The NFL ratings for Week 1 have finally by released by Nielson and they are not pretty. Viewership across the board was down 13% from last year. Every night game took a hit, the only exception being New York and Dallas on Sunday Night which saw a sligh...

IRVINE, CA. -- It’s always sunny in Southern California and the late August day Sammy Watkins showed up for his first practice as an L.A. Ram was no different. The compact training camp digs at U.C. Irvine, while hardly state-of-the-art, provides a sens...

Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett recently found himself in the midst of mayhem when he was racially profiled in Las Vegas after gunshots went off nearby following the Mayweather-McGregor fight. Disturbing photos indicate that Bennett was targeted an...

Midway through the first quarter of Sunday’s Buffalo Bills home opener against the New York Jets, my 72-year-old father turned around to face the guy sitting directly behind us at New Era Field. “Hey bud,” he said politely, but also very fatherly...

Welcome to another rendition of “Positively Gruden,” where we chronicle the top praise, plaudits and pontifications from America’s favorite fawning former coach. Since tonight’s Vikings-Saints contest was the first meaningful NFL game in the TFG 2...

Like most opening weekends, Week 1 was loaded of surprises. Stars emerged from nowhere while some high draft picks disappointed (where was Le’Veon Bell?). Of course the injury bug reared its ugly head. Our Week 2 rankings take stock of the fantasy lands...

A still sullen Tom Brady made his regular season weekly spot on WEEI Radio this morning. (Listen to the .) The conversation was mostly a tick-tock of the Patriots loss, and Brady echoed his postgame thoughts on the team’s lack of competitiveness and ...

If the NFL’s Week 1 product was auditioning for, well, anything, it would have zero shot at a callback. In fact, upon the NFL’s exit the judges would have let out that burst of laughter they had such trouble keeping in while the games were in progress...

Marshawn Lynch looked like he hadn’t missed a beat in his Raiders debut, rushing for 76 yards on 18 carries as the Raiders beat the Titans won 26-13. Lynch's presence and take no prisoners attitude permeated the Raiders' roster. One late fourth qu...

Dianna Russini’s journalism career has taken her to many fascinating outlets —ABC with Diane Sawyer, Comcast Sports in Seattle and NBC in D.C. But it was in the nation’s capital where her name truly started to rise. Russini’s Redskins reporting...