Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy says quarterback Aaron Rodgers sprained his shoulder but intends to play against Atlanta on Sunday.
Packers coaches will spend this week monitoring Rodgers’ progress in practice and preparing rookie backup Matt Flynn to start, just in case.
“Speaking with Aaron this morning, he has every intention on playing,” McCarthy said Monday [...]
Now that the Brewers are finally in, there is no doubt that they want to win.
They have won a spot in the postseason for the first time since 1982, and you cannot help but wonder whether a team that features a manager two weeks on the job, an offense that has sputtered in September and [...]
The winless St. Louis Rams fired coach Scott Linehan on Monday, the day after a fourth straight lopsided loss to start the season.
Defensive coordinator Jim Haslett, once the coach of the New Orleans Saints, will replace Linehan on an interim basis. The Rams scheduled a news conference later Monday.
“I have enormous respect for Scott Linehan [...]
The Pittsburgh Steelers aren’t feeling too good – mentally or physically – coming off a game against an aggressive defense that blitzed relentlessly.
The Baltimore Ravens probably can’t wait to try the same thing.
The early lead in the AFC North will be on the line Monday night in Pittsburgh, where the beat-up Steelers will try to [...]
Mets collapse, the sequel.
Doomed by a dreadful bullpen that failed them again Sunday, the New York Mets completed their second consecutive September slide with a 4-2 loss to Florida that knocked them out of playoff contention in the final game at Shea Stadium.
Scott Schoeneweis and Luis Ayala served up back-to-back homers in the eighth inning [...]
So much for the notion that Derrick Brooks and Tampa Bay’s aging defense is slowing down. The Buccaneers still have what it takes to make things miserable for young, inexperienced quarterbacks.
Just ask Aaron Rodgers.
Brooks had one of three interceptions off the Green Bay quarterback and also forced a fumble that Jermaine Phillips returned 38 yards [...]
Sore ankle and all, Broadway Brett joined Broadway Joe in the New York Jets’ record book.
Brett Favre set a career high and tied Joe Namath’s Jets mark with six touchdown passes, including three to Laveranues Coles, and New York took advantage of a series of mistakes by Arizona in a big second quarter before holding [...]
Jimmie Johnson barely held off a strong challenge from Carl Edwards on Sunday at Kansas Speedway, winning the race and vaulting into first place in the Chase for the Sprint Cup Championship.
Edwards, who overcame a poor starting position and two pit lane incidents, to catch and pass Johnson for the lead, lost the top spot [...]
CC Sabathia and Ryan Braun put the Milwaukee Brewers in the playoffs for the first time since 1982 — with big help from the New York Mets.
Making his third consecutive start on three days’ rest, Sabathia pitched a four-hitter and Braun hit a tiebreaking homer in the eighth inning to lead the Brewers over the [...]
In the moments after Saturday’s 7-3 loss to the Cubs, with free agency looming and his right elbow aching, the longest-tenured Brewer was not quite ready to ponder whether he had thrown his final pitch for the only franchise he has known.
Ask again Sunday, Ben Sheets begged. He did concede that, “It’s the reality, probably.”
One [...]
