‘Thursday Night Football’ Adds Five Games with NBC as New Partner
The National Football League adds NBC as a broadcast partner for Thursday Night Football in 2016 and 2017. The network joins CBS and the NFL Network in airing the games.
The National Football League adds NBC as a broadcast partner for Thursday Night Football in 2016 and 2017. The network joins CBS and the NFL Network in airing the games.
The 32 NFL team owners completed a first round of voting on Tuesday in Houston, with the result thus far favoring a Rams and possibly either the Raiders or Chargers moving into a new Los Angeles stadium in Inglewood.
Hillary Clinton aides called upon NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and former Republican Senate Leader Bill Frist for media messaging advice after the then secretary of state sustained a concussion from a fall she took in December 2012.
Vikings running back Adrian Peterson opened up about his ordeal regarding his 2014 suspension and child-abuse case. Peterson says NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was no help at all during his troubles and in fact didn’t even understand what he was going through.
“Tell the truth,” a frustrated Will Smith repeats in ‘Concussion.’ If only the makers of the film followed that sound advice.
An NYU law professor known for his advocacy of the death penalty filed an amicus curiae brief in the NFL v. Tom Brady appeal.
Attorneys for Tom Brady and the NFL Players Association, filed a response to the NFL’s appeal of Judge Richard Berman’s decision in favor of the New England Patriots quarterback in the Deflategate case.
The National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) sent a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell asking that the league lift its ban on armed off-duty officers in light of the threat of terror attacks against crowded venues, a threat actualized most recently in Paris.
In a fawning interview Bill Simmons conducted with Barack Obama for GQ, the president lets readers know the inside-baseball secrets of his sports-minded mind, including his desire to own an NBA franchise, his belief that he and Aaron Rodgers share a kindred unflappability, and his disbelief that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell makes $44 million a year.
Wednesday marks the second of three town-hall-style NFL hearings–St. Louis, San Diego, then Oakland–being held this week to determine which (if any) of three football teams–the Rams, Chargers or Raiders, respectively–will move to the Los Angeles, California market.
The New England Patriots, the NFL’s premier football team, remain undefeated after a Sunday afternoon victory over the New York Jets.
California Governor Jerry Brown is inserting himself into the highly contentious San Diego Chargers stadium fight, expediting California’s laborious environmental review process, giving a semblance of hope that the team could stay in its current city if it agrees to a newly proposed stadium. The team’s ownership has been pushing hard for a move to the Los Angeles market.
The NFL is coming to town for community hearings next week in St. Louis, San Diego and Oakland, the cities of three league teams making efforts to move in to the Los Angeles, California market.
Former ESPN and now-HBO Sports’ Bill Simmons joined Boston 98.5 The Sports Hub radio show “Toucher and Rich” on Thursday to discuss his time at ESPN, as well as “Deflate-Gate.” Simmons said it was “obvious” the NFL leaked the report
The Season 19 premiere of South Park featured a Deflategate dream sequence starring Eric Cartman as Tom Brady, co-starring Eric Cartman as Roger Goodell, and featuring a cameo of Eric Cartman as Bill Belichick.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell elected to not attend the opening game of the 2015-2016 NFL season on Thursday between the New England Patriots and the Pittsburgh Steelers, saying he “believes the focus should be on the game on the field and
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell called in to ESPN Radio’s “Mike and Mike” to give his first public comments on the Tom Brady ruling by Judge Richard Berman to uplift the four-game suspension for deflating footballs. Goodell acknowledged that his current
At the PGA Tour’s stop at the Deutsche Bank Championship in Massachusetts, a fan can be heard yelling “Fire Goodell” after Henrik Stenson teed off. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was just on the losing end of a federal court case after he
The New England Patriots quarterback plays in the league’s season opener but at home the commissioner stays. Who’da thunk it?
Judge Richard Berman Gronk-spiked his decision upon the NFL shield on Thursday.
After defeating the rest of the league in 2014, Tom Brady opened the 2015 season by triumphing over the NFL itself.
New England Patriots star quarterback Tom Brady had his four-game suspension for deflated footballs removed by a federal judge on Thursday. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell initially suspended Tom Brady four games, but Brady fought the suspension, saying he knew nothing
In an appearance on CSNNE’s television program with Gary Tanguay on Wednesday, Kirk Minihane quipped the answer to solving the controversy facing embattled New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady over his DeflateGate woes was by somehow eliminating NFL commissioner Roger Goodell as factor. When
The first trailer for Will Smith’s NFL concussion cover-up film was released online this week.
The NFL and NFL Players Association failed to reach a settlement in the Tom Brady Deflategate case on Monday, forcing Judge Richard Berman to announce his decision to issue a ruling on the case later this week.
Cleveland Browns offensive lineman Joe Thomas called the NFL’s Deflategate saga a “sting operation” that marks the latest in a series of “outrageous, ridiculous witch hunts” conducted by league Commissioner Roger Goodell.
Adding to the many, many topics that Donald Trump has touched on thus far during his campaign for president, on Thursday the real estate mogul came out in favor of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady saying he’s a “great guy” and slamming how he’s been treated.
The San Diego Chargers, the Oakland Raiders and the St. Louis Rams are all making moves to take on the vacant Los Angeles NFL football team market–and experts and insiders have been saying Chargers owner Dean Spanos is dedicated to the L.A. move.
The judge in the Deflategate case badgered an NFL lawyer for proof of a New England Patriots conspiracy to deflate footballs, leaving the league to concede that no such smoking gun exists.
New York Jets star defensive back Antonio Cromartie appeared on ESPN2’s “First Take” on Thursday and spoke about NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, who has been under a lot of fire for his handling of Tom Brady and “Deflate-Gate,” as well as
A fan so incensed by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s punishment of Patriots quarterback Tom Brady over “Deflategate” went to the expense of hiring a banner-dragging plane to fly over the commissioner’s vacation home in Maine to tell him to go “home to New York.”
With the appeal decision coming out on Tuesday of the NFL upholding the four-game suspension of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady for his part in “Deflate-Gate,” CleoDog Productions has released an animated short using actual audio of Brady, Patriots coach Bill
Don’t make a federal case out of it.
Tom Brady reacted to Roger Goodell’s decision to uphold his four-game suspension for the 2015 season in a statement released Wednesday.
The NFL Players Association seeks correspondence pertinent to Deflategate between the NFL and the law firm that employs Ted Wells. Roger Goodell refuses to hand it over, citing attorney-client privilege.
In his appeal ruling on Tom Brady’s four-game suspension, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell wrote that “steroid use” appears as the “closest parallel” to the New England Patriots quarterback’s alleged infraction.
Roger Goodell doubled down on dumb. The commissioner consistently plays bad hands this way. People losing the house’s rather than their own money often do.
The NFL announced on Tuesday that Roger Goodell has upheld the four-game suspension meted out to Tom Brady over Deflategate.
ESPN reportedly told Keith Olbermann that if he wants to keep his sports program on ESPN then if he can no longer engage in commentary.
During Tuesday’s airing of “Pardon the Interruption” on ESPN, guest co-host Jason Whitlock responded to the question of whether or not he thought NFL commissioner Roger Goodell would reduce New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s four-game suspension after hearing his