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Here’s three reasons why the Chiefs can beat the Texans
I have a rule for picking rematches when it comes to football: the second time two teams play, I normally pick the team that didn’t win the first time to win the second time.
However, with the rematches this week in the NFL playoffs, I find myself breaking that rule, especially with Chiefs-Texans. Despite Houston’s defense looking like the second coming of the 2000 Ravens in their wildcard victory over the Los Angeles Chargers, I can’t pick against QB Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Natisha Hiedeman will join the Phantom with Marina Mabrey sidelined with a calf strain.
Unrivaled is adding another player in the wake of injury, the new 3-on-3 professional women’s basketball league announced Friday afternoon, just hours before gameplay begins. Natisha Hiedeman, a Minnesota Lynx guard and six-year WNBA veteran, will join the Phantom club given the fact that Marina Mabrey is out for 2 to 4 weeks with a right calf strain she suffered in training camp.

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Well, one of these stories of a high-profile athlete having their home burglarized in recent months has a somewhat happy — if not kind of bizarre — ending.
This week it was reported that Pittsburgh Penguins star Evgeni Malkin’s Pittsburgh-area home was broken into, and his three Stanley Cup rings were missing.
Well, thankfully those rings have been recovered… from inside the Russian forward’s house.
The Allegheny Police Department announced the news on their X account.

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The heavyweight match of the weekend has one team with the edge.
It’s the game of the weekend, if not the entire season. Ravens vs. Bills is the heavyweight matchup of the AFC, with the winner likely cementing themselves as Super Bowl favorites. Two of the league’s best offenses, led by two quarterbacks with equal claim for the MVP award — it doesn’t get much better than this.
There are reasons you could pick Buffalo here.

We haven’t heard Dick Vitale call a college basketball game since 2023, and if you ask me, that’s way too long of a stretch. But on January 25, that wait will be over. 
ESPN announced that next Saturday, Vitale is going to be courtside when the Duke Blue Devils take on the in-state rival Wake Forest Demon Deacons in Winston-Salem, NC. Vitale had been out of the broadcasting booth for almost two years due to a battle with vocal cord cancer. But last week, the legendary announcer received some great news when he was announced cancer-free.

The clash pits one of the NBA’s most disgruntled superstars against a franchise that won’t bend to his will. And everyone in the NBA is watching.

There was no doubt that Ohio State, along with head coach Ryan Day, had their backs against the wall following the Michigan loss to end their regular season.
What have they done since that loss to the Wolverines? Embarrassed Tennessee and Oregon, followed by a gritty performance against Texas in the semifinals that clinched a spot in the college football playoff title game. 
While you can dislike the Buckeyes all you want, you have to at least respect them for the run they’ve been on over the past month. This team was dead and buried by everyone with a platform, myself included.

Erling Haaland has signed a mammoth nine-and-a-half-year contract at Manchester City, tying him to the club until 2034.

The Miami Dolphins will host the first NFL game in Madrid next season as part of the 2025 International Games, the NFL announced Friday.

Jon Rahm and Viktor Hovland missed the cut and Rory McIlroy was forced to battle to make the weekend as the headline acts struggled at the Dubai Desert Classic.