Raiders' New Coach Passes His First Test
Hue Jackson passed his first test on Tuesday afternoon as the Oakland Raiders' new head coach.
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Hue Jackson passed his first test on Tuesday afternoon as the Oakland Raiders' new head coach.
New San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh further filled out his staff Wednesday, hiring Ed Donatell as secondary coach, Geep Chryst as quarterbacks coach and Jim Leavitt as linebackers coach.
Hue Jackson officially began his career as Oakland Raiders head coach on Tuesday by vowing to take the team back to the playoffs and beyond.
Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis said Tuesday that he fined former coach Tom Cable $120,000 because of the strain on the organization from lawsuits involving Cable assaulting a former assistant coach and a former girlfriend.
Former San Francisco 49ers head coach Mike Singletary is joining former teammate Leslie Frazier on his staff with the Minnesota Vikings.
New 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh hired away three coaches from his former Stanford staff Friday to join him in the NFL.
The Oakland Raiders have the only head coaching vacancy left in the NFL.
John Madden talks to Jim Harbaugh about his new job: Harbaugh says it was a difficult choice between staying at Stanford and coaching the Niners, but that the competitive challenge of coaching in the NFL won out.
The front man for one of two Los Angeles-area groups trying to bring the NFL back to the nation's second-largest market believes the city will soon get a team.
The Oakland Raiders began interviewing candidates Monday to fill their vacant head coaching position less than a week after deciding not to bring Tom Cable back for a third full season.
The final year Nnamdi Asomugha's record contract with the Oakland Raiders is no longer in force because the cornerback didn't reach certain incentives.
Now that Harbaugh has ended the Great Wooing of 2011 by hiring on with the 49ers, get ready for an even more delicious rivalry. As divisional foes, the 49ers and Seahawks will face each other twice each year.
Declaring it a "perfect competitive opportunity," Jim Harbaugh accepted the job as coach of the 49ers and said his goal is to win a Lombardi Trophy for "one of the legendary franchises in all of football."
Let's hear it for the San Francisco 49ers. They needed to make a bold move to win back disgruntled fans tired of losing, and they made it with the hiring of Jim Harbaugh as their next head coach.
John Madden praises Stanford QB Andrew Luck for his decision to stay in school, and suggests Peyton Manning may have offered him advice.
Stanford football coach Jim Harbaugh met with the owner of the NFL's Miami Dolphins in San Jose about the Dolphins' coaching job, but sources said there was no agreement reached.
If numerous reports are to be believed, Jim Harbaugh is being offered astronomical amounts of money. One said the Dolphins would make Harbaugh the highest paid coach in football.
Stanford football coach Jim Harbaugh on Wednesday offered no insight to what's next despite word that he met with the San Francisco 49ers to discuss their head coaching vacancy.
Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh met well into the evening Wednesday with the San Francisco 49ers about their head coaching vacancy, sources with knowledge of the situation said.
John Madden discusses the dismissal of Tom Cable as head coach of the Raiders and his popularity with the players. How does a coach earn the players' respect?
The Oakland Raiders have told coach Tom Cable they are not picking up his option to bring him back next season.
Trent Baalke has been promoted to general manager of the San Francisco 49ers.
In an otherwise meaningless bowl game, Andrew Luck demonstrated why no quarterback in college football is more NFL ready, and why no player will go higher in the draft.
The San Francisco 49ers were given permission Tuesday to talk to Oakland Raiders offensive coordinator Hue Jackson about their head coach opening.
