Football

Did Teddy Roosevelt really help create the NCAA to make college football safer? The surprising story behind the origins of college sports is far messier, bloodier, and stranger than you might expect. Throughline digs into the history.

Since 1920, the NFL's Chicago Bears have played the vast majority of their home games in the Windy City. Now there's a proposal to move the team to Indiana.

It came at the end of the divisional round match-up between the Minnesota Vikings and Dallas Cowboys, when Dallas Quarterback Roger Staubach launched a long throw downfield to Wide Receiver Drew Pearson.

On this Super Bowl weekend, we ask: What makes a great football movie?

The Yale University football team will host Howard University in the annual NAACP Harmony Classic on Saturday in New Haven.

Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed a deal Monday that would give the Buffalo Bills $850 million in public funds to help the team build a new $1.4 billion stadium.

New York State, Erie County and the Buffalo Bills have reached an agreement on a $1.4 billion stadium deal that will keep the team in Western New York for 30 years and be the largest-ever taxpayer contribution to an NFL stadium.

ESPN will broadcast the traditional Yale and Harvard football matchup — known to fans as “The Game” — on its family of networks this November 20 at the…

The body that governs high school sports in Connecticut has announced an “alternative season” for football and other fall sports that were denied a full…

Hundreds of football players and others rallied at the state capitol in Hartford in support of allowing the state high school football season to go ahead…