Nalen says he tried to hurt Olshansky in '06

One of the quietest players in NFL history sure had a lot to say Thursday. Former Denver Broncos center Tom Nalen made up for all those "no comments" during his 15-year career during an extraordinary half hour that at times showed precisely why he was wise to stay silent rather ...

• Updated: 6:23 p.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013

WR Crabtree tears right Achilles tendon

The San Francisco 49ers suddenly have a huge void in their receiving corps as they chase another Super Bowl berth: Michael Crabtree is sidelined after surgery on his right Achilles tendon. San Francisco's leading wide receiver underwent surgery Wednesday, though the team is optimistic he will return at some point ...

• Updated: 6:33 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Bay Bowl: San Francisco to host 50th Super Bowl

Build a new stadium, host the Super Bowl to show it off. The NFL rewarded the San Francisco Bay Area on Tuesday with hosting rights for the 2016 championship game, slotting the 50th Super Bowl in the 49ers' high-tech Santa Clara stadium scheduled to open next year. The league also ...

• Updated: 3:25 a.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013

The 50th Super Bowl goes to San Francisco Bay Area

The NFL will celebrate its 50th Super Bowl in northern California, where its newest, most high-tech venue is being built. That makes South Florida, in the midst of a spat over expensive stadium renovations, a loser for the 2016 game. And Miami took a double defeat when Houston was awarded ...

• Updated: 6:10 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013

NFL owners to vote on new Falcons' stadium

It's the last vote needed for the new Falcons stadium and it's set for later today. The NFL team owners, all 32 of them, are meeting today in Boston will much on their agenda. Among the items they will discuss and vote upon is whether the league will contribute to ...

• 6:00 a.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Super Bowl 50 site to be decided Tuesday

Where the Super Bowl will celebrate a half-century of existence will be decided this week by NFL owners. They have two choices for the 50th anniversary game in 2016: the San Francisco Bay Area and South Florida. The 49ers' new stadium is being built and is scheduled to open for ...

• Updated: 11:17 a.m. Monday, May 20, 2013

Bills promote Whaley to take over as GM

Doug Whaley was promoted to take over as Buffalo Bills general manager, making the team's near top-to-bottom offseason overhaul complete. The much-anticipated decision to elevate Whaley from his position as assistant GM was announced Thursday, three days after Buddy Nix stepped down as GM. The 40-year-old Whaley has spent the ...

• Updated: 4:58 p.m. Thursday, May 16, 2013

Bruins, Rangers to carry on Boston-New York lore

After the marathon bombings, the cities of Boston and New York put aside their bitter rivalries and joined in their mutual love of sports and country. Well, that time may be ending, at least when it comes to sports. The Knicks beat the Celtics in an NBA first-round playoff series ...

• Updated: 3:18 a.m. Wednesday, May 15, 2013

49ers reach stadium naming rights deal with Levi's

The future home of the San Francisco 49ers will be called Levi's Stadium. The 49ers and Levi Strauss & Co. announced an agreement Wednesday for a $220 million, 20-year naming rights deal for the team's stadium in Santa Clara. Levi's CEO Chip Bergh and 49ers CEO Jed York announced the ...

• Updated: 6:17 p.m. Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Stadium decision hurts Miami's Super Bowl chances

As Dan Marino campaigned for Miami to be chosen the site of the 50th Super Bowl, he made no pretense about being objective on the subject. "In my opinion," the former Dolphins quarterback said, "every Super Bowl should be here." Instead, the NFL championship game might not return to Miami ...

• Updated: 4:19 p.m. Monday, May 6, 2013

Steelers rookie LB Jarvis Jones settling in

Jarvis Jones is not James Harrison. For one thing, there's the hair. The rookie Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker has long dreadlocks that appear under his helmet and skitter across his name when he sprints into the backfield. There's the body, too. The 6-foot-2, 245-pound Jones is taller, leaner and wispier ...

• Updated: 3:54 p.m. Friday, May 3, 2013

Super Bowl Power Outage Emails

• 10:41 a.m. Friday, April 26, 2013

Email: Feds aware of power outage tweets made before Super Bowl

An email from Homeland Security officials indicates that the federal government investigated postings made on Twitter about the Super Bowl power outage before the event happened. Cox Washington bureau reporter Scott MacFarlane obtained the emails on Friday. One email sent at 9:54 p.m. states "Digital Sandbox, at the New Orleans ...

• 9:51 a.m. Friday, April 26, 2013

Atlanta gets a piece of College Football Playoff

If Atlanta wasn’t the capital of college football before, this certainly helps. The Chick-fil-A Bowl will be one of the six bowls that will host a semifinal game in new College Football Playoff that starts in 2014. Atlanta will host a national semifinal every three years, with the first being ...

• 3:32 a.m. Thursday, April 25, 2013
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Some games take points to win, others take fans

It's a Super Bowl matchup for the ages: cats vs. dogs. The Puppy Bowl, a fixture on Animal Planet during the Super Bowl for nearly a decade, will have new competition next year from the Kitten Bowl, the Hallmark Channel announced this month. "We would like to own the day," ...

• Updated: 8:12 p.m. Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Move over Puppy Bowl, here come the kitties

Perhaps someone at the Hallmark Channel noted the proliferation of cat videos on the Internet, or possibly someone just thought felines should have equal time when it comes to faux sporting events. For whatever reason, the 2014 Superbowl will now have a new foe fighting for eyeballs -- the Kitten ...

• 3:57 p.m. Friday, April 5, 2013

Ravens fans love their Super Bowl champs

Fans toast their team, with a parade from City Hall to the Ravens' stadium.

• 3:20 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013

Ranking best, worst ads of Super Bowl XLVII

Magid Advertising Performance identified the most -- and lesat -- successful Super Bowl ads.

• 8:58 a.m. Monday, Feb. 4, 2013

Action from Super Bowl XLVII

A look at the action from the Superdome in New Orleans at Super Bowl XLVII.

• Updated: 11:42 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013

Fans, celebs and the scene at Super Bowl XLVII

A look at the scene in New Orleans, inside and outside the stadium.

• Updated: 10:43 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013