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A star Philadelphia high school football player was shot and killed when a gun his twin brother was handling somehow went off, authorities said. The brother, also a star football player, is charged with murder.

New York Jets running back Le’Veon Bell says he has been unfairly targeted by the NFL after taking a fifth test this season for performance enhancers and criticizes the league’s policy.

A hard-fought Texas high school football game took a backseat to the realities of life when opponents Gage Smith and Ty Jordan came together for an emotional prayer after the final whistle last week. Smith asked Jordan if the two friends could say a prayer together for Jordan’s mother, Tiffany Jordan, 42, who has stage 4 lung and bone cancer....

Chase Edmonds rushed for career highs of 126 yards and three touchdowns, overshadowing the return of Giants star running back Saquon Barkley in the Arizona Cardinals’ 27-21 victory over New York on a soggy Sunday.

Sam Darnold gave the Jets’ struggling offense a huge boost by throwing two touchdown passes in his return from mononucleosis, and New York held on to beat the Dallas Cowboys 24-22 on Sunday night for their first win of the season.

This is a story about a woman, her dog and one close call she will never forget.

NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year for 2018 Saquon Barkley has a high sprain to his right ankle and there is no immediate timetable for his return.

Daniel Jones is making the decision to bench Eli Manning look like a good one. At least through one game. The sixth overall pick in this year’s NFL draft threw for 336 yards and two touchdowns and also ran for two TDs, including the go-ahead score with 1:16 remaining as the New York Giants rallied from an 18-point halftime deficit...

The Dallas Cowboys and Ezekiel Elliott have agreed on a $90 million, six-year contract extension that will make him the NFL’s highest-paid running back and end a holdout that lasted the entire preseason, a person with knowledge of the agreement said Wednesday.

Daniel Jones completed a difficult week with an upbeat performance that will shush the doubters for a while. Jones completed a pair of long passes and led the New York Giants to a touchdown during a 25-23 victory over the Bengals on Thursday night in Zac Taylor’s first home game as Cincinnati’s head coach.

When Jon Hilliman was growing up in New Jersey, he dreamed of becoming a running back for the New York Giants.

Cedric Benson, former Bears running back, was killed in a motorcycle accident on Saturday night, according to KXAN, an NBC sister station in Austin, Texas.

Hollywood police say New York Jets running back Le’Veon Bell returned from the gym May 25 and found the women gone and his jewelry missing.

Authorities say two female acquaintances vanished with more than half a million dollars in jewelry from Jets running back Le’Veon Bell’s Florida home

If you haven’t done it already, and you’re on social media, mute LeSean McCoy’s account

Virginia has clinched a win advancing to the NCAA Championship final, after beating Auburn 63-62.

The NFL has suspended Browns running back Kareem Hunt for eight games after a video showed him kicking a woman and he was later involved in a fight at a resort.

The New York Jets have released running back Isaiah Crowell, an expected move after the team agreed to terms early Wednesday morning with Le’Veon Bell.

Dak Prescott threw a 32-yard fourth-down touchdown pass to Cole Beasley on a play that was reversed by video replay and added a winning 2-point conversion pass to Michael Gallup with 1:12 to play as the playoff-bound Dallas Cowboys beat New York 36-35 on Sunday.

New York Giants coach Pat Shurmur watched his team go toe to toe with a playoff contender Sunday. Then, in the final 10 minutes, everything started slipping away.