Stanford is adding two more former NFL assistants to its coaching staff. Coach Jim Harbaugh said Wednesday that former Chicago offensive coordinator Ron Turner will be his new quarterbacks and wide receivers coach and former Minnesota assistant Derek Mason will be the defensive backs coach. Harbaugh hired former NFL assistant Vic Fangio as defensive coordinator earlier this month.
Punter Craig Hentrich announced his retirement Wednesday after 17 NFL seasons. The 38-year-old Hentrich spent the past 12 seasons with the Tennessee Titans and was with Green Bay before that. For his career, he averaged 42.9 yards per punt on 1,150 attempts. “I think overall it was a successful career and I wouldn’t trade a second of it,” Hentrich said in a statement released through…
Feb. 24-March 2 — NFL combine, Indianapolis. March 5 — Free agency begins. March 21-24 — Annual owners meeting, Orlando, Fla. April 22-24 — NFL draft.
A ban on the three-point stance? NFL commissioner Roger Goodell says it’s possible. Concerned about concussions, Goodell said the league will keep looking for ways to make the game safer. Speaking on CBS’s “Face the Nation” hours before the Super Bowl, he didn’t rule out the idea of banning the three-point stance for linemen to reduce the ferocity of collisions at the line of…
Former NFL star Warren Sapp has been released from jail on $1,500 bond, a day after being arrested in Miami Beach on charges he choked a woman in his hotel room. Sapp was charged with one count of misdemeanor domestic battery in the incident early Saturday after a night of partying. He was released at about 11 a.m.
The NFL is still eyeing a return to Mexico. Arizona and San Francisco played the NFL’s first regular-season game outside the United States in Mexico in 2005, followed two years later by a game in London between Miami and the New York Giants. More trips to London have followed. On Friday, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said Mexico remains on the league’s radar screen, noting that…
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