Report: Patriots' Spygate scandal was bigger in scope than first realized As it turns out, Spygate had a larger scope than we realized. ESPN had a huge story on Tuesday morning, saying when the league investigated the New England Patriots in 2007 they were found to have "a library of scouting material containing videotapes of opponents' signals, with detailed notes matching signals to plays … [Read more...]

Waiver Wired: Waiver Wired: Week 1 Welcome to the first edition of Waiver Wired for the 2015 season. As has always been the case, this column will be your guide to the best players available in at least 50 percent of Yahoo fantasy leagues. Some of those players will be plug-and-play options who could help this week while others will be stashes who may become useful in the future. Each profiled … [Read more...]

Football Daily Dose: Daily Dose: Can Gronk Be Tamed? I’m having an Austin Powers flashback. Remember how easy it was to get Will Ferrell’s character to spill the beans? All you had to do was ask him the same thing three times. With the Steelers, it’s even easier. You don’t have to ask. They’ll just tell you. "You just have to jam him up a little bit, mess with his timing," said linebacker Ryan … [Read more...]

Jason Pierre-Paul reportedly 'ready' to play, but obstacles could remain The Jason Pierre-Paul saga has been such a mystery — summed up by Giants co-owner John Mara's incredible quote, "I don't know how many fingers he has" — that nothing should be too surprising. Even Pierre-Paul somehow playing in Week 1 or shortly thereafter. [Yahoo Sports Fantasy Football: Sign up and join a league … [Read more...]

NFL preview week: Ten coaches on the hot seat in 2015 Only seven NFL head coaches were hired before 2010 as the annual Black Monday meat grinder chews up an average of three to six coaches in a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately league. After four head coaches left their gigs a year ago (three were fired; Doug Marrone opted out of his deal), we see as many as 10 who could be in trouble heading … [Read more...]

NFL Preview Week: The top 10 brewing controversies The NFL is basically a soap opera for many of its fans, and what's a soap opera without some drama? Hopefully we're beyond circular debates about deflated footballs, but we're likely to hear all about some other juicy controversies throughout this season. Some will be totally out of the blue, but some we can kind of see coming. So let's try … [Read more...]

Football Daily Dose: Dose: Roster Cut Weekend Recap As Labor Day weekend welcomes the end of summer, the fantasy world is now just days away from the start of the 2015 NFL season. The holiday weekend was certainly not a restful period for NFL front offices, as league transactions poured in with all 32 teams announcing roster cuts and making last minute additions to their depth charts. Hopefully … [Read more...]

Dallas Cowboys trade for Seahawks running back Christine Michael We've spent months waiting for the Dallas Cowboys to acquire someone, anyone, at running back to become an intriguing option behind the best offensive line in football. Christine Michael probably qualifies as intriguing. The Cowboys acquired him on Sunday for a conditional draft pick, ESPN's Adam Schefter reported. NFL … [Read more...]

Australia reacts with joy after Jarryd Hayne makes the 49ers roster It took a while for the United States to catch on to how incredible Jarryd Hayne's journey to the NFL was. Australia understood it well before Hayne ever signed with the San Francisco 49ers. [Yahoo Sports Fantasy Football: Sign up and join a league todayl] The rugby league star said he turned down the largest contract in … [Read more...]

NFL Preview Week: Ranking the divisions, from weakest to toughest Remember when the NFC West ruled the football world? It wasn't that long ago. The NFL landscape changes fast and the once-mighty NFC West is (spoiler alert!) no longer the toughest division in our rankings. But which one is? We rank the divisions here, counting down from the easiest to the toughest: - - - - - - - Frank … [Read more...]