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For the first time since the team announced the hire, the interim coach spoke about his feelings on the situation.
For the first time since the Panthers announced the hiring of Frank Reich as the franchise’s new head coach on Thursday, 2022 interim coach Steve Wilks released a statement on the decision. 
Though he expressed his disappointment in not landing the full-time job, Wilks admitted that he will always remain a fan of the team.
“The sun rose this morning and by the grace of God so did I. I’m disappointed by not defeated,” Wilks wrote in a note posted to Twitter.

Our experts provide their favorite bets and player props for the NFC and AFC championship games.
Heading into championship weekend, we find four closely matched teams that have a combined record of 59-14 this season.
In the NFC, bettors encounter a Philadelphia squad that is 8-2 straight up (SU) and 7-3 against the spread (ATS) at Lincoln Financial Field hosting a 49ers club that is 12-0 SU and 10-2 (ATS) since Week 8.
Since Sunday, the Eagles, who opened as 1.5-point home favorites, have grown to a 2.5-point demand, while the game total has ticked up from 45.5 to 46.

“If you throw the ball to me 100 times, I’m going to want it 101 times,” Eagles receiver A.J. Brown said. Devonta Smith has the same attitude, and it’s part of why both are great.

Shaquille O’ Neal… he’s just like us.
Yes, the star NBA Hall of Famer admittedly letting us all know that even though he has spent the majority of his life either playing or covering basketball, that he barely knows who any of the players are.
O’Neal was speaking on NBA on TNT‘s postgame show when he made the comments in reference to saying he didn’t know who newly acquired Lakers forward Rui Hachimura was.
“Albert Einstein said things you can get access to you should never memorize,” O’ Neal said.

No rules, just right.
It was international night at Southern Mississippi University on Thursday night, and among the celebration of nations on the court was one student who didn’t so much represent a nation, as much as a way of life.

My little sister sent me this from “International Night” at the Southern Miss basketball game and I am dying pic.twitter.com/lRxLRBh16F
— Rapinoe Grigio (@thatsballin) January 27, 2023

As an Australian expat, I have a complicated relationship with Outback Steakhouse. On the one hand their menu is borderline offensive.

The veteran running back’s pass-protection work has never been more important than it is right now. In light of that, we asked a real-life bodyguard to size up McKinnon’s body of work.
A hobbled Patrick Mahomes took the snap in shotgun. He stepped up in the pocket, shuffled to his left and spotted Foyesade Oluokun, a 230-pound free-running blitzer who had a clean shot at him.
Mahomes bent down into a semisquat, coiling himself in preparation for contact that never came.

There’s a lot to look forward to in Sunday’s games.
Good morning, I’m Dan Gartland. I’m picking the Eagles and Bengals to win Sunday.
In today’s SI:AM:
💬 The Warriors’ message during their White House trip
🏈 Why Ed Reed didn’t work out at Bethune-Cookman
✅ Conference championship game picks
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Super Bowl trips on the line
The more I think about it, Sunday’s conference championships sound like perfect matchups.

All the news, notes, stats and records that were set during the 2022 fantasy football season.
There’s just one letter in the alphabet that doesn’t appear in any U.S. states name.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
The New York Yankees have won a combined 27 World Series championships. No other team in Major League Baseball has won more than 11 (St. Louis Cardinals).
The Flintstones were originally called The Gladstones, and then The Flagstones.
The first toy ever advertised on television was Mr.

After nearly four years since his last fight, the lightweight is ready to erase the taste of defeat and reestablish himself among the division’s top title contenders.

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Sage Northcutt last fought in May 2019. Amid much excitement, riding a three-fight UFC win streak, that is when Northcutt made his debut for ONE Championship—and was promptly knocked out in 29 seconds by Cosmo Alexandre.
“That didn’t go the way I wanted,” says Northcutt. “Losing has definitely given me some extra drive.

Novak Djokovic’s dad, Srdjan, has responded to a video showing him posing with tennis fans holding a Russian flag at the Australian Open shortly after his son’s win over Russian Andrey Rublev. In his response, Srdjan explains that he will not be attending his son’s semi-final match against Tommy Paul on Friday night.
A group of fans held up Russian flags, which are banned at the tournament, outside of the arena following Djokovic’s win over Rublev. Video shows Srdjan posing with a man holding a Russian flag with Vladimir Putin’s face plastered on the front of it.