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An Indonesian soccer player is dead after he was struck by lightning Saturday during a match.
Septain Raharja was competing in a friendly between 2 FLO FC Bandung and FBI Subang, when lightning struck him at Siliwangi Stadium in Bandung, West Java. Video circulating social media shows a bright flash of light before the 35-year-old man collapsed to the ground.
Reports by local PRFM News say that he was still breathing after the incident. Raharja was rushed to a local hospital with intense burns, where he later died.

Mike Florio almost made it through Super Bowl Sunday without saying or writing anything stupid. Almost.
I tip my cap with respect to Florio for writing 13 Super Bowl-related stories during the big game on Sunday. All 13 had little to no sustenance whatsoever and a combined shelf life on the Internet of about seven minutes, but I can’t knock a fellow content man for churning out the content. I can and will, however, call someone in the content game out who makes a fool of themselves over an absurd statement.

We’ve never seen Travis Kelce and Jonas Valanciunas in the same room, just saying.
Travis Kelce was already one of the greatest tight ends in NFL history before this season. The Kansas City Chiefs star suddenly became exponentially more famous over the last year thanks to his relationship with Taylor Swift.
The Chiefs won the Super Bowl again on Sunday night, defeating the San Francisco 49ers, 25-22, in overtime. Kansas City became the ninth NFL team ever to win the Super Bowl in back-to-back years with the victory. It’s their third championship in the last five years.

Kenyan runner Kelvin Kiptum, the marathon world record holder, died in a car crash Sunday night at age 24.
Kiptum was driving the car with his coach, Gervais Hakizimana, as a passenger, in the village of Kaptagat in western Kenya when the car veered off the road and ran into a tree. Hakizimana also was killed. A woman was also in the car, and she was taken to a hospital with serious injuries, according to the Associated Press.
Kiptum’s world record of 2:00.35 was set in October at the Chicago Marathon.

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Scheffler made a run at it but missed the opportunity to win three straight WM Phoenix Open titles.
Scottie Scheffler had a strong shot at winning three straight WM Phoenix Open titles but putting mishaps prevented that from happening.
He came out firing on all cylinders Sunday morning to finish his third round. Scheffler made five birdies in a row to push him into contention. However, more putting woes down the stretch kept him from making history.
“I’m a bit frustrated.

Just three days after the sudden departure of Chip Kelly, the UCLA Bruins have found their guy. The school has named program legend and longtime assistant DeShaun Foster as its new head coach.
Foster played running back for the Bruins and later worked as an assistant under both Jim L. Mora and Kelly. The Las Vegas Raiders hired him as their running backs coach just 10 days ago, but he’ll forego that gig for the opportunity of a lifetime.

The Super Bowl logo reveals the 2025 matchup if you are a conspiracy theorist
It’s time to start prepping for Super Bowl LIX, and if you’re someone who believes in the NFL logo conspiracy theory then you’ll be excited to know it will be the Kansas City Chiefs returning for the third time in as many years to play the Seattle Seahawks.

The official logo for Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans: pic.twitter.com/6eRjS7jLLN
— Front Office Sports (@FOS) February 12, 2024

For the AFC this is a little bit open to interpretation.

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Hoffman wanted into the Genesis Invitational field with an exemption but played his way in instead.
Charley Hoffman was a birdie putt away from winning the WM Phoenix Open but came up just short. However, he still gets rewarded in a way.
His runner-up finish earned him a spot in this week’s Genesis Invitational, the third Signature Event of the year — a decent second-place prize.
Following a gut-wrenching playoff loss Sunday, Hoffman let the media in on something between him and Tiger Woods.

The NFL’s new playoff overtime rules have been a major point of discussion after the Kansas City Chiefs‘ 25—22 victory over the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII, which couldn’t be settled in regulation. 
Some 49ers players admitted they didn’t know the league’s new rules for overtime periods in the postseason. San Francisco coach Kyle Shanahan explained why his team elected to receive the ball after winning the coin toss, contending that he wanted a chance to win on the third possession if the teams’ traded scores to open the extra period.

The Kyle Shanahan era has now seen the 49ers fall to the Chiefs in a Super Bowl for a second time, extending a gut-wrenching title drought.