DETROIT — The Detroit Lions withstood one injury after another en route to their best season in franchise history.

But against the Washington Commanders at Ford Field, it was all simply too much.

The Lions lost cornerback Amik Robertson to a significant elbow injury early in the game and safety Ifeatu Melifonwu to a hamstring injury late in ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs are heading to the AFC championship game, riding the performance of a trusted veteran.

Yes, it sure looks like a few weeks off did 35-year-old Travis Kelce some good.

The Chiefs tight end had his best game of the season — going over 100 yards with a touchdown — as the Chiefs took a 23-14 home ...Read more

FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — Former Falcons assistant coach Jeff Ulbrich, who interviewed Wednesday, was named the team's defensive coordinator on Saturday.

He was the Jets’ defensive coordinator and interim head coach this season, played in NFL for the 49ers from 2000-09, and was with the Falcons from 2015-20. He was the linebackers coach mostly ...Read more

ALLEN PARK, Mich. — A comeback story is timeless and priceless, hard to write, even harder to finish. It has many forms, but almost always begins in the same place — at the bottom.

The Lions were there not long ago. Detroit was there not long ago. Not many people cared about their story, or even knew it. Now, people can’t get enough of it...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Buffalo Bills had not even finished dispatching the Denver Broncos when CBS broadcaster Tony Romo jumped ahead a week, unable to contain his excitement over the Bills’ next showdown against Lamar Jackson and the Ravens.

“That’s the game I’ve been waiting for,” the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback said, blurting out ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — To the millions of loyal Dallas Cowboys fans searching for good news, follow the Detroit Lions.

Maybe the Washington Wizards.

Being a Cowboys fan should require a warning from the surgeon general, no different than a pack of cigarettes. At least with cigarettes you know a painful death is coming, whereas consuming the ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The guardrails the NFL constructed to facilitate Tom Brady’s role as a Raiders minority owner and his job as the lead NFL analyst on Fox will be tested Saturday.

Brady, in the first year of a 10-year, $375 million contract with Fox, will be in the broadcast booth at Detroit’s Ford Field calling the Lions’ playoff game ...Read more

DETROIT — Gone are the days of fans wearing brown paper bags, God forbid someone actually spot them attending a Detroit Lions game. Now, welcome to the era of earplugs.

These days, Ford Field, the Lions' home stadium since 2002, is the place to be seen — this weekend's playoff ticket prices are approaching record levels — and the place to...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As a season ticket holder for more than 50 years, Chiefs fan Pam Hatcher has had a lot of memorable moments at Arrowhead Stadium.

Most have to do with what Hatcher has seen on the field, but she vividly recalls something that happened in the stands during a game in the 2023 season.

“We ended up with like eight Jackson ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The confetti fell onto the Las Vegas field, red, white and yellow flakes the backdrop for an exchange between Patrick Mahomes and Chris Jones.

Those two stood on the stage inside Allegiant Stadium, awaiting recognition as the first repeat Super Bowl champions in a generation. But just seconds beforehand, Mahomes had another...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Tell us what you really think, Jared.

Los Angeles Rams rookie edge rusher Jared Verse doesn’t love Eagles fans, and he wasn’t afraid to say it loud and repeatedly in an interview with the Los Angeles Times reporter Gary Klein on Thursday.

“I hate Eagles fans,” Verse repeatedly told the L.A. Times. “They’re so ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Ravens wide receiver Zay Flowers didn’t practice for a third straight day Friday, putting his status in doubt for Sunday night’s AFC divisional round game against the Buffalo Bills in Orchard Park, N.Y.

Coach John Harbaugh wouldn’t go as far as ruling him out just yet, however. “I think he’ll have a chance,” he said ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs are reportedly losing a key member of their front office to the Tennessee Titans.

Per multiple reports Friday afternoon, the NFL franchise in Nashville has tapped Chiefs assistant general manager Mike Borgonzi as its next general manager.

Borgonzi was hired by the Chiefs in 2009 and had since filled ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — If you want to know the truth, sometimes even the irrepressible and apparently unflappable Patrick Mahomes actually feels anxiety in the crucible of the biggest moments of the biggest games.

But … only when he’s on the sideline.

“I feel nervous until I get on the field,” he said when I asked him in October about ...Read more

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — So you’re telling me you watched Justin Herbert’s four-interception AFC wild-card stinker against the Houston Texans last weekend and you’re starting to think the haters are onto something? You’re thinking he might actually be overrated.

Tell me you don’t know ball without telling me you don’t know ball.

Let ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — The Steelers' plan for life after Ben Roethlisberger is now a topic for the history books — and it's not the kind of history anybody would want to repeat.

We can now study it the way we'd study Napoleon's invasion of Russia and likely reach a similar conclusion — that it was an arrogant, ill-conceived, ill-executed disaster ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — This time last year the Eagles were reeling. They’d finished the regular season 1-5, they’d been demolished in Tampa for the second time in three playoff runs, the quarterback had regressed and the defense stunk. Third-year head coach Nick Sirianni and his staff hung on the edge of a cliff.

Sirianni survived, but only after...Read more

MIAMI — Carson Beck is the new big man on campus in Miami.

The former two-year starter at the University of Georgia will reportedly earn $4 million as the new quarterback for the University of Miami after the Hurricanes won one of the most aggressive, and lucrative bidding wars for an injured underachiever.

His new name, image and likeness (...Read more