Four players, including linebacker Jonathan Vilma, were suspended Wednesday by the NFL for their roles in the New Orleans Saints’ bounty program. Vilma was suspended for the entire 2012 season. The other three players, two of them no longer with the Saints, received lesser penalties. Read full article > >

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NFL suspends four players for roles in New Orleans Saints bounty scandal

PALM BEACH, Fla.—NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said Monday that the league has not stopped investigating allegations that the Washington Redskins and other teams besides the New Orleans Saints had bounty programs when Gregg Williams coached for them. Read full article > >

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Roger Goodell says bounty investigation of Redskins is not over

The debate around the New Orleans Saints’ pay-for-performance system initially centered around the prevalence of such programs and their propriety within the NFL. But the NFL’s punishments of the team revealed something else: a discord among current and former players not only over the bounty program and the league’s response but in the manner in which they became public. Read full article > >

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NFL bounty scandal: Players debate whether it should have stayed in locker room

According to preliminary stats, Lindsay Lohan appears to have secured ”Saturday Night Live’s” second biggest audience this season, only behind…Charles Barkley. (Granted, Barkley’s hosting gig on Jan. 7 was boosted by the Detroit Lions-New Orleans Saints NFL wild card playoff game, which ran long that night.) Read full article > >

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Lindsay Lohan scores second-highest ‘SNL’ ratings of the season, according to early stats

The NFL is considering severe, sweeping disciplinary measures in the New Orleans Saints’ bounty case that could include lengthy suspensions of Coach Sean Payton, General Manager Mickey Loomis, former defensive coordinator Gregg Williams and player leaders of the scheme, a person familiar with the deliberations said Sunday. Read full article > >

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Severe, sweeping penalties under consideration in Saints bounty case

While New Orleans Saints beat Detroit Lions.

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Texans Win First Playoff Game Ever

Washington Post NFL reporter Mark Maske took a closer look at each of the four wild-card weekend matchups in advance of the first week of the NFL playoffs. The first round features a pair of tantalizing matchups featuring the high-octane New Orleans Saints hosting the resurgent Detroit Lions and Tim Tebow leading the Denver Broncos against banged-up Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Here’s what each team must do to advance to the second round. Read full article > >

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NFL Playoffs 2012: Wild-card weekend schedule, previews

On the eve of this year’s Super Bowl, which the New Orleans Saints won last year, temporarily breathing life into the hurricane-damaged city, some troubling facts revealing the extent of the damage caused by Katrina have emerged courtesy of the city’s…

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New Orleans Now Whiter, More Affluent

Anyone can get into the playoffs with a winning record, but the Seattle Seahawks became the first NFL team with a losing record to win a playoff game, when they defeated the reigning Super Bowl champions the New Orleans Saints 41-36. Seattle was 7-9 in…

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Seahawks Defeat Saints in Playoffs