Even a $7 billion industry can't shrug off a new economic order. The nation's harsh economic environment served as a grim backdrop for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's state-of-the-league address Friday, two days before the Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals meet in the Super Bowl at Raymond James Stadium. ...more

January 30, 2009

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have hired former Boston College head coach Jeff Jagodzinski as their offensive coordinator. ...more

January 29, 2009

NBC has signed retired coach Tony Dungy as a commentator for the network's pregame coverage of Super Bowl XLIII. Dungy, who recently returned to Tampa after leaving the Indianapolis Colts, will join another newcomer to NBC's coverage team, Mike Holmgren, the former Seattle Seahawks and Green Bay Packers coach. ...more

January 23, 2009

What does a season-ending, four-game slide that keeps an NFL team away from a playoff berth cost? ...more

January 22, 2009

Peyton Manning has his MVP award and nothing more, outdone again in January by the San Diego Chargers. ...more

January 4, 2009

Detroit reportedly released Rod Marinelli, whose Lions became the first team to finish 0-16; Cleveland parted ways with Romeo Crennel; and the New York Jets axed Eric Mangini, whose team lost four of its final games to miss the playoffs. ...more

December 29, 2008

Nobody will remember the Detroit Lions came close to winning their last game. All anyone will know - now and forever - is 0-16. ...more

December 29, 2008

The silence in the Detroit Lions' locker room was so deafening it drowned out all but the most mundane of sounds. ...more

December 28, 2008

Super Bowl tickets cost $6 to $12 in January 1967, compared with $500 to $1,000 today. Yet more than 30,000 tickets went unsold for the inaugural Super Bowl, when the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10. ...more

December 26, 2008

Congress considered more than 2,000 feel-good resolutions during the two-year session that ended last month. ...more

December 26, 2008