Through the first six weeks of the season, 54 games have been decided by one score, tied with the 1999 season for the most in NFL history entering Week 7. Twenty eight of those games have been decided by three or fewer points, the second most in NFL history entering Week 7 (35 games in 1999), including four such games last week. MORE: Watch the NFL live and on-demand with fuboTV (7-day free trial)...
Given its history of mistakes in past domestic violence investigations, the league wants to be as detailed and thorough as possible. According to the report, Elliott is viewed by NFL investigators as “Public Enemy No. 1.” MORE: Jerry Jones not worried about investigation The woman who accused Elliott of abusing her in July in Columbus, Ohio, also alleged the two were involved in a previous physical altercation. She called police on Feb....
No team has won consecutive Super Bowls since the Patriots went back-to-back in 2003 and 2004, and New England faces an uphill task to replicate the feat. At the same time, Tom Brady and Bill Belichick have routinely proved they can achieve what seems beyond their reach. Brady turned 42 early last month and is set to continue his personal duel with Father Time for another year. However, he will do so without one of his favorite offensive weapons, after Rob Gronkowski retired....
A two-time Super Bowl champion and four-time Pro Bowler, Patriots tight end Gronkowski was a special guest at Camp Nou as Barca returned to the LaLiga summit on Wednesday. CONFIRMED: Enrique to leave Barca Enjoying his off-season following an injury-ravaged campaign, Gronkowski watched the Catalan giants crush Sporting Gijon 6-1. Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar were among the goalscorers with the 27-year-old American in the house. While the Patriots won their fifth Super Bowl, it was a season to forget for Gronkowski, who played just eight games in 2016 after undergoing back surgery in December....
The league, through VP of officiating Dean Blandino, says “there will be zero tolerance for unsportsmanlike conduct, particularly verbal abuse directed at an opponent.” Blandino’s message is part of a 12-minute video that will be shown to players when officials visit teams’ camps, The Washington Post’s Mark Maske reports. MORE: Openly gay athletes | ESPN suspends Stephen A. Smith A narrator in the video elaborates, according to Maske: “The use of abusive, threatening or insulting language directed at opponents, teammates, game officials or representatives of the league is covered under unsportsmanlike conduct in the playing rules....
The NFL trade deadline is 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday, and though impactful, last-minute trades are rare in the league, rumors are inevitably swirling. MORE: Notable midseason NFL trades | Time for Lions to clean house? Here’s what we know about which teams are dealing, which are buying and which players might be involved. — Vernon Davis traded to Broncos: San Francisco, one of three teams believed to be “open for business” before the deadline (see below), sent the tight end to Denver on Monday in exchange for draft picks....
In the second quarter of Saturday’s Bengals-Raiders wild-card playoff matchup, Cincinnati’s Joe Burrow tossed a touchdown pass to Tyler Boyd that came with drama: a whistle was blown as the ball was in the air before it reached Boyd’s hands, which may have indicated that a sprinting Burrow was out of bounds before the ball was thrown. After lots of confusion and a discussion by the officials, the play stood and the touchdown counted, much to the dismay of the Raiders and their fans....
Chung, who is Korean American, told The Boston Globe during a webinar in May that an interviewer for a team told him he was “not the right minority” to fill a position. Chung has not publicly identified the team for whom the official worked. The NFL issued in a statement on Thursday: “After multiple discussions, including with Mr. Chung and his representative, we were unable to confirm the precise statement that was made, or by whom and under what circumstances any such statement was made....
See below for a complete TV guide of game times and broadcast locations (all times ET): MORE: Michael Sam clears waivers | Texans make Watt highest-paid defensive player | NFL GM rankings NFL Week 1 schedule Thursday, Sept. 4 Green Bay at Seattle | 8:30 p.m. | NBC Sunday, Sept. 7 New Orleans at Atlanta | 1 p.m. | FOX Minnesota at St. Louis | 1 p.m. | FOX...
There will be 11 games taking place during the early and late-afternoon slate in Week 13. That represents the most teams we’ll see on Sunday until the final week of the season when every team plays on Sunday. Until then, viewers will have to make do with an 11-game slate. This week’s slate features some excellent-looking matchups. CBS will air the doubleheader this week, meaning that they will broadcast six of the 11 games on Sunday....
BetQL can help you identify edges on every slate! Our subscribers can view BetQL’s NFL best bets and make the most informed, data-driven wagers possible. WEEK 16 FANTASY RANKINGS:Quarterback | Running back | Wide receiver | Tight end | D/ST | Kicker All data presented is as of Wednesday morning. You can track all NFL line movement on BetQL’s Line Movement Dashboard. Figures below calculated by wagering one unit on each touted bet with -110 spread odds....
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The Sunday line movement cited below was tracked on VegasInsider.com, which monitors a variety of Nevada point spreads. For updated lines, check out our odds page. Thursday, October 2Vikings at Packers -9.5 Green Bay -9.5 has been the prevailing number after the Packers rolled to a 38-17 win at Chicago, though the Stratosphere is dealing Minnesota -10. The game was briefly off the board after Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater (ankle) didn’t finish Sunday’s win vs....
Zach Wilson’s international debut for the Jets was … not the finest day of quarterbacking to be played in London as part of the NFL’s UK forays. The Jets got shellacked by the Falcons 27-20, a score that wasn’t quite as indicative as Wilson completed 19 of 32 passes for 197 yards in the Jets’ loss to the Falcons in London, washing away any goodwill fostered with New York’s win last week over Tennessee....
“I think 6 was definitely way too high – A.J. Green or no A.J. Green,” William Hill U.S. director of trading Nick Bogdanovich told The Linemakers on Sporting News. “I like 3.5 better than 4 even.” Green sustained a concussion in Sunday night’s loss to the Steelers. The Colts were just 3-point favorites when they hammered the Bengals 27-0 at Lucas Oil Field back in Week 8. Bogdanovich opened Indy -4 after seeing the market price on the game Monday morning....
On Friday, the three-member U.S. Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal of the union’s suit against the NFL, and opened the door for it to re-start its argument that the league had agreed on a so-called “secret” salary cap during a collectively-bargained uncapped season in 2010. The original suit asked for $1 billion in damages. The union, in a statement, quickly made it clear that it was looking forward to finding out exactly what the NFL might have done that year, and why how owners Dan Snyder and Jerry Jones were punished for violating the league’s alleged unwritten salary cap rules....
All we can do right now is evaluate the particulars based on the information we have at our disposal, which we’ll do in the form of winners and losers from Round 1. MORE: Draft tracker, analysis | Scenes from Philly | Must-see photos Winners The Islanders The Isles were probably the de facto winners of the night, if only because they were one of only two teams to come away from Round 1 with more than a single asset....
None of these can be found simply by combing through box scores, no matter how reliable or resourceful tools like advanced statistics and historical data can be. You’d be amazed at what else one can discover simply by isolating a prospect for the duration of a game or two. MOCK DRAFT 1.0: Avs thank Sens for Jack Hughes; Flyers, Kings take wings Since last August, hundreds upon hundreds of eligible teenagers for the 2019 NHL Draft have been assessed, evaluated, compared, scrutinized and red-penned....
All 32 teams will get an opportunity to bolster their prospect pools by selecting eligible players from this year’s class. In total, 225 picks will be made over a span of seven rounds. The Canadiens own the top pick in the draft after finishing last in the league and winning the draft lottery. The Devils jumped out three spots from No. 5 to No. 2 thanks to the draft lottery, while the Coyotes, Kraken and Flyers all slid back one in the first round....
Leonhardt, the Washington Capitals' video coach, also served as the team's backup goalie on Friday after Michal Neuvirth left warmups with an injury. Leonhardt, a 6-7 former Division III goalie, has been there before. In December 2008, Jose Theodore was hurt, and Semyon Varlamov couldn't make it to the rink before the start of the game. Enter Leonhardt, who was the team's website producer at the time. He was on the bench until Varlamov arrived....
