The biggest remaining piece to Brian Kelly’s LSU football coaching staff appears to be situated. Per 247sports’ Matt Zenitz, Kelly is expected to promote quarterbacks coach Joe Sloan and wide receivers coach Cortez Hankton to co-offensive coordinators. The duo will replace Mike Denbrock, who left for the same position at Notre Dame. Sloan and Hankton served in the co-OC role …

ESPN staffJan 23, 2024, 10:25 AM ET EmailPrintOpen Extended Reactions Prior to the start of the 2023-24 NHL season, five teams named players to take over as captain. The process to pick a captain can vary by team, and there are currently five clubs that do not have a captain. Editor’s Picks The shortest tenured captain is Calgary Flames forward …

A former colleague of Brian Daboll’s in Buffalo is under consideration to join Daboll’s staff with the Giants. Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that the Giants have requested permission to interview Bills linebackers coach Bobby Babich for their defensive coordinator vacancy. Babich joined the Bills as an assistant defensive backs coach in 2017 and he coached the team’s safeties …

The early line for the NFC Championship Game featuring Detroit and San Francisco has the Lions as 7-point underdogs (FOX and the FOX Sports app). And when it comes to Super Bowl futures, these two squads are sitting at opposite ends of the spectrum.  The Niners, at +145, currently have the shortest odds to win it all; the Lions, at …

BELLAIRE, Texas — JT Daniels knows why he agreed to an interview on a recent lazy Sunday morning at a cafe near his suburban Houston apartment. The former USC, Georgia, West Virginia, Rice quarterback might as well be the face of the transfer portal. He has the unique experience of transferring three times and playing for four schools in a …

Revisiting previous 49ers-Lions playoff games ahead of NFC title clash originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area The Detroit Lions’ last road playoff victory came one week before they won their last NFL championship. In 1957, the Lions traveled to Kezar Stadium in Golden Gate Park and produced an amazing comeback victory over the 49ers. Since then, the organization has …

The Badgers football team had another player join their class of 2025 recruiting haul Monday, receiving the commitment of three-star linebacker Brenden Anes from Franklin, Tennessee. Anes picked Wisconsin over 10 other collegiate offers, including Indiana within the Big Ten. The Badgers have now secured three of the four players that were at their junior day last week, already adding …

“Great teams aren’t always great. They’re just great when they have to be.” That quote was masterfully said by NFL Films legend John Facenda when describing the 1979 Pittsburgh Steelers, a flawed yet talented team that captured the franchise’s fourth and final Super Bowl win of the decade. Now, 45 years later, that quote could one day be used to …

Patrick Mahomes did something on Sunday that he had never done before in his NFL career: play in a playoff game on the road. The No. 3-seeded Chiefs went to Highmark Stadium to face the No. 2-seeded Buffalo Bills in the divisional round, but for Mahomes it doesn’t matter what obstacles he faces, history shows he is going to make it …

One of the greatest rivalries in all of college sports happens in football each fall between Notre Dame and USC.  The two national powerhouses have played annually since the 1920’s and used the rivalry to help elevate their respective programs nationally. With USC joining the Big Ten now though, should the Trojans continue the rivalry? I don’t ask out of …

Getty Images Andy Reid got another victory against Sean McDermott when the Kansas City Chiefs edged out the Buffalo Bills in Sunday’s divisional round, the third time Reid has gotten the better of his former assistant in the postseason. Reid is actually undefeated against former assistant coaches in the playoffs, sporting a 5-0 record against them in his 25 NFL seasons.  …

The numbers are undeniably big. However, the latest Chiefs-Bills playoff classic fell short of the last one — and well short of last year’s divisional-round game in the same window. Per multiple reports, 39 million viewers (on average) watched Kansas City beat Buffalo, 27-24, to advance to the AFC Championship. The last time the same two teams met in the …

As someone who has read every conspiracy theory ever published on the internet, which by the way, you should never do, I have finally found the one that is going to take the NFL down.  We’re on to you Roger Goodell and your world is going to come crashing down this weekend when everyone learns that the NFL has been …

Colin Ferrell, an experienced assistant coach with strong ties to New Jersey, will be Rutgers football’s defensive line coach, replacing Marquise Watson. The news was broken on Tuesday morning by ESPN’s Pete Thamel. Born in New Jersey (Hamilton), Ferrell is an energetic coach and known as a strong teacher. He is a former standout defensive lineman at Kent State who …

The Baltimore Ravens are in the AFC championship game for the fifth time in franchise history, advancing to the conference championship for the first time in 11 seasons. Baltimore will host an AFC title game for the first time since 1971, back when the city was the home of the Colts.  Baltimore has been arguably the best team in football …