MIAMI — The NFL’s Rooney Rule is well intended, and absolutely needed to encourage diversity in positions of power within a league that has admitted it has had, and still has discriminatory hiring practices despite its minority filled workforce.

However, the rule that forces NFL owners and their search committee to interview not one, but ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — When he says he's just focused on the Super Bowl, you believe him. When he emphasizes that he's been waiting his whole life to coach in this game, you're confident he is not distracted.

But Seahawks offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak has almost certainly coached his last game in Seattle for the foreseeable future. Reports ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Ravens interviewed 20 head coaching candidates this offseason. No other NFL team came close.

The size of Baltimore’s search reflected owner Steve Bisciotti’s dynamic hiring approach: gather pertinent information first, then make one of the most important decisions in recent franchise history.

The Ravens still ...Read more

DETROIT — After getting in an altercation on the sidelines of Ford Field, Detroit Lions fan Ryan Kennedy is officially taking Pittsburgh Steelers receiver DK Metcalf and several others — including Ford Field — to court and seeking an excess of $100 million in damages.

Kennedy, a Lions’ season-ticket holder for 15 years, is suing Metcalf...Read more

NEW YORK — NFL commissioner Roger Goodell championed Grammy Award-winner Bad Bunny‘s ability to “unite people” after the artist condemned President Donald Trump’s ICE raids on America’s citizens ahead of his Super Bowl halftime appearance.

“Bad Bunny … is one of the greatest artists in the world, and that’s one of the reasons ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — In this week of pomp and circumstance, this parade of Alcatraz visits and Radio Row and Dodgeball matches for 300-pound grown kids, nobody is having more fun than Garett Bolles.

On Monday, he palled around with contemporaries at a Pro Bowl practice for the first time in his career. He’s up to walk the red carpet at Thursday�...Read more

Bill Belichick isn't the only key figure from the New England Patriots dynasty who won't be getting into the Pro Football Hall of Fame this year.

Team owner Robert Kraft also failed to receive enough votes to be included in the Class of 2026, according to multiple media outlets. The inductees will be announced Thursday night at the NFL Honors ...Read more

NEW YORK — Patrick Mahomes’ offensive coordinator is coming to New York to coach Jaxson Dart.

John Harbaugh is hiring the Chiefs’ Matt Nagy to be the Giants’ new offensive coordinator.

Harbaugh is providing a soft landing for a fellow member of the Andy Reid coaching tree after Kansas City did not renew Nagy’s contract as a non-...Read more

ARLINGTON, Texas — The potential life-changing effects caused by CTE, or any other ailment associated with football, have not deterred America’s appetite to play or watch the game, which is why the NFL, NCAA and most likely your neighborhood high school are adding weeks to their respective seasons.

When there is this much money to be made, ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Drake Maye and his New England Patriots coaches don’t expect his injured throwing shoulder to limit him in Super Bowl LX.

The New England quarterback returned to practice Monday at Stanford University after sitting out last Friday’s session with an illness, along with his shoulder issue. The Patriots were not required ...Read more

DENVER — Davis Webb has taken his next step up in the Denver Broncos’ staff hierarchy.

Head coach Sean Payton officially hired Webb as Denver’s next offensive coordinator, the team announced Monday afternoon. The move comes less than a week after Payton fired offensive coordinator and longtime loyalist Joe Lombardi, setting in motion an ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Around 100 community members rallied in downtown Monday to protest the possibility of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents coming to the Bay Area during this weekend’s Super Bowl.

The protesters lead chants of “ICE out of the Bay, ICE out of San Jose” as music played in the background, with attendees waving ...Read more

NEW YORK — The NFL and commissioner Roger Goodell both made weak and cautious statements Monday in their first comments on New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch’s email correspondences with Jeffrey Epstein that were released three days prior.

The league pre-empted Goodell’s annual Super Bowl press conference with 21 empty words that seemed...Read more

NEW YORK — Russell Wilson issued a stern denial of any association with Jeffrey Epstein after emails released by the Department of Justice referenced the quarterback’s alleged interest in purchasing a plane from the disgraced financier.

Multiple emails referring to Wilson were exchanged by Epstein, his longtime pilot Larry Visoski and his ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Coach Sean McVay and general manager Les Snead signed extensions that will keep them with the Los Angeles Rams for at least several more years.

Will quarterback Matthew Stafford decide to return and join them for an 18th NFL season?

"Our hope is that he does," McVay said Monday during a videoconference with reporters, "But I ...Read more

MIAMI — The last time the world saw Nathaniel Hackett on the main stage he ran a troublesome offense for the New York Jets, which was one of the league’s bottom-dwellers.

And that was after being run out of Denver, where he didn’t even finish his one-year tenure as the Broncos’ head coach.

The son of former University of Pittsburgh and...Read more

DENVER — Last one left, turn out the lights.

Over the past two weeks, the Broncos have lost five coaches. Coach Sean Payton fired offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi, receivers coach Keary Colbert and cornerbacks coach Addison Lynch, and senior offensive assistant Pete Carmichael and secondary coach Jim Leonhard are headed to Buffalo with ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — There were vivid flashback moments within this culminating football season, strange but still eidetic sports memories I'm only now coming to understand, having to do with kiddie soccer.

You heard me.

My wife and I are standing on the sidelines of some suburban greenscape, in some previous century when one of the boys was playing...Read more

LAS VEGAS — After all these weeks, after all the interviews and gossip about who it might be, the Las Vegas Raiders might have themselves a coach. Might be who they wanted all along.

It could also work out to be the perfect choice.

Seattle offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak is apparently it — he can’t sign a deal or be officially ...Read more