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HAMPTON — Several things you can count on in Hampton Roads in July: heat and humidity; pop-up thunderstorms; Mike Tomlin lighting up a room at the annual Hampton Roads Youth Foundation banquet. The Pittsburgh Steelers' head coach and Peninsula...

The NFL Management Council and NFL Players Association have determined that the Seattle Seahawks violated the Collective Bargaining Agreement’s offseason workout rules on the prohibition of live contact during one of the club’s organized...

The NFL Players Association on Monday released 16 documents which had been provided by the NFL on Friday that the league claims substantiates the accusations of a bounty program followed by the New Orleans Saints. According to a release on the Players...

Suspended Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma is calling his suspension appeal unfair. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell began appeals hearing in the Saints bounty case for the four suspended players. The NFLPA said “The documentation, which includes...

The NFL tweaked some of its rules Tuesday, making thigh and knee pads mandatory equipment for players (starting in 2013) and pushing forward a pair of other changes involving the trade deadline and injured reserve. The rule involving thigh and knee...

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said he plans to release evidence of the Saints bounty program at some point. Goodell indicated the evidence wouldn't be released until the appeals and grievance processes are complete. Former Saints linebacker Scott...

What are your early impressions of Coach Spagnuolo and the new defense? “I think there’s a big difference.  There’s a lot more zone.  It’s a lot different than what we’re used to with Gregg Williams’ defense.  I don&...

UPDATE: I just received an email response from Cam Weber, GM of American Football for EA Sports. He writes: “In order to depict the seriousness of concussions, when a player is injured in a Madden NFL game, they will be tended to by the medical...

Colts quarterback Andrew Luck struck a pose for his rookie card photo shoot. Luck and 34 other players met with major trading card companies Topps and Panini to provide photos in their new jerseys and autographs. There were rumors Luck would only sign...

SAN DIEGO - Five days of mourning over the unexpected death of Junior Seau has led some to ask, does the NFL do enough to help players when they leave the field? Many wonder why Seau took his own life and some wonder if he had trouble dealing with life...

Former Ravens cornerback and current NFLPA president Domonique Foxworth is “probably” going to retire. In a recent interview with a United Kingdom-based football website called DBLcoverage.com, the 29-year-old said, “I think that I&...

Jason Peters could have just as well tried pole-vaulting over a barbed-wire fence or wrestling a startled grizzly bear. Because in the bold, flawed, tragic language of the new collective bargaining agreement, hastily reviewed by locked-out athletes and...