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Former NFL running back Rashard Mendenhall took to social media Monday to call for a racially segregated pro football game. “I’m sick of average white guys commenting on football,” the Super Bowl champion said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “Y’all not even good at football.” Mendenhall, who played for the Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers, offered a replacement to the existing Pro Bowl. “Can we please replace the Pro Bowl with an All-Black vs. All-White bowl so these cats can stop trying to teach me who’s good at football?” he asked. “I’m better than ur goat.”...

The Caleb Williams saga is going to be one that we're going to get tired of quickly. It's a unique situation. As long as Williams stays healthy and doesn't completely shit the bed, he will go number one in next year's draft. He's already got a Heisman Trophy, and now it seems like he's making demands. About a month back, it was reported that Williams would consider staying in college if the Cardinals ended up with the number one overall pick. I think that's such an insane thing to entertain. It was like the first week of the season, why...

There's always the first half of next year.

Arizona Cardinals quarterback Matt Leinart and University of Southern California basketball player Brynn Cameron are expecting a baby in the fall, PEOPLE has learned. Leinart, 23, one of PEOPLE's 2006 Most Beautiful People, graduated from USC in December 2005 and lives in Los Angeles and Arizona. Cameron, a 20-year-old USC junior, will sit out the upcoming basketball season. "It's an exciting time in their life," says a source who knows both athletes. "They both have support from their families."

The Arizona Cardinals are set to hire Kliff Kingsbury as their new head coach, according to Peter Schrager of FOX Sports. In December, Kingsbury was named offensive coordinator at the University of Southern California after being fired from his head-coaching role at Texas Tech. Following the conclusion of the NFL regular season, the Cardinals and New York Jets had expressed interest in hiring Kingsbury for their head-coaching vacancies. However, the Trojans reportedly did not initially grant Kingsbury permission to interview with either club. He went on to eventually meet with both teams.

... Four black coaches were fired Sunday or Monday, including the Jets’ Todd Bowles, who was let go shortly after his team’s final loss Sunday. The Jets had a 14-34 record in the last three seasons under Bowles. Marvin Lewis, who had been at the helm of the Cincinnati Bengals since 2003, was fired Monday. Though he had resurrected the moribund Bengals and took them to the playoffs multiple times, he never won a playoff game and this season was Cincinnati’s third consecutive one with a losing record. Also fired Monday was Denver Broncos Coach Vance Joseph, who had presided...

TEMPE, Ariz. -- Delilah Cassidy's tweet thread was building to a climactic ending. At 1:37 p.m. on May 30, Cassidy, a law student at Arizona State University, began tweeting about her experience at an airport gate en route to Phoenix from a European trip. By now, the story is internet lore. But that afternoon, she was unveiling it to the digital world tweet by tweet. She was about to board an American Airlines flight when the gate agent told her she needed to pay $50 to bring her carry-on with her. If she didn't want to pay, the agent said,...

If you’re planning to watch the Super Bowl but you can’t stand the NFL take-a-knee protests, you may want to root for the Philadelphia Eagles. Not a single Eagles player sat or knelt during the national anthem, one of just seven teams with perfect non-kneeling records, in a season that saw 684 such incidents, according to a study released Thursday by Sports Pundit. The other Super Bowl LII team, the New England Patriots, landed in the middle of the pack with 17 incidents of anthem sitting or kneeling, wedged between the Buffalo Bills with 16 and the Cleveland Browns with...

NFL DIVISIONAL PLAYOFF WEEKEND Saturday, Jan. 16 AFC Divisional Round Game 1 Kansas City Chiefs vs. New England Patriots 4:35 p.m., CBS NFC Divisional Round Game 1 Arizona Cardinals vs. Green Bay Packers 8:15 p.m., NBC Sunday, Jan. 17 NFC Divisional Round Game 2 Carolina Panthers vs. Seattle Seahawks 1:05 p.m., FOX AFC Divisional Round Game 2 Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Denver Broncos 4:40 p.m., CBS

GLENDALE, Ariz. - Arizona Cardinals assistant Jen Welter has become the first woman to coach an NFL game, the same night the league's first full-time female on-field official made her preseason debut. Welter worked Saturday night's game against the Kansas City Chiefs as an inside linebackers coach, while Sarah Thomas served as the line judge in the seven-person officiating crew.

38 year old Kurt Warner, quarterback extraordinare, is calling it quits with the Arizona Cardinals in order to retire from the NFL. After 12 seasons as one of the best quarterbacks in the league, he has decided that it is time to move on to greener pastures, even though he has 1 year left on his two-year $23 million contract. Apparently he doesn't need the money ...

In between being intercepted on the first play of the game and stripped of the ball on the last play, Aaron Rodgers was terrific in the best game of the NFL’s wild-card weekend. But Kurt Warner was better — historically good. He completed 29 of 33 passes for 379 yards, five touchdowns and no interceptions, with a 154.1 passer rating. It was, by at least one measure, one of the two best playoff performances by a quarterback in history. Before Warner’s big game, 10 other quarterbacks in the last 50 years had a passer rating above 150. But nine of...

It's said that we have trouble appreciating what we have until it is gone. Well, it took me a while, but I've come to appreciate Kurt Warner and what he brings to the Arizona Cardinals. Don't get me wrong - I never disliked the guy. I knew he was a great QB and an even better person off the field. But, I didn't think he could get the team to a Super Bowl and thus, I saw no point in continuing forward with the aging veteran instead of trying to find a younger, long-term replacement. Aside from the fact that...

I made two videos for the Arizona Cardinals. The first video was made with playoff pictures and is only one song long. The second one was made after the Cardinals won the NFC Championship and contains a remix of the short one with lots of fan photos, NFC game pictures and post game interview pictures incorporated and is much longer, but worth the watch if you are a true Cards fan.

<p>A criminal probe is being opened into the death of former NFL star Pat Tillman, who was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan.</p>

On crisp autumn Saturdays on the football field of Notre Dame, the life of a young fullback named Mario "Motts" Tonelli was measured in hashmarks and goal lines. He was, by virtue of his ability to break into the clear, a hero, a man defined by athletic skill and physical power. But looking back on his life--a life of survival, renewal and redemption, of extraordinary courage and a will to live stronger than a prison death march--his accomplishments on the field seem almost a footnote. Mr. Tonelli did achieve true greatness, but a greatness realized through those traits that rarely...

PAT TILLMAN's story has always been a compelling tale of selflessness and personal challenge. He left the Arizona Cardinals and the security of a $3.6 million contract to join the elite Army Rangers Special Operations unit. A friend of Tillman's said he traded in his shoulder pads for fatigues last year because he was bored with professional football. I always thought you read a good book when tedium set in. Tillman, a former hard-hitting safety with a craving for adrenaline, gave up his lucrative life of football and foot massages for crew cuts and cursing drill sergeants. Nice story. Noble...