The NFL’s top trio of wide receivers came together because of conviction. They’re the result of a sound football plan. The success of the New York Giants ’ Victor Cruz , Hakeem Nicks and Mario Manningham shows what’s possible when a general manager actually is capable of evaluating players. Read full article > >

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Super Bowl: Giants’ Victor Cruz, Hakeem Nicks and Mario Manningham a triple threat

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – The New England Patriots have Tom Brady , a three-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback. They have Wes Welker, an uncanny wide receiver who led the NFL in catches. They have a pair of tight ends — Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez — who are all but changing the way their position is played, particularly in tandem. And they have a resume — the top seed in the AFC, eight straight wins to close out the regular season, a 45-10 annihilation of Denver to open the playoffs — that would suggest they should be the favorites to win the Super Bowl. Read full article > >

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NFL playoffs 2012: New England Patriots say their defense is peaking at the right time

NFL playoff teams made an on-the-field case over the weekend for the ongoing need to play something resembling sturdy defense to advance in the postseason, even in this pass-happy age of offensive pyrotechnics. Read full article > >

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NFL playoffs 2012: Defenses make their case as some of the high-powered offenses go home

“He can’t play. He can’t throw. What [former Broncos coach] Josh McDaniels saw in him God only knows. Maybe God does know — because the rest of us don’t.” — Boomer Esiason on CBS It’s time we all come around on Tim Tebow and admit the truth: The Mile High Messiah hasn’t been sent here to forgive us of all our sins. Rather, he has been sent here to deliver us from the evil of network analysts, from omnipotent football observers who believe there is one way to play quarterback in the NFL: their way. Read full article > >

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Tim Tebow in playoffs: attempting to broaden the minds of NFL analysts

London teenager Francis Kallon, tipped for the NFL, is becoming the most talked about young American football player in the US.

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London teen tipped for the NFL

The NFL ’s regular season wraps up Sunday with three playoff spots, postseason positioning and portions of the record book at stake. The New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys play a winner-take-all game in the Meadowlands for the NFC East title. Tim Tebow tries to add a triumphant chapter to one of the sport’s leading story lines of the season with his bid to get the Denver Broncos into the postseason. Fellow quarterbacks Drew Brees of New Orleans, Tom Brady of New England and perhaps Aaron Rodgers of Green Bay get their final shots to rewrite history in what might be the sport’s most passing-friendly season. Read full article > >

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NFL playoff picture: NFC East, postseason spot for Tim Tebow, records up for grabs in Week 17

The New York Giants succeeded Saturday in reducing the NFC East race to a winner-take-all game next weekend at the Meadowlands between them and the Dallas Cowboys . The Giants stayed in the running for the division title by beating the Jets, 29-14 , at MetLife Stadium in New York’s NFL version of a city title game Saturday afternoon, with major playoff implications for both teams. The Jets fell behind the Cincinnati Bengals in the chase for the second of the AFC’s two wild-card playoff spots. Read full article > >

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NFC East boils down to winner-take-all game between Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants

Two of the Redskins’ most valuable and promising young players will spend the final week of the NFL season at Redskins Park around the locker room and in the weight room. But they won’t be in the meeting rooms or on the practice field . And it might not matter a whole lot. The Redskins’ offense isn’t just surviving without tight end Fred Davis and left tackle Trent Williams; it’s somehow thriving. Read full article > >

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Redskins’ offense adjusts to playing without Fred Davis, Trent Williams

By the time Rex Grossman lined up to take a fake snap from a fake center in a version of a football game that only slightly resembled the real thing, three video cameras manned by three cameramen rose 60 feet in the air on three massive orange lifts at Redskins Park. This was a week ago Wednesday, but it could have been any Wednesday during any week of any NFL season. Grossman and his Washington Redskins teammates were going through what would seem, for an out-of-the-race football team, to be the most mundane tasks in a season defined by mundane tasks: running skeleton pass drills against faux defensive backs, simulating what they might — might — see that Sunday against the New York Giants. Read full article > >

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When it comes to practice, the Redskins pay attention to every detail

For those who wish they could watch the Super Bowl from their phone, your wish is granted — for the first time ever, the big game will be available live online and on certain mobile devices, in addition to television. NBC airs the Super Bowl on Feb. 5 from Indianapolis, and will also stream the game on NFL.com and NBCSports.com. Verizon users will be able to watch via NFL Mobile, NBC added in its announcement on Tuesday. Read full article > >

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Super Bowl to stream live online for the first time ever

The spotlight on Eli Manning , in some ways, couldn’t be brighter. He plays in the shadow of New York City. He is a former top overall pick in the NFL draft. He is a member of the first family of quarterbacking and his pro football résumé includes a Super Bowl triumph. Yet it does seem, curiously, that a good portion of his NFL career has been spent as the “other” quarterback, his play quite often obscured by the feats of someone else. He has been the league’s other Manning brother, regularly overshadowed when Peyton was winning an unprecedented four most valuable player awards. Read full article > >

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New York Giants’ Eli Manning is having a quietly great season

The country’s athlete of the moment isn’t Aaron Rodgers , who has the Green Bay Packers chasing an undefeated season as he crafts one of the greatest years ever by an NFL quarterback. Nor is it Albert Pujols, whose skills at hitting a baseball are so rare that the Los Angeles Angels agreed Thursday to pay him $254 million over the next 10 years . Read full article > >

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Tim Tebow stands at crossroads of sports, religion and popular culture

For weeks, the Washington Redskins have braced for the four-game suspensions of two of their best players for repeatedly flunking NFL tests for recreational drugs. No one has been closer to the problem than General Manager Bruce Allen, who has been talking with Trent Williams and Fred Davis as the storm of disgrace — mostly for them but also for an organization that would employ such dopes — has approached and now come crashing around them. Read full article > >

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Bruce Allen hopes suspensions translate into lessons learned

Suspended Washington Redskins Trent Williams and Fred Davis apologized to their teammates during a full-squad meeting Wednesday, a day after the NFL officially ended their seasons for repeated violations of the league’s substance-abuse policy. Yet even as the pair began attempts to make amends, Coach Mike Shanahan made clear how seriously club officials are taking transgressions, which could affect the team’s decision-making for seasons to come. Read full article > >

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Trent Williams, Fred Davis apologize to Redskins teammates

Redskins Coach Mike Shanahan’s regular Monday media availability began with nearly 20 questions about tight end Fred Davis and Trent Williams , both of whom are expected to miss the remainder of the season because of multiple failed drug tests . And nearly 20 times, in one fashion or another, Shanahan said he can’t specifically address the status of either player because NFL has yet formally notify him of any pending action. Read full article > >

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Redskins await word on Fred Davis, Trent Williams suspensions