New Orleans Saints supporters insisted the bounty scandal wouldn't affect their team, and the reasons they gave were usually the same. The core of the team was still there, quarterback Drew Brees was ...

The New Orleans Saints are surely not the only NFL team in recent years to have adopted and tolerated a bounty system, and in some ways they're about to pay a price for a semi-accepted cultural ...

Palm Beach, Fla. - New Orleans Saints Coach Sean Payton, staring at a one year suspension from the game he loves because of the bounty scandal, allowed Tuesday he's still wrapping his mind around the ...

Anthony Hargrove, the Brooklyn-born NFL defensive end who’s knee-deep in the New Orleans Saints’ ongoing “Bountygate” scandal, has been in tougher spots. Much tougher. Like the time he watched his ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-- If Panthers quarterback Cam Newton has any resentment toward the New Orleans Saints he isn't making it public. Newton downplayed being one of a handful of quarterbacks the NFL said ...

This bounty program -- something I knew nothing about -- is the latest big scandal in sports. In the newspaper business we say it "has legs" because it will stay around a while and it will develop. I ...

Although the witness portion of the New Orleans Saints bounty hearings run by former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue ended Monday, the legal tussling continued from both the league and the suspended ...

Meting out unprecedented punishment for a crush-for-cash bounty system that targeted key opposing players, the NFL suspended New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton without pay for next season and ...

Former Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams has also been banned from the league indefinitely. Commissioner Roger Goodell said he will review Williams' status after the upcoming season and ...