When I initially heard the name Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, I thought he could be an artist. (He is a woodworker.) Or a chef. (He is a baker.) Perhaps a scientist. (He is a medical doctor.) Or maybe a ship captain. (He is an expert sailor.) The last occupation I associated his name with? Professional football player. After all, Laurent Duvernay-Tardif isn’t […]

Lavonte David’s eyes have seen a lot in Tampa Bay, and for his first eight seasons there, most of it wasn’t good. Multiple head coaches, multiple coordinators, but just one winning season. But as the Buccaneers linebacker recalls, that all changed in March of this past year. “I remember when I got a couple of homies hit me up, calling […]

The Ohio State-Michigan matchup, as well as the rest of the Big Ten’s traditional rivalry games, will return to the final week of the regular season in 2021, it was announced Friday as the conference released its revised 2021 football schedule. The schedule has some differences from the one originally released in 2017, including the location of some games as […]

Two big-name receivers are questionable for Super Bowl LV. Kansas City Chiefs receiver Sammy Watkins (calf) and Tampa Bay Buccaneers wideout Antonio Brown (knee) are officially designated as questionable. Brown missed the NFC Championship Game victory over the Green Bay Packers due to a knee injury. He was listed as limited in practice on Wednesday and a full participant on […]

TAMPA, Fla. — The red-clad volunteers applaud each batch of airport arrivals, the building-high poster of the Lombardi Trophy is affixed to a downtown hotel, there are pictures of every Super Bowl ring — in ascending order of years and carats — stuck to the sidewalk and a pirate ship is parked in the middle of the Hillsborough River, bearing […]

Peyton and Eli Manning have both retired from the NFL, but it doesn’t mean they’re not making an appearance at the Super Bowl. The brothers are among the former Super Bowl stars who appear in Frito-Lay’s commercial titled “‘Twas the Night Before Super Bowl.” Former Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch reads a tale in the style of “‘Twas a Night […]

Pro Football Hall of Fame president David Baker can sell next season’s Enshrinement Week with a straight-forward pitch: He’s hoping for the “greatest football gathering ever.”   “We will have more Hall of Famers,” Baker told Sporting News. “We will have more enshrinees. We will have more history, and we will have more hope for the game and the country to celebrate than ever before. It’s really going to […]

Steelers wide receiver Chase Claypool believes at the close of the 55th Super Bowl, which will be contested Sunday between the Chiefs and Buccaneers, that the team standing amid all that flying confetti and holding up the Lombardi Trophy will be … Wait. He’s allowed to have an opinion, right? After all, he said the Browns were going to get “clapped” […]