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NFL Week 2: Chiefs, Bills, Bengals Seahawks seek first win

After only one week, the high expectations for several National Football League teams are already a bit sideways. Heading into Week 2. The Kansas City Chiefs, Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals and Seattle Seahawks are trying to avoid 0-2 records while the New ...

CFB Week 3: Tame schedule may yield wild results

After three weeks of college football -- including Week Zero --  that included dazzling performances and shocking results, it might be easy to be lulled into a snore by the Week 3 schedule, which often means we will be surprised somewhere. Most obvious in the ...

Hurts, Eagles Hold off Fumbling Vikings, 34-28

PHILADELPHIA — Jalen Hurts ran for a pair of one-yard touchdowns and threw a 63-yard TD pass to DeVonta Smith, D’Andre Swift ran for 175 yards and a score, and the NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles held off the turnover-prone Minnesota Vikings, 34-28, on Thursday ...

MNF Drama: With Rodgers out, Jets Beat Bills with OT Punt Return, 22-16

Talk about Monday Night Football drama. If somebody scripted this, it would have been rejected as, well, just too implausible.   High-profile offseason acquisition and four-time MVP Aaron Rodgers was knocked out of the game — and the season — on the team’s first ...

Heisman Watch: Williams' part-time role may hurt bid to repeat

 HEISMAN WATCH 1. USC QB Caleb Williams Yawn. If disappointment is the difference between expectations and results (on of my favorite truths), Williams has created his own problem. Keeping the Heisman will be more difficult than winning it last year. Not only ...

AP Poll Movement: Texas No. 4, Colorado 18, Bama drops to 10

Two-time reigning national champion Georgia still sits atop the Associated Press Top 25 poll, but no team in college football had a bigger win than the Texas  Longhorns on Saturday. They went into Alabama and left with a convincing 34-24 victory over Nick Saban's ...

CFB Week 2: "Alright" (x3) for Texas and "We Coming/We here" for Colorado

This is already one of the most entertaining college football seasons in recent memory because the inner suspicions about upstart teams have become headline facts. Texas and Colorado put an exclamation point on that Saturday. We could hear  the most well-known ...

San Francisco 49ers at Pittsburgh Steelers

SAN FRANCISCO (15-5) at PITTSBURGH (9-8) Sunday, 1 p.m. EDT, FOX LAST MEETING: 49ers beat Steelers 24-20 on Sept. 22, 2019, in Santa Clara, Calif. LAST SEASON: 49ers 14-5; Steelers 9-8. 49ERS OFFENSE: OVERALL (5) ,RUSH (8), PASS (13), SCORING (6) 49ERS DEFENSE: ...

CFB Week 2 Previews: Texas-Alabama Is Sequel to Sensational 2022 Matchup

We've had this week marked on our calendar since Texas scared the hell out of Alabama last year. After a few first week lessons in broadcasting rights, and wrongs, we now Fubo to make sure we see the games we want. If you don't Fubo, we suggest you try it for ...

Russell Wilson: Preview, Review of the Player, the Man, the Trade

After a horrid first year in Denver following his shocking trade from the Seattle Seahawks, quarterback Russell Wilson must regain some composure, some equilibrium — hell, some pride— if he expects to be considered a future candidate for the Pro Football Hall of ...

Gasp! Oxygen? Burrow's Contract Raises QB Pay into Rarified Air

Going Up!  Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow became the newest highest-paid player in the NFL on Thursday, agreeing to a five-year, $275 million contract extension. The deal was announced just before the Thursday night NFL opener, in which the Detroit ...

Lions Shock Chiefs in NFL Opener, 21-20; Mahomes "Embarrassed"

The Detroit Lions refused to let Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes pull the rabbit out of the hat in the NFL's Thursday Night season opener and came away with a 21-20 upset victory. This was more a game of muscle than magic as the Lions defused Mahomes ...

Bosa Breaks 49ers Bank: Five Years, $170 million; $122.5 Guaranteed

The 49ers and Nick Bosa agreed Wednesday on a five-year, $170 million contract extension with $122.5 million guaranteed, a source with knowledge of the transaction confirmed to The Sports Xchange. Either Adam Schefter or The Athletic first broke the story — probably ...

Larry Stone: Sad Irony of Pac-12 as Dead Conference Walking

(We at HallofFootball.com have mentioned the Pac-12 being undefeated thus far in what is the last hurrah for this conference as we know it. Former Hearst teammate, Larry Stone of the Seattle Times, dug deep into the curious situation and came up with some stunning ...

Raiders Sent Vegas Crisis Team to Home of AWOL DE Jones

Troubled veteran defensive end Chandler Jones was not with the Las Vegas Raiders Wednesday when they began preparations for the season opener at Denver. This was one day after he posted a series of disparaging remarks about the Raiders on social media. As of Thursday ...