For the second consecutive year Oklahoma will boast the most former players on the field for football’s biggest game when the Kansas City Chiefs take on the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII on CBS Sunday. The Chiefs will be looking to defend their title with four former Sooners on their roster. The 49ers will add two more two …

Eric Williams NFC West Writer Brock Purdy, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback with the aw-shucks smile and boy next door looks, can’t shake the perception that he was born on third base. With elite weapons like Christian McCaffrey, Deebo Samuel, George Kittle and Brandon Aiyuk, along with one of the best playcallers in the game in San Francisco head coach …

The Super Bowl is annually the biggest event in American sports as well as the most-watched broadcast of the year, bringing together sports, music, celebrities and fans from all over. This year, the Super Bowl will take place in one of the entertainment capitals of the world: Las Vegas. There are already lots of things to do in Vegas and …

A long-time Spartan is heading to a Big Ten rival. According to numerous reports, former Michigan State football coach Harlon Barnett is joining Northwestern as their defensive backs coach. Barnett was recently the interim head coach at MSU, where was the defensive backs coach since 2020. Barnett was also a fixture of the Mark Dantonio era, and was with the …

In what feels like a blink of an eye, we have arrived at Super Bowl LVIII and the anticipation for this big game between the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs from Las Vegas is ramping up to historic levels. Patrick Mahomes’ team seeks to win its third title in the last five years, while the 49ers eye revenge …

Purdy details priceless advice from 49ers greats Montana, Young originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area With the 49ers set to face the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday, quarterback Brock Purdy has a chance to join San Francisco legends Joe Montana and Steve Young as the franchise’s only signal-callers to hoist the Vince Lombardi Trophy. Those …

The Hurricanes are expected to fill the lone gap in their coaching staff, poaching someone from an in-state rival. Miami will hire USF’s Matt Merritt to be their new running backs coach, according to multiple reports. Merritt comes to Miami with seven years of assistant coaching experience at the college level after spending the 2023 season as an associate head …

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 …