Who is going to be the next MVP? The Most Valuable Player award is a highly sought after award. Most players dream of holding that trophy at the award ceremony. With that being said let’s take a look at who could be the next MVP. Patrick Mahomes Of course every year Pat’s got a chance...
N.F.L. Ordered to Pay Billions in Sunday Ticket Lawsuit
The N.F.L. must pay almost $5 billion in damages for artificially inflating the price of Sunday Ticket, a subscription service offered by DirecTV that showed out-of-market games, a federal jury in Los Angeles decided on Thursday. The verdict, which capped a monthlong class-action trial and almost a decade of legal wrangling, includes about $96 million...
NFL Sunday Ticket Lawsuit: Why TV Deals Are So Valuable
A pillar of the N.F.L.’s meteoric rise over the past six decades has been its strategy of making nearly all games available mostly free to fans on national networks. The league has stuck to this approach even as Major League Baseball, the N.B.A. and other leagues moved more of their games onto cable and satellite...
Which Team is Ready to Become a Contender?
When discussing a goal for a team there is many different definitions. For a struggling franchise, finding young talent to improve their future is the goal. For a playoff team, the next step would be the Super Bowl. So let’s take a look at a couple of teams ready to leap into Super Bowl contention....
The Miniature Secrets of Championship Rings
As sports fans enjoy the legacy-defining moments of this month’s N.B.A. finals and Stanley Cup finals, Jason Arasheben is studying like a college student before exams. Arasheben, a celebrity jeweler whose clients include the rappers Drake and ASAP Rocky, is investigating the history of the contending teams, the connections to their cities and any other...
In O.J. Simpson’s Final Years in Las Vegas, This Group Accepted Him Despite His Past
O.J. Simpson, even in his final years, was somewhat of a spectacle. In his presence, heads turned and whispers swirled. There was no story about him without that white Ford Bronco, the bloody gloves, the two chilling murders. When he settled in Las Vegas seven years ago, it seemed fitting that he would choose a...
Larry Allen, Dominant N.F.L. Lineman, Dies at 52
Larry Allen, a road grader of a guard and tackle for the Dallas Cowboys who, leveraging seemingly superhuman strength, cleared a path to a Super Bowl victory in 1995 and tallied 11 Pro Bowl selections, earning consideration as one of the greatest offensive linemen in National Football League history, died on Sunday in Mexico. He...
A Reporter Whose Beat Blends Sports and Culture
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. When Emmanuel Morgan was hired as a sports reporter covering the N.F.L. and combat sports for The New York Times in 2021, the job felt familiar. After all, Mr. Morgan, who grew up playing football,...
The Top 3 Defenses in the NFL Today
In the modern era of the NFL, defensive performance has gone down while offensive performance has gone up. Rules could play a factor in this by making it hard to defend a pass catcher, or making it harder to hit a Quarterback without a 15 yard penalty. Nevertheless, having an elite level defense is a...
Biden Dons Kansas City Helmet to Celebrate Its Super Bowl Victory
On Friday, President Biden urgently called for an end to the war in Gaza. He solemnly discussed the rule of law after former President Donald J. Trump’s criminal conviction. And he donned a shiny red helmet to the whoops and cheers of a pack of football players and fans. The visit to the White House...
Kristin Juszczyk Is Building a D.I.Y. Empire One Custom Piece at a Time
This year’s Super Bowl was many things to Kristin Juszczyk. It was a crushing loss for her husband’s team, the San Francisco 49ers. But it was also the culmination of weeks of frenzied interest in the clothes she made by hand and wore to N.F.L. games. (The Super Bowl happened to take place on her...
Which NFL Team has the Most to Prove?
OTA’s (Organized Team Activities) are about to begin and with that the new NFL year will as well. A lot of teams have made a lot of changes but one thing that has not changed is the competitive nature of the NFL. With that being said, let’s take a look at the team who has...