Lions secure wild first win in upset of Vikings

The Detroit Lions will not post the second winless season in modern franchise history. After tallying 10 losses and a tie in their first 11 games, the Lions joined the rest of the NFL in the win column on Sunday with a thrilling 29-27 upset of the Minnesota Vikings. The win marks the first for rookie head coach Dan Campbell and fends off the ignominy of becoming the first NFL franchise with two winless seasons since 1945. The 0-16 2008 Lions are one of five NFL teams to post winless records… Source link

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Kyler Murray, DeAndre Hopkins return to lead Cardinals win

The returns of Kyler Murray and DeAndre Hopkins were worth the wait. And now that they’re back, the Cardinals rightfully can be called Super Bowl contenders once more. The Arizona Cardinals moved to 10-2 — their first season with 10 or more wins since 2015 — with a 33-22 victory over the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field on Sunday, as Murray and Hopkins took the field for the first time since Week 8.  And they didn’t take long to hook up. Murray found Hopkins on a 21-yard touchdown pass less… Source link

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Bearcats break through into College Football Playoff

It has been a part-plucky, mostly comical, rarely sincere slogan of every college football upstart of the past dozen or so years, written on signs designed to create smiles or chanted through contained laughter from student sections across the land. “We Want Bama.” Well, Cincinnati, you big-dreaming, gate-crashing, perfect regular season after perfect regular season Group of 5 underdog, congratulations on doing the seemingly impossible and actually making the College Football Playoff. Now… Source link

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What to know this week

This week, investors are set to focus on updates on the Omicron variant and inflation. Concerns around both of these factors had stirred up volatility across markets last week. The two are intertwined. Many have feared that an additional wave of the coronavirus could spur another slowdown in consumer mobility and spending that hits economic activity and corporate earnings. Vaccine-makers and other researchers have yet to determine the extent of Omicron’s transmissibility and severity of… Source link

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Panthers fire offensive coordinator Joe Brady

The Carolina Panthers didn’t spend their bye week quietly.  As teams around the league got the early slate of games underway, the Panthers announced they have fired offensive coordinator Joe Brady. Head coach Matt Rhule made the call. “I met with Joe this morning and informed him that I have decided to make a change,” Rhule said, per a team statement. “I’m very grateful to him for his time and effort in helping us get established over this past year and a half.” Senior offensive assistant Jeff… Source link

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Bob Dole dies at 98, leaving lasting legacies on Social Security and food assistance

Senator Bob Dole at the Capitol in Washington DC in 1996. (Yunghi Kim/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) Bob Dole, a former Senate majority leader who unsuccessfully ran for president against Bill Clinton, died Sunday. He was 98 years old. He is survived by his wife Elizabeth Dole, who was also a U.S. senator, and a daughter, Robin, from a previous marriage. One of the giants of American politics in the 20th century, Dole will be remembered for his heroism in World War II, his time as Senate… Source link

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Behind crypto’s ugly weekend, ‘cascading’ selloffs and dashed hopes for Bitcoin $100K

“Hodl” no more? The grim weekend cryptocurrency drubbing that dragged Bitcoin (BTC) under $50,000 and ravaged other digital coins has decisively tempered the bullishness of investors — some of whom were predicting a run at $100,000 just weeks ago. Fueled by uncertainty over the Federal Reserve inching toward tighter monetary policy in the face of surging inflation, and global fears over the new Omicron variant of COVID-19, the dramatic crash was super-charged by liquidations in the crypto… Source link

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