Новости за 23.05.2018

Steelers running back Le'Veon Bell has shown no signs of backing down from his pledge to stay away from the team for a second straight offseason as long as he doesn’t have a long-term contract and the lack of progress toward a deal means it’s likely to be a while before he’s back with the [more]

Metta World Peace discusses the time he cracked Michael Jordan's ribs (and Jordan still hit the game winner).

Liverpool and Real Madrid put on a Premier League versus La Liga showdown in Ukraine this weekend.

Running back Duke Johnson has spent the last three seasons with the Browns and he’d like to extend his stay in Cleveland a while longer. Johnson is heading into the final year of the four-year deal he signed as a 2015 third-round pick and said on Wednesday, via Pat McManamon of ESPN.com, that he’s started [more]

The Vikings have targeted linebacker Anthony Barr as one of their own players they hope to be able to extend. And it appears he’s going to wait for them to do just that. According to Andrew Krammer of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Barr is skipping the team’s OTAs. He attended coach Mike Zimmer’s football camp over [more]

The Cowboys are one of only a handful of teams not to have a player protest during the national anthem, and owner Jerry Jones recently reiterated his stance on the issue. It sounds as if Cowboys players will continue to abide by Jones’ wishes and stand for the anthem as no one in the team’s [more]

The Falcons didn’t re-sign Derrick Coleman after the 2017 season and they now have three players competing for a spot at fullback. The latest addition is Ricky Ortiz, who was signed by the Falcons on Wednesday. Cornerback Joseph Putu, who signed with the team after going undrafted in April, was waived in a corresponding move. [more]

Ancelotti won scudetti as a player with Roma (1) and AC Milan (2), once more as a manager for the latter.

The Chargers were looking for tight end Hunter Henry to have a big season in 2018, but it will be 2019 before he’s on the field again. Henry tore his ACL during Tuesday’s practice on what General Manager Tom Telesco called “a very routine, non-contact play” and Telesco said the tight end is understandably “taking [more]

An up-and-down series for Kucherov and his running mate Steven Stamkos.

Wide receiver Bernard Reedy opened last season with the Buccaneers and he’ll try to do the same after closing out the 2017 campaign with the Patriots. The Buccaneers announced that they have signed Reedy to their 90-man roster on Wednesday. They waived wide receiver Thomas Sperbeck, who joined the team last week, with an injury [more]

For a Clippers franchise in transition, this is a stabilizing move.

On the anthem issue, Big Shield has a few cracks. Apart from 49ers owner Jed York abstaining from the vote, Jets CEO Christopher Johnson has made it clear that he won’t punish players who violate the new mandate to “respect” the flag. “I do not like imposing any club-specific rules,” Johnson said, via Bob Glauber [more]

The Lions added another linebacker to the roster on Wednesday. The team announced that they have signed Trevor Bates. Tight end DeAndre Goolsby was waived in a corresponding move. Bates was a seventh-round pick by the Colts in 2016 after playing college football at the University of Maine. He spent a brief period on their [more]

There were five guys making the team for the first time.

The ink is barely dry on the NFL’s new anthem policy, and the man most responsible for forcing the league to compel standing for the anthem is declaring victory. Vice President Mike Pence, who stormed out of a 49ers-Colts game due to kneeling by the visiting team that he knew or should have known would [more]

The latest gossip from around the Premier League.

During a short press conference that started after the NFL released a statement on its new national anthem policy, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the policy was adopted after a unanimous vote by the league’s 32 teams. Not all of the teams voted, however. 49ers CEO Jed York said that he abstained from the vote [more]

Quinn replaces Alain Vigneault, who was fired in April.

Stunning as it may be, the decision of Patriots quarterback Tom Brady to stay away from Organized Team Activities isn’t really surprising. But the specific reason for his absence still isn’t known. There could be several. Regardless, he’s not present for the critical third phase of the offseason program, which as Brady himself said five [more]

Michael Hayden broke the jaw of JP Motorsports owner Jerry Hataway on a May 4 altercation at Dover.

Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill is working on the field at OTAs this week and said Wednesday that he was fully cleared for football last week after missing all of last season with a knee injury. Tannehill said he feels blessed to be able to be back on the field after such a long layoff and [more]

Game 7 is Wednesday night, 8 p.m. ET on NBCSN.

The man who shot and killed Sean Taylor more than a decade ago hopes to get out of prison at some point before 2060. Eric Rivera, who was 17 at the time, received a 57-year sentence in 2013 after being convicted of second-degree murder. Via David Ovalle of the Miami Herald, Rivera seeks a reduced [more]

Richie Incognito is an NFL free agent after being released by the Bills this week, but he’s reportedly been held by police after an incident in Florida on Wednesday. TMZ reports that law enforcement sources confirmed Incognito has been placed in an involuntary hold for a mental evaluation after police were called to a gym [more]