This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Monday, February 14, 2022 On Super Bowl Sunday, there was Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson getting the Super Bowl started on the right foot as only he could. Couple things stood out to me while The Great One was speaking: 1) He never trips up over his words on the mic, going back to his days with WWE. 2) Under Armour needs a bigger deal with The Rock (they… Source link

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — As music blared from SoFi Stadium’s speakers and a blizzard of blue and yellow confetti rained from the rafters, Odell Beckham Jr. appeared as jubilant as any other member of the Super Bowl-winning Los Angeles Rams. A bright smile lit up his face and tears streamed down his cheeks as he put on a hat and T-shirt commemorating his team’s accomplishment. He embraced his mom, wrapped his arms around his pregnant girlfriend and even bent down to kiss her baby… Source link

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Aaron Donald is underpaid. He was underpaid coming into the season, underpaid coming into the Super Bowl, and now he’s underpaid heading into an offseason where a great many defenders are going to land a great many dollars. Before we get to the report from NBC’s Rodney Harrison that the Los Angeles Rams star defensive tackle could retire following a Super Bowl win on Sunday, we first must consider the money. A financial conversation makes far more sense than a… Source link

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Sometime a few days before Super Bowl Week, when the Bengals got a bit of a break before everything ramped up and the team headed to California, Joe Burrow watched “A Football Life: Kurt Warner.” As Burrow marinated on Cincinnati’s 23-20 loss to the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LVI on Sunday night, he remembered something Warner said during the documentary. “He said they let it sting too much,” Burrow recalled. “They didn’t celebrate what they accomplished. Obviously it… Source link

Odell Beckham Jr. was in street clothes, out with a knee injury. The Los Angeles Rams‘ running game was no better. The whole offense had stalled out, just 52 second-half yards stretched across five drives. Cincinnati led on the scoreboard, the clock was dwindling and a Super Bowl the Rams were favored to win on their own home field was slipping away into a forever loss. Matthew Stafford, his own ankle taped and throbbing after getting rolled up on during a sack, gathered the offense 79 yards… Source link

The Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals meet up Sunday in Super Bowl 56, a game that’s being live-streamed on the Yahoo Sports app. We’ll be following all the action live here on Yahoo Sports. Cooper Kupp is your Super Bowl MVP For a long spell on Sunday night, it felt like Cooper Kupp was being ignored by the Rams. Then he won the Super Bowl for them. Kupp caught eight passes for 92 yards and two touchdowns, including the game-winner for the Rams in their 23-20 Super Bowl victory over… Source link

Happy Valentine’s Day 2022: Valentine’s Day is here, and so is Google’s adorable interactive Doodle to celebrate the day of love today, February 14. Every year people celebrate Valentine’s Day with their loved ones, and each year, Google shares a fun doodle to commemorate the festival. This year’s Google Doodle comes with loads of cuteness and fun. It features two love-stricken hamsters separated by a treacherous maze in the shape of Google’s logo. Your job is to solve the maze and help… Source link

Is Sunday’s Super Bowl the final time we’ll see Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth in a broadcast booth together? It sure sounds like it from Michaels’ pregame introduction. The veteran play-by-play man introduced his longtime broadcast partner for “one final time” to start NBC’s coverage of the Super Bowl on Sunday, adding fuel to the speculation that he’ll leave the network this offseason. “The Bengals … get to the Super Bowl for the first time since 1988 when this man — come sliding in… Source link

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Odell Beckham Jr. was the most popular bet for first touchdown of the Super Bowl. One bettor put $10,000 on it at BetMGM. Less than 10 minutes into the game, there were a lot of happy bettors. Beckham hit the first touchdown prop, scoring on a 17-yard pass from Matthew Stafford with 6:22 left in the first quarter. Beckham was 10-to-1 odds at BetMGM to score the first touchdown of the Super Bowl. First touchdown scorer is usually the most popular prop for the Super Bowl…. Source link

The Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals meet up Sunday in Super Bowl 56, a game that’s being live-streamed on the Yahoo Sports app. We’ll be following all the action live here on Yahoo Sports. Bengals get a field goal after Ja’Marr Chase’s great catch Ja’Marr Chase had an amazing catch against Jalen Ramsey in single coverage to get the Bengals inside the red zone. Joe Burrow trusted his former college teammate to go beat Ramsey and make a play and he sure did. The Bengals had to settle… Source link