American Football

Malcolm Glazer, who spearheaded takeovers of English Premier League football club Manchester United and NFL American football franchise the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, has died.

The NFL has come under renewed pressure to endorse a name change for the Washington Redskins after a group of 50 US senators wrote to commissioner Roger Goodell highlighting their belief that the American football team’s moniker represents a racial slur.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has confirmed playoff expansion is off the agenda for the American football league’s forthcoming season, but believes it will be approved for the 2015 campaign.

The National Football League has awarded the 2018 Super Bowl American football showpiece to Minneapolis.

The Buffalo Bills have stopped playing their annual regular season game in Canada, representing a rare mis-step for the National Football League (NFL). Barry Wilner explains why.

NFL director of football operations Troy Vincent has said he is keen to establish a developmental competition that would put the American football league on a level footing with its major league rivals.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) board of directors has endorsed plans that will award schools from its five largest American football conferences greater autonomy on how to fund and manage scholarships, healthcare and other athlete needs.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has said the American football league’s team owners will discuss the possibility of expanding the playoffs for the 2014 season at a meeting next month.

NFL Players Inc, the marketing and licensing arm of the NFL Players Association (NFLPA), has teamed up with online athlete endorsement marketplace Opendorse to launch what it claims is the first microendorsement platform for a major professional sport.

The NFL American football league has announced that its 2015 Pro Bowl will move away from its traditional home in Hawaii to be staged at University of Phoenix Stadium in Arizona, the site of the 2015 Super Bowl.

US businessman Donald Trump has said he has been contacted by a group that is looking to purchase NFL American football franchise the Buffalo Bills.

Roger Goodell, commissioner of the NFL American football league, has said the prospect of expanding the playoffs for the forthcoming season has not ended, despite team owners declining to vote on the issue at the latest league meetings.

NFL American football franchise the Buffalo Bills is mourning the death of founder and owner Ralph Wilson, who has passed away at the age of 95.

Newly-elected NFL Players Association (NFLPA) president Eric Winston has stated that any bid by the league to expand its season would be “dead in the water” during his time in the role.

NFL American football franchise the Detroit Lions are mourning the passing of owner and chairman William Clay Ford, who was the second-longest tenured sole owner in the league.

NFL American football franchise the Buffalo Bills have cancelled their annual regular-season game at Toronto’s Rogers Centre and confirmed that the 2014 fixture will return to the team’s Ralph Wilson Stadium.

Barry Wilner looks at how the NFL (National Football League)’s new broadcast deal for Thursday night games could change the American football landscape as we know it.

Jan Brewer, the Governor of Arizona, has vetoed a controversial bill that could have led to American football’s NFL shifting the 2015 edition of Super Bowl from the US state.