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PHOENIX -- A few NFC West notes before heading to the airport for a trip home following the NFL owners meeting, which concluded Wednesday: Arizona Cardinals: The team is leaving open the door for signing Cleveland Browns unrestricted free-agent re...

PHOENIX -- Heated competition has cast Jim Harbaugh and Pete Carroll as bitter enemies, first in the Pacific-10 Conference and now in the NFC West. The heat sources at the Arizona Biltmore resort, site of the ongoing NFL owners meeting, are much l...

Perhaps you've heard the news: Super Bowl XLVII features two head coaches from the same family. Brothers, in fact. You could look it up, or you could listen in while NFC West blogger Mike Sando and AFC North counterpart Jamison Hensley take (family) ...

Five nuggets of knowledge about Super Bowl XLVII, in which the Baltimore Ravens face the San Francisco 49ers on Feb. 3: 1. Family affair: The coaching Harbaughs, Jim and John, will of course be on opposite sidelines when Jim's San Francisco 49ers ...

Gone are the days when offensive linemen weighed less than 250 pounds, fullbacks led their teams in rushing and some of the best quarterbacks compiled NFL passer ratings in the 70s. At some point in the future, I suspect we'll marvel at how the NF...

CANTON, Ohio -- We're a few hours away from the 7 p.m. ET start to enshrinement ceremonies at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. I'll be heading over early to get a feel for what awaits. Cortez Kennedy and his daughter, Courtney, were seen downstai...

MoJo from Tucson, Ariz., asks a fairly open-ended question regarding the Arizona Cardinals' leading rusher. "How much respect did defenses show to Beanie Wells last season?" he asks. 2011 Early-down Rushes vs. Loaded Fronts Rank RB ...

The San Francisco 49ers traveled across the country on a short week to face the Baltimore Ravens in a Thanksgiving matchup last season. The situation was a tough one, the 49ers were not happy about it and the NFL's schedule maker, Howard Katz, hea...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- The NFL's Harbaugh brothers faced fateful fourth-down coaching decisions during conference championship games Sunday. Neither decision worked out well, but statistical analysis from ESPN's analytics team favored Baltimore's ...

Conventional wisdom says the San Francisco 49ers need to score touchdowns, not field goals, to defeat the New Orleans Saints in the divisional playoffs Saturday. But if the 49ers play the game their way, on their terms, they'll win with David Aker...

Week 16 brought great clarity to the NFL playoff situation in the NFC West. The Seattle Seahawks and Arizona Cardinals are out. The San Francisco 49ers are strong favorites to emerge as the second seed in the NFC. They can no longer challenge for ...

Dan Bickley, Mike Jurecki and I moved up our usual Friday conversation to Wednesday in advance of the Thanksgiving holiday. The audio they've posted reveals my true feelings about the "Harbowl" matchup pitting brothers Jim and John Harbaugh agains...

Those taking offense to the St. Louis Rams' approach and performance against Seattle in Week 11 have company. Bernie Miklasz of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch landed a 1,641-word uppercut through his "Monday Morning Backup Quarterback" column. Among ...

At the risk of sounding brusque, I've recently settled on the phrase "socially indifferent" to describe a certain NFC West head coach. It's not the perfect description, but it comes close to capturing how the San Francisco 49ers' Jim Harbaugh some...

Sorry, no news on the San Francisco 49ers and Nnamdi Asomugha. The team did go after a kicker, though, and an acclaimed one in David Akers, ESPN's Adam Schefter reports. The 49ers' agreement with Akers, 36, spells the end in San Francisco for 3...

Kent Somers of the Arizona Republic says Cardinals fullback Jason Wright is retiring. Somers: "Wright was productive as a situational player on offense and was an excellent special-teams player. He missed one game last season due to a concussion. ...