Lions Aim For First 3-0 Start In 31 Years
The Lions haven't started 3-0 since 1980 and they haven't won in Minnesota since 1997, which is why the celebration was tempered after whipping the inept Chiefs 48-3 on Sunday.
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The Lions haven't started 3-0 since 1980 and they haven't won in Minnesota since 1997, which is why the celebration was tempered after whipping the inept Chiefs 48-3 on Sunday.
The NFL says it has "enhanced" its pat-down procedure for fans entering stadiums to improve safety.
"The Bus" stops here! Detroiter and NFL great Jerome Bettis will be inducted into the Michigan Hall of Fame at their annual ceremony Thursday night.
It was an awesome weekend for sports in Michigan! Every single sports team won (put your hand down, CMU)! But I am going to focus on the NFL. We're off:
With the NFL season set to start on Thursday, it's time for one more set of predictions on the upcoming year.
There will be no HGH testing at the start of the season, I've confirmed. But that's not the big story about why the players and owners couldn't reach an agreement on testing.
Being a Lions fan you probably remember the former DT Gilbert Brown from the Green Bay Packers.
The NFL players' union has canceled its weekly conference call, eliminating a planned discussion about HGH testing.
Throughout Monday and Tuesday, teams will be scrambling to get their rosters down to 80 players before the league-imposed deadline of 4 p.m. EST on Tuesday.
Cover 2 has long been a popular defensive scheme in the NFL. Soon, officiating crews might have their own version.
The NFL and the players union remain at an impasse on HGH testing with just two weeks remaining before the season kicks off.
Earlier this week, the league postponed the NFL Supplemental Draft, originally scheduled for Wednesday, August 17.
The National Football League, in conjunction with college football and the NFL Players Association, is considering a series of actions that would discipline players who are busted in college for violating NCAA rules, then skip to the pros unscathed.
With the new NFL rules stating that kickoffs are to be taken from the 35-yard line instead of the 30
The beginning of the 2011 season looms on the horizon, and for a few as-yet-drafted folks, so does the August 17 NFL supplemental draft.
Will former Detroit Lion Desmond Howard echo Sports Illustrated's Peter King prediction which tags the Lions as a dark horse to reach the Super Bowl?
The NFL is adding game-day testing for performance-enhancing substances -- but not recreational drugs -- this season under the new collective bargaining agreement.
Three biggest issues that need to be resolved before the start of the Lions' season:
The 2011 NFL supplemental draft will be held on Aug. 17, NFLDraftScout.com has learned.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and NFLPA head DeMaurice Smith have signed the new collective bargaining agreement on a makeshift table on the steps of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
It was hot and sticky, but that is OK. Sweat poured down my face and into my eyes, temporarily blinding me. But I did not mind.
After a brief scare Wednesday, when it appeared that the new collective bargaining agreement wouldn't be ratified on time, CBSSports.com's Mike Freeman reports that the players ratified the agreement with the owners as planned Thursday afternoon, which (theoretically) guarantees labor peace for the next decade.
The NFL's owners and players finalized the remaining details of the collective bargaining agreement late Wednesday night, clearing the way -- finally -- to a decade-long labor peace while simultaneously doing something unprecedented in recent NFL history.
Football's been back for more than a week now. Well, kind of -- there's still the whole pesky notion of an actual CBA getting ratified in time for the beginning of the league year on Thursday, August 4.
Washington Redskins cornerback Phillip Buchanon will be suspended for the first four games of the regular season, coach Mike Shanahan said Tuesday.
