7:20 AM ET The conversation started casually, as it usually does whenever Curtis Booth inquires about whether a player wants his cleats to look like more than what comes out of the box from Nike, Adidas or UnderArmour. Kenny Osuwah, assistant equipment manager for the Atlanta Falcons, reaches out. Or sometimes Booth hears from the
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12:56 AM ET ESPN News Services INGLEWOOD, Calif. — A San Francisco 49ers fan is in a medically-induced coma after he was punched during a parking lot confrontation with an apparent Los Angeles Rams fan at Sunday’s NFC Championship Game, the mayor of Inglewood said Thursday. Daniel Luna, 40, remained hospitalized after the fight while
10:20 PM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Doug Pederson, who won a Super Bowl with Philadelphia, has been hired as the new head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, the team announced Thursday. The hiring comes 49 days after the team fired Urban Meyer and 35 days after Pederson first interviewed with the Jaguars. Pederson spent the
10:08 PM ET Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale, the Houston furniture salesman known to place giant hedge bets, has done it again — this time with the biggest single wager he’s ever placed. On Thursday, McIngvale drove across the Texas border into Louisiana, pulled over at a gas station, logged onto his mobile betting account with
8:57 PM ET Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam fired back at former coach Hue Jackson on Thursday, saying that Jackson “has never accepted blame for one thing” and that the claim he paid Jackson to lose games is “an absolute falsehood.” “Hue Jackson has never ever accepted any responsibility for our record during that time
6:59 PM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The New York Giants strongly denied any wrongdoing in their interview process with former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores and called the allegations against them disturbing and simply false in a second statement released Thursday evening. The Giants laid out the timeline of events as a key contention
5:53 PM ET LAS VEGAS — While several prominent Las Vegas Raiders players were vocal in their support of former interim coach Rich Bisaccia getting the job on a permanent basis, defensive end Maxx Crosby and receiver Hunter Renfrow insisted there was no ill will toward incoming coach Josh McDaniels. Even as no Raiders players
3:03 PM ET ESPN News Services Former Washington Commanders employee Tiffani Johnston made new allegations against team owner Dan Snyder on Thursday at a roundtable before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, saying he placed his hand on her thigh without her consent at a team dinner and that he pushed her toward his
4:39 PM ET WASHINGTON, D.C. — Washington Commanders president Jason Wright said the numbers suggest the NFL’s system designed to help minorities isn’t working well, but he added that there’s a quick solution to improving diversity in the higher ranks of an organization, including head coaches. While addressing a crowd at the Economic Club of
1:48 PM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The New York Giants are set to hire Mike Kafka from the Kansas City Chiefs to be their offensive coordinator under new head coach Brian Daboll, a source confirmed to ESPN. Kafka was the Chiefs’ quarterbacks coach/pass game coordinator the past two seasons. He has been an assistant