Sports fandom is a year-round identity, but the calendar does not always cooperate. Between seasons, during recovery windows, ...

Thursday night football has already changed the standings in one division this season. Cleveland beat Pittsburgh on October 1, turning an evenly matched opening into a meaningful standings advantage.

There was a time when watching football required one television, one remote and maybe a newspaper somebody had already ...

Ohio State’s season opener answered one question. This week’s trip to Austin asks a much harder one. Can Matt Patricia’s defense do to a fully healthy, top-tier Texas offense what it just did to Ball ...

The first reaction to the Miami Dolphins’ first two games: What are the odds on a NFL team going through an entire season without ever leading in a game? After seeing them outscored 62-26 in two ...

Seven of the ten most intense rivalries in the Canadian League involve a team from Edmonton, Saskatchewan or Calgary. That is the clearest single finding in new research into Canadian football, and it ...

There was a brief moment Sunday when the impossible seemed almost within reach for the Miami Dolphins. Chop Robinson’s long-awaited first sack of the season late in the third quarter set up the ...

As if the rebuilding Miami Dolphins weren’t burdened with enough adversity. Five plays into Sunday’s home opener against Kansas City they lost their best player. After offering scant resistance on ...