NFL

Feb. 17-23 - NFL combine, Indianapolis.March 2 - Final day to designate franchise or transition players.March 10 - All teams must be under the 2015 salary cap; all 2014 player contracts expire; free agency begins.March 19 - Trading period for 2015 begins.March 22-25 - Annual league meeting, Phoenix.April 6...

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Left tackle King Dunlap has agreed to a four-year contract to remain with the San Diego Chargers.Dunlap had been eligible to become an unrestricted free agent. The deal was announced Friday.Dunlap was voted the team's lineman of the year in 2014, his second season with...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The numbers do not bode well for all the wannabe NFL quarterbacks at the combine this week.Of the 62 QBs picked in the NFL draft this decade, 15 are out of the league and another 24 have spent most of their time on the bench or...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers are planning a shared stadium in the Los Angeles area if both teams fail to get new stadium deals in their current hometowns.The teams announced plans for the $1.7 billion stadium in Carson in a joint statement Thursday...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Browns general manager Ray Farmer says he alone is responsible for sending text messages to the sideline last season in violation of NFL rules.Farmer told reporters Thursday in Indianapolis that nobody asked him to contact the coaches and that he was ''owning up to the mistake.''...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Chiefs coach Andy Reid vowed Wednesday that he will be ready for the start of the season despite needing a cane to get around the scouting combine following knee replacement surgery.Reid skipped attending the Senior Bowl because of the procedure, which occurred after the Chiefs finished...

FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) - A police detective has described how officers found a shell casing and blue bubble gum that they used to link former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez to a June 2013 killing.North Attleborough police Detective Michael Elliott is being cross-examined by Hernandez lawyer James...

CLEVELAND (AP) - A person familiar with the process says troubled wide receiver Josh Gordon filed a grievance against the Browns, arguing he should not have been suspended for the 2014 finale.The NFLPA filed the grievance last week on behalf of Gordon, the person told The Associated Press on...

EATON, Ohio (AP) - An Indianapolis Colts running back has been cited on a marijuana possession charge in western Ohio.The Ohio State Highway Patrol says Ahmad (AH'-mahd) Bradshaw was stopped for a traffic violation on Interstate 70 this month. He was charged with a misdemeanor count of possession of...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The company that is moving quickly on a plan to build a stadium that could host a Southern California NFL team has given more than $118,000 in campaign contributions to officials in the city where it would be located.The Los Angeles Times reported Sunday (http://lat.ms/1ziNcDW...

NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Jets are saying C-Ya to CJ2K after just one season.The Jets announced Saturday they will not exercise their option on running back Chris Johnson, making him an unrestricted free agent next month and saving the team $3.5 million on the salary cap...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - The NFL has filed a petition in North Carolina court to have the protective order lifted from Greg Hardy's trial last July in which the Panthers defensive end was convicted on two counts of domestic violence.Although the case against Hardy was dismissed Monday when he...