St. Louis Rams rookie defense lineman Ethan Westbrooks made the final 53-man roster on Saturday, beating out Michael Sam for one of the team's final spots. Westbrooks has a remarkable story of his own. In 2011 he was working at a Toys "R" Us and playing for Sacramento City College. Three years later, he's in the NFL. According to Westbrooks, an unlikely motivational tool — a face tattoo — is part of the reason for his success.

He was once a rich and famous sumo wrestler in Japan, now he's going for broke, trying to make it in the NFL

If you watched Thursday night's Ravens vs. 49ers preseason football game, you probably noticed the awful on-field advertising any time either team got in the end zone.

From an economic standpoint, every player in the NFL is worth what someone is willing to pay him. That doesn't mean particular players' performances live up to what their respective teams are willing to pay them, however.

Native Americans pass down stories to preserve their history and heritage, because we don’t have much of it left. As tribes were systemically exterminated, so too were their respective cultures. But we have our stories, and when my mother was young, her parents shared one about the term “redskins.”

The CFL has obtained some video footage from an off-season photo/video shoot in Toronto, where Jon Cornish, Travis Lulay, Mike Reilly, Adam Bighill, Jason Vega, Andre Durie, Marc-Olivier Brouillette and Brian Bulcke were brought together to tryout some of Reebok's new sideline gear and apparel. In this video, you'll see Mike Reilly putting a unique twist on his off-season training routine.

Student athletes whose likenesses were used in EA's NCAA football and basketball games will receive up to $951 for each year they were featured in the games, according to a proposed settlement being put forth for approval by a judge. While EA proposed a $40 million settlement in September 2013 for its ongoing litigation with student athletes over its college sports series stemming back to May 2009, it hasn't been clear how that money would divide among the parties in the lawsuit until now.

Cardinals linebacker Daryl Washington has been suspended for at least the entire 2014 season without pay for violating the NFL Policy and Program for Substances of Abuse, the NFL announced on Friday. Mike Jurecki of FOX Sports 910 AM in Arizona first reported the news, citing an anonymous player.

Friday's move by the Seahawks was a little peculiar because it involved them cutting a sixth-round pick just a few weeks after the draft, but ultimately it'll be a line in the transactions page most people will read and instantly forget.

Former NFL player-turned-actor Terry Crews claims the league is a “cult.”

Four years ago, the promising Rutgers defensive lineman was paralyzed from the neck down during a game. Now he's battling to win back his body while becoming an inspiration to many.

One ill-fated 1982 phone call jump-started the NFL's longest run of ineptitude. The bizarre and calamitous story of Booker Reese only got worse from there

In the worlds of both sports and television, the NFL is a behemoth. But is there something uniquely and grossly profitable about pro football that it can continue to grow indefinitely, or has it hit its ceiling? Mavericks owner Mark Cuban thinks the end is nigh. Speaking to reporters ahead of last night's Mavs game, Cuban predicted the bursting of the NFL bubble within the next decade, hastened by a recent cash grab that may overexpose the product.

I decided not to hold a press conference because I didn't want to have to say things that were cliché. I've done enough of that since I've been playing football. I actually didn't really plan on saying anything about my retirement at all. I just kind of wanted to disappear. The fact that I was done playing would've been clear once some time had passed, and I hadn't signed back with the Cardinals or any other team.

The NFL Competition Committee has discussed experimenting this preseason with a longer - much longer - extra-point try. According to one member, the committee's meetings this weekend included preliminary talks about placing the ball at the 25-yard line for the extra-point kick - which would make it a 42-yard attempt - rather than the 2-yard line, where it is currently placed.

Seahawks won the Super Bowl using same blueprint they used to dominate regular season.

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With the growth of big-time college football in the US, which generates more than $5bn (£3bn) in annual revenue, the pretence that the players are "student-athletes" is becoming increasingly untenable for major universities and the sport's governing body, the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

2015 Michigan State football commit Jayru Campbell is making news for all the wrong reasons. The four-star quarterback recruit was videotaped by a fellow Cass Tech student, body-slamming a security guard at his high school on Wednesday afternoon.

Former Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel is heading for the NFL after declaring himself for the 2014 draft.