Новости за 25.08.2016

New England defensive tackle Alan Branch is welcome back with the team. The Patriots suspended Branch a week ago, but Field Yates of ESPN reports that the Patriots have reinstated him. It remains unclear why Branch was suspended. The Patriots never announced the suspension and it only came to light because Branch told teammates he…

The Browns weren’t just able to chisel a fifth-round pick out of someone they might have cut anyway because they’re so shrewd. There was actually interest in Barkevious Mingo from others as well. According to Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network, the Lions also placed a call before the Browns sent their 2013 first-rounder to…

West Ham dominated the game but not the score line against Astra Giurgiu, who advanced to the Europa League group stage with a win in London

Vikings offensive coordinator Norv Turner doesn’t see any signs that running back Adrian Peterson is slowing down with age, but we’ll have to wait until the regular season to find out for sure. At one point this offseason, Peterson said that he thought he might break from recent years and play in a preseason game.…

“Watching him perform when the game is on the line, he doesn’t seem to get rattled,” said Blues GM Doug Armstrong.

Former Giants coach Tom Coughlin is reportedly adding to his duties with the league. Coughlin became a “senior advisor” to the league’s operations department this offseason, a role that has him working with NFL executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent as well as the league’s game-related committees. One of those committees is the Competition…

Mario Chalmers was thriving with the Grizzlies after a midseason trade from the Heat when a torn Achilles ended his season. Not the way Chalmers wanted to enter free agency. Still unsigned, he says he’s progressing. Chalmers: Finally cleared to get back on the court. This been a long ass 5 months man. But we […]

The 2017 NFL Draft is shaping up to be a three-day Cleveland Browns infomercial. Yes, there will be a Trent Richardson/Johnny Manziel montage. But the Browns are in line to be making plenty of picks as they try to move forward. The Browns added another pick in Thursday’s Barkevious Mingo trade, a fifth-rounder from the…

Big trade today.

Schalke finished in fifth place last Bundesliga season, and brings back captain Benedikt Howedes and Olympic star Max Meyer.

Martin Truex Jr.'s latest sponsor will debut in the Sept. 10 Federated Auto Parts 400.

It looks like the long-awaited return of Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz to the field is a go for Saturday. Cruz missed time with a groin injury this summer that kept him from playing in either of the team’s first two preseason games and led to enough speculation about his future that General Manager Jerry…

The new Madden game came out on Tuesday (it’s excellent, and I say that even though I’ve never gotten a free copy of it), so I asked Saints quarterback Drew Brees during a Wednesday visit to PFT Live on NBC Sports Radio how much time he spends telling younger players to quit spending so much…

Bradley Beal isn’t the only player bothering John Wall. James Harden – who’s earning a lot of money from the Rockets and adidas – is drawing the ire of the Wizards point guard. Kevin O’Connor of The Ringer: One league source familiar with Wall’s state of mind simply put it this way: “Wall’s got jealousy […]

For the sixth pick in the first round of the 2013 NFL draft, the Browns have received what will likely be a late pick in the fifth round of the 2017 NFL draft. The Patriots have sent their fifth-round pick to Cleveland in exchange for Barkevious Mingo, according to multiple reports. As much as that…

Jason Hall will wave the green flag while Detroit Red Wings head coach Jeff Blashill will give the command to start engines.

Beauty backhander.

Texans defensive end J.J. Watt sent out a tweet featuring a picture of himself on the field captioned “Soon” on Wednesday, a few days after coach Bill O’Brien said that he thought Watt would be back “sooner than later” from the back surgery that has kept him out of action this summer. O’Brien’s answer was…

As expected, Steelers linebacker James Harrison submitted for his Al Jazeera-sparked PED interview on Thursday morning. Via Ed Bouchette of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, both sides kept quiet after the meeting ended. That’s likely good news for Harrison, because if he saw or heard anything in the room that made him think that the league wasn’t…

The Rams haven’t seen Tre Mason since last season, but his bigger problem is that his mother doesn’t recognize him. After the latest of Mason’s bizarre adventures, which involved leading police on an ATV chase, his mother told Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputies last month her son has “10-year-old’s mindset” as the result of head…

Jagr finished as the Panthers top scorer with 66 points in 2015-16.

Analyzing how tough it will be for all four PL teams in the UCL group stage.

For the second day in a row, the Patriots are involved in an unexpected trade. The Browns have agreed to ship pass rusher Barkevious Mingo to New England, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports. Mingo was the sixth overall pick in the 2013 NFL draft, and at 6-foot-4 and 240 pounds he had the look of…

The Suns have swung big in free agency the previous couple years, chasing LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony in 2014 and LaMarcus Aldridge in 2015. But 2016 appeared to be the year Phoenix really eyed. The Suns structured the contracts of multiple players – including Brandon Knight, Tyson Chandler, Markieff Morris and Marcus Morris – […]

Hall of Fame coach Tony Dungy previously coached the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Currently, the Buccaneers have a second-round rookie kicker, who is struggling to make kicks. So what would Dungy say to Roberto Aguayo, if Dungy were the coach? “We drafted Martin Gramatica [pictured] in the third round when I was here and people thought…