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State and local police spent hours at the home of New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez on Tuesday night as another group of officers searched an industrial park about a mile away where a body was discovered the day before.
The cast of an Atlanta sports radio show has been fired after mocking a former NFL player who has Lou Gehrig's disease, a station official said Monday.
Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski had successful back surgery according to his brother, Gordie Gronkowski Jr., who tweeted the news Tuesday, ProFootballTalk.com reported.
The Lions say they have signed tight end Matt Veldman, who was signed by the Jaguars as an undrafted free agent in 2012 and waived by them last week.
Johnson is being released immediately from jail after apologizing to a judge for lack of respect when he slapped his attorney on the backside in court last week.
Broyles returned for Lions minicamp this week and participated fully all three days, and although he'll use the six-week break to continue rehab and strengthen small muscles in his right knee, Broyles expects to be ready for the 2013 season.
Barney, the 11-year Lions veteran and Hall of Fame cornerback, issued an apology on Sunday for comments he made last Friday regarding football 'becoming more deadly.' Barney on Sunday released a statement through his longtime attorney, Jim Acho.
Some may have snickered when Reggie Bush said there was no reason for the Lions not to have the most productive offense in the league, but he was dead-on. The weaponry is there and, just as importantly, so is the diversity of attack.
Barney played football from 21 years, beginning in middle school and finishing with an 11-year career with the Lions. But the Hall of Fame cornerback now sees the sport he still loves in a negative light.
Pettigrew is trying not to think about his future with the Lions and instead focus on bouncing back from his least productive season since his rookie year in 2009. Scheffler, meanwhile, is using his contract year as motivation.
Former Lions coach Marty Mornhinweg's two-year tenure guiding the team has earned him the title of worst coach in modern NFL history by the website Deadspin.
The last thing the Lions experienced on the final day of minicamp, before they set out on five weeks of unstructured freedom before training camp, was Balaal Hollings.
Bell not only got a lot of reps with the second offensive group when Mikel Leshoure was nursing a hamstring injury, he also got expanded duties on special teams.
Bush, 28, was the No. 1 free-agent target for the Lions, and it's important to recognize why. It's not that Calvin Johnson and Matthew Stafford required more help than the defense. It's that in Motown terms, if you spend big money on a fast car, you don't run it with a clogged fuel pump.
Gunther Cunningham has been coaching defenses in the NFL far too long to get overly excited or form any binding impressions during OTAs and non-contact ...
Travis Lewis is in good spirits these days. Not only is the second-year linebacker playing with the first team during minicamp this week, but his hometown San ...
— The NFL is tightening stadium security starting this exhibition season, limiting the size and type of bags fans can bring to the game.
After a few seconds on the grass, Bush popped up with a slight limp, but didn't end up missing any snaps with the first-team offense.
Martin Mayhew's first draft class as general manager — Jim Schwartz's first group of rookies — remains the foundation for this football franchise.
During Tuesday's minicamp, Leshoure competed in team drills for the first time this offseason, but he's still not quite 100 percent healthy. 'It always feels ...
Louis Delmas was on the field but not participating during the first day of mandatory mini-camp Tuesday, and he was in no mood to talk to the media about his ...
'He's had a great rehab,' coach Jim Schwartz said. 'He's working really hard. Every time he's gone out on the field he's made plays, and he did the same thing ...
Tebow is being reunited with Josh McDaniels, the Patriots offensive coordinator who was Denver's head coach when the Broncos traded into the first round to ...
Bengals cornerback Adam 'Pacman' Jones pleaded not guilty Tuesday to an assault charge after police say he hit a woman at a nightclub last week, the latest in ...
Rookie defensive end Ezekiel Ansah's first time fishing surely provided some lasting memories for everyone on his boat. Participating in the Kevin VanDam ...
Hanson, who spent the past 21 years as the Lions' kicker, announced his retirement in March and will join the Lions Ring of Honor this season. A couple months ...
Greenwood by now may well have established himself as a big star in the Canadian Football League. Instead, he's a fairly anonymous member of the Lions' 90-man ...
Former NFL star Chad Johnson was sentenced Monday to 30 days in jail for a probation violation in a domestic violence case by a judge who angrily rejected a no- ...
Chris Burke of Sports Illustrated says Lions offensive tackle Riley Reiff is poised for bigger and better things in 2013.
A person familiar with the situation says quarterback Tim Tebow is planning to join the New England Patriots at their minicamp on Tuesday.
Common wisdom says that teams that do well with their middle round picks in the NFL Draft are most likely to succeed. But we crunched the numbers for every team from 2008 to 2012 and found that's not necessarily the case.
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