CANTON, OHIO — Former Vikings defensive end Jared Allen was telling the Minnesota Star Tribune on Thursday how he probably wouldn’t cry during Saturday’s Pro Football Hall of Fame enshrinement speech because, “My wife and daughters tell me I might be the least emotional person on the planet.”

Think again, Jared. Think again.

In a ...Read more

DENVER — Sean Payton approached Zach Allen on Thursday with what he thought was a promising metaphor.

“It appears the ships can see each other on the horizon,” the Broncos head coach said, referring to contract extension talks between the club and Allen’s camp.

Then Payton asked Allen how far the horizon is at sea.

“His answer ...Read more

CANTON, OHIO — Sterling Sharpe gave an emotional speech, took off his gold jacket and gave it to his brother, Shannon Sharpe, before the two held in a long brotherly embraced on the stage Saturday at Tom Benson Stadium.

“God has smiled on me,” Sterling Sharpe opened during his speech. “This is my life. There are many like it. But this ...Read more

Chargers linebacker Denzel Perryman was arrested Friday night and held without bail on weapons charges after a traffic stop by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies, who said Saturday they found five guns in his vehicle, including two illegal assault-style weapons.

Perryman, 32, was stopped by deputies from the South Los Angeles Station at 9:...Read more

SEATTLE — After signing an extension earlier this week, Seahawks general manager John Schneider is under contract through 2031, giving him a chance to oversee the team for two full decades.

But no matter how much longer he runs the football side of the Seahawks, he is unlikely to make a bigger move than he did on March 8, 2022.

That’s the ...Read more

DENVER — Zach Allen is a human Rice Krispie.

On the snap, he crackles and pops offensive linemen.

Wednesday, a single play explained his brilliance. Quarterback Bo Nix caught the ball in the shotgun and center Luke Wattenberg and left guard Ben Powers slid the protection over to Allen. With four hands and 610 pounds locked on his chest, ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Hot as it was Thursday morning at the NovaCare Complex, the sight of the Eagles holding a training-camp practice at their own headquarters, with select fans and sponsors ringing the fields, with a Rita’s Italian Ice truck dishing out cups of mango and green apple, would have been a welcome vision for Jeffrey Lurie.

When Lurie...Read more

MIAMI — It’s the worst insult one can say about a football player, or a football team on any level of the sport.

In a sport where the goal is to overpower another man snap-after-snap, dominate him to the point you’ve extinguished his desire to fight, the worst thing someone — or some team — can be labeled is soft.

However, that’s ...Read more

NEW YORK — More than a week after the start of training camp, the Jets are dealing with an injury to a key player.

Defensive tackle Quinnen Williams will miss one to two weeks after suffering a calf injury.

Williams tweaked his left calf during positional drills on Thursday. He left the practice field and walked under his own power to be ...Read more

RENTON, Wash. — During a news conference Wednesday to talk about a new contract that keeps him in Seattle through 2031, Seahawks general manager John Schneider was asked about this being one of the more drama-free training camps in recent history.

The Seahawks don’t have any urgent contract situations looming, with no one holding out or ...Read more

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — When Miami Dolphins training camp started last week, quarterback Tua Tagovailoa took a hard stance on star wide receiver Tyreek Hill’s standing with the rest of the team after Hill took himself out of last season’s finale and then said he wanted out from the club.

Tagovailoa called Hill’s relationship with ...Read more

CANTON, Ohio — Trey Lance welcomes any opportunity that comes his way — a vexing four NFL seasons have only made him more eager — so Thursday night felt especially good.

Lance, the onetime third overall pick of the San Francisco 49ers, is battling for the Chargers' backup quarterback job, and he made a compelling case in the Hall of Fame ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Walt Disney Co. is expected to announce the NFL is taking an equity stake in its sports media property ESPN, according to people familiar with the plan.

Disney may reveal the deal during its earnings call Wednesday. Representatives at the NFL and ESPN declined comment Friday.

In return for the equity stake, ESPN is expected at ...Read more

DENVER — The topic is awkward, and maybe even embarrassing. It’s difficult to bring up in a conversation with someone you don’t know. But we are on a bench a few feet from the Broncos practice field, and the question comes out:

What did you learn from your yearlong suspension for gambling?

Eyioma Uwazurike, or Enyi as he is known to ...Read more

SEATTLE — Okay.

Or maybe better put — Ooooookay?

My guess is that was the reaction from many a Seahawks fan in response to news Wednesday that the contract of the team's general manager, John Schneider, was going to be extended through 2031.

Because for the past few years — or even the rougher part of the past decade — the Seahawks ...Read more

MIAMI — It’s time to scrap any kind of plans we might have had, and start all over because in seven practices the Miami Dolphins’ secondary has gone from a problem area, a troublesome unit, to a group in crisis.

That’s what happens when a unit that was already perceived as one of the team’s thinnest suffered its third serious injury ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The lion's amber gaze fixes forward on Nate Landman's left bicep, its mane fanning across the curve of his arm. Above Landman's wrist, a zebra bends to graze, while a giraffe behind steps through a stand of wind-bent acacia trees.

Together, they form a tattooed sleeve of Zimbabwe — an inked landscape of home carried by the ...Read more

CANTON, Ohio — This town is deeply meaningful to the Harbaugh family, and not just because Jim Harbaugh will coach the Los Angeles Chargers in the Hall of Fame game on Thursday night, seven years after brother John Harbaugh did the same with the Baltimore Ravens.

But the Harbaugh legacy in Canton predates the Pro Football Hall of Fame, which ...Read more