LAS VEGAS — Brock Purdy heard fullback Kyle Juszczyk issuing the alert. The San Francisco 49ers quarterback understood his teammate’s intention: Flip the formation, and send tight end Charlie Woerner in motion on the third-quarter play against the Green Bay Packers in the divisional round. But Purdy realized what Juszczyk didn’t: The play clock had nearly expired. With just two …

Feb. 6—PULLMAN — Washington State will likely get its men’s basketball defensive coordinator back this weekend. Associate coach Jim Shaw, who missed Saturday’s game against Washington as he recovered from a medical scare, should be back on the bench for WSU’s games against Oregon State and Oregon, head coach Kyle Smith said. Shaw initially exited early from the Cougars’ win …

RALEIGH, N.C. — Playing for a new team in a familiar building worked out just fine for Vancouver’s Elias Lindholm on Tuesday night. Lindholm scored two power-play goals in similar fashion in his debut with the Canucks and J.T. Miller provided the winning goal in a 3-2 victory against the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday night. “It’s crazy how it all …

The Steelers “still feel good” about quarterback Kenny Pickett. They might eventually feel even better about someone else. Speaking to Bob Pompeani of KDKA-TV, Steelers president Art Rooney II did not rule out pursuing a veteran quarterback in trade. “Well, you know, as we sit here early February, we’re not closing the door on anything,” Rooney said. “We have a …

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 …