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Patrick Everson recaps how the weekend went for bettors and sportsbooks, including how one bettor won $1 million on the Bengals-Chiefs Under.

Purdue became this season’s first unanimous No. 1 team in the latest AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll released Monday.

The teams with the two best records in the NFL have made it to the Super Bowl. Nick believes the 49ers gave the Eagles a run for their money but admits the Eagles are the best team to come out of the NFC. Nick looks to his Chiefs and explains if they were to come away with a win in Super Bowl LVII, they will have beaten every team that matters this year. Nick looks back to 2017 when he last doubted the Eagles and is fearful of a repeat this season.

This men’s season hasn’t been defined by the usual bluebloods. Plus, notes on the bubble, the Big 12’s dominance and more.
Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in men’s college basketball, where it’s a banner year for Owls. Florida Atlantic, Kennesaw State, Temple and Rice are a combined 67–23 and all in contention for conference titles:
Question all you believe in
One of the enduring charms of college basketball in comparison to King Football is its variety and unpredictability. Fortunes fluctuate, contenders change, new faces are always popping up.

The Chiefs and Eagles are in the rare position of reaching the NFL’s biggest game twice in a short span. For past champions like the Rams and Bucs, a return is unlikely.

The Cincinnati quarterback believes the best is yet to come.
The Bengals‘ loss in the AFC championship to the Chiefs on Sunday was a crushing blow to another promising season. However, despite the tough loss, quarterback Joe Burrow remains confident that the team will remain a Super Bowl contender for years to come.
“I feel very good about the direction that we’re headed in,” Burrow said after the game, via Bengals.com. “We’ve been in this game for two straight years. We have won one and lost one. Obviously, this one hurts but we will come back stronger.

The social media machine was HUMMING in the wake of both NFL championship games Sunday, and San Francisco 49ers lineman Joe Staley was NOT having the nonsense. The 38-year-old took aim at youngster Kayvon Thibodeaux when the Giants rookie fired off a tweet during the Eagles’ drubbing of the 49ers Sunday afternoon.

The league informed clubs that the maximum amount they will be able to spend on player salaries is $224.8 million. The Bears are $92 million under the cap, while the Saints are nearly $59 million over the limit.
The NFL informed teams Monday that the 2023 salary cap will be set at $224.8 million per club, shattering the previous record of $208.2 million, set in ’22. Previous reports had indicated the cap was bound for a record high, but an increase of more than $16 million still qualifies as a surprising jump. From ’13 to ’20, the salary cap had been growing at a pace of only $10.

Alongside her brothers, Taylor Sirianni stole the show after the Eagles’ big win.
Eagles coach Nick Sirianni may have been the man of the hour after Philadelphia cruised past the 49ers in Sunday’s NFC championship game, but as soon as he sat down at his postgame press conference, there was a new star of the show: his daughter, Taylor.
All three of Sirianni’s children were with him at the podium following the Eagles’ 31–7 rout of the Niners that booked the Philadelphia’s ticket to Super Bowl LVII, but it was Taylor who stood out among the rest.

The new MLB The Show cover athlete is committed to making the game he loves more dynamic.
Early on in Damien Chazelle’s new film Babylon, Margot Robbie’s character, Nellie LaRoy, says, “You don’t become a star. You either are one or you ain’t. I am.” Those words would be just as fitting if they were written for Jazz Chisholm Jr., the Eurostepping phenom of the Marlins who was revealed as the cover athlete for the popular baseball video game MLB The Show 23 on Monday afternoon.
In many ways, this is the gaming equivalent of being featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated.