On April 5, 1839, Robert Smalls, Civil War hero and five-term U.S. Congressman, was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, to his enslaved mother, Lydia Polite. In 1851, Smalls moved to the Charleston ...

Brock Bowers was hyped as the best tight end prospect to enter the league since Kyle Pitts. The Georgia Bulldogs product's skill set looked tailor-made for the professional level. Looking to ...

The Raiders didn’t play around after a miserable 2024 season that led to the firings of head coach Antonio Pierce and GM Tom Telesco. They hired future Hall of Fame head coach Pete Carroll ...

When Spider-Man: No Way Home hit theaters, Tom Holland wasn’t just swinging through the multiverse but stepping into Robert Downey Jr.’s legacy. Behind the scenes, the MCU had already chosen ...

While his successor in John Spytek has some mess to clean up, Telesco did leave him with one promising aspect: his lone draft class was one to remember. The Raiders’ 2024 draft class finishes ...

NFL Network Insider Tom Pelissero on Head Coach Pete Carroll, Tom Brady, the 2025 quarterback prospects and more. "First Stop: Indy" makes its return for the 2025 NFL Scouting Combine with Silver ...

Robert Smalls, memorialized in a bust at Beaufort’s Tabernacle Baptist Church, was sent to work in Charleston at age 12 after he started defying the strictures of slavery. Lisa Elmaleh In May ...

Not every draft pick works out in the NFL and that is especially true of the players the LA Chargers drafted toward the end of Tom Telesco's tenure. The former Chargers GM was fired after a 63-21 ...

The new Raiders' general manager, Tom Telesco, had the unexpected opportunity to draft Bowers, who many believed would be a top-10 pick. At the very least, no one expected Bowers to drop to the ...

The Antonio Pierce and Tom Telesco era is considered a failure for the Las Vegas Raiders, as the tandem won only four games last season before losing their jobs after just one year. However ...