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The New England Patriots fell one game short of winning their seventh Super Bowl. While they have been tied with the Pittsburgh Steelers for the most Super Bowl victories with 6, they now hold the record for the most Super Bowl losses. The 29-13 defeat to the Seahawks was their 6th defeat in the competition […]

The Super Bowl has largely been dominated by defense on both teams. While the Seahawks were able to gain some traction and move the ball on several occasions that resulted in four successful field goals, they had been unable to cross the goal line and put a touchdown on the board. SAM DARNOLD TO AJ […]

The New England Patriots are hoping that Super Bowl 60 turns into The Late Show. That’s because the Patriots offense has simply been brutal in the first half of the confrontation with the Seattle Seahawks. Quarterback Drake Maye may have finished second in the Most Valuable Player voting to Matthew Stafford of the Los Angeles […]

The Seattle Seahawks have seen their stop the Patriots throughout the first half of Super Bowl 60. While that has been happening, the Seahawks have missed a couple of major scoring opportunities. What a PBU by Gonzo! Super Bowl LX on NBCStream on @NFLPlus + Peacock pic.twitter.com/EjeQNZ36iq — NFL (@NFL) February 9, 2026 After Sam […]

The Seattle Seahawks are hoping to dictate the pace of Super Bowl 60, and they were able to break out on top with a field goal on the first possession of the game. However, after forcing a New England punt, the Seahawks had a chance to create a huge play on 3rd-and-6 on the following […]

There is apparently no end in sight when it comes to the bitterness between former New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick and team owner Robert Kraft. As the Patriots owner was preparing to watch his team play in Super Bowl 60 against the Seattle Seahawks at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, Belichick and […]

As the New England Patriots begin their final preparations for kickoff in Super Bowl 60, players are on the field at Levi’s Stadium taking place in warmups for today’s game. Every player goes through their own routine to make sure they are ready to play and feeling comfortable, and it’s not unusual to see players […]

The Cincinnati Reds have made multiple moves throughout the offseason as they prepare for their second year under the leadership of manager Terry Francona. The Reds responded extremely well to Francona as he made his return to the dugout after taking a year away from Major League Baseball after health issues keyed his decision to […]

The Miami Marlins compete in the very tough National League East. The Marlins have to battle the Philadelphia Phillies, New York Mets and Atlanta Braves every season, and it has been a losing proposition most years. Miami showed some fight last year, especially when they swept the visiting New York Yankees in a 3-game series, […]

Cooper Flagg has been a great phenomenon during the early stages of his professional basketball career with the Dallas Mavericks. After dominating college basketball while playing at Duke last year, the Mavericks made him the No. 1 pick in last year’s NBA draft. Flagg had demonstrated at Duke that he was skilled at scoring, rebounding, […]

The Los Angeles Chargers have had several positive moments under head coach Jim Harbaugh the last two seasons. The Chargers were a playoff team after both seasons, but they were unable to play competitively in either Wild Card game. They lost to the Houston Texans after the 2024 season, and they couldn’t move the ball […]

The predictions are overwhelming at this point. As the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks prepare to do battle Sunday evening (6:30 p.m. ET, NBC) at Levi’s Stadium in the San Francisco suburb of Santa Clara, the experts, observers, and players throughout the league are nearly all big believers that the Seahawks will be lifting […]

The Texas Rangers stunned the baseball world in the 2023 season when they rolled through the postseason and won the only World Series in the team’s history. Managed by the masterful Bruce Bochy, the Rangers were undefeated on the road throughout their postseason run, an achievement that is unlikely to be repeated for multiple decades. […]

The Baltimore Ravens continue to move forward as they prepare for the 2026 season with new head coach Jesse Minter at the helm. The 42-year-old former defensive coordinator for the Los Angeles Chargers has added a couple of assistant coaches to his staff. Sources: Duke defensive ends coach Harland Bower has agreed to become the […]

While Radio Row at the Super Bowl is not quite as crowded as it once was when broadcast stations from coast to coast used to send their talk shows to the Super Bowl to discuss the NFL’s championship game for as long as a week, there is still enough discussion to catch headline writers’ attention. […]

Quarterback Fernando Mendoza is coming off a dream-like and brilliant season in college football. He won the Heisman Trophy as the best college football player and led the upstart Indiana Hoosiers to an undefeated season and the national championship. His performance in the College Football Playoff Championship Game included a spectacular touchdown run that gave […]

John Harbaugh has a new opportunity. The long-time coach of the Baltimore Ravens found himself out of a job when his former team failed to make the playoffs after a season in which Lamar Jackson was not healthy nor at his best when he was in the lineup. The Ravens came to the conclusion that […]

Justin Jefferson is not about to give up his unofficial title of being recognized as the best wide receiver in the NFL. Jefferson has been a star for the Minnesota Vikings for the first six years of his career, and he has been to the Pro Bowl in 4 of those seasons. He did not […]

After the Chicago Bears climbed from last place to first in the NFC North Division, the team has become a very attractive for many of its players. Running back D’Andre Swift led the Bears with 1,087 rushing yards and averaged 4.9 yards per carry while scoring 9 rushing touchdowns. He would like to remain with […]

Caleb Williams came a long way in his second season with the Chicago Bears. He led the team to first place in the NFC North and a victory in the Wild Card playoff game. He earned a reputation for his ability to come through in the late stages of the fourth quarter in many of […]

Seth Jarvis of the Carolina Hurricanes is a late addition to the Canadian Olympic hockey team. He will replace Brayden Point of the Tampa Bay Lightning. Point has been out of action with an undisclosed injury and he had hoped to make it back into action before the break for the Winter Olympics. However, he […]

The Boston Red Sox offseason has been filled with regret. They could have signed slugging 1st baseman Pete Alonso at the start of free agency but they stood idly by as the division rival Baltimore Orioles deemed him more important to their team than the Red Sox did. The Red Sox let Alex Bregman find […]

The 2025 season marked the end of an era for the Steelers. Head coach Mike Tomlin stepped down after the Steelers were beaten convincingly by the Houston Texans in the Wild Card round of the AFC playoffs. The Steelers had somehow managed to win the AFC North with a 10-7 record, but there was no […]

The Chicago Bears are coming off a fantastic season, one that far exceeded most predictions as the season got underway. The primary hope for the Bears was that first-year head coach Ben Johnson would be able to do two things in his first year. The first and most important would be to turn second-year QB […]

At this time last year, there was quite a bit optimism with the Minnesota Vikings. They were coming off a 14-3 season and a victory in their last regular-season game would have given them the No. 1 seed in the NFC playoffs. They had a brilliant quarterback in Sam Darnold, a superior defensive coordinator in […]

The Cleveland Guardians are a team that seems to linger in the background until it’s time to play the most important games. The Guardians are led by Jose Ramirez, one of the best all-around players in Major League Baseball, and the Guardians rewarded him in the offseason with a 7-year, $175-million contract extension. The Guardians […]

The Tampa Bay Lightning are on an incredible roll. They are coming off a remarkable come-from-behind 6-5 triumph over the Boston Bruins in the NHL’s outdoor game at Raymond James Stadium. That game has already been declared by many observers as the best outdoor game in NHL history because of the Bruins’ surge, the epic […]

The New England Patriots go into Super Bowl 60 as 4.5-point underdogs to the Seattle Seahawks. This is not a surprise because the Seahawks finished the regular season getting the best of the Los Angeles Rams and the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC West and earning the top seed in the NFC playoff structure. […]

The Chicago Blackhawks appeared to be a team on the rise well into the third month of the 2025-26 season. Young phenom Connor Bedard was showing off his eye-catching speed and his wicked wrist shot and the Blackhawks appeared to be a team on the rise. However, when Bedard went down with a shoulder injury […]

The Philadelphia Flyers were making quite a bit of progress through the first three months of the season. After failing to make the playoffs during the last five seasons, head coach Rick Tocchet had his team in a position to challenge for one of the top three positions in the Metropolitan Division or an Eastern […]

The Tampa Bay Lightning and the Boston Bruins are going all out to make their outdoor game Sunday at Raymond James Stadium a memorable affair. The host Lightning have attempted to pay tribute to their hosts, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, by wearing the NFL team’s original uniforms as they made their way into the venue. […]

The Pittsburgh Penguins were expected to be bottom feeders at the start of the NHL season. They had failed to make the playoffs in each of the last three seasons and they had not appeared to make the kind of major moves in the offseason that would have changed that perspective in 2025-26. It wasn’t […]

The Chicago White Sox are hopeful of having a respectable team in 2026. The South Siders have been struggling for years, setting a record for losses two years ago. There was improvement last year under manager Will Venable and the team appears to be moving in the right direction. The White Sox finished in last […]

Miguel Rojas delivered the most unexpected home run of the year during the 2025 season. Rojas is a role player for the Dodgers and he was batting 9th and playing 2nd base for manager Dave Roberts in the 7th game of the World Series against the Toronto Blue Jays. He came to bat with the […]

After leaving the LIV Tour and making his return to the PGA, Brooks Koepka was not sure what kind of reaction he would get from players, fans and officials. He is competing in the Farmers Insurance Open in La Jolla, California, and he told interviewers that the return has been going better than he expected. […]

The 2026 season will mark Mookie Betts’ seventh season with the Dodgers. Betts spent the first 6 years of his career with the Boston Red Sox, and he was one of the best outfielders in Major League Baseball during the first part of his career. He continued to play outfield after joining the Dodgers, but […]

The Los Angeles Dodgers remain both a hungry and powerful team as they are in pursuit of their third consecutive World Series title in 2026. The thought of putting the strongest team available on the field is foremost in the minds of the Dodgers management staff, including team president Andrew Friedman. Roki Sasaki said it […]

The Washington Capitals went into the 2025-26 NHL season as one of the more believable teams when it came to winning the Metropolitan Division of the Eastern Conference. They had been dominant last year, running away with the division title and also having the best record in the Eastern Conference with a 51-22-9 record for […]

The Minnesota Vikings are entering a new era as they prepare for key offseason activities including free agency and the NFL Draft. They unexpectedly fired general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah after a disappointing season that saw the Vikings finish with a 9-8 record that left them tied for third place in the NFC North with the […]