Through the miracle of modern technology, however, I never have felt closer to the city than over these past few years. I have this app for my phone that allows me to take a small subset of the city’s passion for sports everywhere I go. It’s the one that allows me to listen to Pittsburgh’s 24-hour sports station, 93.7 The Fan. And what I’ve heard through most of this autumn on that station saddens me....

The one-off strip, which was unveiled on Friday, has been manufactured from so-called Ocean Plastic - fibres produced from recycled plastic material collected from coastal areas around the Maldives. Arsenal can kicks Spurs while they’re down It is hoped that the kit, which Bayern states was produced in an “eco-friendly process,” will raise awareness of the Parley for the Oceans campaign - co-founded by the club’s primary kit manufacturer, Adidas - that is seeking to end pollution of the world’s waters....

According to multiple reports, Brady was in New York on Tuesday to participate in the negotiations, along with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, and initially had planned to attend a federal court hearing for the second consecutive Wednesday. MORE: Brady’s journey from draft to Deflategate | Damage to the NFL, Brady brands? But the sides “got nowhere,” an unidentified source told ESPN, causing the Patriots QB to change his mind and join his team for its joint practice Wednesday with the Saints in White Sulphur Springs, W....

Bengals offensive tackle Andrew Whitworth blamed Roger Goodell and the NFL for the pregame scuffle that took place at midfield Sunday between Cincinnati and Pittsburgh players. MORE: What Steelers, Bengals taught us | Cincy ruins bettors’ day “I’ll get in trouble for this, but this is the NFL’s fault,” Whitworth said, via ESPN. “The bottom line is, I love the Pittsburgh Steelers, I love Mike Tomlin, but they had a player that made a death threat to one of ours after the last game about spilling his blood in the streets, and everyone saw it, and the NFL did nothing about it....

Players can make their marks at the NFL Combine, and plenty have. MORE NFL COMBINE:Full 2019 schedule | All-time records Here are the 16 greatest NFL Combine performances to date. 16. Dontari Poe, 2012 Poe became the No. 11 overall pick for the Chiefs by going crazy big man at the Combine. He and his massive frame (6-4, 346 pounds) recorded a 4.98 40-yard dash and a 29.5-inch vertical to go along with a less surprising 44 bench press reps....

I’m talking about lots of conversations — legal and illegal under NFL rules — between general managers with their contract/salary cap guys often in tow; conversations with agents for soon-to-be free agents and for players already signed but targeted for pay cuts or release. There also are trade talks among teams looking to move/acquire players or improve draft spots. MORE 2020 NFL COMBINE:Complete schedule | QB measurements While the most important aspects of the Combine for players are physicals and interviews, the priorities for GMs are the agent chats in hotel rooms, bars, restaurants, coffee shops and skyways of Indianapolis — with greater privacy needed for the illegal discussions on other teams’ players who will soon hit the free-agency market....

To date, 12 international series games have been played at Wembley Stadium in London, the most recent last Sunday as the Jets beat the Dolphins, 27-14. MORE: Five things to know about NFL owners meetings | Ranking every NFL stadium Two more games are set for Wembley this season and more international games are on the horizon after the expansion of a 2011 resolution that permitted the league to schedule games in the UK through to 2016....

As soon as Week 4 NFL preseason games ended Thursday night, coaches were tasked with a handful of key roster decisions, but the work didn’t end there. A total of 1,184 players became available either as free agents or via the waiver system, so those coaches were paying attention to who got cut around the league. MORE: Explaining NFL roster cut rules, schedule Now that the the NFL roster cut deadline has arrived, there is a 24-hour window for teams to claim players who were placed on waivers....

Clinton-Dix had 52 tackles in 11 games for the Crimson Tide and intercepted two passes. MORE: Mock draft | Top 10 teams for 2014 Kouandjio has been the Crimson Tide’s starting left tackle the past two seasons. Along with the two early departures, Alabama loses three-year starting QB AJ McCarron, guard Anthony Steen, WR Kevin Norwood, DE Ed Stinson, LB C.J. Mosley, K Cade Foster, punter Cody Mandell, among starting players....

The Texans and Bears head into Week 18 as the No. 1 and No. 2 picks, respectively, in the 2023 NFL Draft order. The two teams are in two very different situations, though, and landing the top pick could make for two very interesting scenarios. Houston will be searching for a franchise passer with their top selection. While Davis Mills has somewhat outperformed his draft slot, the quarterback hasn’t elevated his game to the point of discouraging the Texans from taking a quarterback with the No....

The NFL on Thursday announced the league’s competition committee unanimously recommended the rule for instant replay of pass interference for this season only, after which NFL owners can decide to extend, alter or eliminate it entirely. The news comes one week after the league announced that teams had seven days to provide any additional feedback on the final rule. The committee also will allow Hail Mary plays to be reviewed as long as it is “consistent with the guidelines for officiating the play on the field....

The early results, as they usually are when money is thrown around and big-name players are dealt, were mixed. MORE: Top 25 free agents | Signings, deals, analysis and rumors | Salary cap watch | Fantasy roundup Best contract Dolphins planning to sign defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh (six years, $114 million, $60 million guaranteed). Someone was going to make this big, worthy first splash; it might as well have been the Fins....

Some teams were more aggressive than expected, landing veteran free agents to push them closer to contention or respectability. Others were careful with their pocketbooks and missed out on keeping their own key players while seeing competitors spend to get better. SN’s FA TRACKER: Latest news and analysis of the key moves A few positions got paid way too much, while several others didn’t get their deserved deals. That doesn’t even include the most shocking move, a trade by a Texas team that wasn’t the Cowboys....

The quickest draw to get there is relocating the Raiders from Oakland, and team owner Mark Davis has $500 million ready to make it happen. First, the possibility of that happening wasn’t ruled out by Roger Goodell. Then the commissioner expressed how the league is “evolving” in its stance in being more associated with legalized gambling. MORE: Raiders defense better than Broncos? Then came the Vegas endorsement of the Cowboys’ Jerry Jones, arguably the league’s most powerful owner....

The Linemakers on Sporting News, a group of former sports book directors with dozens of years of collective bookmaking and handicapping experience in Las Vegas, are here to help you sift through the Week 15 slate, offering analysis, opinions and picks on the day’s action. Be sure to click through to the informative and entertaining videos, which are shot at the South Point sports book and our studio in Vegas....

That’s good, because if it works as described, fans will have more time after games to curse out the league and the perpetual mess it makes of officiating. The replay hood is on the way out, replaced by a tablet viewed by the referee on the field. More important, though: The final say on the replay will come from a group at the centralized replay headquarters in New York, most often senior vice president of officiating Dean Blandino....

No player who accumulates more than $800,000 in fines and racks up 16 unnecessary roughness, personal foul and roughing the passer penalties in his career will get that, even when he should. The NFL is making an example out of Burfict with his latest five-game suspension after an illegal hit on Chiefs fullback Anthony Sherman in a preseason game Aug. 19. Is the NFL suspending Burfict’s hit or his reputation?...