NFL

Xbox One is shown on display during a press event unveiling Microsoft's new Xbox in Redmond, Washington May 21, 2013.  REUTERS/Nick Adams  (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY ENTERTAINMENT)

Microsoft’s Xbox One to enhance fantasy football

Video: Tech company partners with NFL for new experience on TVs

REDMOND, Wash., May 21 (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp gave the world a first look at its new Xbox One on Tuesday, announcing that its first gaming console in eight years will come with exclusive video and software content, including a “Halo” series produced by Steven Spielberg. The Xbox One, which will be available later this year at a price to be [...]

continue »

A fan rides a zip line as part of the Super Bowl XLVI festivities in Indianapolis, Indiana, January 30, 2012. REUTERS/Jim Young

San Francisco chosen as site for Super Bowl L

Site of Super Bowl L to be announced Tuesday

NEW YORK (Reuters) - San Francisco and Houston were chosen on Tuesday as the host cities for the 2016 and 2017 Super Bowls. National Football League (NFL) team owners voted for the cities ahead of Miami, which had already hosted the sport’s championship game a record-tying 10 times. San Francisco will host the 50th Super Bowl in early 2016 at Levi’s Stadium, [...]

continue »

Nate Kaeding accepts congratulations from David Binn after making a game-winning field goal for the San Diego Chargers in 2009 (Reuters)

Nate Kaeding retires from NFL

Injury causes ex-Hawkeye great to wrap up 9-year pro career 1

Nate Kaeding of Iowa City, one of the National Football League’s most-productive placekickers of the last decade, announced his retirement from football Thursday. “Over the last three years I’ve struggled with recurring muscle injuries in my kicking leg,” Kaeding said. “Since January of this offseason I executed a deliberate and comprehensive training regimen devised to [...]

continue »

John Kass is a columnist for the Chicago Tribune. (Bill Hogan/MCT)

American football industry is on its deathbed

By John Kass – With all that college beef on parade this week, the NFL draft is a wonder of sports marketing, a televised pageant for the multibillion-dollar American football industry. But there’s something football fans should know: Football is dead in America. Even through all the chatter and cheerleading and media hype, football as [...]

continue »

Packers Aaron Rodgers watches from the sidelines in the closing moments of Green Bay's game against the New York Giants in East Rutherford, New Jersey, Sunday, November 25, 2012. The New York Giants defeated the Green Bay Packers, 38-10. (Rick Wood/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/MCT)

Packers sign QB Rodgers to contract extension

Quarterback Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers have reached agreement on a five-year contract extension that will pay Rodgers$110 million in addition to the $20.75 million remaining on the final two years of his current contract. The $22 million annual average for Rodgers puts him ahead of Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco. The Super Bowl MVP signed a contract in March that averages $21.6 [...]

continue »

Iowa's Aaron Kampman gets a hold of Iowa State's Seneca Wallace during the fourth quarter of their game Saturday, Nov. 24, 2001, at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames.  Iowa State beat Iowa 17-14. (The Gazette)

Former Cyclone QB Wallace signs with Saints

The New Orleans Saints announced Monday that they signed veteran free agent quarterback Seneca Wallace to a one-year contract. Wallace, who was out of football last year, worked out for the Oakland Raiders last week. He went 1-6 as a starter for the Cleveland Browns over two years but the team cut him during training [...]

continue »

San Diego Chargers kicker Nate Kaeding celebrates as he leaves the field after an NFL football game against the Cincinnati Bengals Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009 in San Diego.  Kaeding kicked a 52-yard field to give the Chargers a 27-24 win.   (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)

Video: One-on-one interview with Nate Kaeding

Former Hawkeyes' kicker recently signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

KCRG-TV9′s Josh Christensen talked to former Hawkeye kicker Nate Kaeding about his recent signing with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and more in the video above.

continue »

Iowa State linebacker Jake Knott runs the short shuttle during the team's pro day Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at the Bergstrom Indoor Training Facility on the Iowa State campus in Ames.  (Brian Ray/The Gazette-KCRG)

Coe’s Weymiller gets ‘the call’ for pro day

Kohawk linebacker/defensive end was late addition to Iowa State's NFL showcase

AMES – Coe second team D3football.com all-American Frank Weymiller wasn’t sure pro day would be for him. Then a call came at 4:30 p.m. Monday. Teams had expressed interest in seeing him. So the defensive lineman from tiny New Albin loaded up his “old, muddy Grand Prix” and headed to Ames for the 9 a.m. [...]

continue »

ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, MARCH 9-10 - FILE - In this Dec. 30, 2012, file photo, Green Bay Packers wide receiver Greg Jennings (85) gains yardage against the Minnesota Vikings during the second half of an NFL football game in Minneapolis. On Tuesday, with all 32 teams under the $123 million salary cap, the checkbooks open up. Some clubs, most notably Green Bay and Pittsburgh, barely will participate, while likely letting top receivers Jennings and Mike Wallace leave for huge paydays elsewhere. That's just their style, and building from within surely has paid off: each team has won a Super Bowl in the last five season(AP Photo/Genevieve Ross, File)

Vikings sign WR Jennings away from Packers

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — Greg Jennings spent seven years getting the best of the Minnesota Vikings secondary while playing for their bitter rivals in Green Bay. No longer feeling as important to the Packers after two seasons shortened by injuries, Jennings crossed the border and found a team that welcomed him with desperately open [...]

continue »

cassel wide

Vikings get former Chiefs QB Cassel

The Atlanta Falcons replaced Michael Turner with another proven, productive running back. Steven Jackson, the top running back in free agency, agreed to a three-year, $12 million deal with the Falcons on Thursday. Also getting new deals were backup quarterback Matt Cassel in Minnesota, pass rusher Cliff Avril in Seattle and cornerback Keenan Lewis in [...]

continue »