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Getty Images Adweek released its annual “Most Powerful Women in Sports” honorees this week, and three women involved in the NFL are among the 30. Cowboys executive vice president and chief brand officer Charlotte Jones Anderson, Rams chief marketing officer Ronalee Zarate-Bayani and NFL...

The Patriots apparently won’t be visiting the White House this summer, but the owner of the team was in D.C. on Monday night for a dinner with the President. The event, held at the Treasury Department, honored the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani. Robert Kraft sat two spots from...

Getty Images Former Washington State safety Jalen Thompson worked out for 26 teams in Los Angeles on Monday, Tony Pauline of draftanalyst.com reports. The Texans sent their director of scouting. Thompson and former West Virginia receiver Marcus Simms are expected to be drafted in Wednesday’s...

Getty Images A notorious running back who knows a thing or two about playing in the L.A. Coliseum showed that he doens’t know squat about fantasy football by suggesting that Todd Gurley is in the mix to be one of the top picks this year. Really, anyone who has been paying even the slightest bit...

Getty Images The trial for the Rams’ director of strength training and performance began Friday in Ventura County Superior Court, Gary Klein of the Los Angeles Times reports. Ted Rath, who doubles as the team’s get-back coach, pleaded not guilty to three counts of misdemeanor sexual battery...

Getty Images After the Jaguars made an unexpected appearance in the 2017 AFC Championship, they had a decision to make regarding quarterback Blake Bortles, who was entering the fifth and final year of his rookie deal. They made the wrong decision. The Jaguars converted the balance of the...

Ryan Fitzpatrick has played 14 NFL seasons, starting 126 games. The quarterback also is on his eighth team, with every team he’s played for looking to replace him. The Dolphins traded for Josh Rosen after signing Fitzpatrick. “There’s been a lot of shade and disrespect thrown my way for a lot...

Getty Images Rams wide receiver Cooper Kupp is on the way back from the torn ACL that ended his 2018 season and the rehab process has been made a little less grueling by the presence of one of the undrafted free agents the Rams signed this offseason. That would be linebacker and younger...

Getty Images Pro Football Hall of Fame president and CEO David Baker announced earlier this week that plans are in the works for a special Centennial Class of 20 inductees for 2020. Pending approval from the Hall’s board of directors Aug. 2, seniors candidates will take 10 spots on the ballot...

Getty Images The 2019 hiring cycle saw the pendulum swing sharply in the direction of Sean McVay. More specifically, anyone who has worked with him, worked for him, and/or shared an elevator with him. Three of eight head-coaching jobs went to coaches with McVay connections, sort of. Two were...

Getty Images Friday brought an announcement of bad news for Rams offensive lineman Aaron Neary. The NFL announced that Neary has been suspended for the first four games of the 2019 season for a violation of the league’s substance abuse policy. Neary can practice with the team at training camp...

Getty Images The Rams released Mark Barron this offseason, leaving someone to pick up his 570 defensive snaps. The team expects that to be Micah Kiser. Kiser, a fifth-round choice in 2018, played no defensive snaps last season but contributed on special teams by seeing action on 62.7 percent...

Getty Images Illinois officially has joined the parade of states that have embraced legalized sports wagering since the Supreme Court opened the floodgates last May. California officially has entered the pipeline. But it won’t be as easy as it has been in other states. In California, a public...

Getty Images Strong safety John Johnson will have a new colleague in the back-end of the Los Angels Rams defense this fall as the team added 12-year veteran Eric Weddle following his release from the Baltimore Ravens. Johnson is getting set to enter his third season in the league. Lamarcus...

Getty Images Cornerback Trumaine Johnson did not live up to expectations in his first season with the Jets and said in April that he was happy to have a “clean slate” with the team’s new coaching staff as he heads into his second year with the team. Turning the page from last year makes sense...

Getty Images The Rams get to make a cameo in Hard Knocks. The Raiders announced that the Rams would join them for two days of joint practices prior to their preseason game. The workouts at the Raiders’ training camp base in Napa will be held Aug. 7-8, prior to their preseason game in Oakland...

Getty Images Emory University Goizueta School of Business professor Mike Lewis sought to use statistical analysis to determine the NFL’s “best” fans. The study used the hard-core, religiously devoted fan as well as the casual fan, so those at the top of the list have more of the latter and...

Getty Images The Rams left St. Louis for Los Angeles a few years ago, but remained involved in litigation with personal seat license holders from their former home until late last year. PSL holders were seeking money back for the nine remaining years on the Rams’ lease in St. Louis and a...

Getty Images The Rams are taking a couple of trips during training camp and that means they’ll be a bit shorter on open practices than some other teams around the league. Rookies will report to Rams camp on July 24 and veterans are due on July 26, so everyone will be in the house for the first...

Getty Images The recent effort by NFL senior V.P. of officiating Al Riveron to explain the new pass interference replay review to members of NFL Media continues to generate new reasons to be concerned that the league’s effort to avoid another Rams-Saints debacle will lead to more, not less...