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The National Football League will no longer be testing vaccinated or unvaccinated players on a daily basis, the league has announced, The move comes as the NFL enters into a crucial part of its playoffs schedule, with the year-capping Super Bowl looming in February. The league said Friday in a memo to all 32 teams…

Super Bowls have a reputation for being boring blowouts. While this year’s teams have yet to be determined for the February 13 event, one thing that won’t be boring this year is the halftime show. Pepsi dropped The Call today, an epic “official trailer” for the halftime show directed by Straight Outta Compton…

The latest Monday primetime belonged to ABC, which swapped out its typical The Bachelor broadcast for the NFL playoff showdown between the Los Angeles Rams and Arizona Cardinals at SoFi Stadium. Like Sunday Night Football‘s playoff game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Pittsburgh Steelers, Monday’s NFL game was the…

Next Level Chef, the cooking competition series from Gordon Ramsay, is getting a post-football slot in the schedule after Fox pushed drama Monarch to the fall. The non-scripted series, which features the British chef and Nyesha Arrington and Richard Blais, will air a special episode on Sunday, January 30 at 10 p.m…

The National Football League is rebounding from several down years and appears to be recovering the audience it lost during the pandemic. Fresh off the news that NBC’s Sunday Night Football once again was a ratings powerhouse for the National Football League comes word that the rest of the schedule also scored…

Just more than a month before the Super Bowl kicks off in the Southland, the NFL and NBC are already doing an end zone victory dance. Capped by the strong ratings of the Las Vegas Raiders' wafer-thin 35-32 win over the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday, Sunday Night Football has again topped primetime for its latest…

Los Angeles County’s public health director and the chair of its Board of Supervisors both insisted Thursday that the Super Bowl will go forward as planned at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood next month. That’s despite concerns about today’s record number of Covid infections in L.A. that have impacted the Grammys, the IDA Awa…

UPDATE: Antonio Brown said on Wednesday that an injured ankle was behind his refusal to go into the Tampa Bay/New York Jets game. Brown said he was going to have surgery on the injury, which he claimed the Buccaneers covered up and forced him into playing while hurt. "Because of my commitment to the game, I relented…

EXCLUSIVE: The NFL has teamed up with United States Army Green Beret Nate Boyer to promote Boyer’s feature directorial debut MVP, in addition to the non-profit on which the film is based. The film dramatizes the formation of Merging Vets & Players (MVP), a non-profit created by Boyer and Fox Sports NFL Insider Jay…

NFL players and teams, colleagues, friends and others are mourning John Madden, the Hall of Fame NFL coach-turned-broadcaster who died today at 85. Here are some of their tributes from social media: A statement on the passing of the great John Madden from CBS Sports Chairman Sean McManus. pic.twitter.com/gyPhF91NGy…

John Madden died Tuesday at 85. The passing of the exuberant, Hall of Fame former Oakland Raiders coach who retired that post after a decade and then became a broadcast-booth legend, a popular pitchman and later the wildly successful Madden NFL video game franchise, was announced by the National Football League, which…

Tom Rinaldi has a Christmas wish. All Madden, the documentary he co-directed about NFL coach, broadcaster and video game namesake John Madden, will premiere Christmas Day on Fox. Rinaldi, a broadcaster for Fox Sports, made the film with his network production executive colleague, Joel Santos. The 85-year-old Madden…