11:30 AM ET Marty Schottenheimer famously told his Browns, “There’s a gleam, men. There’s a gleam. Let’s get the gleam.” Bob Golic always wondered what exactly that meant. “I think we all just assumed that the gleam was the shine off the Super Bowl trophy,” the former Cleveland Pro Bowl defensive tackle under Schottenheimer said
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11:47 AM ET HOUSTON — Texans president Jamey Rootes has resigned from the team, it was announced Wednesday. “The past two decades have been an amazing blessing for me and my family and I have the [McNair family] to thank for that,” Rootes said in a statement. “It has been an honor to serve them
6:00 AM ET WEBBERVILLE, Mich. — Calvin Johnson walks into the brightly lit, orange-hued Flower Room 1 and begins to get excited. In front of him are 180 marijuana plants, all lined up in rows of three or four, broken down in identical, segmented trays for optimal growth. Clad in a mask, black scrubs and
6:00 AM ET FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Let’s call it, “The Sam Darnold irony.” In our NFL Next Gen Stats world, where analytics are becoming increasingly popular in player evaluation, the New York Jets‘ quarterback stands as an outlier. The numbers, whether newfangled metrics or old-school stats, say Darnold has played his position at a
7:08 PM ET KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs placed outside linebackers coach Britt Reid on administrative leave following last week’s three-car accident that left a 5-year-old girl in critical condition. “We remain in the process of gathering information on the incident, and we will continue to assist local authorities as requested,” the
6:27 PM ET Terez Paylor, a national NFL writer for Yahoo Sports and Pro Football Hall of Fame voter, died unexpectedly Tuesday at age 37. Paylor worked for the Kansas City Star from 2006 to 2018, spending the last five seasons cover the Chiefs for the paper. He left to join Yahoo Sports, where he
6:32 PM ET Washington Football Team defensive end Chase Young, whose father was in law enforcement, testified before the Maryland House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, expressing support for police reform. Teammates Nick Sundberg and Dontrelle Inman also voiced their support for House Bill 670, which would repeal the Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights, among
4:16 PM ET Brady HendersonESPN Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson said he’s frustrated by amount of times he’s been hit throughout his career and expressed his desire to be more involved with the team’s personnel decisions. “Like any player, you never want to get hit,” Wilson told reporters via Zoom on Tuesday. “That’s the reality
4:44 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will celebrate their 31-9 Super Bowl LV victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in the most “Tampa” way possible: a boat parade. A Tampa official told ESPN that the boat parade on the Hillsborough River, which is along the downtown waterfront, will happen Wednesday. No
5:49 PM ET KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs tried to downplay the injury to Patrick Mahomes as the playoffs unfolded. The fact he’s having surgery on Wednesday for turf toe reveals a bigger problem than they were letting on. “We can infer there was more significant damage that resulted in some instability