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The Los Angeles Lakers are champions again.
Sort of.
On Saturday night, LA captured the NBA’s inaugural In-Season Tournament crown, earning each player $500,000 and a piece of history. Not bad for a Christmas bonus. There’s only one problem: Los Angeles still has 59 regular season games to play.
After beating the Pacers handily, Los Angeles celebrated more than any team normally would for a mid-December contest ($500k is reason enough to get excited), but things still felt awkward.
LA is currently 14-9, 5th place in the Western Conference.

With a 2–2 record at the helm for the Raiders, interim coach Antonio Pierce has a real shot at getting the job permanently this offseason. But before that, he plans on learning as much as he can and has apparently began looking for guidance from his past. 
During preparation for the Vikings this week, former NFL coaches Tom Coughlin, Marvin Lewis and Adam Gase were all at Raiders headquarters, according to NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero. The three veterans sat in on meetings to provide guidance on football operations.

Here’s what you need to know about how to watch the Buffalo Bills vs. Kansas City Chiefs game.

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The Eagles, 49ers, and Cowboys can all clinch playoff spots this weekend
Get excited, because it is crazy elimination scenario time.
Here are the playoff and elimination scenarios for Week 14 of the NFL season, along with information on each game involved. To keep things relatively simple, on the elimination side of things we are focusing purely on playoff elimination, not elimination from division titles or first-overall seeding.
We will start in the NFC, which has the only playoff-clinching scenarios.

Despite the 2023 season nearly at an end, NFL teams still haven’t been informed about next year’s salary cap information as all 32 franchises look to improve in the offseason. According to a reported memo, team’s won’t get those details until the new year. 
The league sent a memo to teams last week that there will be no projections of the 2024 salary cap until early January, per ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The league cited “open matters” that the NFL and NFL Players Association still are addressing and trying to resolve.

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What we got right, and wrong, about the 2023 F1 season
Here at SB Nation, we are all about accountability.
The life of being a sportswriter has its share of ups and downs. Some of the ups? You get to watch sports for a living! You get to work with some incredible people and interview fascinating athletes like Lando Norris, Valtteri Bottas, and Oscar Piastri.
The downs?
You make mistakes, a lot of them.

Here’s what you need to know about how to watch the Rams at Ravens game.

New York Giants running back Saquon Barkley knows firsthand how tough it can be to deal with homelessness. Now he’s doing what he can to help those dealing with it themselves.
And he’s doing a lot.
Barkley hosted a Sleep Out event at MetLife Stadium along with Covenant House, The latter is an organization that works to keep America’s youth off the street.
350 people slept outside — and that couldn’t have been easy considering temperatures were in the low 30s — to raise money for the organization.
And raise money they did. According to NJ.

South Dakota State players found a unique way to stay warm during a playoff win over Villanova.
The Jackrabbits beat the Wildcats 23-12 at home to advance in the FCS playoffs, and the team did it at home in sub-freezing temps and high winds.
How did players manage to stay warm in the downright brutal conditions? They used a “hot box” to quickly warm up while not playing on the field.
Yes, the Jackrabbits had an actual big box on the sidelines, presumably hosting heaters for the players to stay warm in-between drives.
Check out an awesome video of the players using it below.

Deion Sanders claims he doesn’t plan on taking a different coaching job the rest of his career.
Sanders got off to a hot 3-0 start at Colorado before finishing 1-8 in the final nine games of this season. A year that started with so much hope ended in complete and total disaster.
Yet, Sanders managed to make the Buffs a relevant program, even if there wasn’t a lot of winning going on.
Now, he claims it will be the last job he ever takes.
Deion Sanders claims he plans on retiring at Colorado. (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)
Deion Sanders claims he will retire at Colorado.