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On first and second down, Andy Reid played it by the book.
An Isiah Pacheco run up the middle, stuffed for a one-yard loss, forcing the Baltimore Ravens to burn their second timeout. Pacheco again, off right tackle, for two yards, making Baltimore spend its final timeout. And with 2:19 left in the AFC championship, Reid’s all-universe quarterback trotted back to the sideline, with a set of directions for the coaches.
Put the ball in my hands, Patrick Mahomes told them.
To the untrained ear, that might’ve sounded like simple bravado from a superstar. In this case, it was more than that.

It’s safe to say Stephen A. Smith wasn’t impressed with Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson’s performance in Sunday’s AFC title game.
Jackson did throw for 272 yards and rushed for another 54, but the Ravens’ offense mustered just 10 total points in the loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. Jackson fumbled in the first half and threw a costly red zone interception in the second half, key mistakes that stopped Baltimore from breaking through offensively.

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Defenses and defensive coordinators get paid too
Ahead of Super Bowl LIII, Bill Belichick and Brian Flores had a task to complete.
That task? Crafting a defensive game plan that would give the New England Patriots a chance to slow down the explosive Los Angeles Rams offense, a unit that ranked second in the NFL with an average of 32.9 points per game. That included slowing down Jared Goff, who threw for 32 touchdowns and ranked sixth in the NFL with an Adjusted Net Yards per Attempt of 7.69 that season.

Few former coaches know the pain of just missing out on a trip to the Super Bowl than former New York Jets and Buffalo Bills coach Rex Ryan. That made him the perfect person to contextualize the Detroit Lions’ brutal NFC championship game loss to the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday night.
Appearing on ESPN’s Get Up on Monday morning, Ryan called Detroit’s defeat “the most devastating loss of all time” and broke down how hard it is to process losing a game of that magnitude in such gut-wrenching fashion.
“I’ve lost three championship games,” Ryan said.

The Kansas City Chiefs may already have some good mojo working when they step into Allegiant Stadium for Super Bowl LVIII on Feb. 11 to take on the San Francisco 49ers—thanks to a loyal fan who worked on the stadium’s construction.
When the Las Vegas venue was being built in 2017, construction worker Gerard DeCosta buried a Chiefs flag under the field, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
By burying the flag, DeCosta presumably was trolling the Las Vegas Raiders, one of the Chiefs’ AFC West rivals.

Nelly Korda celebrates on the 18th green during the final round of the 2024 LPGA Drive On Championship. | Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images
The LPGA Drive On Championship had a wild finish, so much so that Nelly Korda almost sent her sister Jessica into labor.
Nelly Korda had her sister Jessica in a state of shock during the LPGA Drive On Championship Sunday.
So much so that she almost sent her pregnant sister to the hospital.
“[I just FaceTimed her, and] she said, ‘I thought you were going to send me into labor,’” Korda said afterward.

Now that those pesky conference championship games are out of the way — nice work, Dan Campbell! — the road is finally cleared for NASCAR to go green.
That’s right — the shortest offseason in all of sports is over. Done. Kaput. Turn out the lights. After a relaxing 90 days off, the boys are BACK and ready to enjoy Gavin Newsom’s locked down, crime-riddled, taxed to the max California.

Recovering from a loss in the conference title game is a challenging task, and both Baltimore and Detroit are entering an offseason that may bring significant changes.

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Records were broken, tied, and set on the first two days of the Aspen 2024 X Games.
The 2024 Aspen X Games held at Buttermilk Resort in Aspen, Colorado are a three-day, high-energy, competition that showcases the best of the best in the snowboarding and freestyle skiing community, and is one of the most exciting competitions on the 2024 calendar.

San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk remembers the exact moment he knew his squad had a chance to win the NFC title.
Coming into the game, the 49ers had a lot of mental advantages they’d need on their side. They had the No. 1 seed, home field advantage, and a far more talented roster on their hands.
But the Detroit Lions didn’t seem to notice any of that, as they raced to a 24-7 halftime lead. For the great season San Francisco had, it all looked like it would slip away and go to waste.
Then Aiyuk entered the chat.