Новости за 21.10.2021

The Texans cut returner Andre Roberts earlier this week. He found a home Thursday, officially signing with the Chargers. The Chargers cut receiver K.J. Hill to make room for Roberts. Roberts goes from the 1-5 Texans to the 4-2 Chargers. Roberts averaged only 4.1 yards on eight punt returns and 21.4 yards on 18 kick [more]

The Lions are inducting former linebacker Chris Spielman into the Pride of the Lions, the team announced Thursday. The induction will happen during halftime of the Lions’ homecoming game Oct. 31 against the Eagles. Pride of the Lions is a permanent display at Ford Field honoring the greatest players in franchise history. “The Detroit Lions [more]

Mark Scheifele, Jeff Carter, and Tristan Jarry were all added to the NHL's COVID-19 Protocol on Thursday but so far all three players are asymptomatic.

Giants kicker Graham Gano will face his old team when the Panthers come to town on Sunday, but Gano doesn’t have the warmest memory of his time in Carolina. Gano blamed the Panthers’ medical staff botched the diagnosis of an injury he suffered that ultimately led him to miss the entire 2019 season. “It was [more]

We haven’t heard much from Jon Gruden since he abruptly resigned as Raiders head coach 10 days ago. HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel has heard a little more. Andrea Kremer, who recently profiled Raiders owner Mark Davis for the show, explains on the latest episode of the Real Sports Podcast that a producer recently cold-called [more]

The Texans will be without safety Terrence Brooks for at least three weeks. Houston placed Brooks on injured reserve on Tuesday, the team announced. Brooks suffered a lung contusion during Sunday’s loss to the Colts. He was trying to make a tackle on receiver Parris Campbell‘s 51-yard touchdown when he came down with the injury. [more]

The prognosis for Russell Wilson‘s return from finger surgery was 4-6 weeks. The Seahawks quarterback is doing everything possible to get back sooner than later. Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said Thursday Wilson is “definitely making progress.” Carroll, though, would not put a timetable on Wilson’s return. “It’s hard on him, really hard,” Carroll said, via [more]

At one point over the past few years, we wrote that it made sense for the NFL to keep the satellite portion of Sunday Ticket with DirecTV and to sell the streaming side of it elsewhere, in order to maximize the overall reach of the product. Despite the explosion in Internet-based video, satellite technology continues [more]

The Giants injury situation was already pretty bad, but it’s getting even worse as the week continues. New York added tight end Evan Engram (calf) to Thursday’s injury report and he didn’t participate in the day’s practice. Engram missed the first two games of the season with a calf injury but has been off the [more]

Eagles tight end Dallas Goedert is back on the active roster, but he is not back at practice. The Eagles activated Goedert from the COVID-19 reserve list Thursday morning. The team, though, listed him as a non-participant in practice with an illness. Goedert missed last Thursday’s loss to the Buccaneers after he tested positive for [more]

The Texans once had Duane Brown, J.J. Watt, DeAndre Hopkins, Will Fuller, Deshaun Watson, Jadeveon Clowney and Whitney Mercilus, among others, playing for them. They had a 24-0 first half lead over the Chiefs in a 2019 divisional playoff game they eventually lost 51-31. Since then, Houston is 5-17 and starting over. The version Watt [more]

Broncos quarterback Teddy Bridgewater had a quadriceps injury added to the practice report Wednesday. He also has a foot injury that limited him Monday and Tuesday. Multiple reports, though, indicate Bridgewater is expected to start tonight despite the team listing him as questionable on its status report. Bridgewater took 17 hits in Sunday’s game against [more]

Of the 50 players already announced for the NBA's 75th anniversary team, 41 were on the league's 50 Greatest list named a quarter century ago.

The Washington Football Team got a couple of key offensive players back on the practice field Thursday. Running back Antonio Gibson (shin) and wide receiver Terry McLaurin (hamstring) were practicing after sitting out Wednesday’s session. Both players were on the injury report and listed as questionable last week, but they played in Washington’s loss to [more]

Though they’re the league’s lone remaining winless team, the Lions have been competitive in most of their games this season. That wasn’t the case in last week’s loss to Cincinnati and it had the team’s offensive coordinator taking a different tone when talking about his unit on Thursday. As Kyle Meinke of MLive.com pointed out, [more]

The Dolphins have been linked with a pursuit with Deshaun Watson since his desire to be traded first surfaced earlier this year and the possibility of bringing him to Miami is back on the front burner this week. A report from John McClain of the Houston Chronicle on Wednesday said that deal could be consummated [more]

It’s looking more likely that the Ravens will be playing without running back Latavius Murray and wide receiver Sammy Watkins when they host the Bengals this Sunday. Murray and Watkins missed a second straight day of practice on Wednesday. Murray has an ankle injury he suffered last Sunday and Watkins is dealing with a hamstring [more]

Needing a boost to their group of edge rushers, the Packers signed former Texan Whitney Mercilus this week. Mercilus, 31, has been a consistent presence for Houston since the team drafted him in the first round back in 2012, recording 57.0 sacks for the franchise. He recorded 3.0 sacks and four tackles for loss in [more]

One of the biggest mistakes of Tom Brady‘s career happened last year in Chicago, when he threw an incomplete pass on the Buccaneers’ last offensive play of the game, appearing to think it was third down when it was actually fourth down. The image of Brady holding up four fingers with a puzzled look on [more]

Fonseca's led Porto, Braga, Shakhtar Donetsk, and AS Roma and his second stint with Pacos de Ferreira was the only time he failed to win 50% of his games.

Wednesday’s report that a trade sending Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson to the Dolphins could be completed by the end of the week was followed by one indicating other teams have also been in communication about a Watson deal. The Panthers were named as one of those teams, which led to a question for Panthers head [more]

As summer turned to fall, several Cup drivers' 2022 plans were revealed. In case you missed those announcements, the Silly Season scorecard has you covered.

Sunday’s game between the Bears and the Buccaneers features not only the largest age gap between starting quarterbacks but also the first game for former Michigan quarterback Tom Brady against a former Ohio State quarterback. Amazingly, in 21 years as a starter, Brady has never started against an Ohio State quarterback. “Why is there not [more]

The Giants are slogging through another bad start and it has head coach Joe Judge using clichés to take responsibility six games into the season. New York is 1-5 for the second year in a row under Judge — though last year that one victory came in the team’s sixth game. The club finished the [more]

Broncos wide receiver Jerry Jeudy won’t make his return from injured reserve for Thursday night’s game against the Browns. Jeudy was designated to return last Saturday, but head coach Vic Fangio said he was unlikely to play this week and the team is not activating him ahead of the game. Jeudy has been out since [more]