After interviewing for the Browns’ defensive coordinator job, Brian Flores received his first head coaching interview request in this year’s cycle.
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Everything you need to know for every wild-card game, including keys to victory, stat nuggets and score picks.
Owner Jim Irsay confirmed the news on Thursday.
Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy has been floated as a potential head coaching candidate for years, but has yet to land an opportunity to lead a franchise. With Kansas City poised to make another run at a Super Bowl, he is once again gaining attention from teams with coaching openings, including the Colts.
On Thursday, Indianapolis owner Jim Irsay tweeted that the team had just finished an interview with Bieniemy as the team begins to find its full-time replacement for Frank Reich, who was fired during the season.
Is there another sport that can create a true home-court advantage like college basketball? Andy Katz ranks the best atmospheres, in five tiers.
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Plus: 50 from Dame isn’t enough in Portland.
The idea that Luka Doncic can be stopped is a fool’s errand. That he can be contained, however? Yeah, no. Also a fool’s errand, one that the Lakers learned the hard way on Thursday night en route to their fourth-straight loss (against the Mavs, that is).
That leads things off for us in today’s NBA scores roundup.
For months we’ve all opined how miserable poor Al Michaels must’ve been this year calling stinky Thursday Night Football games for Amazon Prime.
Now, we all have a little vindication, because it’s coming straight from the horse’s mouth!
Michaels, who NBC thankfully rescued to call Saturday’s Chargers-Jags playoff game, said calling TNF games this past season was like trying to essentially sell a lemon.
“From the Amazon people, nothing but support. I think they understood what this was,” Michaels told The Athletic this week. “We’re making the most of it.
Even now, Tom Brady feels inevitable. For the Cowboys there is a differing sense, one that suggests the moment has passed.
“It was like they created a monster.”
Quarterback Kyler Murray signed a blockbuster extension with the Cardinals last offseason that quickly became the talk of the league upon the discovery of a “homework clause” in the deal. The controversial segment of the contract was later removed by the team, but according to one of Murray’s teammates, it may have been beneficial to keep in place.
An anonymous Cardinals veteran told Michael Silver of Bally Sports last Sunday that after the franchise gave Murray the new deal, “it was like they created a monster.
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Five of the 14 teams in the postseason could make sense for the departing Raiders quarterback when he leaves Las Vegas.
As the NFL Wild Card weekend begins on Saturday, 14 teams are still alive in the playoffs while the other 18 teams are already in offseason mode.
One of the biggest storylines developing among non-playoff teams is the future of longtime Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Derek Carr, who penned his farewell letter to fans on Thursday morning.
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The world’s third-ranked tennis player and the NFL team that her family owns will both try to reach the pinnacle of their sports beginning this weekend.
The Bills ranked among the league leaders in wins this season and are short-listed amid the favorites to win the Super Bowl. Led by a quarterback who spent much of the season undertaking a convincing impression of an MVP candidate, the team sometimes presented football at its most elevated, an 11-man braid of beauty, a symphonic whole, a team greater than the sum of its component parts.
But not always.