Новости за 18.04.2018

After Wednesday, pre-draft visits to team facilities can’t happen. Pre-draft private workouts can, and will, continue after today. According to the league office, the window for traveling to work out a player doesn’t close until next Wednesday, April 25. Through that day — one day before the draft starts — a player can be interviewed [more]

West Coast fans probably won’t like it, but most of those on the East Coast probably will. The NFL will kickoff its night games slightly earlier this season, according to Ben Volin of the Boston Globe. Sunday Night Football will kickoff at 8:20 p.m. ET rather than 8:30 p.m. Monday Night Football will kickoff at [more]

The Dolphins still profess confidence in quarterback Ryan Tannehill, but have been open about looking at the top prospects in this year’s draft. And if they need to move up to get one, they think they have the ability to do so. Via Adam Beasley of the Miami Herald, Dolphins General Manager Chris Grier said [more]

Chris Smalling and Romelu Lukaku scored as Manchester United rebounded from a weekend loss to top Bournemouth.

Chris Smalling and Romelu Lukaku scored as Manchester United rebounded from a weekend loss to top Bournemouth.

Chris Smalling and Romelu Lukaku scored as Manchester United rebounded from a weekend loss to top Bournemouth.

Running back Le'Veon Bell is staying away from the Steelers’ offseason program this week, and no one is expressing surprise. Bell continues working out in Miami as the Steelers begin their voluntary workouts in Pittsburgh, Jeremy Fowler of ESPN reports. Bell remains unsigned after the Steelers applied the franchise tag for the second consecutive season. [more]

What is the Cavaliers identity?

What is the Cavaliers identity?

Zach Ertz is only 27, but he has become the leader in the Eagles’ tight ends room. Philadelphia released Brent Celek, and Trey Burton departed to Chicago in free agency. The Eagles signed Richard Rodgers, who is only 26 but views Ertz as a mentor. Youngsters Billy Brown, Adam Zaruba and Joshua Perkins are on [more]

The Vegas Golden Knights were given a pretty good hand in the expansion draft. They also received a lot of help from the other teams in the league.

Wednesday is the last day that teams can host draft prospects on visits to their facilities and the Cowboys are spending part of it with a player who they’ve shown interest in over the course of the pre-draft process. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that SMU wide receiver Courtland Sutton met with the team [more]

Making the case for Leroy Sane (and supplying a second choice XI for Premier League fans).

Making the case for Leroy Sane (and supplying a second choice XI for Premier League fans).

There weren’t many bright spots for the Bears during the 2017 season, but running back Tarik Cohen‘s play was among them. Cohen became the first rookie in more than 50 years to score touchdowns as a runner, receiver, passer and punt returner and showed a versatility that has left many excited about the prospect of [more]

Beal has shot 27.3 percent from three and= 16.7 percent on catch-and-shoots in the first two games.

Gronk, a racehorse bound for the Kentucky Derby, will soon be partially owned by Gronk, an NFL player who was in the Super Bowl two months ago. Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski will acquire a minority stake in Gronkowski, the 3-year-old colt who will run in the Derby on May 5, according to the Wall [more]

Devin Hester and Matt Forte will sign one-day contracts with the Bears to retire with the organization that drafted them, the team announced Wednesday. Both players spent the first eight years of their NFL careers in Chicago. The Bears made Hester a second-round pick in 2006, and he returned three punts and two kickoffs for [more]

The Lions announced they have signed cornerback Raysean Pringle. Pringle, 24, signed with the Packers as an undrafted free agent from Southern Utah last May. Green Bay waived him out of the preseason. He spent a month on the Jaguars’ practice squad before finishing out the season on the Packers’ practice squad. Pringle played receiver [more]

The NFL’s Collective Bargaining Agreement gives each team the option to pick up the fifth year of each first-round draft pick’s contract, a decision that must be made in the spring before that player’s fourth year. This is a list of each pick from the first round of the 2015 NFL draft and whether or [more]

FOX and ESPN both were willing to pay Peyton Manning big money to spend one day a week working an NFL game. The former NFL MVP was the sexiest name available. But Manning, speaking at a Restaurant Leadership Conference in Phoenix earlier this week, said he wasn’t ready. “I don’t want to be a critic [more]

The Dolphins made a connection with the community at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida following February’s shooting at the school that killed 17 students and staff and that connection will continue at next week’s NFL Draft. Eighteen seniors from the school and family members of Aaron Feis, an assistant football coach and [more]

Twenty years ago today, the Colts chose Peyton Manning with the No. 1 overall pick. In hindsight, the choice of Manning over Ryan Leaf seems incredibly easy. Manning is headed to the Pro Football Hall of Fame after a record-setting career, and Leaf long ago entered the “biggest-busts-in-history” conversation after starting only 21 career games [more]

The Penguins lead the series 2-1.

The Penguins lead the series 2-1.