NFL News

Just like that, the race for the 2024 Lombardi Trophy is down to two teams, with the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers winning Sunday to advance to Super Bowl LVIII, which will kick off Feb. 11 from Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. Now that the conference championships are officially in the books, with Patrick Mahomes and Co. gliding past …

Getty Images If we learned anything this postseason, it’s that you can never doubt Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes. On Sunday, the Kansas City Chiefs punched their ticket to their fourth Super Bowl in five years with a 17-10 win over the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC championship game.  Mahomes is set to make his fourth Super Bowl start, which are …

Super Bowl logo conspiracy debunked with Chiefs, 49ers wins originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago The Super Bowl logo conspiracy has been debunked. With the Chiefs and 49ers punching their tickets to Las Vegas with wins against the Ravens and Lions on Sunday, the two teams also put to bed a theory that the league had been predetermined– then telegraphed– …

If you’ve never experienced NHL overtime before, it’s unlike anything else in sports: a frenetic, sudden-death period with constant action and tension building with every shot. The best part? Each side plays with only three or four skaters (plus a goalie), which leads to even more skill and intrigue in extra time. That said, the rules surrounding overtime — and …

Dan Campbell is a great head coach. But there’s always a capacity to improve. For Campbell, the next level becomes finding a way to properly regulate his tendency to be aggressive. Aggressive. It’s the buzzword that now stuffs all critics in a locker. There was a time, not that long ago, when coaches faced with a key decision opted for …

Welcome to the Monday edition of the Pick Six newsletter! I hope you’re ready for two weeks of Taylor Swift! I’m just trying to mentally prepare you now because that’s almost certainly what we’re going to be getting with the Kansas City Chiefs advancing to the Super Bowl, where they’ll be facing the San Francisco 49ers, and no, you are …

Sean Allen, Special to ESPN.comJan 29, 2024, 12:00 PM ET CloseSean Allen is a fantasy analyst for ESPN.com. He was the 2008 and 2009 Fantasy Sports Writers Association Hockey Writer of the Year. You can tweet him @seanard. It’s one of the extended weeks in the fantasy hockey world thanks to the NHL All-Star Weekend scheduled for this coming weekend. …

Super Bowl LVIII is set, as the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers will battle in Las Vegas for the Lombardi Trophy. The Chiefs appear to have overcome their regular-season offensive struggles, and even won two playoff games on the road as underdogs against the Buffalo Bills and No. 1-seeded Baltimore Ravens. As for the 49ers, the No. 1 seed …

The Chargers are getting a second Herbert in what appears to be a big win for Jim Harbaugh as he assembles his new coaching staff in Los Angeles. Michigan head strength and conditioning coach Ben Herbert is following Harbaugh to Southern California and joining the Chargers, according to multiple reports.  The decision comes as a bit of a surprise, as …

The Rams brought in a former NFL head coach for a meeting about their defensive coordinator vacancy. Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports reports that the team interviewed Ron Rivera over the weekend. Rivera was fired by the Commanders earlier this month after going 26-40-1 over four seasons as the head coach of the team. The Rams need a coordinator as …

The San Francisco 49ers hosted the Detroit Lions for the right to represent the NFC in Super Bowl LVIII, and it was a rematch from last year’s NFC Championship Game in a way. While the Philadelphia Eagles are nowhere to be found, we did get a player-on-player rematch from last year’s NFC title game: Deebo Samuel vs. Chauncey Gardner-Johnson. Gardner-Johnson was …

The brightest stage in the sports world arrives on Sunday, Feb. 11 when the 2024 Super Bowl kicks off in Las Vegas. Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs will take on Brock Purdy, Christian McCaffrey and the San Francisco 49ers at Allegiant Stadium with a championship in the balance. The Niners are seeking a record-tying sixth Super …

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 …

Sunday’s Detroit-San Francisco game marked the end of the line for the Lions. It also ended things for Greg Olsen, in his role at the lead NFL game analyst at Fox. With CBS having this year’s Super Bowl, Fox’s NFL season is over. Barring something unforeseen (but not impossible), Tom Brady will take Olsen’s spot in 2024. It will send …

C.J. Gardner-Johnson got a little bit ahead of himself in Sunday’s NFC Championship Game. The Lions’ safety began to wave goodbye to the 49ers crowd in Levi’s Stadium after Detroit scored a touchdown to go up 21-7. But that was one of the last high points of Sunday’s game for the Lions, who allowed the 49ers to score 27 straight …