This year's playoffs will start with a three-day slate of wild-card round games the weekend after Week 18. Two games will ...

The NFL playoff format belongs in "Saturday Night Live's" Washington's Dream sketch because there's no way a league that made ...

Five Redding-area clubs earned the chance to compete for a section title. See the CIF Northern Section softball postseason ...

NFL owners will meet in Minnesota to vote on the Lions' playoff proposal to seed teams by record instead of division wins.

The College Football Playoff will go to a more straightforward way of filling the bracket next season, announcing Thursday that it will place teams strictly on where they are ranked instead of moving ...

The leaks are over, the 2025 NFL schedule has been released! Now that we have the full 272-game regular-season schedule, here ...

After months of meeting to discuss things to discuss at future meetings, the people in charge of the College Football Playoff actually made a decision on Thursday, and it was one we've assumed they'd ...

Welcome to The Athletic’s live coverage of NFL Week 18. The playoff bracket is now complete ... San Francisco is back within a field goal after Josh Dobbs found a wide-open Kyle Juszczyk ...

The NFL announced the following schedule for next ... In doing so, the Jaguars were eliminated, and the Steelers secured a spot in the playoffs. After Sunday night’s game between the Buffalo ...

The schedule is set, the prime-time showdowns are known, meaning NFL football is that much closer to returning.