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The divisional round of the NFL postseason is nearly set. (Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire/Getty Images) With wild-card weekend concluding with one final game on Monday night, the second round of the NFL postseason is nearly set. The league dropped the schedule for next week’s divisional rounds on Sunday night. The NFC is still up in the air slightly, depending on how the Cardinals-Rams matchup shakes out on Monday night. Here’s what you need to know for the second weekend of the… Source link

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers suffered another big injury on offense. In the Bucs’ playoff opener Sunday against the Philadelphia Eagles, All-Pro right tackle Tristan Wirfs went down with an ankle injury on the Bucs’ fourth play from scrimmage. Wirfs was helped off the field, walking very gingerly. He was immediately ruled questionable to return, returned briefly for one series and later was ruled out.  After the Bucs’ 31-15 win, head coach Bruce Arians said Wirfs suffered a sprained ankle, and the… Source link

Text messages were flying all over Cincinnati and beyond on Saturday night in celebration of the Bengals‘ playoff win over the Las Vegas Raiders. Given that pretty much everyone texts now, that was to be expected. But it took on more significance after one fact circulated on social media: The last time the Bengals won at this time of year was Jan. 6, 1991. The first text message sent happened on Dec. 3, 1992. That’s how long ago it was. The thing that for so many of us has become ubiquitous, our… Source link

The streak is over.  The Cincinnati Bengals beat the Las Vegas Raiders 26-19 in Saturday’s AFC wild-card matchup, earning their first postseason victory since 1991 and ending an eight-game playoff losing streak that dated back more than three decades. The game came down to the final moments, partially thanks to a questionable roughing-the-passer call against the Bengals on the Raiders’ Derek Carr and keeping alive a game replete with shaky whistles. But Carr took advantage, converting… Source link

The Alabama Crimson Tide and Georgia Bulldogs meet up in this season’s national championship on Monday. Follow along as the Yahoo Sports college football crew breaks down all the action. It’s finally game day! The College Football Playoff National Championship is here and it features a rematch of the SEC title game. Georgia was undefeated and ranked No. 1 in the country at that point, but was upset 41-27 by Alabama. More than a month later, Georgia gets an opportunity for revenge on the… Source link

The NFL playoff field is finally set. Here’s everything you need to know for the expanded start to the postseason. Saturday, Jan. 15 No. 5 Las Vegas Raiders at No. 4 Cincinnati Bengals 4:35 p.m. ET | NBC After clinching the AFC North last week, the Bengals will host the Raiders to kick off their postseason. The Raiders survived a wild overtime game with the Chargers on Sunday night to take the final playoff spot in the conference.  The Bengals, who rested most of their starters in their loss to… Source link

The Kansas City Chiefs certainly didn’t make it easy on themselves, but the top seed in the AFC is still in play. The Chiefs edged out a tight 28-24 win over the Denver Broncos on Saturday afternoon to close out their regular season, marking their 13th straight win over the Broncos. All they need now is for the Houston Texans to beat the Tennessee Titans on Sunday, and the first round bye is theirs. After trailing throughout most of the game, and seemingly about to give up another touchdown… Source link

Measuring Sox rotation’s playoff collapse, implications originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago Even before the New Year brought reports of still stymied labor talks between Major League Baseball and its players union, White Sox general manager Rick Hahn was fielding questions about a potentially lengthy lockout. For instance, what if a late agreement on the CBA condensed the rest of the offseason into about two weeks? “So be it,” Hahn said on the eve of the lockout. “Let’s go…. Source link

The end of the NFL regular season brings two major topics: playoffs and awards. Charles Robinson is joined by Yahoo’s Shalise Manza Young to kick off the mid-week podcast discussing the MVP award and recent comments made by Chicago based reporter Hub Arkush that he would not be voting for Aaron Rodgers to take home his second consecutive trophy. Moving onto the playoffs, Charles breaks down where the playoff seeding stands with just one more weekend to go and why the NFC has gone from… Source link

Back in September, shortly after DeMarcus Lawrence was limping off a practice field with a broken foot, he tapped out a hopeful-but-entirely-predictable social media post to raise the spirits of the Dallas Cowboys faithful. It was the kind of thing that is widely shared but scarcely believed when it comes to this franchise, a team that has seen for decades its best-laid plans break down. “Will be back and ready for war,” Lawrence tweeted. “Believe it.” What Lawrence and the Cowboys… Source link