Newsrelease Desk

Canadian Nathan Rourke has been elevated to the Jacksonville Jaguars active roster. The NFL team announced Wednesday it had signed the Victoria native from the practice squad to the active roster. The move comes after starter Trevor Lawrence suffered a left knee injury in the club’s 37-20 win over the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday. Jacksonville […]

Bills running back Damien Harris was released from the hospital on Monday, a day after hurting his neck while being tackled in the second quarter of Buffalo’s win over the New York Giants. Coach Sean McDermott said Harris is resting at home and doing what he called, “as well as could be expected.” McDermott said

A trio of brothers and a lifelong friend play on the same football team at Winnipeg’s Maples Collegiate. Ross didn’t play on a football team until his family moved about 275 kilometres south from Berens River First Nation in 2020. Now he hopes to play the sport professionally and hopes to show other First Nation

Chicago traded wide receiver Chase Claypool to the Miami Dolphins on Friday, ending the fourth-year player’s brief and disappointing tenure with the Bears. The Dolphins will also receive a 2025 seventh-round pick in the trade in exchange for a 2025 sixth-round pick, the teams announced. The move comes after Claypool, of Abbotsford, B.C., expressed frustration

A photo of Dick Butkus sneering behind his facemask filled the cover of Sports Illustrated’s 1970 NFL preview, topped by the headline, “The Most Feared Man in the Game.” Opponents who wound up on the business end of his bone-rattling hits could testify that wasn’t an exaggeration. Butkus, a middle linebacker for the Chicago Bears

Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre will answer questions under oath about the misspending of federal welfare money in Mississippi, where public money intended to help some of the nation’s poorest people was used to fund pet projects he and other well-connected people supported. A notice of deposition filed Monday in Hinds County Circuit Court by

The Kansas City Chiefs win over the New York Jets on Sunday was the most watched Sunday show since the Super Bowl in February, attracting an average of 27 million TV viewers, including millions of teenage girls who tuned into the game attended by pop star Taylor Swift, NBC Sports said on Monday. A rumoured

The Las Vegas Raiders released defensive end Chandler Jones on Saturday, ending a tumultuous final month with the club in which he lashed out several times on social media. The Raiders’ decision to release Jones, who had been on the non-football illness list, came one day after he was arrested by Las Vegas police for

A Tennessee judge said Friday she is ending a conservatorship agreement between former NFL player Michael Oher and a Memphis couple who took him in when he was in high school, but the highly-publicized dispute over financial issues will continue. Shelby County Probate Court Judge Kathleen Gomes said she is terminating the agreement reached in

Taylor Swift’s trip to watch the Kansas City’s Travis Kelce play football on Sunday didn’t just have the internet talking nonstop. Following the 12-time Grammy Award winner’s appearance at Arrowhead Stadium, jersey sales for the All-Pro tight end seemingly skyrocketed. According to sportswear and fan merchandise company Fanatics, Kelce was one of the top five selling