NFC Championship

The 49ers have won six consecutive games against the Rams but the club meet in the biggest matchup of all Sunday in the NFC Championship Game.

The Green Bay Packers lead 7-0 at the half after an increasingly heated rivalry game versus the San Francisco 49ers. The Packers started the game explosively, putting together a 10-play opening drive that resulted in an A.J. Dillon touchdown run. Rodgers warmed up his arm and threw for 90 yards in the first half, mainly seeking out his favorite weapon…

Super Bowl LIV is three months from Monday at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. Is it too soon to start making plans if you’re a Patriots fan? In a word: no.

For every fault the NFL has, its current 16-game schedule template for the regular season is nearly perfect. That isn’t to say tweaks couldn’t be made – most notably when it comes to Thursday Night Football, still not very popular among players – or perhaps interconference play, where, under the current format, teams only play a single game in a...

A courtroom quest by two New Orleans Saints ticketholders for a full or partial do-over of this year’s NFC championship game because of a blown “no-call” by game officials was rejected Thursday by a federal judge. NFL officials have acknowledged that flags should have been thrown when a Rams defensive back leveled a Saints receiver with a helmet-to-helmet hit at...

Los Angeles Rams advance to Super Bowl, beating New Orleans Saints 26-23 on overtime in NFC Championship game.

Eric Reid is getting another shot in the NFL. The Carolina Panthers on Thursday have signed the free agent safety to a one-year contract. Terms of the deal were not announced. Reid filed an official grievance letter with the NFL in May, alleging that team owners and the league colluded to prevent his employment due to his protest activities. Reid,...

Bill Cosby performed in public for the first time since a sex abuse scandal embroiled him in 2015, joking that he “used to be a comedian” and playing with a jazz band in his hometown as a retrial looms in his criminal sexual assault case.

With one quarter remaining, Eagles players on the field and sideline already were dancing. A bit later, after their stunning and resounding 38-7 rout of the Minnesota Vikings earned them the NFC championship, they listened as nearly 70,000 made the Linc shake with “Fly Eagles Fly.”