Incognito said the NFL punishment system is “bogus” and there was nothing “independent” about Ted Wells’ investigations.
Football
The last time UNLV’s football team received as much offseason coverage as it has since December was, well, never. The Rebels were splashed across the pages of newspapers and magazines that in recent years hadn’t offered the slightest glance towards the program. All of it was terrific for the brand. And, as of Friday morning, none of it meant a thing.
If a team could use a little divine intervention right now, it’s the Las Vegas Outlaws. The Arena Football League expansion team has had more than its share of struggles in its inaugural season, yet here they are in the final week of the season with a chance to make the playoffs.
At this point last year, running back Altee Tenpenny was preparing to help Alabama try to win a national championship.
The easy story is the one that says family was the reason Jay’Onn Myles chose UNLV over Baylor. But it wouldn’t be correct. Myles saw an even deeper reason to go with the Rebels, a can’t-miss determination from first-year coach Tony Sanchez and his staff to change a battered and beleaguered football program.
If there’s anything Jim Harbaugh loves more than football and khaki pants, it’s got to be milk, which the Michigan coach credits for helping him grow to 6-foot-3-inches tall.
The San Francisco 49ers released outside linebacker Aldon Smith on Friday after he was arrested by Santa Clara, Calif., police on Thursday night on suspicion of hit-and-run, DUI and vandalism.
Vanderbilt University’s football team apologized for tweeting on Thursday “we don’t need your permission,” a phrase that raised concerns about its attitude toward sexual assault two years after four former players were first accused of rape.
The NFL will play five regular-season games — one per season — in Mexico starting in 2017 or 2018, according to a report from the Spanish news organization AS.com.
Being bad and boring is an unenviable combination for any team, the same way that being dumb, drunk and broke is no way to go through life. The UNLV football team is almost always terrible and rarely entertaining, so that’s why Tony Sanchez was the right hire.
Our long wait is over. Football is back.
UNLV football fans are constantly reminded these are different times under first-year coach Tony Sanchez, from his aggressive approach to recruiting to his willingness to promote the program at every opportunity. And now one more thing.
Tom Brady threw jabs at Peyton Manning and Mark Brunell amid a prodigious pile of the Patriot quarterback’s private emails that were made public Tuesday as part of the NFL Players Association’s lawsuit against the NFL over Brady’s four-game suspension.
Former Canyon Springs High School defensive lineman Melvin Johnson was UNLV first-year coach Tony’s Sanchez’s first commitment. But Johnson failed to qualify academically, and he said Wednesday he will attend Victor Valley College in Victorville, Calif.
Former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice believes he has changed his ways since the domestic violence incident that cost him his NFL career.