Новости за 13.12.2018

The A-League will expand to 12 clubs over the next two seasons.

The Jaguars signed defensive tackle Malik Jackson to a six-year deal before the 2016 season, but Jackson doesn’t expect to see the second half of that contract. Jackson has moved from the first team to a reserve role in recent weeks with 2018 first-round pick Taven Bryan and isn’t having a hard time reading the [more]

Looking at some potential Bills targets in free agency. Dolphins RB Frank Gore is still motivated. Run defense has been a major issue for the Patriots all season. The Jets and Giants will have neutral end zones this week (they may not recognize them for other reasons). Ravens S Tony Jefferson is close to returning. [more]

LeSean McCoy didn’t practice on Wednesday due to a hamstring injury and the Bills brought a running back up from the practice squad to help cover for his absence. The team promoted Keith Ford from the practice squad on Wednesday. Safety Dean Marlowe also got elevated as the team filled roster spots left open when [more]

The Dolphins were able to pull out a win against New England without the help of cornerback Xavien Howard last Sunday, but they’d prefer to have Howard on hand as they try to close the season on a winning streak. There’s no word yet on whether that will be the case for Sunday’s game against [more]

Mason Foster isn’t the only Washington linebacker airing his frustration with the state of affairs in the organization. Zach Brown started the first 12 games of the season, but didn’t start last Sunday’s game against the Giants after missing time during the practice week with an illness. Head coach Jay Gruden cited the illness as [more]

The Vikings fired their offensive coordinator, but the quarterback’s not going anywhere (for $84 million reasons). So Kirk Cousins said he had to take “ownership” of the team’s offensive struggles, which led to John DeFilippo’s sudden unemployment. “Myself, I’d be the first one to say, if I had played at a higher level, we’re probably not [more]

The NFL wants to know where the Raiders are playing next year pretty quickly. According to Sam Farmer of the Los Angeles Times, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said that the league needed to know their destination by the end of January. “It has nothing to do with the litigation,” Goodell said. “It’s simply about trying [more]

The NFL told its officials to call holding more strictly. For one week, they did. And then they stopped. As former NFL head of officiating Mike Pereira revealed on FOX during a game, the league sent its officials a video before Week 13 showing several plays on which the NFL said the officials missed holding [more]

The San Francisco 49ers got their first chance to see defensive tackle Kentavius Street on the practice field on Wednesday. The 49ers selected Street with a fourth round draft pick in May despite Street sustaining a torn right ACL during a pre-draft workout with the New York Giants. Street began the season on the non-football [more]

Davis Webb didn’t get a chance to prove himself in a regular season game with the New York Giants last year after being a third round pick of the team the previous April. He has yet to get a chance to play in a regular season game yet with the New York Jets either after [more]

Washington rookie running back Derrius Guice had his injured knee get infected and required an additional three surgeries after an ACL repair surgery in August didn’t go as smoothly as anticipated. According to Kareem Copeland of the Washington Post, Guice developed an infection that lasted two months after the initially surgery. It required three different [more]

Highlights from a light night in the NHL.

So how does the Top Five look now that Manchester City has fallen from the ranks of the unbeaten?

Also, the field so far, including eight new combatants from the Champions League.

What did he say in little time?

Defensive lineman Dre’Mont Jones will leave Ohio State after the Rose Bowl, forgoing his final year of eligibility and making himself available in the NFL draft. Jones said he never considered skipping the bowl game. “My thing with injuries is that they’re a part of the game,” Jones said, via Stephen Means of the Cleveland [more]

The promising Canadian Premier League should be the home for Ottawa, not an American league, so says CONCACAF.

It didn’t look good for Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill when he limped to the locker room with 46 seconds remaining in the first half Sunday. But all’s well that ends well. Tannehill returned in the second half; the Dolphins won on a miracle last play; and Tannehill is “encouraged” by how his ankle is healing. [more]

The Pittsburgh workweek began Wednesday without a couple of key Steelers. Running back James Conner didn’t practice four days before a showdown with the Patriots. Conner has an ankle injury that kept him from playing this past Sunday, against the Raiders. Coach Mike Tomlin said Tuesday that it’s “possible” Conner will play on Sunday. Quarterback [more]

Cardinals running back David Johnson missed practice Wednesday with a quadriceps injury. But coach Steve Wilks expects the star running back to play. “I think David will be fine,” Wilks told reporters. “We just wanted to give him an extra day. Let it rest a little bit.” Johnson has the fifth-most touches in the NFL [more]

Oladipo playing against Bucks

Thomas Muller made a terrible challenge to earn a red card as part of a wild match in Holland.

The NFL saw a slight increase in television viewership last week. Despite a low-scoring and low-rated Monday Night Football game on ESPN, the rest of the networks that show the NFL had strong ratings in Week 14. On CBS, the Sunday afternoon window was up 20 percent from Week 14 of 2017. On NBC, Rams-Bears [more]

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