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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

Super Bowl Sunday! It’s here at last, the national holiday when we’re forced to sit through football in order to watch so many beloved ads. For the tenth straight year, Yahoo Sports is grading the Big Game’s commercials. Liz Roscher (@lizroscher) is here to escort you through the dizzying array of celebrity cameos, awkward jokes and heartstring-tugs of this year’s contingent of ads, updating live as they air. Grade A Toyota, “Winter Olympics 2022: Brothers” Toyota’s Super Bowl… Source link

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Space in the press box at SoFi Stadium is at a premium for Super Bowl LVI, but the NFL still made sure two beloved writers who died over the last year had seats. In the middle of Yahoo Sports’ cluster of seats is a commemorative football in memory of our friend Terez Paylor. The NFL remembered Yahoo Sports senior NFL writer Terez Paylor with a Super Bowl LVI game ball. (Shalise Manza Young/Yahoo Sports) It reads: “The NFL presents this Super Bowl LVI game ball in memory of… Source link

If there’s any mutual discontent between the Arizona Cardinals and star quarterback Kyler Murray, the Cardinals are saying otherwise — publicly, at least. The Cardinals released a statement Sunday saying that they have “high regard” for Murray, the team’s No. 1 pick in the 2019 draft, and that he is the quarterback that will lead them moving forward. “Nothing has changed regarding our opinion and high regard for Kyler Murray,” the statement says via Pro Football Talk. “We as a… Source link

A forthcoming book chronicling a turbulent 18-month snapshot of American politics will claim some new details surrounding one of the higher-profile rejections that former President Donald Trump experienced during his time in office: the refusal of the Presidential Medal of Freedom by New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick. In the book “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future,” New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns share an April 2021… Source link

Choppiness in U.S. stocks is expected to persist this week as investors grapple with the prospect of swifter monetary tightening and escalating geopolitical tensions between Russia and Ukraine. And a new read on retail sales will be released Wednesday giving investors more insights into consumer spending. Concerns over military action by the Kremlin have created a new headwind for investors, particularly after the White House warned on Friday that a possible invasion of Ukraine by Russia… Source link

A good day for the offenses in this year’s Super Bowl could mean a good year for the stock market is in store, according to new data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. Super Bowls in which the final combined score was higher than 45 points, the stock market returns 15.9% on average, while returns average only 8.2% when the combined score is 45 or less. Before you go and fire your financial advisor and replace them with a subscription to ESPN+, you should know that the dataset is somewhat… Source link

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has acknowledged that the U.S. government has suspended all imports of Mexican avocados after a U.S. plant safety inspector in Mexico received a threat. The surprise, temporary suspension was confirmed late Saturday on the eve of the Super Bowl, the biggest sales opportunity of the year for Mexican avocado growers — though it would not affect game-day consumption since those avocados had already been shipped. Avocado exports are the latest victim of the drug… Source link