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Allegiances change but tattoos are forever, right?

The ring was being fitted for his finger. The plaudits were being written for his resume. The skeptical football world had finally opened its arms and was prepared to embrace.

OK, all you Super Bowl party planners, here is your key bit of info. Kickoff for Sunday's game between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots is scheduled for 3:38 p.m. PT. 

Football pumps will cringe in fear. Ragged hoodies will run and hide. "Cheaters" can start making plans for an Emmy.

In the two decades since the NFL packed up and moved out, Los Angeles has become a unique sort of football city.

The New England Patriots weren't always a NFL powerhouse. Far from it.

The NFL's ongoing investigation into "Deflategate" coupled with Marshawn Lynch's dramas with the media has made for a pretty interesting week heading into Super Bowl XLIX.

Even though St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke, the league's second-richest owner to Seattle's Paul Allen, has announced plans for an 80,000-seat football stadium in Hollywood Park, and has the financial and political wherewithal to get it done, the NFL is not ready to name a lead horse in the...

Four months after it looked as if he might lose his job over crisis mismanagement, Roger Goodell laughed Friday when asked whether he could imagine circumstances that might lead him to resign or be fired.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is being criticized -- even more than usual -- for how he responded to a female reporter who questioned his possible conflicts of interest during his annual Super Bowl news conference Friday.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said Friday the NFL has not made a determination of whether the New England Patriots intentionally deflated footballs in the AFC championship game against Indianapolis, and declined to “engage in speculation” that might compromise the ongoing...

Even though St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke, the league’s second-richest owner to Seattle’s Paul Allen, has announced plans for an 80,000-seat football stadium in Hollywood Park, and has the financial and political wherewithal to get it done, the NFL is not ready to name a lead...

Former USC and NFL cornerback Daylon McCutcheon has joined the New York Jets' coaching staff.

Life is good for LeGarrette Blount.

Richard Sherman's unborn son already has a name.

Tom Brady can play dumb all he wants. But he can't fool Joe Montana.

The Southland's Super Bowl debate began a week early, at a church casino night in Baldwin Park, around a blackjack table with worthless chips and priceless banter.

The NFL's head of officiating said Thursday that officials inspected the footballs properly before the AFC championship game — in which 11 of 12 New England Patriots' footballs were found to be underinflated — and there will be enhanced inspections of the game balls before Super...

As the last traces of daylight vanished, players for the semipro Hollywood Stars tugged on shoulder pads and pants behind their cars. The smell of stale sweat, along with rap music and laughter from shouted jokes, drifted through the November chill of another night on the margins of organized...

Brandon Browner has L.O.B. inked on his arm, a tribute to his days in Seattle's "Legion of Boom" secondary.

Pete Carroll employs many former USC assistants on his Seattle Seahawks staff, including Rocky Seto, who Carroll described Thursday as “the keeper of the records.”

Marshawn Lynch hasn't said much of anything this week, but by Sunday night, when the confetti has settled on Super Bowl XLIX, the Seattle running back will have made a significant statement.

USC will be well represented by the Seattle Seahawks when they play the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl on Sunday.

Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman is just days away from two huge events in his life.

For those turned off by the LeGarrette Blount Super Bowl story -- hey, who doesn't get a warm and fuzzy feeling from a guy who quit on his team? -- the tale of New England linebacker Akeem Ayers might be more to your taste.

The Seattle Seahawks' Earl Thomas said he was tested by the NFL for human growth hormone on Thursday, just three days before Super Bowl XLIX and one day after implying that the shoulder he dislocated less than two weeks ago felt perfect.

There are XLIX different sentimental journeys to football's ultimate game, lifetime trips fueled with pride and perseverance by players who arrive with humility and honor.

NFL teams deflating footballs for a competitive advantage is a common maneuver that has been done for years, former quarterback Jeff Blake said.