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Super Bowl LVIII is drawing close. Yahoo Sports has spent the past week both on the ground in Las Vegas and from afar covering every angle of the big game across multiple platforms. You can find all our work right here, and keep checking back right up to kickoff on Sunday. Super Bowl matchup 10 most important non-QB/coach figures who …

Eric Williams NFC West Writer Two NFL masterminds match wits on Sunday when the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs face off in Super Bowl LVIII. San Francisco head coach and offensive guru Kyle Shanahan will try to matriculate the football down the field against Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo and his stingy unit. In the history of the …

The NFL season has reached the end of the road, and all that remains is Super Bowl LVIII — featuring a showdown between the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs for a Lombardi Trophy. While this game does mark the end of an NFL season, it also concludes a profitable run for us here in this little betting window on …

Super Bowl week always involves more than just the Big Game on Sunday, and that is certainly the case for All-Pro San Francisco 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey.  The NFL’s leader in rushing yards (1,459), scrimmage yards (2,023) and co-leader in scrimmage touchdowns (21) earned both Pro Bowl and First Team All-Pro selections for his production this season. On Thursday …

Are you looking to bet on Super Bowl LVIII? Of course you are. And that’s exactly why you’ll want to listen to The Group Chat segment in each episode of “Bear Bets,” this week, as the fellas break down several ways to bet on the Big Game. FOX Sports’ Chris “The Bear” Fallica and Geoff Schwartz, along with Sam Panayotovich …

How Willis wowed ex-49ers teammate Robinson in rookie season originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Patrick Willis’ NFL greatness soon could be acknowledged with entry into the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2024. But former 49ers fullback Michael Robinson, who spent three seasons with Willis in San Francisco, recognized the special talent that Willis was well before …

LAS VEGAS — Welcome to the Thursday edition of the Pick Six newsletter! I don’t know how it happened, but the Super Bowl is now only three days away. At least, that’s what I’ve been told. I actually have no idea how far away it is because I’ve lost all sense of time out here in Las Vegas. If I’ve …

Former Raiders receiver Rod Sherman has died, the team announced Thursday. Sherman was 79. Sherman, a native of Pasadena, California, spent four of his seven seasons with the Raiders. The USC star was selected by seventh overall by the Raiders in the 1966 AFL draft and by the Colts in the fourth round of the NFL draft that same year. …

Getty Images Belichick is staying in New England. OK, not that Belichick, but there is one expected to stay with the Patriots in 2024. Safeties coach Brian Belichick is staying put, according to ESPN. Brian has worked in this role for four seasons and with the team for eight seasons. Patriots new head coach Jared Mayo, who is taking over …

The 2024 Super Bowl will take place at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Sunday, when the Kansas City Chiefs will take on the San Francisco 49ers. Travis Kelce was already one of the NFL’s biggest stars as a two-time Super Bowl champion who just made his ninth consecutive Pro Bowl, but he’s become even more famous in recent months. …

They’re laughing in Ames, Iowa, this week. They’re laughing because they’ve seen the best of Brock Purdy at Iowa State. They’ve seen the worst, too. That means, no matter what happens Sunday in Super Bowl XVIII, he’s still theirs. And that’s so Iowa State. It’s the kind of place that embraces a babyfaced kid from Gilbert, Arizona, almost no one …

The San Francisco 49ers have been benefitting from a new NFL rule over the past few years and it seems that several owners are not happy about that.  Back in November 2020, the NFL’s 32 owners approved a new policy that called for teams to be rewarded any time a minority member of their organization was hired away by another …

The Titans are expected to hire former Raiders interim offensive coordinator Bo Hardegree as their quarterbacks coach under Brian Callahan, Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports. Hardegree served as the Raiders’ interim offensive coordinator after they fired Josh McDaniels. The team averaged 22.9 points per game in the nine games under Hardegree, and the Raiders won five of those games …

Getty Images LAS VEGAS — Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is best known for terrorizing opponents through the air. But the reigning NFL MVP has also been an efficient scrambler over the years. He revealed this week that his “secret” to rushing success lies mostly in opponents’ inability to read his running style, suggesting “people think I’m slow” because …

Getty Images San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy’s journey from being the 262nd and final pick of the 2022 NFL Draft, aka Mr. “Irrelevant,” to being an NFL MVP finalist and starting in Super Bowl LVIII is nothing short of remarkable.  Naturally, those who were tangentially a part of Purdy’s improbable football rise are coming out to claim they knew of Purdy’s …