Bills vs. Colts will kick off the 2021 NFL playoff action in an expanded wild-card round. Buffalo (13-3) hosts Indianapolis (11-5) in the first home playoff game for the Bills in a quarter century. It’ll be broadcast on CBS at 1:05 p.m. ET on Saturday, Jan. 9, but it’ll also be the first game all year that Buffalo will allow […]

Molly Delaney’s day job is as an NFL associate labor relations counsel, a lawyer working for the group that represents the NFL in collective bargaining negotiations with the players’ association. At this time last year, a new agreement was being negotiated. Then, when the COVID-19 pandemic changed practically everything about how the season would work in 2020, another agreement had […]

Gregg Rosenthal went 15-1 onhis predictions for Week 17of the 2020 NFL season, bringing his total record to 166-88-1. How will he fare on Super Wild Card Weekend? His picks are below. Saturday, Jan. 9 Buffalo Bills 31, Indianapolis Colts 21 1:05 p.m. ET (CBS) | Bills Stadium (Orchard Park, N.Y.) There’s no particular reason the Bills should lose this […]

At some point late Monday night just outside of Miami, confetti guns will go off and a trophy will be handed to either Alabama or Ohio State and the entire college football industry will collectively exhale.  For 10 straight months, administrators at every school and conference in the Football Bowl Subdivision have worked through innumerable problems and uncertainties to get […]

Angry supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in a chaotic protest aimed at thwarting a peaceful transfer of power, forcing lawmakers to be rushed from the building and interrupting challenges to Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory. Trump issued a restrained call for peace well after the melee was underway but did not urge supporters to […]

From sex scandals and race rows to cancer and injuries, Washington have beaten the odds to reach the NFL playoffs…with a little help from Winston Churchill Coach Rivera has overcome unassailable odds to lead them into the playoffs He found solace by reading a book about Churchill while battling skin cancer The team reluctantly ditched the ‘Redskins’ name over its racist […]

The Los Angeles Rams are trending toward welcoming back an important piece. Ahead of its wild-card matchup against the Seahawks, the team announced Wednesday that receiver Cooper Kupp has been activated from the reserve/COVID-19 list. Kupp missed Week 17’s win-and-get-in matchup versus the Cardinals after being placed on the list on Dec. 29 following a positive test result. Now that […]

Trevor Lawrence is confident that the best is yet to come in his career after he made the long-anticipated decision to declare for the NFL Draft. The presumptive first overall pick in the 2021 draft announced his declaration on Wednesday following a second-place finish in the Heisman Trophy voting on Tuesday. Lawrence played three seasons at Clemson, having been touted as […]

Miami Dolphins offensive coordinator Chan Gailey has resigned, the team announced on Wednesday. Gailey, previously a head coach with the Dallas Cowboys and the Buffalo Bills, was hired as an assistant to Brian Flores in January 2020. It gave Gailey the opportunity to work with former Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa in his rookie NFL season. The Dolphins missed out on […]

The one guarantee about NFL preseason predictions is that there will be something wrong with them. The league, by nature, is unpredictable, and there tends to be recency bias when picking what teams will make the playoffs in a given year. For Sporting News, our biggest whiff was not thinking the Packers would make the playoffs for a second consecutive […]