KANSAS CITY, Mo. — With a bright red hat perched jauntily on his mop-like hairdo, Tyrann Mathieu signed his contract with the Kansas City Chiefs and became the centerpiece of the offseason overhaul of their defense. Hardly the only piece, though. The Chiefs also signed former Cowboys linebacker Damien Wilson and agreed to terms with […]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Tom Coughlin gushed about Nick Foles for several minutes and then had one request for his new Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback. “I hope every game in 2019 is like the Oakland game of 2013,” said Coughlin, the franchise’s top executive. That’s the game in which Foles threw for 406 yards, with seven touchdown […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — For Adam Humphries, Tennessee has been a potential destination for months because of his Tampa Bay connection with Titans general manager Jon Robinson. Not even a late push by the New England Patriots could sway him to walk away from his deal with the Titans. Even considering how much success wide receivers […]

CLEVELAND — Fans are scrambling to get their hands on tickets, jerseys and make their first Odell Beckham Jr. sighting. It’s only mid-March and Cleveland’s in a full-blown football frenzy. Expectations for the upcoming season, which were already enormous before the team traded for Beckham, have spun out of control. Browns general John Dorsey’s trying […]

BIDDEFORD — When business owners retire, they usually sell to whoever is willing to put up the money. Bogdan Dudziak didn’t take money from anywhere when he decided to sell Dudziak’s Gymnastics — he sold his business to one of his athletes, Roxanne Deshaies. Now that the gym’s doors have been open for 25 years, […]

BOSTON — Aaron Hernandez’s murder conviction was reinstated Wednesday in a sweeping ruling from Massachusetts’ highest court that does away with the legal principle that made the former NFL star innocent in the eyes of the law after he killed himself in prison. The Supreme Judicial Court unanimously found that the legal rule that erased […]