
Mourners gather at funeral for Chiefs' Belcher
Jovan Belcher was remembered Wednesday for the accomplishments of a life that ended so suddenly and violently. Several hundred mourners gathered for ...

Charles starring for Chiefs after tragedy
Jamaal Charles took the handoff on the first play of the game, skipped to his right and found a crease. He slipped through the hole, made a subtle ...

Cowboys player death raises question of safety net
San Francisco 49ers defensive end Demarcus Dobbs walked away from a one-vehicle accident on his 25th birthday last month and was arrested on suspicion ...

Chiefs get back to normal with loss to Browns
Returning to normal for the Kansas City Chiefs is equal parts welcoming and frustrating. The players, coaches and front-office staff may never truly ...

Numb Cowboys beat Bengals 20-19 on last-second FG
Dan Bailey's 40-yard kick went straight through the uprights. The Dallas Cowboys had won an important game on a last-second field goal. They weren't ...

Cowboys involved in fatal wreck were close friends
Josh Brent and Jerry Brown met in college, forming a close, unshakeable bond. Having realized his NFL dream, Brent was trying to help his roommate do ...

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says team is grieving
The Cowboys bowed their heads, put hands over their hearts and honored a teammate killed in a car accident during a moment of silence before their ...

Grieving Cowboys beat Bengals 20-19 on FG
Numb. Grieving. Distracted. The Cowboys were all those things on Sunday, dealing with the death of one teammate and the tribulations of another.

New tragedy rocks NFL's regularly scheduled world
The games go on. For the second straight weekend, tragedy rocked the regularly scheduled world of the NFL. It left families, friends, teammates and ...

Cowboys involved in fatal wreck close friends
Josh Brent and Jerry Brown met in college, forming a close, unshakeable bond. Having realized his NFL dream, Brent was trying to help his roommate do ...

Cowboy charged after player dies in auto accident
Police charged Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman Josh Brent with intoxication manslaughter Saturday after he flipped his car in a pre-dawn accident ...
Police video released in NFL player murder-suicide
Police released video Friday night that shows officers finding Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher asleep in his car just hours before he ...
Jailer: GI in WikiLeaks case needed to speak up
An Army private charged with sending reams of classified documents to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks could have gotten his tight pretrial ...

Relative: Woman slain by Chiefs player brought joy
The slain girlfriend of Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher was a loyal friend who brought joy to others with her smiles and laughter, a ...

NFL, teams offer support for players in crisis
Brady Quinn can't help but wonder whether he missed something in the final days of Jovan Belcher's life. Could the Kansas City Chiefs' quarterback ...

Belcher's mom says she loves son, slain girlfriend
The days since Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend then shot himself in the head have been very difficult for his mother, who said Wednesday that the ...

Chiefs players pay respects to Belcher at service
Heads bowed, somber past and present Kansas City Chiefs players turned out Wednesday for a memorial service for teammate Jovan Belcher, who killed his ...

Chiefs' Brady Quinn shines in time of trouble
This should have been a big week for Brady Quinn. The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback is coming off one of the best games of his career, helping his ...

Did Costas overstep his bounds with gun comments?
Clearly, Bob Costas stirred up a hornet's nest Sunday with a halftime commentary about Kansas City Chiefs player Jovan Belcher, who killed his ...

Column: Chiefs got past game, but still must heal
They played a football game in Kansas City the other day. Even as the headlines fade, the question remains. Was it the right thing to do given the ...

Costas wishes he had more time to talk
Bob Costas isn't backing down from his halftime comments on gun violence, but he wishes he had more time. The NBC sportscaster gave interviews Tuesday ...

Belcher told cops he was waiting for 'girlfriend'
Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher told officers who found him sleeping in his car outside an apartment complex hours before he committed a ...

Chiefs begin picking up pieces after heartache
The Kansas City Chiefs returned to work Monday at their practice facility near Arrowhead Stadium, trying to find a sense of normalcy after two days ...