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For a brief period of time, both commentators worked the NCAA Tournament for their respective networks.
They were two men with outsized loves for the game of college basketball who helped the sport grow from a regional curiosity to the national juggernaut it became in the cable-television era.
Dick Vitale and Billy Packer worked for two different networks—Vitale for ESPN, Packer for NBC and CBS—and took two different approaches in conveying their enthusiasm for hoops. But they were united in the fraternity of their sport’s broadcasting giants.

Rarely does the trade deadline depend on the desires of one team president. But such is the case this year, as teams wait to see what Masai Ujiri will do.

Even on a team with two 1,000-yard receivers, Dallas Goedert has been an elite weapon for the Eagles — and one of the best tight ends in the league.

The Bengals are in their second straight AFC championship game following a lengthy drought.
The Bengals snapped a 32-year AFC championship game drought with their appearance last year, and they followed that up by preventing another drought and making back-to-back conference finals. That coincides with the acquisition of quarterback Joe Burrow, who has now made two AFC championship games in his first three years in the NFL.
In just two years, Cincinnati has gone from a team that couldn’t win a playoff game to a team that expects to win the Super Bowl, largely thanks to Burrow.

In what has been one of the biggest coaching questions since the NFL regular season wrapped up, many wonder where former New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton will end up.
Payton last coached two seasons ago before becoming an NFL on FOX analyst last season. However, he still has that coaching desire in him – as he has actively been pursuing vacant NFL head coach positions.
The most recent one has been the Arizona Cardinals. The former Super Bowl winning coach had lunch with Cardinals owner Michael Bidwell on Thursday.

It has begun.
It has begun.
With the Eagles on the doorstep of their third NFC championship since the turn of the century, the city of Philadelphia is already making preparations for a celebration.
That includes potentially covering the city’s light poles in grease ahead of the Eagles’ battle royale with the 49ers on Sunday afternoon, according to a Friday report from KYW-TV in Philadelphia.
Star quarterback Jalen Hurts and the Eagles are 2.5-point favorites over San Francisco on the heels of a 14-win regular season—the most regular season victories in franchise history.

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No team has more wins over the Patrick Mahomes-led Chiefs than Joe Burrow’s Bengals. How is that possible?
When the Cincinnati Bengals take on the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2023 AFC Championship Game, it will be the fourth time these sides have faced off over a 12-month span. Joe Burrow and Zac Taylor have gotten the better of Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid on the previous three occasions, and have more wins against the Mahomes era Chiefs than anyone else in the NFL.

Robert Horry, better known as “Big Shot Bob,” and OutKick founder Clay Travis apparently have quite a bit in common. Aside from being rich and ever-present on your tv’s (or mobile devices for you kids out there), both have been tossed from their son’s games by overzealous zebras.
What, you thought I was going to say they both have good tans and flawless jumpers?
(Full disclosure, I’ve never seen Clay shoot, but I bet that jumper’s wet).
A ref gave Horry the heave-ho on Friday night from his son’s game in Flintridge, CA.

The Dolphins quarterback remains in concussion protocol, one month after entering for the second time during the 2022 campaign.
Despite lingering questions about his long-term health following a season in which he sustained multiple concussions, Tua Tagovailoa’s parents maintained that the Dolphins quarterback will be back on the gridiron in 2023. 
Speaking to Rob DeMello of KHON2 in Hawai’i, Diane and Galu Tagovailoa thanked supporters of their son for their well-wishes throughout the difficult year.

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Are they homegrown, built from the draft or did they buck that narrative?
The NFL conference championship games are this weekend as four teams attempt to reach the Super Bowl. That leaves other general managers and fans around the league to figure out how they can also reach the upper echelon of the NFL.