SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- What a perfect way for the 49ers to commemorate the silver anniversary of their last Super Bowl win: they're returning Feb. 2 to the same field in Miami, in search of another sterling silver Lombardi Trophy.

Sunday's 37-20, NFC Championship win over the Green Bay Packers locked the 49ers into their Super Bowl LIV date ...Read more

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- No one -- not even the most pious member of the Faithful -- saw this coming from the 49ers this season.

San Francisco was supposed to be a surprise team, at best, in 2019; a plucky upstart, good for eight or nine wins and perhaps a trip to the playoffs. Maybe quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo could even win them a game if they ...Read more

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- The sequel was nearly equal.

The San Fransisco 49ers cliched the NFC's spot in Super Bowl LIV on Sunday by routing Green Bay in a manner roughly as convincing as their blowout of the Packers during the regular season.

Raheem Mostert became the first player in NFL history to rush for 200 yards and score four touchdowns ...Read more

By Monday evening, the seafood restaurants on the Mobile Bay causeway -- along with seemingly every hotel lobby in the area -- will be overrun with people wearing NFL team logos on their polo shirts.

Tuesday morning's weigh-in officially kicks off Senior Bowl week in Mobile, Ala., and less officially, the NFL draft season.

The delineation isn'...Read more

New Browns coach Kevin Stefanski is assembling his staff by enlisting coaches with whom he has history.

Stefanski is on track to hire San Francisco 49ers defensive backs coach and passing game coordinator Joe Woods as the new defensive coordinator of the Browns, ESPN reported Sunday.

The Niners played the Green Bay Packers on Sunday night for ...Read more

Tom Brady to the Las Vegas Raiders?

You wouldn't want to invest monetarily or emotionally in that eventuality. But as you wait impatiently for Conference Championship Sunday to launch, yeah, it's a solid diversion.

Here is the creaky underpinnings on which this fantastical rumor resides.

According to CBS Boston affiliate WBZ, Brady was in Sin...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Pitchers and catchers report Sunday.

In the NFL, that means four of the league's most intriguing quarterbacks -- Kansas City's Patrick Mahomes, Tennessee's Ryan Tannehill, San Francisco's Jimmy Garoppolo, and Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers -- along with a truckload of sure-handed receivers are one victory away from Super Bowl LIV...Read more

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- The 49ers went 10-22 during the first two years of coach Kyle Shanahan's regime. They have a mostly young roster, a quarterback going through his first full season a starter and a head coach appearing in the NFC Championship for the first time at his position.

Yet Shanahan's team was noticeably relaxed this week. Receiver...Read more

While Odell Beckham Jr. prepared for his first training camp with the Browns in late July, the star wide receiver lamented media portraying him as a bad teammate throughout his NFL career.

As Beckham defended his character, he said, "I've never been arrested."

Beckham's boast felt like a jinx a couple of days ago, but it turned out not to be ...Read more

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- It took more than three years, a trade to the opposite coast and a quarterback switch for him to finally become an NFL starter.

Things happened a little faster in college for Jimmy Garoppolo.

"It was a completely open competition -- for about five passes," Dino Babers said. "Then the competition was closed."

Babers had ...Read more

BALTIMORE -- The Ravens ended the regular season with the NFL's best record and could enter next season as Super Bowl favorites. They smashed offensive records with quarterback Lamar Jackson and will have him back as the centerpiece of a potent attack. They had maybe the league's best coordinator pairing and lost neither to a head coaching job. ...Read more