9:36 PM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Defensive tackle Michael Pierce accepted responsibility for being pulled from practicing at last week’s Baltimore Ravens mandatory minicamp, blaming it on an error in his training regimen. “Throughout the offseason, I tend to lift more than run,” Pierce told WNSP-FM radio in Alabama on Friday. “Being a nose
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1:00 AM ET A look at what’s happening around the New York Jets: 1. That’s a wrap: The offseason began at 8:30 p.m. ET last Dec. 30, when the team announced the firing of coach Todd Bowles a few hours after the Jets’ final game. Unofficially, it ended Thursday with the final organized team activity.
1:00 AM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — After the Baltimore Ravens signed Justin Tucker to a record-setting deal for an NFL kicker a couple of months ago, the conversation soon steered to the first time coach John Harbaugh took notice of him. Originally a tryout player, Tucker hit a 55-yard field goal during the first
11:56 PM ET Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Absent linebacker Telvin Smith says the Jacksonville Jaguars fined him $88,650 for missing the team’s mandatory, three-day minicamp this week. Smith posted a picture of the fine letter on his Instagram story Saturday, adding, “it’s still love!!” The letter shows the Jaguars fined him $14,775 for missing
11:00 PM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Quick-hit thoughts and notes around the New England Patriots and NFL: 1. Watson and ‘The New Dad’s Playbook’: It was around this time two years ago, on Father’s Day weekend, when veteran tight end Benjamin Watson sent along his new book to this reporter with a nice message inside.
4:36 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — O.J. Simpson launched a Twitter account with a video post in which the former football star said he’s got a “little gettin’ even to do.” Simpson confirmed the new account to The Associated Press on Saturday, saying in a phone interview while on a Las Vegas golf
1:00 AM ET PITTSBURGH — Alejandro Villanueva considered walking away from football in 2017. He was 28 years old and beginning business school at Carnegie Mellon. His exclusive-rights free-agent status kept him on league-minimum money despite two years as a starter at left tackle. So in 2017, Villanueva worked out with the Pittsburgh Steelers but
1:00 AM ET Isaac Rochell Editor’s note: Los Angeles Chargers defensive end Isaac Rochell fell into a social media funk many of us can relate to. He found himself consumed by his accounts and missing out on the things right in front of him. He calls it “an unhealthy relationship with my phone.” So he
7:21 PM ET HOUSTON — The Houston Texans will no longer pursue New England Patriots director of player personnel Nick Caserio for their general manager position, the team announced Friday. As a result, the Patriots dropped the tampering charges they filed on Wednesday against the Texans for the attempted hire of Caserio, sources told ESPN’s
4:51 PM ET FRISCO, Texas — Dallas Cowboys tight end Rico Gathers has been suspended one game by the NFL for violating the league’s substance abuse policy, it was announced Friday. If Gathers makes the 53-man roster, he will miss the Sept. 8 opener vs. the New York Giants and be eligible to return to