Super Bowl LVIII features the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs, and the San Francisco 49ers, the NFC’s top seed. No matter which team wins, it won’t be surprising, and the spread of 49ers minus-two, according to Sportsline’s consensus odds, reflects that.  Without further ado, here are five bold predictions for some things that could occur in the Big …

The defending champion Kansas City Chiefs will become members of an elite club when they square off against the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl 58 on Sunday. Kansas City (14-6) is the third team in NFL history that will be appearing in the Super Bowl for the fourth time in a five-year span, joining Buffalo (1990-93) and New England …

Feb. 9—Michigan football is preparing to add long-time NFL assistant Don “Wink” Martindale to its coaching staff according to a report Friday morning. ESPN reports a deal for Martindale to become the defensive coordinator for the Wolverines is still being worked out between the Trotwood-Madison grad and the school, “but it is not expected to be an issue.” Martindale, 60, …

Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, and Christian McCaffrey will be some of the big names targeted when bettors lock in their Super Bowl 58 TD props. McCaffrey has scored two rushing touchdowns in each of San Francisco’s playoff victories this season. His productive performances come after a stellar regular season that saw him lead the league in rushing yards (1,459). McCaffrey …

Last night, they handed out the various NFL regular-season awards, as determined by a group of 50 members of the media. For some strange reason, the Associated Press has given me one of the votes. In the interests of full and complete transparency, here’s my ballot for all of the AP regular-season awards. Each ballot consists of our top three …

With a victory over the 49ers in Super Bowl 58 on Sunday, the Kansas City Chiefs will become the first team in NFL history to win four games against top-six scoring offenses in a single postseason. The Chiefs held Lamar Jackson and the high-flying Baltimore Ravens to just 10 points in the AFC Championship Game. However, the 49ers enter Super …

Patrick Mahomes has the Chiefs back in the Super Bowl, but colleges didn’t think too much of him as a high school quarterback at Whitehouse High School in Texas. None of the major programs in Texas or the Midwest offered, so he ended up at Texas Tech. He’s not the only player in Super Bowl LVIII who went under the …

The last time the best (and possibly most important) player on a championship team was a running back was in 1999 with Marshall Faulk. The last time a running back won Super Bowl MVP was in the 1997 season with Terrell Davis and the migraine game.  Those are the possibilities facing McCaffrey on Sunday if the 49ers win. There would …

Super Bowl 58 is less than a week away, which means it’s time to solidify your Super Bowl squares picks. You don’t have to be a fan of the San Francisco 49ers or Kansas City Chiefs, or football in general, to select Super Bowl squares and walk away with winnings. However, Super Bowl 58 is a rematch of the 49ers …

Notre Dame football currently has the No. 1 overall 2025 recruiting class according to the 247Sports Composite Team Rankings and it just got stronger on Thursday. Wisconsin offensive tackle Owen Strebig, the 6-foot, 8-inch and 295-pounder, committed to the Irish. As one of the top players in the country, the No. 13 offensive tackle and 127th overall prospect according to …

Nothing like a good night’s sleep in a hotel bed, right? Wrong. That’s not a thing, and the San Francisco 49ers learned that truth the hard way. The hotel that the 49ers are staying at for Super Bowl LVIII had a fire alarm go off at roughly 6 a.m. PT on Thursday morning. Guests of the hotel didn’t have to …

The Patriots reportedly have spent less than any NFL team on players over the past decade. On Thursday, the owner of the Patriots argued that it’s not for lack of willingness to spend. “I know there’s a perception that we have held back on spending,” Kraft told a group of reporters, via Phil Perry of NBCSportsBoston.com. “Let me just say, …

Feb. 9—In a bit of irony, Washington State athletic director Pat Chun, whose football program won’t have a full conference next season, was named to the College Football Playoff selection committee, it was announced Thursday. The committee helps decide which teams will make the College Football Playoff, which for the first time will consist of 12 teams during the 2024-25 …

If there’s one position where the Kansas City Chiefs should have a huge advantage in Super Bowl LVIII, it’s at kicker.  The Chiefs will be going into the game with Harrison Butker, who was the fourth-most accurate kicker in the NFL in 2023 after a season where he hit a career-high 94.3% of his field goal attempts. On the other …

Super Bowl LVIII gives the world not only a rematch between two of the NFL’s best teams across the last five seasons with the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs squaring off against the San Francisco 49ers, but it also provides a showdown between two of the games best play-callers. San Francisco 49ers head coach and offensive play-caller Kyle Shanahan versus …