Eric Williams NFC West Writer Carmen Vitali NFC North Reporter The San Francisco 49ers worked hard to earn the No. 1 seed in the NFC. Their reward: a bye before hosting a team on a heater, the Green Bay Packers. Led by Jordan Love and the youngest roster in the league, the Packers smoked the Dallas Cowboys at home last …

Another NFL postseason, another Green Bay Packers versus San Francisco 49ers showdown. If it feels familiar, that’s because the matchup is the NFL’s most familiar playoff matchup with Saturday night in the Bay Area serving as the 10th edition between these two historic heavyweights.  The seventh-seeded Packers became the youngest team (average age: 25 years, 214 days) to win a …

Kalen DeBoer will need to do a lot of roster retooling ahead of his first season at Alabama. Numerous Alabama players have hit the transfer portal in the days following Nick Saban’s retirement last week. Five-star freshmen Caleb Downs and Kadyn Proctor became the latest Crimson Tide players to enter the transfer portal on Wednesday. Downs started right away at …

USATSI Reba McEntire and Post Malone headline the pregame entertainment lineup for Super Bowl LVIII from Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, which was announced by the NFL on Thursday. McEntire will sing the national anthem and Post Malone will sing “America the Beautiful.” The big game will be broadcast on CBS (Feb. 11, 6:30 p.m. ET kickoff) and there will …

Report: Belichick set for another coaching interview with Falcons originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston It appears there’s real mutual interest between the Atlanta Falcons and Bill Belichick. The former New England Patriots head coach is set to have a second interview with the Falcons this weekend after having a 1-on-1 with team owner Arthur Blank earlier this week, NFL …

The Georgia Bulldogs have extended a scholarship offer to elite class of 2025 defensive tackle recruit Juju Marks. Marks is a stout run defender and is strong at the point of attack. The 6-foot-7, 260-pound defensive lineman has excellent length. Juju Marks plays high school football for St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Lenexa, Kansas. Lenexa is located just outside …

The fourth-seeded Houston Texans will try to become the next team to pull off an upset this postseason when they visit the top-seeded Baltimore Ravens on Saturday in a 2024 AFC Divisional Round showdown. Houston (11-7), which routed Cleveland 45-14 in the wild-card round, will try to follow in the footsteps of Green Bay and Tampa Bay, which posted shocking …

The San Francisco 49ers have reached the conference championship game in their last six postseason appearances, tied for the second-longest streak in the NFL since 1970. The top-seeded 49ers will hope to extend the run when they host the seventh-seeded Green Bay Packers on Saturday in a 2024 NFC Divisional Round matchup. San Francisco (12-5) hasn’t lost in the divisional …

Cleveland Browns defensive backs coach Ephraim Banda was announced as a defensive coordinator in the Reese’s Senior Bowl. The Senior Bowl is an exhibition game for some of the best NFL draft prospects. It’s also a chance for up-and-coming coaches to prove their worth. Coach Banda will run the defense of the American team. All 32 teams in the NFL …

More and more, college hockey is becoming a fertile place for top NHL prospects — which is handy for fans hoping to get a glimpse into the future of their favorite teams. Of the top 50 picks over the last two NHL drafts, 24 are currently playing collegiately, with another 27 players who were drafted in the top 100 among …

Maybe the Cowboys like the drama. Or maybe they just screwed this one up. Regardless, the end result for Dallas and coach Mike McCarthy is that he apparently was staying as head coach, no matter what happened against the Packers. Even if the home team was caught flat-footed and unprepared for the coming storm of cheese. Even if they were …

Greg Auman NFC South Reporter TAMPA, Fla. — It is 3:29 a.m., and Todd Bowles is late. Raymond James Stadium sits empty across the street, unlit except for a spotlight on the “GO BUCS” sign in the north end zone and blinking red lights up high to warn planes landing nearby. Entire minutes pass without another car driving by, but …

Wisconsin enters the calendar year 2024 with hope and optimism that the results will be better than those in 2023. Yes, the program is technically 0-1 so far with its ReliaQuest Bowl loss to LSU. But the focus is on the 2024 season, one that will either show progress from the team’s 7-6 performance in 2023, or continued stagnation. Some …

Welcome to the divisional round of the NFL playoffs! After a jam-packed Super Wild Card Weekend, just eight teams are left standing and each of them is trying to claw their way into the conference championships. The notable wrinkle for this week is that the No. 1 seeds are emerging from their first-round bye. They’re well-rested and ready to resume …

The majority of starters for the Ravens and 49ers, the top seeds in the NFL playoff bracket, will be playing their first game in three weeks on Saturday after both teams opted to rest their key starters in the final game of the regular season before having a first-round bye for the 2024 NFL playoffs. The Ravens host the Texans …