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For a dozen years, Matthew Stafford watched the NFL’s playoff carnival go off either without him, or with his role limited to bit player. He threw for 49,995 regular-season yards and 282 touchdowns for the Detroit Lions but had virtually nothing tangible (other than a lot of money, of course) to show for it. Three meager wild-card appearances. Three losses by an average of 13.7 points. There was lots of couch time watching not just great quarterbacks play in, and win, big games, but even… Source link

Ben Roethlisberger all but announced his retirement from the NFL on Sunday night in Kansas City. After the Pittsburgh Steelers‘ 42-21 loss to the Chiefs in the AFC’s wild-card round, the longtime Steelers quarterback sounded like he had played for the final time in the league. “It’s tough. I’m proud to have played with these guys,” he told reporters postgame. “God has blessed me with an ability to throw a football, and has blessed me to play in the greatest city, Pittsburgh, with the… 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

Few coaches can serve as better arbiters of Alabama’s defensive line dominance than former Florida offensive line coach John Hevesy. Hevesy logged 17 consecutive years in the SEC at Florida, Mississippi State and then Florida again from 2005 to 2021. That means facing an assembly line of Crimson Tide trench bullies over Saban’s 15 seasons in Tuscaloosa. The foundation of Alabama’s dynasty has come thanks to annual dominance on the defensive line, including double-digit first- or… Source link

The crowd won. One more year it is.  Four-time WNBA champion Sue Bird announced she will return for another season, her 19th playing in the WNBA and 21st since being drafted, in an Instagram post on Friday. Free agency begins a week from Saturday.  The Seattle Storm, the only team Bird has ever played for professionally in the states, celebrated the return with their own graphic, writing “LET’S GOOOOOO” with a goat emoji. Within hours they had deleted it, presumably because free agency has not… Source link

Tom Brady‘s most costly throw of the game on Sunday led to one of his classiest moves. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback led his team to a 28-24 comeback win against the New York Jets, but he had a little more ground to make up thanks to how he ended the first half.  Down 14-10, a potential Bucs scoring drive ended in an interception to Jets rookie Brandin Echols, who returned the ball 30 yards to set up a field goal right before halftime: Brady ultimately overcome that interception with 18… Source link

ABC News Harry Reid, the former 5-term US senator from Nevada, has died at 82 following cancer battle Harry Mason Reid, the former five-term U.S. senator from Nevada who led Senate Democrats for a decade spanning the Bush and Obama presidencies, died Tuesday, his wife, Landra Reid, confirmed in a statement. Harry was deeply touched to see his decades of service to Nevada honored in recent weeks with the re-naming of Las Vegas’ airport in his honor. Landra Reid thanked the doctors and nurses… Source link

Tom Brady has his New Year’s resolution ready for when the clock strikes midnight on Friday.  The Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback drew inspiration from an unlikely source for his intents, which he was asked about on his weekly “Let’s Go!” podcast with Jim Gray.  Gray brought up the topic by noting the answer by Brady’s former coach, the New England Patriots‘ Bill Belichick, that swept through social media. Following the Patriots’ 33-21 loss to the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, Belichick was asked… Source link

Who didn’t play in Week 16 was more important than the players on the field. COVID ravaged rosters around the league while bettors reacted by targeting totals in several games. The roster challenges combined with the NFL coming off its lowest-scoring week of the year had bettors driving totals down in a big way. The average closing total this past weekend hit a season-low 43.1 points. Bettors’ expectation of another low-scoring week never came to fruition. Overs went 10-5 and those who bet… Source link

NBA.com Game Recap: Warriors 116, Suns 107 The Warriors defeated the Suns, 116-107. Stephen Curry led all scorers with 33 points, six assists and three steals for the Warriors, while Otto Porter Jr. (season-high 19 points, 13 in the 4th quarter) and Draymond Green (eight points, eight rebounds, ten assists, three steals, three blocks) added a combined 27 points in the victory. Chris Paul tallied 21 points, six rebounds and eight assists for the Suns in the losing effort. The Warriors improve… Source link