San Francisco Bay Area to host the 50th Super Bowl

The 50th Super Bowl will be held in the San Francisco Bay Area. NFL owners have voted Tuesday for the 49ers’ new stadium as host of the 2016 game. That facility in Santa Clara, Calif., is due to open for the 2014 season.

Tony Romo to miss Cowboys’ workouts after cyst removal

Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo will miss at least three weeks of offseason workouts after a procedure to remove a cyst from his back.

Bills’ Mario Williams denies ‘suicidal’ texts

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Buffalo Bills defensive end Mario Williams denies ever contemplating suicide, and says private comments he made in text messages are being taken out of context by his ex-fiancee in a lawsuit over the possession of a $785,000 diamond engagement ring. Calling …

Upcoming Super Bowl sites to be announced

BOSTON — NFL owners will vote on the sites of the 50th and 51st Super Bowls on Tuesday at their spring meetings. The San Francisco area, where a new stadium is being built in Santa Clara, and South Florida are competing for the the 50th …

Ex-lawyer says O.J. Simpson knew his companions had guns

LAS VEGAS — The lawyer who unsuccessfully defended O.J. Simpson against armed robbery charges in Las Vegas says his client knew two companions had guns in a 2007 confrontation with memorabilia dealers. Miami attorney Yale Galanter is testifying Friday at a hearing in which Simpson …

Charles Woodson to visit Raiders

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Charles Woodson has another team interested in signing him. Woodson’s agent, Carl Poston, tells The Associated Press that the 36-year-old defensive back will visit with The Oakland Raiders on Tuesday. The 2009 NFL Defensive Player of the Year would’ve traveled to …

VIDEO: O.J. Simpson takes the stand in bid for retrial

LAS VEGAS — More than four years after the world last heard from O.J. Simpson in court, one of the nation’s most famous prisoners spoke again Wednesday in a bid to win freedom from a sentence that could keep him behind bars until he dies. …

Vikings new stadium looks more like a church

Opening the roof over the new home of the Minnesota Vikings would have forced planners of the $975 million project to eliminate some of the fancy features.

Manti Te’o practices with Chargers vets for 1st time

SAN DIEGO — Philip Rivers thought Manti Te’o had a decent first interaction with San Diego Chargers veterans.

“It didn’t seem like he was lost or anything ... he didn’t stand out, which was a good thing,” Rivers said after the first practice of organized …

O.J. Simpson returns to Las Vegas court in bid for new trial

LAS VEGAS — The shackles and blue prison garb seemed to weigh down O.J. Simpson as he returned to a Las Vegas courtroom on Monday to ask for a new trial in the armed robbery-kidnapping case that sent him to prison in 2008. Looking grayer …

O.J. Simpson seeks new trial in Las Vegas heist

LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson will return next week to the Las Vegas courthouse where he was convicted of leading an armed sports memorabilia heist to ask a judge for a new trial on the grounds that his lawyer botched his case. Simpson will take …

Carrie Underwood takes over for Faith Hill on ‘Sunday Night Football’

Carrie Underwood will take over the theme song for “Sunday Night Football,” with NBC sticking to the formula of a female country music star for its intro.

Aaron Rodgers makes TV debut on NBC’s ‘The Office’

Green Bay Packers’ quarterback Aaron Rodgers is making his prime-time television acting debut.

Tim Tebow offered contract by Omaha Beef

The Omaha Beef have a job waiting for Tim Tebow if he wants it — and the Nebraska indoor football team will even pay him $75 a game.

MORRISSEY: Tim Tebow was everything to everybody — except an NFL quarterback

RICK MORRISSEY: I feel bad for Tim Tebow. I mean that. By virtue of his strong religious beliefs, his squeaky clean lifestyle and his good looks, he found himself held up as something more than he was.