Lenoir surprises 49ers teammates with custom Christmas gifts originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Deommodore Lenoir got in the Christmas spirit for his fellow 49ers. The cornerback surprised the rest of San Francisco’s defensive backs with personalized Louis Vuitton duffle bags. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Be The Best Sports Group (@bethebest.sg) The 25-year-old has …

TAMPA, Fla. — Florida closed out a turnaround season with a solid but unspectacular showing. A 33-8 win against Tulane during the Gasparilla Bowl was still something to celebrate for coach Billy Napier. After all, the victory capped a four-game winning streak after two seasons that ended on skids of three and five games, respectively. Yet Friday’s performance at Raymond …

We are in the late stages of the 2024 NFL regular season, so you know what that means: Saturday games! College Football Playoffs be damned, because we have a Saturday double-header in the NFL. The first of which is a potential playoff preview between the Houston Texans and Kansas City Chiefs. The main storyline around this matchup has been the …

No. 7 seed Notre Dame hosts No. 10 seed Indiana to kick off the 12-team College Football Playoff era in South Bend, Indiana in what will be a historic moment as the landscape across college football changes. Though both schools are located in the state of Indiana and are separated by around 200 miles, this will be the first meeting between in-state …

The Saints haven’t officially ruled quarterback Derek Carr or running back Alvin Kamara out for Monday night’s game yet, but it looks like things are moving in that direction. Carr and Kamara missed practice for the second straight day. Carr remains sidelined by the left hand injury he suffered in the team’s Week 14 win over the Giants and Kamara …

Dec. 20—Even before the season began the expectations were that Ohio State would beat Michigan, get a rematch with Oregon in the Big Ten championship game and, regardless of the outcome of that game, maybe still be one of the top four seeds in the expanded 12-team College Football Playoff. So, how did that work out? Don’t ask. The question …

Getty Images The Kansas City Chiefs’ pursuit of a third consecutive Super Bowl win just got a little easier. The Chiefs have activated wideout Hollywood Brown ahead of their Week 16 Saturday showdown at home against the Houston Texans. Brown is set to make his season debut after sustaining a shoulder injury during the preseason.  The 27-year-old Brown signed a …

Getty Images The first edition of the expanded College Football Playoff bracket has been set with 12 teams now afforded an opportunity to make a run towards a national championship. The new-look CFP is more of an event than the four-team field ever was, or the BCS before it, with action expanding across a month between December and January — …

Kittle still receives advice from former 49ers tight ends coach Embree originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area The connections between the 49ers and Dolphins run deep and that includes George Kittle’s relationship with Miami tight ends coach Jon Embree. Embree was Kittle’s first NFL position coach in when the 49ers drafted the All-Pro tight end in the fifth round …

Colorado head coach Deion Sanders issued a warning to NFL teams Friday − don’t draft Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter if you won’t let him play both ways. Sanders said this on “The Rich Eisen Show” Friday and also hinted that a contract extension is in the works that could keep him at Colorado for the long term. In Hunter’s …