The Kansas City Chiefs now won’t have to worry about reaching to choose West Virginia’s Geno Smith or Southern Cal’s Matt Barkley with the No. 1 pick in April’s NFL draft as the Chiefs will acquire former San Francisco 49ers starter Alex Smith. Kansas City will trade its second-round pick in the 2013 draft — the second selection (No. 34

The Super Bowl XLVII matchup for a week from Sunday at New Orleans’ Super Dome is set as the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens will face off, and the NFC champs have opened as 4-point favorites with the total at 47.5 on Sportsbetonline.com (check current lines here). Of course the main storyline is that 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh will

The Atlanta Falcons have won two playoff games in the same season just once, and it so happened to be the franchise’s only Super Bowl berth. The Falcons can make it No. 2 – and play in the cozy confines of a New Orleans Superdome with which the team is very familiar – but upsetting San Francisco on Sunday. Last

The San Francisco 49ers lost a crushing NFC Championship Game as a home favorite last year against the New York Giants. The Niners are favored again for Sunday’s NFC title game, but this time San Francisco has to visit top-seeded Atlanta. San Francisco advanced to their second consecutive title game with a decisive 45-31 home victory against Green Bay, with

The Patriots were rather fortunate to escape at home in last year’s AFC Championship Game against the Ravens when Billy Cundiff shanked a 32-yard potential tying field goal in the final seconds. And it will be a rematch on Sunday in Foxboro, first AFC Championship game rematch in consecutive years since Denver and Cleveland met in back-to-back conference title games

After a devastating loss to the New England Patriots last season in Foxboro in the AFC Championship Game, the Ravens get another chance on Sunday to reach the franchise’s first Super Bowl in more than a decade. The Ravens stunned Denver 38-35 in double overtime last week in the fourth-longest playoff game in NFL history. Quarterback Joe Flacco connected with

It’s now pretty clear that Chip Kelly is a fairly wishy-washy fellow. Last season, Kelly had all but decided to leave the University of Oregon for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but Kelly decided to return to Eugene at the last minute. As soon as the Ducks beat Kansas State in this year’s Fiesta Bowl, Kelly interviewed with the Cleveland Browns

The Chicago Bears have long been known as a defensive team and they have had a head coach in that mold practically forever. Well, things are different in the NFL and the Windy City these days and the Bears made a surprising hire as head coach Wednesday in hiring former long-time NFL assistant and current Montreal Alouettes head coach Marc

The Philadelphia Eagles are bringing in Seattle defensive coordinator Gus Bradley in for a second interview on Tuesday and it’s expected that the Eagles will sign Bradley before he can leave town and take a scheduled interview with Jacksonville. Bradley also was set to interview with San Diego, but the Bolts have hired Broncos OC Mike McCoy as their next

The San Diego Chargers have become the latest team to fill their head coaching needs and the Bolts are sticking with an offensive mind to replace Norv Turner: Broncos offensive coordinator Mike McCoy. During the last four seasons, McCoy has draw praise for altering his offense to fit the varying skill sets of Kyle Orton, Tim Tebow and Peyton Manning