Five-star safety recruit D.J. Pickett has announced his top five schools.  Pickett, who is a member of the class of 2025, plays football for Zephyrhills High School, which is located outside of Tampa, Florida. Pickett plays both wide receiver and safety, but he is primarily considered a safety prospect. Pickett has explosive speed and takes long strides. He could also …

What the Chiefs need to do to win Run the ball. The Niners’ run defense has been poor all season. Over the past two months, they’ve sunk to near unplayable levels of suckitude. For all the flaws of this version of the Chiefs’ offense, one thing they’ve been able to do is plow forward with the run. Thanks to the …

College football realignment has reached the forefront for nearly every major conference heading into the 2024 season, especially in the SEC. Texas and Oklahoma will officially leave the Big 12 to join what is still considered the toughest conference in college football. While the Texas Longhorns were just a play away from facing the Michigan Wolverines in the National Championship …

When the San Francisco 49ers take on the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2024 Super Bowl, Michigan fans will see a familiar name on the back of the 49ers’ jersey. The player wearing it just won’t be the one they saw wear the Michigan’s maize and blue before. San Francisco running back Christian McCaffrey, the brother of former Wolverine quarterback …

Super Bowl LVIII is a special one, as Paramount will be providing a family-friendly broadcast of the NFL championship game for the first time. The popular Nickelodeon broadcast of NFL holiday games will be heading to Allegiant Stadium for Super Bowl 58 between the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs. The big game will kick off today on CBS, …

LAS VEGAS — The Kansas City Chiefs are something of a mainstay on the Super Bowl stage, seeking their third Lombardi Trophy in the last five years. And Sunday’s Super Bowl LVIII matchup with the San Francisco 49ers promises to be a tight one, with both sides boasting MVP-caliber quarterbacks and physical, top-ranked defenses. But how do the previous championship …

When Jim Harbaugh was hired at Michigan in 2014, he was tasked with rebuilding the Wolverines’ football program back to its winning ways. It was a similar task that he was faced with at his prior stops: the San Francisco 49ers and Stanford. 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey, the brother of former Wolverine quarterback Dylan McCaffrey, starred at Stanford where he set …

The Super Bowl is the most-watched television program every year and people are not just turning into the game, but the halftime show is also a major draw to the event. Throughout the history of the Super Bowl, the halftime show has evolved and grown into a spectacle that is one of the most highly anticipated musical performances each year. …

He’s been waitin’ on this for so long. And now he’s going to do it his way. Usher will be the halftime performer for the Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show in Las Vegas on Sunday, Feb. 11 as the Kansas City Chiefs take on the San Francisco 49ers. The eight-time Grammy Award winner headlines the halftime show for …

This column is the first in a series of weekly survey questions. That might seem hypocritical to anyone who knows I never answer survey questions. But my literary contributors answer them. This week’s question is related to Tennessee football coach Josh Heupel, who just completed his third season with the Vols. I asked some of my literary contributors where they …

Getty Images The 2023 NFL season is just about in the books, and almost exactly five months since the Week 1 opener, we’re about ready to crown a champion. There are still two teams left and one game remaining: Super Bowl LVIII, which will determine who hoists the Lombardi Trophy. The big game is just one day away, and what’s …

Claire Komarek, CBS Sports The Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers are meeting in Las Vegas for Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday to wrap up the NFL season. Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs registered two straight road wins as underdogs in the playoffs to represent the AFC in the biggest sporting event of the year, while the 49ers engineered a historic second-half …

Super Bowl LVIII is here, so get ready. The NFL’s championship game is one of the most wagered-on events that we have on the sporting calendar, and it’s expected to remain so, especially with this year’s game taking place in the betting capital of the world: Las Vegas.  On top of your standard game-centric bets, sportsbooks often feature bets that …

USATSI Super Bowl LVIII from Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas won’t be short on star power, and that includes the pregame entertainment lineup headlined by Reba McEntire and Post Malone. The former will sing the national anthem and the latter will sing “America the Beautiful.” The big game will be broadcast on CBS (Feb. 11, 6:30 p.m. ET kickoff) and there …

USATSI The San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs won’t be the only headliners for Super Bowl LVIII. Country icon Reba McEntire will be singing the national anthem in Las Vegas ahead of the big game. McEntire has made her name in the entertainment industry through music, television, movies and theatre. She has over 50 awards, including Grammys, CMA Awards, …