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Getty Images He turns 36 next month. And he’s not yet ready to surrender his quest to catch Emmitt Smith for the NFL’s career rushing record. Adrian Peterson reiterated his longstanding desire to (1) win a Super Bowl and (2) catch Smith’s record in recent remarks to TMZ.com. “I’m going to...

Getty Images The Pro Football Hall of Fame announced last June 25 that it was postponing the 2020 enshrinement weekend. They pushed everything to 2021. That creates an unprecedented enshrinement weekend for this summer. The Hall of Fame Game between the Cowboys and Steelers will kick off...

Getty Images LeBron James previously has said he had begun training for football during the 2011 NBA lockout and was serious about a tryout with the Cowboys. The Lakers star, in fact, has a contract from Cowboys owner Jerry Jones framed in his office. James revealed in a recent interview with...

Getty Images Former NFL cornerback Adam Jones has run into more legal trouble. WCPO reports that court documents show that Jones was arrested early on Monday morning in Hamilton County, Ohio. He is accused of punching and kicking another person in the head until they were unconscious. He is...

Getty Images Four years ago, some of Hall of Fame voters were hellbent on keeping Terrell Owens out of the Hall of Fame. Three years ago, Owens got in. This week, Owens learned for the first time that Terez Paylor, a Hall of Fame voter who unexpectedly died this week at 37, spoke passionately...

Getty Images Hall of Fame receiver Terrell Owens hasn’t been to the Hall of Fame, and he still has no intention of going. “This past weekend was a further indication of why I wouldn’t go,” Owens told Bob Glauber of Newsday. “No disrespect to anybody that got in, but I just don’t understand the...

Getty Images The names read like a list of no names, never weres and has beens: Quincy Carter, Anthony Wright, Ryan Leaf, Clint Stoerner, Chad Hutchinson, Drew Henson, Vinny Testaverde and Drew Bledsoe. That’s the quarterbacks who started for the Cowboys between Troy Aikman’s retirement and...

Getty Images He won’t play for the Texans. So where will J.J. Watt play in 2021? The folks at PointsBet already have compiled odds. The strong favorite, at +140, is Pittsburgh. The Packers and Buccaneers come in next at +400 each, with the Ravens at +600, and the Bears at +700. Four teams...

USA TODAY Sports For the most part, the eight new inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame kept the news of their coming enshrinement quiet until the evening of February 6. Other than Peyton Manning — the no-brainer of the group — news of no other new Hall of Famer emerged. Appearing on...

Getty Images Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson showed rare candor this week when he went on the Dan Patrick Show and said, among other things, that he’s frustrated by getting hit too much and that he’s not sure if he’s available in a trade. That may have rubbed Seahawks management the wrong...

Getty Images Not many players in NFL history have been where Dak Prescott is in his current contract situation. Drew Brees became the first quarterback in NFL history to play under the franchise tag. After that final 2005 season with the Chargers, Brees left for the Saints in free agency...

Getty Images Although it seems more likely that a trade of Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson would happen next year at the earliest, the situation seems to be developing quickly. Fueled by Wilson’s blunt but tactful comments to Dan Patrick, some are wondering whether a trade could happen in...

Who says multi-billionaires have people who handle anything and everything they want? Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, estimated by Forbes more than a year ago to be worth $8.5 billion, isn’t afraid to go buy his own wine. Not from a sommelier, but from some gas station. A fan posted on Tuesday a...

Getty Images The 2020 season ended in Tampa. The 2021 season will start there. The Buccaneers, winners of Super Bowl LV, will host the Week One opener on the first Thursday of the next season. Here are the options, beyond the three NFC South rivals: Dolphins, Giants, Bears, Bills, and...

Getty Images Three first-time eligible players made the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday. Peyton Manning was joined by Charles Woodson and Calvin Johnson in earning a bust in the first year of eligibility. Alan Faneca, John Lynch, Drew Pearson, Bill Nunn and Tom Flores also are in the...

Getty Images Drew Pearson waited 33 years for this. The Pro Football Hall of Fame announced Saturday night that Pearson has earned election in the Class of 2021. Pearson was the lone senior candidate on the ballot. Pearson thought he would earn a bust in the Centennial Class, which the Hall...

Getty Images Former Washington coach and one-year Jaguars offensive coordinator Jay Gruden concedes that he won’t be coaching this year. He’d like to try his hand at media work. In a recent interview with Ben Standig of TheAthletic.com, Gruden demonstrated the kind of candor he’d bring to a...

Getty Images Emmitt Smith has said that he’d like to be alive when someone breaks his all-time rushing record, because he wishes Walter Payton had been there to celebrate Smith claiming the mantle. Unfortunately, there’s currently no one who seems to have a chance to catch Emmitt. Appearing...

Getty Images Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes will face off in Sunday’s Super Bowl to decide the NFL champion for the 2020 season. The champion in merchandising sales already has been declared. The NFLPA released the latest numbers of merchandising sales for NFL players from the period covering...

Getty Images Dak Prescott will dominate every story about the Cowboys this offseason. Not only is the quarterback still looking for a long-term contract, but Prescott also is rehabbing from ankle surgery that ended his season after five games. So every Cowboys player who submits to an...