EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — A torrential pregame downpour turned into a light drizzle at kickoff, giving the Jets ideal conditions for their offensive deluge in a 34-3 win over the Oakland Raiders on Sunday afternoon at MetLife Stadium. In an odd bit of symmetry, the Jets came into this game on a two-game winning streak, […] More
CHICAGO — Khalil Mack set up a touchdown with a strip-sack, Allen Robinson had a season-high 131 yards receiving and the Bears beat the struggling Giants, 19-14, on Sunday afternoon. Trying to salvage something from a disappointing season, the Bears (5-6) bounced back from a loss to the Los Angeles Rams to win for the […] More
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Jets quarterback Sam Darnold walked into Coach Adam Gase’s office after the team’s sixth loss in seven games, an Oct. 27 rout by the Jacksonville Jaguars during which Darnold threw three interceptions and was sacked eight times. The second-year quarterback had a clear agenda: to improve communication between himself and Gase. […] More
CLEVELAND — Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph did not escape the brawl with the Browns without reprimand. The N.F.L. fined Rudolph $50,000 on Saturday for his involvement in the melee that began when Browns defensive end Myles Garrett pulled off Rudolph’s helmet and hit him on the head with it. Rudolph avoided suspension for his actions […] More
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Climate change activists stormed the field at the Yale-Harvard football game on Saturday afternoon, disrupting the game at halftime in a protest to call attention to the universities to divest their investments in fossil fuels. A group of about 70 protesters took to the field just before 2 p.m. after the […] More
LONDON — England’s Premier League has long prided itself on the kind of soccer it sells to the world, a compelling product that it bills as a unique brand of high-octane, fast-and-furious soccer. So it is perhaps little surprise that the league’s introduction this season of video assistant refereeing — the game-pausing, controversy-inducing, fan-aggravating replay […] More
Fred Cox, a place-kicker for the Minnesota Vikings who scored the most points in the team’s history and, while still playing, helped conceive the Nerf Football, a squishy faux pigskin that sold in the millions, died on Wednesday at his home in Monticello, Minn. He was 80. The Vikings announced his death but provided no […] More
Get Rory Smith’s weekly newsletter on world soccer in your inbox every Friday. It’s free! Sign up here at nytimes.com/rory. My favorite soccer-related study of all time, by some distance, came from the Brazilian magazine Mundo Estranho a few weeks before the start of the 2014 World Cup. For the first time, it said, it […] More
