Michael R. Bloomberg’s presidential campaign has secured a 60-second advertising spot to air nationally during next month’s Super Bowl telecast, an ad buy that will most likely cost at least $10 million. Hours after The New York Times reported Mr. Bloomberg’s plans, President Trump’s re-election campaign said that it, too, had reserved 60 seconds’ worth […] More
The Giants, who joined the N.F.L. in 1925, have become known for a staid, prudent management style. True to form, on Tuesday morning, the team was expected to do something predictable: Hire Matt Rhule, the former Giants assistant coach who has become a rising star after rebuilding downtrodden college football programs at Temple and Baylor. […] More
After Mo Lewis of the Jets delivered a crushing hit on Drew Bledsoe of the Patriots on Sept. 23, 2001, New England turned to a sixth-round draft pick named Tom Brady to take over as quarterback. Little has been uncertain for the Patriots since that day. Year after year, Brady played quarterback nearly every game, […] More
The longtime Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy will return to football as the coach of the Dallas Cowboys, according to multiple news media accounts. McCarthy, 56, coached the Packers for almost 13 seasons, catching the end of the Brett Favre era and ushering in Aaron Rodgers as the franchise quarterback. His teams made nine […] More
PHILADELPHIA — Deep into the fourth quarter on Sunday — after making yet another acrobatic catch, after allowing his Seattle Seahawks to run out the clock, after completing the most dominant performance by a rookie receiver in N.F.L. playoff history — DK Metcalf lifted himself off the ground and waved. He waved at the Philadelphia […] More
NEW ORLEANS — Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins has often been criticized for not winning games on the biggest stages. He has never won a game on “Monday Night Football,” for instance, and had never won a playoff game. Cousins flipped the script on Sunday afternoon when he led the Vikings to an upset victory […] More
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — With nine seconds left in what might have been his last game as a New England Patriot, Tom Brady was still trying to figure out what went wrong. A moment earlier, in his final act on the Gillette Stadium field late Saturday night, Brady threw a pass from his end zone that […] More
SEATTLE — Amid the chaos stirred by nearly 70,000 rabid fans at CenturyLink Field, Russell Wilson did not flinch. As the last play of overtime began, he backpedaled sharply, glanced across the field, shifted his weight forward and drilled a 15-yard bullet pass to his tight end. Touchdown. Game over. In a season filled with […] More
