Charles Mann said he switched to from hoops to football as a kid because he was being called for too many fouls on the basketball court. “I fouled out too easily. You know, I liked being rough.”
Joe Theismann said on “Pollin and Loverro” on 106.7 The Fan this weekend that starting Haskins Week 1 of the regular season would be “a formula for disaster” for the Redskins.
McCown, who turns 40 on July 4, wrote in a piece for The Players’ Tribune posted Monday that he is retiring from playing football after an NFL career that spanned 16 seasons and included stints with 10 teams. He will be helping coach his two sons — also quarterbacks — in high school this year. McCown said he also plans to work as a TV football analyst in the future, and ESPN said later Monday it had hired him as an NFL analyst.
O.J. Simpson made his Twitter debut Friday with a selfie-video in which he said, “I got a little gettin’ even to do.”
As efforts to create a viable spring football league carry on, neither XFL executives like commissioner Oliver Luck nor players pursuing their pro dreams seemed deterred by the Alliance of American Football folding.
Pat Bowlen, the Denver Broncos owner who transformed the team from also-rans into NFL champions and helped the league usher in billion-dollar television deals, died late Thursday night, just under two months before his enshrinement in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He was 75.
A trial begins Monday for the Baltimore Ravens' former starting running back Alex Collins on drug and weapons felony charges.
Former Missouri football coach Gary Pinkel says he is being treated for cancer again.
The 2018 Stanley Cup champion Washington Capitals are among 11 new entrants into Washington DC Sports Hall of Fame.
The University of Connecticut is planning to return to the Big East Conference in basketball and other sports, multiple reports said.
A University of Connecticut official says the school is working to leave the American Athletic Conference and return to the Big East for basketball and other sports.
A jury has awarded more than $6 million to New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees in a lawsuit that claimed a San Diego County jeweler sold him over-priced diamonds.
Georgia has dismissed junior receiver Jeremiah Holloman from the football team after university police investigated an allegation that he punched and choked his girlfriend.
A Brigham Young University football player has been charged with driving under the influence.
Editorials from around New England:
Washington Redskins quarterback Alex Smith says he hopes to play football again but still needs to make basic progress like relearning how to run after breaking his right leg.
A December trial has been scheduled for a former professional football player who's been accused of being drunk and armed with a handgun while attending a northern Iowa county board meeting.
An energetic Mick Jagger skipped, spun, sprinted and pranced Friday night as the Rolling Stones launched their North American tour at Chicago's Soldier Field.
The NFL competition committee has decided against making any changes to the new rule for reviewing pass interference, the league announced Thursday.
The Chicago Bears have signed sixth-round draft pick Duke Shelley to a four-year contract.
A teen has been killed, while a Grambling State University football player and third unnamed person have been injured in a shooting at a suburban New Orleans playground.
