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The NFL and the NFL Players Association have agreed to halt all aspects of their joint COVID-19 protocols, effective immediately. Following nearly two years of restrictions, operations will return to normal, the league relayed in a memo Thursday, obtained by NFL Network's Tom Pelissero. It is a long-awaited awaited announcement as there will be no more requirements for masks, tracking devices, surveillance testing or capacity limits, unless they are required by state or local laws. "Based on current encouraging trends regarding the prevalence and severity of COVID-19, the evolving guidance from the CDC, changes to state law and the counsel...

WASHINGTON — Charley Taylor, the Hall of Fame receiver who ended his 13-season career with Washington as the NFL's career receptions leader, died Saturday. He was 80.

NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL has hired a law firm that includes former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to defend it and its teams in Brian Flores’ race discrimination lawsuit. Lynch, the attorney general in the latter part of the Obama administration, will work with Brad Karp, chairman at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison. Karp previously has worked for the league in concussion cases. Flores, who is Black, was fired as Miami’s coach last month despite back-to-back winning seasons. He named the league and three teams — the Dolphins, Denver Broncos and New York Giants — in a...

The Super Bowl rebounded to draw an estimated 101.1 million television viewers. That was a 6% increase over the 95.2 million TV viewers who saw the Tampa Bay Bucs crowned as champions. The halftime show starring Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem and Mary K. Blige was a hit.

LeBron James made the bold suggestion that the Los Angeles Lakers and Dodgers join the Rams of the NFL in their championship parade that will pop off in a few days.

Joy Reid has slammed the NFL for trying to 'sanitize Blackness' from the Super Bowl after Eminem took the knee during the half-time show. The MSNBC host, wearing a football jersey in support of Colin Kaepernick, said she has fallen out of love with the game over its apparent inaction against racism and the lack of Black coaches in the sport, in comments echoing resident Joe Biden. Reid and her panel of hosts noted how Eminem has been praised for taking the knee during his performance in what was nothing more than a 'performative' gesture, but Kaepernick has remained unsigned...

In 1966 I began attending USC, and my dorm was a half-mile walk from the Coliseum. I bought a season-ticket: $2.50 per game times 7 games, or $17.50 per year. I had the center seat ten rows up in the east end zone, and I watched Roman Gabriel and Dick Bass and Jack Snow and the Fearsome Foursome lose to the Vikings every year.After a couple of years they raised prices on me: 4 bucks a game plus 3 preseason games, so now it was $40 a year. Instead, I got a job ushering, and now they paid me $6...

The LAPD declared an unlawful assembly Sunday night after “violent and destructive” Los Angeles Rams fans wreaked havoc on downtown streets following the team’s Super Bowl victory over the Cincinnati Bengals. The celebration turned chaotic near 11th and Hope streets when fans lit fireworks inside a city bus and festooned the outside with graffiti, according to Los Angeles Times reporter Kevin Rector.

Leading up to Super Bowl 56, most of the negative attention surrounding the halftime show was about Snoop Dogg for his recent anti-police song. But it ended up being two of the other performers — Dr. Dre and Eminem — who ruffled some feathers and reportedly bucked the NFL during the halftime show. In the final song of the performance, Dr. Dre repeated an anti-police lyric in his song “Still D.R.E.” “Still f—- with the beats, still not loving police,” reads the lyric in Dr. Dre’s hit 1999 single. Dr. Dre did not say the expletive during the halftime show,...

President Joe Biden called out the NFL ahead of the Super Bowl on Sunday for its lack of black coaches, saying having diverse leaders in the league is a requirement of 'generic decency.'

About 830 a.m., police were called to Los Angeles International Airport’s Terminal 7 due to reports of domestic violence on an airplane, according to police Lt. Karla Rodriguez. The plane, which was headed to Houston, had to return to the gate “due to a verbal and physical altercation between a male suspect and a female victim,” Rodriguez said. The suspect, football star Adrian Peterson, was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence injury to a spouse, Rodriguez said. Peterson was released on $50,000 bail Sunday afternoon, according to jail records.

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The NFL’s dismal number of black head coaches shows a lack of “generic decency” from a league that hasn’t kept its promises, President Biden said in an interview airing Super Bowl Sunday. “They haven’t lived up to what they committed to and lived up to being open about hiring more minorities to run teams,” Biden told NBC News, referencing the football league’s purported commitments to diversifying leadership. “The whole idea that a league that is made up of so many athletes of color as well as so diverse, that there’s not enough African American qualified coaches to manage these NFL...

Cam Newton has a matter-of-fact reason for why he would never slide into Brittany Renner’s direct messages. Renner, a famous Instagram model, recorded an interview with the charismatic Panthers quarterback. In a now-viral teaser clip, Newton says he wouldn’t have sex with Renner because he doesn’t want his dirty laundry aired out. “I’m Cam Newton, right?,” he said. “And I ain’t gonna lie. I’m not about to hit no DMs with no Brittany talking about ‘hey yo, what’s good? What’s popping? You in Atlanta? I see you in Atlanta. Boom. Slide through.’

Sunday will bring us a particularly interesting sporting event- the F**k the Police Bowl, also known as the Super Bowl. There will reportedly be a football game played but it's the entertainment that's of note. Over the last few years the Superbowl has devolved into an overblown half time spectacle sandwiched around a sporting event. This year is no different, except for the participants and their legacies. There are two in particular, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. They exhort the killing of cops. Dre blessed us with "F**k tha Police" in 1988 https://youtu.be/o_O8Msj7Sd0To spare you having to watch it here...

New Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel is, according to the NFL, a minority. That matters because the NFL has specific rules about minority coaches, including that the 49ers will receive two third-round draft picks for helping to develop a minority assistant coach to the point where another team hired him to be its head coach. But McDaniel, to many eyes, looks white. And there’s been some hand-wringing on social media about whether McDaniel is “really” a minority. For McDaniel himself, he wishes people would just identify him as human. “It’s been very odd, to tell you the truth, this idea...

Washington Commanders player Deshazor Everett has been arrested. According to a statement from the Loudoun County Sheriff’s office, Everett has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after allegedly crashing and killing a woman in his car back in December. Police allege that he “was traveling over twice the posted 45 mph speed limit just prior to the crash.” The driver involved in the December 23 fatal crash that took the life of a Las Vegas woman has been charged with Involuntary Manslaughter after an investigation determined he was traveling over twice the posted 45 mph speed limit just prior to the...

NBC to air Lester Holt interview with Biden during Super Bowl pregame coverage President Biden will sit down with NBC News anchor Lester Holt for an exclusive interview as part of the network's pregame coverage of the Super Bowl on Sunday.