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Chiefs star JuJu Smith-Schuster is still soaking in the team’s Super Bowl win, but that didn’t stop him from taking a savage shot at Eagles cornerback James Bradberry on Twitter. The Kansas City wide receiver posted a brutal Valentine’s Day message with a photo of Philadelphia’s cornerback, captioned, “I’ll hold you when it matters most.” 

Bradberry, of course, was responsible for Philadelphia’s defensive holding penalty in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl.

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Orlando’s Paolo Banchero is the heavy favorite at SI Sportsbook to win NBA Rookie of the Year.
First overall pick Paolo Banchero is a runaway favorite to win Rookie of the Year.
The Magic forward is a prohibitive -1613 favorite at SI Sportsbook to take home the hardware. If Banchero wins ROY, he would become the fourth No. 1 pick in the last decade to do so, joining Ben Simmons, Karl-Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins, and the first Orlando player to earn the honor since Mike Miller in 2001.

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University of Kentucky offensive line commit Hayes Johnson is a big, strong fella. Although he is only finishing his senior year of high school, he is already putting up massive numbers in the weight room.
Johnson, a 6-foot-5, 295-pound tackle from Campbellsville, Ky. committed to play for the Wildcats over offers from Baylor, Cincinnati, Eastern Kentucky, Louisville, Michigan State, Tennessee and West Virginia. Although he only made things official earlier this month, he is already taking shots at his in-state rivals.

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New York allowed its 2021 first-round pick to languish on the bench before trading him.
Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady and Greg Olsen on Today’s SI Feed (TV-PG; 0:59)
The ballad of Chiefs wide receiver Kadarius Toney is well-known by now in both Kansas City and New York.
Toney, a cornerstone of Florida’s fleeting success under coach Dan Mullen, was picked 20th overall by the Giants in the 2021 draft. However, New York largely left him to languish on the bench, and he ended his Giants career with just 420 receiving yards in 12 games across two seasons.
On Oct.

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James Bradberry might have thought his holding penalty was behind him. He thought wrong
As thrilling as Super Bowl LVII was, it was not without controversy. The playing surface has received a lot of attention in the days following the game, as has a holding penalty on Philadelphia Eagles cornerback James Bradberry called in the closing minutes. That penalty gave the Kansas City Chiefs a fresh set of downs deep in Eagles’ territory with under two minutes remaining, setting the stage for the game-winning field goal and the modest upset.

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It’s Valentine’s Day which means love is in the air, and — to borrow one more tired cliche — one of Cupid’s arrows hit the Minnesota Vikings’ mascot, Viktor The Viking.
Viktor had his eye on one Valentine in particular: FanDuelTV’s Kay Adams. Viktor decided that instead of trumpeting his love for Adams through that annoying horn at U.S. Bank Stadium, he went the modern route and tweeted at her.

the “it couple” pic.twitter.com/WtpY9YP5x2
— Viktor Adams (@ViktorTheViking) February 14, 2023

What a couple. Keep your head on a swivel, Shams.

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The Raiders released their former starting quarterback to avoid paying him more than $40 million in guaranteed money. Here are the teams who could try to sign him.
Let the Derek Carr sweepstakes begin.
With the Pro Bowl quarterback declining to waive his no-trade clause, the Raiders released Carr on Tuesday before his $32.9 million salary for the 2023 season would have become fully guaranteed. The Raiders would have also been on the hook for $7.5 million of Carr’s ’24 salary if he was on the roster past the deadline.

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