Over in the CBS Sports Research group we’ve been crunching numbers furiously to get you hyped up for the NFL’s Championship Sunday. Read up so you can prove to your friend that you are smarter than they are.  Here are 15 facts to know for Sunday’s games: 1. Passing the torch. Either Tom Brady or Patrick Mahomes has started a …

Jan 23, 2024, 11:31 AM ET NEWARK, N.J. — The New Jersey Devils signed general manager Tom Fitzgerald to a multiyear contract extension Tuesday, also giving him the additional title of president of hockey operations. The Devils have been one of the fastest-rising and most-improved teams in the NHL since Fitzgerald took over for Ray Shero on an interim basis …

The Polynesian Bowl — an All-Star game for incoming recruits — took place last week, and several 2024 Oregon Ducks recruits participated in the event. Aydin Breland, Dakoda Fields, Aaron Flowers, Dylan Williams, and Braden Platt were among Oregon’s participants, although many more Ducks competed. On Monday, Matt Moreno and Ryan Young of Rivals released their top performers for the …

Brock Purdy and the San Francisco 49ers are one win away from earning a spot in Super Bowl LVIII and will play host to the Detroit Lions in the NFC Championship Game on Sunday (6:30 p.m. ET, FOX and the FOX Sports App). Yet the debate continues about Purdy’s role in the success of the Niners. Is this season’s NFL …

Here’s the thing about situations that are the equivalent of catching lightning in a bottle. Slim as the chances of it happening might be, it definitely can’t happen unless you put the bottle in the street. On Sunday, Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles failed to put the bottle in the street, conceding to the Lions with 36 seconds left and one …

Bryson Warner stepped down as head football coach at Boone County High School, citing that he wants to spend more time with his family. Warner, a 1992 Boone County graduate, was the head coach for five years with a record of 13-36, including 2-8 this past season and 4-6 in 2021. The 13 wins more than doubled the program’s total …

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Getty Images Nick Sirianni is all but confirmed to return as the Eagles’ head coach, but his staff is getting a major makeover. Amid a change at defensive coordinator, where Ron Rivera is among candidates to replace the jettisoned Sean Desai, Brian Johnson is out as offensive coordinator, per NFL Media, marking the second straight year where the Eagles will be …

The biggest remaining piece to Brian Kelly’s LSU football coaching staff appears to be situated. Per 247sports’ Matt Zenitz, Kelly is expected to promote quarterbacks coach Joe Sloan and wide receivers coach Cortez Hankton to co-offensive coordinators. The duo will replace Mike Denbrock, who left for the same position at Notre Dame. Sloan and Hankton served in the co-OC role …

ESPN staffJan 23, 2024, 10:25 AM ET EmailPrintOpen Extended Reactions Prior to the start of the 2023-24 NHL season, five teams named players to take over as captain. The process to pick a captain can vary by team, and there are currently five clubs that do not have a captain. Editor’s Picks The shortest tenured captain is Calgary Flames forward …

A former colleague of Brian Daboll’s in Buffalo is under consideration to join Daboll’s staff with the Giants. Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that the Giants have requested permission to interview Bills linebackers coach Bobby Babich for their defensive coordinator vacancy. Babich joined the Bills as an assistant defensive backs coach in 2017 and he coached the team’s safeties …

The early line for the NFC Championship Game featuring Detroit and San Francisco has the Lions as 7-point underdogs (FOX and the FOX Sports app). And when it comes to Super Bowl futures, these two squads are sitting at opposite ends of the spectrum.  The Niners, at +145, currently have the shortest odds to win it all; the Lions, at …

BELLAIRE, Texas — JT Daniels knows why he agreed to an interview on a recent lazy Sunday morning at a cafe near his suburban Houston apartment. The former USC, Georgia, West Virginia, Rice quarterback might as well be the face of the transfer portal. He has the unique experience of transferring three times and playing for four schools in a …

Revisiting previous 49ers-Lions playoff games ahead of NFC title clash originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area The Detroit Lions’ last road playoff victory came one week before they won their last NFL championship. In 1957, the Lions traveled to Kezar Stadium in Golden Gate Park and produced an amazing comeback victory over the 49ers. Since then, the organization has …

The Badgers football team had another player join their class of 2025 recruiting haul Monday, receiving the commitment of three-star linebacker Brenden Anes from Franklin, Tennessee. Anes picked Wisconsin over 10 other collegiate offers, including Indiana within the Big Ten. The Badgers have now secured three of the four players that were at their junior day last week, already adding …