NFL

The mid-term grades for National Football League teams are in, with varying results. Despite several close, one-score games, the two-time defending champion Kansas City Chiefs sit atop the league standings with a perfect 9-0 record.

New England Patriots defensive back and team captain Jabrill Peppers was arrested on October 5, when Braintree police were summoned to his home following a distress call from a woman identifying herself as his girlfriend.

The current list of Black men playing the cherished position of quarterback in the National Football League is one of distinction. Currently there are 15 starting quarterbacks of color in the NFL.

Coming off their surprising 16-10 opening week road victory over the Cincinnati Bengals, the New England Patriots found themselves in a position to go 2-0 to start the 2024 National Football League season. But the dream of that evaporated with a 23-20 overtime loss to the visiting Seattle Seahawks before a raucous sellout home crowd at Gillette Stadium.

The New England Patriots grabbed major headlines in the first week of National Football League competition with their 16-10 upset victory over the Bengals in Cincinnati. 

The official opening of the National Football League free agency period is now upon us with several players getting rich.

The Chiefs and 49ers stamped their tickets to Super Bowl LVIII following victories in their respective NFL conference championship games.

The National Football League labels the first round of postseason competition “Wild Card Weekend.” There are mixed reviews about how pro football fans digested this year’s wild results.

There was a time, long ago, when the running back was the featured player in all of football. From Pop Warner to the NFL, the boys and men who lugged the pigskin up and down the field were the game’s ultimate stars.

With the recent news of an NFL investigation into players betting legally and illegally, the specter of gambling in sports rears its ugly head again. 

There is a good reason for the euphoria legions of Blacks feel and express about the historic first of two African American quarterbacks, Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts, facing off in the Superbowl. It’s been a long, agonizing, painful road for them and the NFL to get to that historic point.

Blacks often have difficulty benefitting from industrial plans to compensate them for workplace injuries.