defensive end

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph was fined $50,000 by the NFL for involvement in a helmet-swinging brawl in a game against the Cleveland Browns.

Myles Garrett’s goal was to be NFL’s top defensive player this season. He won’t finish it. Garrett’s indefinite suspension for smashing Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph over the head with a helmet was upheld Thursday by an appeals officer who decided the severe penalty on the Cleveland Browns star defensive end is fair. One of the league’s most dominant edge...

Fitzpatrick provided the Dolphins a spark — and their first lead beyond the first quarter of the season — by engineering consecutive 75-yard touchdown drives.

The Dolphins (0-4) held a lead for the first time this season, but it lasted only 3 minutes, 49 seconds. They’ve been outscored 163-26 this season, which is the NFL’s worst four-game point differential since at least 1940.

Against the league they’re 0-4, too. Miami has been outscored 163-26, the worst four-game point differential in NFL history, and remains on pace both to score the fewest points in a 16-game season, and to allow the most.

Vonn Bell’s forced fumble and two recoveries helped the Saints stifle a Dallas offense that had rolled through its first three games, and Wil Lutz kicked four field goals to lift New Orleans to a 12-10 victory over the Cowboys on Sunday night.

Josh Rosen came off the bench late in the third quarter and engineered a 99-yard touchdown drive, and the Miami Dolphins beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 22-7 in a preseason game on Thursday night.

The comedic great gets back to his “Saturday Night Live” roots this weekend, more than 20 years after he left the show.

Sergei Bobrovsky and Florida’s three other free agent signings — defenseman Anton Stralman, and forwards Brett Connolly and Noel Acciari — put on their new Panthers sweaters for the first time Tuesday.

Officer Lino Diaz undergoes surgery after he was shot in the line of duty.

Siblings are bound to annoy one another, but one San Diego man took his brotherly duties up a notch when he decided to lip sync for hours during a road trip with his sister in a video that’s gone viral.

Authorities are searching for a man who they say tried to abduct a 12-year-old girl in Miami.

The Dolphins released veterans Andre Branch and Ted Larsen on Thursday

Dallas Cowboys defensive end Randy Gregory has been suspended indefinitely for violating the NFL’s substance-abuse policy, the fourth time the troubled player has been banned by the league.