After being voted NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year, Texans outside linebacker Brian Cushing returned to Los Angeles to work on his college degree and torture himself. Going back to USC to earn a ...

Houston Texans linebacker Brian Cushing, the former high school standout from Bergen Catholic and college star at USC, has been suspended by the NFL for 10 games for violating the league's policy ...

Brian Cushing was born on January 24, 1987 in Park Ridge, a town in Bergen County, ... As college recruiting time came around, he would receive offers from USC, Virginia, Boston College, Florida, ...

Brian Cushing won the N.F.L.’s defensive rookie of the year award in January. ... Just as college athletes can now be paid for their athletic talent through so-called name, ...

Brian Cushing will play football Sunday at the Meadowlands, and his parents, Frank and Antoinette, plan to drive 20 minutes or so from their home in Park Ridge, N.J., to watch.

"In college, my defensive coordinator always called me, 'The Prick,' " Cushing said. "In any other profession, you don't want to be the prick. But he said [in football], that was one of the best ...

Brian Cushing is back from his 10-game suspension for violating the NFL’s policy on performance-enhancing drugs. The veteran linebacker spoke about the banishment, his second for the policy, for ...

Joe DeFranco, a personal trainer who has worked with Cushing throughout the Texans linebacker’s high school, college and NFL careers, said on his podcast last week that Cushing tested positive for ...