Nick Folk

|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY| College Softball--East Carolina at Alabama-Birmingham, 11 a.m. (FXSP) NHL Hockey--Boston Bruins at Pittsburgh Penguins, 11:30 a.m. (NBC); Buffalo Sabres at Washington Capitals, 6:30 p.m. (NBCSN) Auto Racing--NASCAR Sprint Cup,...

This was supposed to serve as the best gauge for the Miami Dolphins. The opponent wasn't too good (Houston). The opponent wasn't too bad (Oakland). The New York Jets were nearly their equal, and the Dolphins had every opportunity to prove they were...

|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY| NFL Football--Minnesota Vikings at Houston Texas, Noon (FOX); Cleveland Browns at Denver Broncos, 3 p.m. (CBS); Chicago Bears at Arizona Cardinals, 3:25 p.m. (FOX); San Francisco 49ers at Seattle Seahawks, 7:20 p.m. (NBC) Men&...

|TV SPORTS| |SATURDAY| Soccer--Premier League, Arsenal at Wigan, 6:30 a.m. (ESPN2) College Football--New Orleans Bowl, East Carolina vs. Louisiana-Lafayette, 11 a.m. (ESPN); Las Vegas Bowl, Washington vs. Boise State, 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) Men’...

Three Things on the Miami Dolphins' wildly successful, remarkably easy 30-9 win over the New York Jets: Thing 1: Monday I posted a blog looking at the Dolphins' special teams under Darren Rizzi and suggesting that could be the difference in this...

— We figured that Devin McCourty owed some of his teammates dinner. A nice cut of prime rib for Mr. Prime Time Tom Brady maybe, for impeccable efficiency in answering his critics on that last-minute drive in regulation. A big Maine lobster, surely,...

Three Things on this Miami Dolphins-New York Jets overtime madness: Thing 1: Can't blame Joe Philbin for calling the timeout just before Nick Folk's first attempt at the game-winning field goal.  That's what you do in that situation. It's just horrible...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — So much for those high-powered New York Jets. Or those creaky Pittsburgh Steelers.   Ben Roethlisberger passed for 275 yards and two touchdowns and the Steelers smothered the lifeless Jets in the second half of a 27-10 victory on...

The Ravens will hold their first full-team practice of training camp on Thursday. Each day leading up to the official start of camp, The Sun will examine several key position battles that will be decided during preseason. KICKER The competitors: Billy...

The reminder to their former defensive coordinator and a nationally-televised audience came with every punishing hit of Mark Sanchez, every crushing tackle of one of the New York Jets, and every ball that either bounced off the turf or fluttered in the...

The two names you read here and pretty much everywhere else in the days leading up to the draft as it related to the Ravens and their original 29th overall pick were Alabama linebacker Dont’a Hightower and Wisconsin center Peter Konz. As it turns...

— Still a long shot to make the playoffs, the Eagles at least gave themselves the best kind of momentum heading into their Christmas Eve showdown with the Dallas Cowboys next Saturday. They demolished the New York Jets 45-19 for only their second...