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With NFL teams meeting the 53-man roster deadline Saturday, I've put together a chart breaking down general positional counts. "General" is the appropriate term here because some teams see fullbacks as tight ends, defensive ends as outside linebac...

The NFC West registered twice on Business Week's Power 100 list featuring sports' movers and shakers. Larry Fitzgerald ranked 43rd and Patrick Willis ranked 53rd on the annual list. A big thanks goes out to AFC South blogger and Business Week r...

The call for not-so-obvious MVP Watch candidates went out Tuesday afternoon. There were well-reasoned responses, such as the one from erik22lax nominating running backs Chris Johnson and LaDainian Tomlinson for flourishing without the benefit of p...

Six sacks in two games should be enough for the Green Bay Packers' Clay Matthews to earn a spot on the MVP Watch list. It was, but only if I removed someone with better long-term prospects for the award. Matthews' teammate, Aaron Rodgers, became t...

The San Francisco 49ers appeared mostly quiet Sunday, signing players to their practice squad while the rest of the division scrambled to rearrange 53-man rosters. Among the confirmed moves in the NFC West to this point Sunday: The Arizona Car...

Brier Dudley of the Seattle Times says Seahawks owner and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Dudley: "The cancer follows a tough bout with heart disease that sidelined Allen, 56, earlier this year and led ...

Merril Hoge, Chris Mortensen, Mark Schlereth, Seth Wickersham and Keyshawn Johnson are picking the Green Bay Packers to defeat the San Francisco 49ers in the teams' divisional playoff game Saturday. K.C. Joyner is calling the 49ers' offense overra...