Kansas City Chiefs superfan, Xaviar Babudar (also known as Chiefsaholic), was already facing a 50-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to several bank robberies. Now, an Oklahoma judge has ordered Babudar to pay $10.8 million to Payton Garcia, a former bank teller Babudar threatened at gunpoint during a December 2022 bank robbery, according to ESPN.  According to the report, Babudar …

I’m thinking of this time of year as a relay race — the NCAA Tournament just passed the baton to The Masters and then, we’re up, baby! The 2024 NFL Draft will take center stage, literally in Detroit and will become the hub of the sports world for three glorious days in just a few weeks. It’s really not that …

USATSI Auburn University will be switching to Nike as its apparel and shoe provider once its current deal with Under Armour expires in July 2025, the school announced Tuesday. Auburn’s new deal with Nike covers 10 years and is set to make Auburn one of the highest-paid Nike-sponsored programs in the nation, according to 247Sports.  “We are excited to enter …

Geoff Schwartz FOX Sports Betting Analyst Even the two-time defending champions have needs.  The Kansas City Chiefs will look to three-peat come next NFL season, but first, there’s the 2024 NFL Draft.  And while every franchise chasing Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid and the Chiefs will look to make big leaps via acquiring young talent, Kansas City will look to get …

Bears’ simple advice to Caleb Williams shows why QB shouldn’t have issue winning locker room originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago Long before the Bears traded quarterback Justin Fields to the Pittsburgh Steelers for a 2025 conditional sixth-round pick, the veterans inside the locker room were bracing for his departure and the arrival of a new signal-caller. Barring an unforeseen …

The New York Giants took a significant step backward in 2023, seeing their record drop from 9-7-1 in the first season of a new front-office regime to just 6-11 in the second year. They finished with the NFL’s sixth-worst record, and thus own the No. 6 overall pick in this month’s NFL Draft.  The Giants have been connected to players …

The Oregon Ducks officially announced the hiring of Ra’Shaad Samples as their new assistant head coach and running backs coach on Tuesday morning via press release. Ducks Wire confirmed a report over the weekend that the university was hiring samples as their new position coach, replacing Carlos Locklyn, who left Eugene to take a job with the Ohio State Buckeyes. …

For the first time since 1974, Bill Belichick is not an NFL coach. The 2024 season marks the end of a storied era, as the New England Patriots moved on from the head coach that lead them to six championships. Only the Atlanta Falcons offered him a job following that departure, and he was left jobless for the first time …

Spring football camp is wrapping up at Florida A&M. On Tuesday, the Rattlers had their 13th of 15 spring practices on Ken Riley Field at Bragg Memorial Stadium. And with one more standard practice remaining, FAMU head coach James Colzie III is using the final meetings to test his team’s wherewithal through good-on-good drills. The Rattlers practice again on Thursday and then will use …

CeeDee Lamb has assured Dallas Cowboys fans that he’ll still be with the team when the 2024 season begins. The Cowboys star receiver told TMZ he isn’t planning to be elsewhere following a recent report from the Dallas Morning News that he’ll likely hold out from the team’s offseason activities.  “Absolutely,” Lamb said when asked if he’ll be with the …

The Cardinals have been linked with wide receivers throughout the pre-draft process and one of the top ones in the class is visiting the team on Tuesday. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that former Texas wideout Xavier Worthy is in Arizona to meet with the team. Worthy met with the Bears on Monday. Worthy caught 197 passes for 2,755 …

When Ohio State takes the field for its spring game on Saturday, the college football world will get its first glimpse at the changes made by the Buckeyes over the offseason. Chip Kelly gave up a head coaching job to become offensive coordinator in Columbus. Ryan Day and his staff were very active in the transfer portal, bringing in more …

Packers President Mark Murphy says his team is ready, willing and able to head to Brazil in Week One, if the NFL sends them. The league has already announced that the second game of the 2024 regular season will be played in Brazil on Friday, September, 6, and that the Eagles will be the designated home team in a game …

Apr. 9—Luka Gilbert is headed for the Sunshine State to play college football. The Lakota West junior announced Monday night he has verbally committed to the University of Miami after fielding offers from Ohio State, Michigan, Iowa and many others since last year. Listed 6-foot-7, 217 on the roster last fall, Gilbert caught 15 passes for 171 yards and two …

The Dallas Cowboys have already had one of the strangest offseasons of any team in the league. After Jerry Jones declared that the team would be all in for the upcoming season, the team instead allowed six starters to leave in free agency and lost another to retirement, and signed only one outside free agent.  The Cowboys have cried poor, …