Despite three playoff appearances and AFC South titles over six years with the Tennessee Titans, Mike Vrabel was dismissed by team owner Amy Adams Strunk in one of the more surprising moves of the 2024 NFL coaching carousel.  If not for Vrabel’s former coach Bill Belichick, who failed to land another head-coaching job after mutually parting ways with the New …

ESPN, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, FOX and Warner Bros. Discovery have reached an understanding on principal terms to form a new joint venture to build an innovative new platform to house a compelling streaming sports service. The platform brings together the companies’ portfolios of sports networks, certain direct-to-consumer (DTC) sports services and sports rights — including content …

Getty Images Already the first player to win league MVP and Super Bowl MVP before his 25th birthday, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes joined a select group of players by winning MVP of Super Bowl LVII, which the Chiefs won, 38-35, over the Eagles to cap the 2022 season. The MVP of the Chiefs’ victory over the 49ers in Super Bowl LIV, …

Michael Cibene is a former walk-on for Ohio State football from 2013 through 2016, where he was a reserve defensive back. He has been coaching since leaving Ohio State and was a graduate assistant at Grand Valley State from 2017 through 2018. Cibene then returned to Ohio State as a defensive assistant from 2019 through 2020 and assisted with the …

Don’t look now, but the Kansas City Chiefs are set to play in their second straight Super Bowl, and their fourth in five years. The Chiefs won their sixth straight AFC title game after ousting the Baltimore Ravens on the road. The upset marked Patrick Mahomes’ second road playoff game aside from past Super Bowl appearances. Kansas City previously beat the Bills in …

Papa pinpoints key Super Bowl LVIII matchup that could determine MVP originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area One of the key storylines entering Super Bowl LVIII is the matchup between San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan’s offense and Kansas City Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve “Spags” Spagnuolo. As 49ers broadcaster Greg Papa explained to Laura Britt at Radio Row on …

Five-star athlete Terry Bussey is planning to announce his final decision on  Feb. 7 at 10 a.m. ET, which is national signing day. Bussey, has been committed to the Texas A&M Aggies since September, but did not sign with Texas A&M after the Aggies fired Jimbo Fisher. Bussey, who is the consensus No. 1 athlete in the class of 2024, …

Jim Harbaugh reportedly has his offensive and defensive coordinators for the Los Angeles Chargers lined up, and both are familiar faces. Michigan defensive coordinator Jesse Minter has finalized a long-anticipated agreement to follow Harbaugh to the Chargers, the team announced Tuesday.  Additionally, NFL Media reported that Harbaugh has also finalized the addition of Greg Roman as offensive coordinator. Minter, whose …

Getty Images Super Bowl LVIII is less than a week away. Leading up to the big game, which will air on CBS and stream on Paramount+, fans will have plenty of content from CBS Sports leading up to the big game. Announced Wednesday, CBS Sports Network and CBS Sports HQ will provide more than 115 combined hours of Super Bowl …

Arizona’s top high school football seniors signed their national letters of intent in December during that early 72-hour window. On Wednesday, additional Arizona high school football seniors scrambling to find scholarships to pay for their college will be signing. Most of them will be signing with lesser-known schools such as Langston University, Western New Mexico, University of Sioux Falls, Arizona …

Super Bowl LVIII is now less than a week away with the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs ready to face off in Las Vegas on Feb. 11, and pairing game snacks with the participating teams and host cities is a time-honored tradition. This year we have Kansas City’s BBQ acumen squaring off with San Francisco’s reputation as being great at …

New York Giants coach Brian Daboll took his time interviewing defensive coordinators before choosing Shane Bowen. Daboll formally hired Bowen on Tuesday, finding an experienced replacement for veteran coordinator Wink Martindale. The Giants and Martindale parted ways last month after Daboll fired two of Martindale’s defensive assistants. Bowen spent the previous six seasons in Tennessee. The Titans promoted him to …

Crosby reveals how 49ers can slow down Mahomes in Super Bowl originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area It’s not easy stopping Patrick Mahomes — just ask Maxx Crosby. The Las Vegas Raiders defensive end faces Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs twice per year in the AFC West. While the Chiefs have gotten the better of the Raiders since …

What a difference one year makes for Florida State football. Last season in ESPN writer Bill Connelly’s ranking of returning production for college football teams, the Seminoles ranked first out of 133 FBS teams with 87% of their production replacing. In Connelly’s rankings for the 2024 season, FSU has gone in the opposite direction, dropping to No. 83 overall out …

Getty Images We’ve finally made it. After three rounds of playoff games following 18 regular-season weeks, the NFL’s championship game — and matchup — is finally set: Facing off will be the defending-champion Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas on Sunday, Feb. 11. The time for talking is just about done. Let’s …