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Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY "Super" wild-card weekend used to mean something. Putting the moniker - a loose exaggeration of "expanded," since the number of playoff teams went from six [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY The only thing more embarrassing than the New York Giants' 100th season was John Mara's explanation the day after it ended. Hours after releasing a [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca and, Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY New York Giants owner John Mara, in a statement Monday morning, said head coach Brian Daboll and general manager Joe Schoen will [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY In typical NFC South fashion, the division title came down to the final moments of the regular season in the NFL. And in the end, [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY For the second consecutive NFL season, the Baltimore Ravens are kings of the AFC North. Baltimore defeated a burnt out and depleted Cleveland Browns team [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca USA TODAY Patrick Mahomes perked up at the chance to play on Christmas Day again. "Until I realized it was on Wednesday," the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY LANDOVER, Md. - Dan Quinn refers to the NFL's elite teams and players as 'heavy hitters.' On Sunday, his rookie quarterback joined that category with [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY BALTIMORE - This past week the Pittsburgh Steelers referred to their Week 16 matchup against the Baltimore Ravens as a 'T-shirts and hats game.' A [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY PHILADELPHIA - Darius Slay called it a 'hockey moment.' Mike Tomlin was so disgusted he told an official to 'get the (expletive) away from me.' [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY PHILADELPHIA - T.J. Watt limped toward the tunnel that leads to the visitor's locker room at Lincoln Financial Field on Sunday in the final minutes [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY BALTIMORE - For the third straight year, the Philadelphia Eagles have established themselves in the top tier of the NFL over the season's first 12 [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca USA TODAY Austin Ekeler didn't say the c-word - collusion - but provided a definition while describing the tribulations NFL running backs have faced on the open [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY A week ago Sunday, Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin started referring to Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson as "Mr. Jackson." It was a sign [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY Sam Cosmi took it upon himself to deliver the message. His Washington Commanders teammates needed to hear what the right guard had to say in [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY LANDOVER, Md. - Were it not for the unbeaten Kansas City Chiefs, the AFC would run through the Pittsburgh Steelers at the moment. Occupying first [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca USA TODAY BALTIMORE - If the second half of the 2024 NFL season looks anything like the first, Lamar Jackson will win his second consecutive MVP Award. [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY BALTIMORE - The final box score credited the Baltimore Ravens defense with three sacks in the 41-10 thrashing Sunday of the Denver Broncos. Anybody watching, [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY LANDOVER, Md. - Somehow, handing the ball off to an offensive lineman for a fumble on the goal line with the game hanging in the [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY LANDOVER, Md. - This Sunday began with a prayer that Jayden Daniels would play. It ended with him offering a Hail Mary. Both were answered [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY PITTSBURGH - Steelers Country, let's forge. In his first game as quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Russell Wilson led his new squad to a 37-15 [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY PITTSBURGH - The biggest impact Davante Adams made during his first game in a New York Jets jersey Sunday wasn't a catch or a run [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY In Matt Holtry's 16 years of coaching high school football in Homedale, Idaho, he needed to pack two jerseys - one for offense and the [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY LANDOVER, Md. - The good people of Cleveland do not deserve this. May the populace seek solace in the Guardians this October instead. The Browns [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY BALTIMORE - The Baltimore Ravens' backfield bonanza did not waste any time asserting itself. Derrick Henry took his team's first snap from scrimmage 87 yards [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY By the third game of his NFL career, Malik Nabers had become such a presence in the New York Giants offense that he did more [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY PHILADELPHIA - Jalen Hurts leaned over to make himself eye-level with Saquon Barkley, seated at his locker. The Philadelphia Eagles quarterback typically visits with most [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY PHILADELPHIA - Smooth, confident, controlled. That's how Atlanta Falcons left tackle Jake Matthews described quarterback Kirk Cousins during the team's game-winning drive within the last [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY LANDOVER, Md. - While lying face-up on the field of the newly renamed Northwest Stadium, Jayden Daniels pointed to his chest to tell the Washington [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY CLEVELAND - Because Tom Brady had the most decorated NFL career of all time doesn't mean he'll immediately be the best broadcaster in his new [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY The season of Bill Belichick on our televisions has begun in earnest. The future Football Hall of Fame head coach made his debut on the [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY CLEVELAND - Unsolicited, members of the Dallas Cowboys called out to quarterback Dak Prescott with their wrist sizes. Now that Prescott is the NFL's first-ever [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY CLEVELAND - The next time Jimmy and Dee Haslam are mingling with their fellow billionaires, someone should ask them their worst buyer's remorse. If the [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY CLEVELAND - Jerry Jones attended the Dallas Cowboys walk-through Saturday and saw his quarterback Dak Prescott. The octogenarian owner approached Prescott, who became the highest-paid [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY As the Kansas City Chiefs hoist their third Super Bowl banner in five years, the Baltimore Ravens will have a front-row seat to what could [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY ASHBURN, Va. - Everybody makes mistakes. Even rookie quarterbacks set to make their regular-season debut Week 1. But Jeff Driskel hasn't seen Jayden Daniels make [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY To the uneducated scroller, the official Paralympics TikTok account may seem like a cruel joke. Footage of para-athletes is played under viral sounds that 'mock' [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY Compared to the 2024 Paris Olympics, the Paralympics - which began with the opening ceremony Wednesday - will receive a fraction of the coverage. All [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY PARIS - Not even in Mike Tirico's best-laid plans could he have envisioned all of this. Hosting the most-viewed Olympics since the 2012 London Games. [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY PARIS - Mallory Swanson yelled, as loud as she could over the sold-out crowd at Parc de Princes Stadium, at teammate Sophia Smith. 'I was [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY ASHBURN, Va. - Nick Allegretti arrived at the Washington Commanders facility around 6:30 a.m. and descended a staircase toward the team locker room. Passing by [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY OWINGS MILLS, Md. - To build on his second NFL MVP season, the Baltimore Ravens are giving even more agency and responsibility to quarterback Lamar [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY Nobody knows if 'Inside the NBA' will last beyond next season, as Warner Bros. Discovery vies for a spot in the next NBA media rights [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY ASHBURN, Va. - Before Dan Quinn could consider head coaching job No. 2 in the NFL, he had to address a different number - 360. [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY The Minnesota Vikings and Justin Jefferson agreed to a contract extension Monday that makes him the highest-paid wide receiver and non-quarterback in NFL history. NFL's [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY OXON HILL, Md. - All Bruhat Soma does is win. Soma entered the 96th Scripps National Spelling Bee with three smaller spelling bee victories already [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY The first Walter Cup and Professional Women's Hockey League title belongs to the 'state of hockey.' PWHL Minnesota defeated Boston 3-0 at the Tsonga Center [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY Vanya Shivashankar referenced her Scripps National Spelling Bee experience during medical school interviews. Tara Singh has been a speller, regional partner and 'College Crew' member [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca USA TODAY Six quarterbacks were taken in the first 12 picks of the 2024 NFL draft. The seventh, Spencer Rattler, waited five rounds and two days to [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY Bill Belichick won't be a better media member than he was an NFL coach. There's a chance he can come close, though, and that says [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY For the second time in four years, no prospects from a historically black college or university (HBCU) heard his name during the NFL draft as [...]