A day after a 16-13 overtime loss at St. Louis, Harbaugh accepted the blame for the fourth-quarter pitch that was fumbled by Kaepernick and led to Janoris Jenkins’s 2-yard fumble return for a touchdown. The ensuing 2-point conversion tied the score. Harbaugh did not call the play, but he relayed

“I was trying to get him to understand that life is not over, he still has a chance, and let’s get this worked out,” Crennel said Monday, adding that he did not know of any personal issues that Belcher might have had.

But Belcher turned away from both of them

Roger Clemens moved to the Yankees from the Toronto Blue Jays before the 1999 season. The season before, Pedro Martinez was traded to the Boston Red Sox from the Montreal Expos. And David Cone was dealt to the Blue Jays from the Kansas City Royals after winning the 1994 award.

When the shift in his position apparently caused his draft stock to fall because teams were not sure where he was best suited or whether he would fit at all, an undeterred Brown made sure to schedule his watch party to coincide with the later rounds. He warned family and

His teammate Roy Williams called him Megatron during Johnson’s rookie year in 2007 and it stuck. But in the midst of a season when he is threatening to break Jerry Rice’s record for receiving yards, it is worth wondering if the nickname fits.

The biggest issue with the name, it

Bob Costas recognized that he was likely to be walking into a minefield with his commentary during halftime of the Sunday night National Football League game on NBC. Prompted by the horror of a  murder-suicide carried out the day before by a Kansas City Chiefs football player, Mr. Costas quoted