One of the most decorated defensive backs in McNeese State history, Malcolm Bronson officially started his professional career on Wednesday by signing a free-agent contract with the Kansas City Chiefs. (American Press Archives)
By Alex Hickey / American Press
After a frustrating season that was followed by an agonizing wait, Malcolm Bronson’s football career is finally moving forward.
One of the most decorated defensive backs in McNeese State history, Bronson officially started his professional career on
Wednesday by signing a free-agent contract ...
BOSTON (AP) — The 50th Super Bowl will be held in the San Francisco Bay Area and the NFL championship will go to Houston the following year.Team owners voted Tuesday for the 49ers' new stadium as host of the 2016 game. That facility in Santa Clara, Calif., is due to open for the 2014 season.Sa ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Even as Sean Payton tried to make the best of his one-season bounty banishment from the NFL by spending
time with his children, getting in shape and playing golf, he often compared his punishment to prison time.
He missed his work that much, his players say, adding that hi ...
BOSTON (AP) — Where the Super Bowl will celebrate a half-century of existence will be decided this week by NFL owners.
They have two choices for the 50th anniversary game in 2016: the San Francisco Bay Area and South Florida.
The 49ers' new stadium is being built and is
scheduled to open fo ...
By Scooter Hobbs / American Press
Well, here we are, tragically, less than four months before the start of the next football season, and yet the NFL has still
not figured out what to do with Tim Tebow.
Let this be another lesson for what happens when you procrastinate.
This should have been taken care of months ago, but now the T ...
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Cardinals made relatively safe choices in the first two rounds of this year's draft and decided to gamble a bit with their third pick.
To some, taking Tyann Mathieu wasn't a small risk, either.
Once one of college football's most dynamic players, the LSU defen ...
METAIRIE (AP) — Chuck Muncie, a Pro Bowl running back with both the New Orleans Saints and San Diego Chargers, has died at
age 60, the NFL clubs and a family spokesman said Tuesday.
Muncie family spokesman Vintage Foster of AMF Media Group in San Ramon, Calif., said Muncie died at his Los An ...
METAIRIE (AP) — New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis says the club has signed six players who received tryouts
at rookie camp last weekend.
The signings announced Monday include that of Brent Leonard, who was Louisiana-Monroe's leading receiver last season. Also
signed were defe ...
METAIRIE (AP) — New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis says the club has signed third-round draft pick John Jenkins
to a four-year contract.
The 6-foot-3, 359-pound Jenkins, a defensive tackle out of Georgia, was the second of two third-round picks by New Orleans.
He signed his de ...
IRVING, Texas (AP) — Gerald Sensabaugh is retiring with the Dallas Cowboys after spending the last half of an eight-year career with them.The safety signed a one-day contract with the Cowboys on Thursday. He was released for salary cap reasons in March.The 29-year-old Sensabaugh started 84 of ...
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Former New Orleans Saints cornerback Randall J. Gay has been arrested after he allegedly pushed two employees at a Baton Rouge bar and refused to leave.Police Lt. Don Kelly says Gay was booked Thursday with entering/remaining on premises after being forbidden, two counts of ...
METAIRIE (AP) — The New Orleans Saints' five draft picks can only hope that the elation they felt when they were drafted less
than two weeks ago lasts through this weekend.
The club's 13 undrafted rookies who signed as free agents, and others invited for tryouts, aim to hold Sean Payton and ...
By Jim Gazzolo / American Press
Last week, the media tripped over itself to cover two completely different stories and they did it in two entirely different
ways.
Both made for interesting copy.
On one hand Jason Collins was, for the
most part, applauded for his personal story of being the first openly
gay pro male
athlete ...
MONROE (AP) — Two former ULM players who started their careers together as Warhawks will now try to make the next leap in
football together.
Receiver Brent Leonard decided this week that he will participate in the New Orleans Saints minicamp next weekend, instead
of his previous invitation ...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha Beef have a job waiting for Tim Tebow if he wants it — and the Nebraska indoor football team
will even pay him $75 a game.
A day after Tebow was cut by the New York
Jets, the Beef called the office of Tebow agent Jimmy Sexton to offer a
standard
player c ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Tebow Time is off the clock.
Tim Tebow was waived by the Jets on Monday, the end of an unsuccessful one-season experiment in New York that had been expected
for months.
"Unfortunately, things did not work out the way we all had hoped," coach Rex Ryan said in a statement by t ...
By Scooter Hobbs / American Press
BATON ROUGE — The NFL, well, the Arizona Cardinals anyway, apparently are starting their very own chapter of Big Brothers
of America.
They do a lot of good work.
They may have their hands full here.
It’s the Big Brothers version of intensive care.
But that appears to be the plan.
M ...
METAIRIE (AP) — The New Orleans Saints have selected Oklahoma's Kenny Stills Jr. with their fifth round pick in the NFL draft.
The 6-foot, 194-pound Stills was New Orleans' first pick on Saturday because the club dealt its fourth-round pick as part
of a trade with Miami in order to select Ge ...
METAIRIE (AP) — Sean Payton and the Saints absorbed one final bounty blow, then went about a busy third round of the NFL draft
that landed a pair of prospects who could strengthen their offensive and defensive lines.
The Saints selected offensive tackle Terron Armstead with their own pick, t ...
METAIRIE (AP) — When Texas safety Kenny Vaccaro visited with the New Orleans Saints in the lead up to the NFL draft, and talked
with new defensive coordinator Rob Ryan over lunch, he left sensing he’d be back before long.
“I just had a real good feel walking out of there,” ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Short on glam, slim on glitter and no sign of Manti Te’o, the NFL draft was still a solid B-plus.
As in Big, as in Brawn, as in Bulk, as in Beefy.
We’re talking a scale-busting 600 pounds at the outset Thursday night with offensive tackles Eric Fisher of Central M ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Get me out of here.
Maneuvering to move down in tonight’s
first round of the draft will be a common behind-the-scenes scramble.
There simply are
few franchise-type players teams will be enamored of, yet plenty
of depth to make picking up extra picks later on a worthw ...
By Scooter Hobbs / American Press
I’m as guilty as you are. I’m a sucker for those mock NFL drafts that litter the Internet these days.
They can vary widely, but each one just
looks so authoritative on its own — particularly when they have flashy
graphics accompanying
them — that you fall for it every tim ...
By Jim Gazzolo / American Press
Perhaps in all of sports, there has never been a bigger draft bust than JaMarcus Russell.
The LSU quarterback and Sugar Bowl MVP used his giant performance on the big stage against Notre Dame to fool all the experts.
He was considered a can’t-miss talent.
Picked first in the draft by the Oa ...
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Darrelle Revis is confident he will fully recover from a major knee injury and help transform the Tampa Bay Buccaneers into a playoff team.
The three-time All-Pro cornerback acquired from the New York Jets was formally introduced Monday as the newest member of a defense tha ...
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