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The Philadelphia Eagles were the only team in the 2024 season to finish the year with a victory. Of course, that’s because they took home the Lombardi Trophy as this year’s Super Bowl champions. They dominated the Kansas City Chiefs and showed the entire football world that they are once again this sport’s cream of the crop.
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Recent first-round results for defending Super Bowl champions have mostly not panned out.
Much of the focus of every NFL Draft is understandably concentrated on the teams at the top of the order. Those are the teams in dire need of franchise-changing talent (usually a quarterback) in order to become contenders, and they usually have the inside track on the best players available.
Conversely, very little attention is given to incumbent Super Bowl champions and their respective draft night decisions.
He signed off in a manner only he could. Two days after Jamie Vardy called Leicester’s season a “miserable, embarrassing s— show” came the confirmation that it would be his last at the club. But the low of a second relegation from the Premier League in three years does not come close to scratching the unbelievable, record-breaking highs of Vardy’s 13 years in the east Midlands. “We did the impossible,” Vardy reflected.
With Leicester, Vardy became a champion and a Premier League legend.
BOSTON — Kristaps Porzingis had blood on his head and a smile on his face as he strode from the tunnel to the free throw line with 55 seconds left in the third quarter.
Goga Bitadze had knocked the Celtics big man to the floor, earning the Orlando forward a flagrant foul and Porzingis a gash over his left eye.
But Porzingis looked defiant as he absorbed the scene surrounding him. A couple of stitches and a little blood were a small price to pay for the experience.
“I love my WWE moments for sure,” the 7-foot-4, Latvian big man said after Boston’s 109-100 win.
BOSTON — Morgan Geekie wants to stay in Boston and become a cornerstone piece for the Bruins.
The Bruins want to make that happen.
“We’re currently going through (contract negotiations) to extend him,” general manager Don Sweeney said Wednesday. “Our goal is to have a long-term deal.”
Geekie had a career year with 33 goals — 26 at 5-on-5 — and 24 assists. He’s set to become a restricted free agent once free agency opens on July 1.
The Celtics emerged victorious on Wednesday night, playing in their first playoff game without Jayson Tatum in nine years. The Celtics All-Star had suited up for 114 consecutive playoff games dating back to his rookie season in 2017 before being sidelined for Game 2 against the Magic with a bone bruise in his right wrist.
Tatum did not go through warmups before the game on the court but emerged on Boston’s bench to watch his teammates early in the first quarter with a wrap on his right wrist.
BOSTON — Kristaps Porzingis had a smile on his face even as the blood flowed as he entered the Celtics locker room. He got a hard elbow to the head from the Magic’s Goga Bitadze late in the third quarter, forcing him to leave the game.
But this time, his smile wasn’t to pump up the Celtics crowd or anything just as he had done a few weeks ago. Back then, in a UFC moment, as Porzingis left the court, he appealed to the crowd that he was just fine. This time, he was also still fine. But it was more exacerbation that he got hit in the head again that required five stitches.