8:00 AM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Far from a fashionista, San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle isn’t much into using clothes to make a statement. Given his druthers, Kittle would arrive to and leave every game in a pair of sweatpants and a cutoff sweatshirt. To this point in a career that’s a
Month: December 2018
8:00 AM ET COSTA MESA, Calif. — Antonio Gates is looking at the back end of his career through rose-colored glasses. At 38, Gates knows his days of 1,000-yard receiving and double-digit touchdown seasons are in the rearview mirror. But the allure of winning an elusive Super Bowl drew Gates back in for one more
8:00 AM ET INDIANAPOLIS — At some point Friday — like he does every Friday — Indianapolis Colts coach Frank Reich will meet with his team’s two analytics pros, John Park and George Li, to go over the playcall sheet for their game against the Houston Texans on Sunday (1 p.m. ET, CBS). The call
8:00 AM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — It has been over a decade since John Harbaugh was on Andy Reid’s staff, but the Baltimore Ravens coach will forever carry two words from his time with him. Harbaugh, a longtime special-teams coach with the Eagles, remembers walking into Reid’s office in their first year together and
8:50 AM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — The hardest thing Aaron Rodgers will have to adjust to with Green Bay Packers interim coach Joe Philbin calling plays on Sunday might be the accent. Even though Philbin has spent more time in Green Bay than any other place in his coaching career, the Massachusetts native’s dialect
8:00 AM ET DAVIE, Fla. — One of the most puzzling phenomenons in the Tom Brady era has been his struggles in Miami. Brady is 7-9 vs. the Dolphins in Miami. He has thrown 15 interceptions in those games. Brady is 15-1 vs. the Dolphins in Foxborough, Massachusetts, with the lone loss coming in a
8:00 AM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – When New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick was jawing with Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Adam Thielen during Sunday’s game, it wasn’t lost on one player who was the first to have Belichick’s back. It was linebacker Kyle Van Noy who returned verbal fire in Thielen’s direction, an exchange that
9:17 AM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Veterans Julius Peppers, Von Miller and Vernon Davis are among the 32 nominees announced Thursday for the NFL’s Walter Payton Man of the Year award. Unlike in the past, when three finalists were selected before a recipient was chosen, one player from every NFL team is a
10:16 AM ET Agents and executives have noted a trend — a concerning trend, for the veteran players — that will soon manifest for the middle class of the free-agent market: Teams are filling some of their big needs through trades. The St. Louis Cardinals just landed Paul Goldschmidt to play first base in a
8:36 AM ET The woman who was allegedly slapped by Reuben Foster says she believes his then-team, the San Francisco 49ers, attempted to intervene during his arrest to undermine her claims. Elissa Ennis told Good Morning America in an interview that aired Thursday that she felt that police officers didn’t believe her after she called