Новости за 12.08.2019

The arbitrator has spoken, and so has Antonio Brown. It’s just not clear what Brown is saying. “While I disagree with the arbitrator’s decision, I’m working on getting back to full health and looking forward to rejoining my teammates on the field,” Brown said on Instagram regarding the outcome of the grievance filed regarding the [more]

The Packers signed fullback Tommy Bohanon, the team announced Monday. Bohanon entered the NFL as a seventh-round choice of the Jets in 2013 out of Wake Forest. He played three seasons for the Jets and two seasons with the Jaguars. For his career, Bohanon has played 68 games, with 30 starts, during the regular season. [more]

Giants wide receiver Amba Etta-Tawo was already hurt. Now he’s out for the year. The team announced that the journeyman wideout tore his Achilles in practice today. He didn’t play in the preseason opener against the Jets because of a hamstring injury. Etta-Tawo played for two colleges (Maryland and Syracuse), and worked in two professional [more]

The gavel has fallen quickly, and decisively. And just in time to be addressed by this week’s episode of Hard Knocks. (Eye roll emoji. If there is one.) PFT has confirmed that a neutral, independent arbitrator has ruled against Raiders receiver Antonio Brown in a grievance filed regarding the league’s refusal to allow Brown to wear [more]

The Cup Series' Bristol night race is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. ET Saturday on NBCSN.

The Patriots re-signed offensive lineman Cole Croston on Monday, Field Yates of ESPN reports. They waived cornerback D'Angelo Ross with an injury designation to make room. Ross will revert to injured reserve if he clears waivers. Ross was an undrafted free agent out of New Mexico. The Patriots waived Croston on July 30. He appeared [more]

Small sample sizes can make for terrible science, but they're delightful for stat hounds.

Linebacker Jeff Holland played for Vance Joseph when Joseph was the head coach of the Broncos last year and he will get a chance to play for Joseph again this year. Holland was waived by the Broncos when they signed cornerback Rashard Causey on Sunday. The Cardinals, who now employ Joseph as their defensive coordinator, [more]

Steve Letarte, Dale Jarrett and Jeff Burton break down Sunday's Cup race at Michigan on today's show.

The Eagles worked out free agent receiver Bruce Ellington, Ian Rapoport of the NFL reports. The Patriots cut Ellington on May 8 after signing him in March. Ellington has 79 receptions for 769 yards and five touchdowns in his career, with 11 rushing attempts for 54 yards and a touchdown. He has played for the [more]

The still-unfolding Antonio Brown situation seems like one of the craziest off-field NFL situations to ever happen. But there have been others. On Monday’s PFT Live, Simms and I drafted the most memorable of the most nutty off-field predicaments. Bottom line: Brown has a long way to go to match some of those who have [more]

Before the Vikings and Ravens completed a trade sending kicker Kaare Vedvik to Minnesota on Sunday, there was a report that four teams had reached out to Baltimore about trading for Vedvik. The report didn’t specify which teams had picked up the phone, but two of them seemed like easy guesses. There was a report [more]

The Titans signed linebacker James Folston Jr. on Monday, the team announced. They waived linebacker Jordan Williams with an injury designation. Folston signed with the Cardinals after going undrafted this spring. He played 41 games and started five during his college career at Pittsburgh, where he made 47 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss and 1.5 [more]

Titans receiver A.J. Brown returned to team drills Monday, just in time for two days of work with the Patriots beginning Wednesday. Brown had a hamstring issue during organized team activities, shortly after the Titans selected him in the second round, and he re-injured his left hamstring on the first day of training camp. So, [more]

The Jets have a problem with injuries at cornerback, and safety Jamal Adams thinks he has the solution: Let him change positions. Adams, the 2017 sixth overall pick who has quickly developed into one of the league’s best safeties, said today that he’ll gladly play cornerback if that’s the position the Jets need him to [more]

The United States Soccer Federation is staying on brand and promoting from within.

NBA commissioner Adam Silver said LeBron James leaving the Eastern-time-zone Cavaliers for the Pacific-time-zone Lakers hurt TV ratings.

Rookie Daniel Jones needs reps. Those reps won’t be at the expense of Eli Manning, though. Giants coach Pat Shurmur said Monday that Manning will play the next two preseason games. “Typically, I like to play all of them in every game, except maybe the last game where you wouldn’t play the starter,” Shurmur said, [more]

Wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders may not be waiting until the regular season for his first game action since tearing his Achilles late last season. Sanders has steadily progressed through different stages of practice participation this summer and Kyle Fredrickson of the Denver Post reports that Sanders was a full participant in 11-on-11 work during Monday’s [more]

Jason Witten quit football last year, retiring to go into the ESPN Monday Night Football booth. He’s back, but his beloved helmet isn’t. Witten spent the first 15 years of his career wearing two Air Advantage helmets by Schutt that he affectionately called Betsy. The helmet no longer is approved. Unlike Antonio Brown, the Cowboys [more]

It’s going to be hot enough in Spartanburg, S.C., this week. Panthers coach Ron Rivera wants to make sure there’s no added heat in his joint practices with the Bills. Via David Newton of ESPN.com, Rivera said he won’t tolerate any fights in the joint practices with a team he’s fairly familiar with. “If anybody [more]

It’s an old refrain from old folks: Back in my day, life wasn’t so easy. It’s a refrain that NFL veterans often tell their younger teammates at this time of year. That’s particularly true for the players who have been in the league since before 2011, when the new Collective Bargaining Agreement put limits on [more]

Who were the top 20 players during the first week of the new season?

Cowboys center Travis Frederick checked off another box this weekend in his comeback from missing all of last season after being diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome. Frederick received that diagnosis after playing in a preseason game against the 49ers and he was back at Levi’s Stadium on Saturday night to play his first game in a [more]

Pondering three big questions for the 2019-20 Edmonton Oilers.