NEW ORLEANS — Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints picked up right where they left off in the regular season: piling up points and yards in rec...

NEW ORLEANS — For three quarters, the Detroit Lions performed like playoff veterans. They led Drew Brees and the mighty New Orleans Saints at h...

NEW ORLEANS — Drew Brees and the Saints keep pouring on the points, rolling up the wins and rewriting the record books, too. Brees led an unsto...

HOUSTON — Andre Johnson hugged his coach at the end of Houston's first playoff victory – a moment a decade in the making. "This is someth...

Elton John sang "Saturday night's alright for fighting" and it's a safe bet that Detroit Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh feels the same way headi...

NFL Wild Card weekend kicks off on Saturday with a showdown between the Cincinnati Bengals and Houston Texans. When these two squads faced off in week...

-- The look of excitement and the eagerness in his voice gave Tom Coughlin away. It's playoff time, and he loves it that his New York Giants are back...

HOUSTON -- Year after agonizing year, Andre Johnson was asked about his goals for the season and his answer never changed. "I want to get this team t...

Injuries single-handedly derailed the Houston Texans' season. Gary Kubiak’s club may just be Super Bowl favorites with a healthy Matt Schaub and...

By Matt Bowen, National Football Post Let's take a look at the NFL Wild Card schedule this weekend and talk personnel, matchups plus some Xs and Os...

NEW ORLEANS -- Having shed their long-held reputation for losing with bumbling ineptitude, the New Orleans Saints open the playoffs as the Super Bowl ...

Hey, Stranger. Here's a playoff head-scratcher: accompanying the Patriots and Packers, Steelers and Giants, are the Lions and Texans....

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Casinos in Las Vegas think Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers have a better shot at winning the Super Bowl than Tim Tebow and ...

With the Broncos having backed into the 2012 NFL playoffs despite a 7-3 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in Week 17, it's almost impossible NOT to talk ...

We've entered a new year of athlete tweets, but in this first edition of tweets of the week of 2012, we have contributions from some of our old favori...

-- The way the Green Bay Packers blew through the regular season, it would be foolish to pick against them repeating as Super Bowl champions. Yet th...

By Joe Fortenbaugh, National Football Post A new year brings with it a new challenge. 17 weeks of jockeying for position are behind us as the NFL p...

The New York Jets have fallen from preseason Super Bowl contenders to mid-table mediocrity faster than headstrong coach Rex Ryan can stick his -- or s...

-- Two rematches of regular-season games will highlight the wild-card round, which was set up when Cincinnati grabbed the final AFC spot Sunday and A...

CINCINNATI -- Andy Dalton's desperate pass into the end zone fell incomplete in the scrum of players, leaving the Bengals still winless against playof...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The Dallas Cowboys bookended their disappointing season with losses at the Meadowlands – defeats that kept them out of ...