Raiders hire Chip Kelly as offensive coordinator, AP source says
Chip Kelly is returning to the NFL as the Las Vegas Raiders' offensive coordinator, a person with knowledge of the decision said Sunday.
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Chip Kelly is returning to the NFL as the Las Vegas Raiders' offensive coordinator, a person with knowledge of the decision said Sunday.
Pete Carroll knows a little about turning floundering Southern California and the Seattle Seahawks into championship teams. Now he's trying to do the same thing in Las Vegas.
Pete Carroll was announced Saturday as Las Vegas' new coach, with the Raiders hoping that even as the oldest head coach in the NFL the 73-year-old will provide stability for an organization badly lacking it.
Deebo Samuel scored on a catch and a run and the San Francisco 49ers won their 11th straight division game, beating the Seattle Seahawks 28-16.
The San Francisco 49ers' unexpected three-game losing streak that opened up the NFC West race already seems like a long time ago.
Southern California and Stanford will have the 103rd chapter of their venerable rivalry Saturday night at the Coliseum.
Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said Monday that the team is considering Colin Kaepernick and Robert Griffin III as possible backup options to starting quarterback Russell Wilson.
The Seahawks-Patriots winner in Week 10 won't get a Lombardi Trophy, but they might be the Super Bowl favorite come February.
Even as Minnesota Vikings kicker Blair Walsh trotted out for what his coach called a "chip shot" game-winning field goal try, ever-optimistic Seattle coach Pete Carroll kept right on believing his Seahawks weren't done yet.
The Seahawks, with a convincing win over the Vikings and a favorable schedule remaining, could roll right into the playoffs.
Let's take a look at five events in sports over the last year more surprising than Beck's shocking GRAMMYs Album of the Year win.
PHOTOS: From her lioness entrance to dancing sharks, Katy Perry certainly rocked this year's Super Bowl Half Time Show!
They clashed at both the college and the pro levels but now that Jim Harbaugh has left the 49ers and the NFC West, it appears he will not be missed by Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll.
Oakland Raiders Head Coach Dennis Allen has just eight wins in 35 games leading the Silver & Black. With the team's Week Four matchup in London against the Miami Dolphins suddenly looking like a winnable game, it's natural to ask if losing this one in front of an international audience will cost Allen his job with the team.
The Seattle Seahawks have been fined $300,000 and forced to forfeit two days of 2015 offseason practice for allowing too much contact during workouts earlier this year.
When you win the Super Bowl, there isn't much to complain about as far as overall team performance is concerned. But here is a look back at what the Seahawks excelled at and aspects of their game that they will need to tighten up next season.
Lost amid the escalating rivalry between the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers is the fact that the man who guided the Seahawks to their first Super Bowl crown was born right here in the city by the bay. If his postgame comments are any indication, he doesn't plan on taking it easy on the hometown team in the near future.
Defense wins championships, and the NFL has not seen a defense like Seattle's in a long time.
The Seahawks won their first Super Bowl title Sunday night in overpowering fashion, punishing Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos 43-8.
What will matter most? The fact that Seattle has no players with Super Bowl experience, or their youth and speed and top-ranked defense? Or will the game be won by Denver's suddenly stout rush defense and Peyton Manning's blessed right arm?
The Seahawks-49ers rivalry might just be the best in the country as the teams prepare for Sunday's NFC Championship game in Seattle. "They play every year, and they play every year two times, at home and home, and you develop history," John Madden told the KCBS Radio morning crew.
If you've taken a moment to browse online comments related to this weekend's San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks NFC Championship matchup you know one thing, this is very personal for fans of on both sides. Unlike the Giants-Dodgers rivalry, which has aged like a fine wine over decades of competition and the move west from New York, this rivalry's origins are far less apparent.
Seattle coach Pete Carroll said he won't know Harvin's status for the NFC Championship game against the 49ers until Wednesday or Thursday.
There is nothing the couch coach does better than the coach himself, except for clock management.
49ers coach Jim Harbaugh and Seahawks coach Pete Carroll had faced off against each other in Pac-12 play when Stanford played USC.
