kenneth Gainwell who got more of the running back snaps. Sanders played 76 offensive snaps in three games, while Gainwell saw 95. In the Super [more]
Under the NFL’s three-factor formula for determining the universe of teams that can be forced to do Hard Knocks, this year there are four. And three of them have said they don’t want to do it. The Bears (via chairman George McCaskey), the Saints (via coach Dennis Allen), and the Jets (via coach Robert Saleh) [more]
Dalvin Cook is available to sign with any team, at any time. That’s not likely to last very long. Unlike other free-agent options at running back, such as Ezekiel Elliott and Kareem Hunt, Cook has plenty of tread on the tires. He also has a fully-repaired shoulder, which will allow him to be 100 percent [more]
Alpha Prime Racing owner Tommy Joe Martins called the team's recent travel woes 'probably the toughest professional week I’ve had of my NASCAR career.'
