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Over in the CBS Sports Research group we’ve been crunching numbers furiously to get you hyped up for the NFL’s Championship Sunday. Read up so you can prove to your friend that you are smarter than they are.  Here are 15 facts to know for Sunday’s games: 1. Passing the torch. Either Tom Brady or Patrick Mahomes has started a …

Jan 23, 2024, 11:31 AM ET NEWARK, N.J. — The New Jersey Devils signed general manager Tom Fitzgerald to a multiyear contract extension Tuesday, also giving him the additional title of president of hockey operations. The Devils have been one of the fastest-rising and most-improved teams in the NHL since Fitzgerald took over for Ray Shero on an interim basis …

Brock Purdy and the San Francisco 49ers are one win away from earning a spot in Super Bowl LVIII and will play host to the Detroit Lions in the NFC Championship Game on Sunday (6:30 p.m. ET, FOX and the FOX Sports App). Yet the debate continues about Purdy’s role in the success of the Niners. Is this season’s NFL …

Here’s the thing about situations that are the equivalent of catching lightning in a bottle. Slim as the chances of it happening might be, it definitely can’t happen unless you put the bottle in the street. On Sunday, Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles failed to put the bottle in the street, conceding to the Lions with 36 seconds left and one …

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Getty Images Nick Sirianni is all but confirmed to return as the Eagles’ head coach, but his staff is getting a major makeover. Amid a change at defensive coordinator, where Ron Rivera is among candidates to replace the jettisoned Sean Desai, Brian Johnson is out as offensive coordinator, per NFL Media, marking the second straight year where the Eagles will be …

ESPN staffJan 23, 2024, 10:25 AM ET EmailPrintOpen Extended Reactions Prior to the start of the 2023-24 NHL season, five teams named players to take over as captain. The process to pick a captain can vary by team, and there are currently five clubs that do not have a captain. Editor’s Picks The shortest tenured captain is Calgary Flames forward …

A former colleague of Brian Daboll’s in Buffalo is under consideration to join Daboll’s staff with the Giants. Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that the Giants have requested permission to interview Bills linebackers coach Bobby Babich for their defensive coordinator vacancy. Babich joined the Bills as an assistant defensive backs coach in 2017 and he coached the team’s safeties …

The early line for the NFC Championship Game featuring Detroit and San Francisco has the Lions as 7-point underdogs (FOX and the FOX Sports app). And when it comes to Super Bowl futures, these two squads are sitting at opposite ends of the spectrum.  The Niners, at +145, currently have the shortest odds to win it all; the Lions, at …

Revisiting previous 49ers-Lions playoff games ahead of NFC title clash originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area The Detroit Lions’ last road playoff victory came one week before they won their last NFL championship. In 1957, the Lions traveled to Kezar Stadium in Golden Gate Park and produced an amazing comeback victory over the 49ers. Since then, the organization has …

“Great teams aren’t always great. They’re just great when they have to be.” That quote was masterfully said by NFL Films legend John Facenda when describing the 1979 Pittsburgh Steelers, a flawed yet talented team that captured the franchise’s fourth and final Super Bowl win of the decade. Now, 45 years later, that quote could one day be used to …

Patrick Mahomes did something on Sunday that he had never done before in his NFL career: play in a playoff game on the road. The No. 3-seeded Chiefs went to Highmark Stadium to face the No. 2-seeded Buffalo Bills in the divisional round, but for Mahomes it doesn’t matter what obstacles he faces, history shows he is going to make it …

Getty Images Andy Reid got another victory against Sean McDermott when the Kansas City Chiefs edged out the Buffalo Bills in Sunday’s divisional round, the third time Reid has gotten the better of his former assistant in the postseason. Reid is actually undefeated against former assistant coaches in the playoffs, sporting a 5-0 record against them in his 25 NFL seasons.  …

The numbers are undeniably big. However, the latest Chiefs-Bills playoff classic fell short of the last one — and well short of last year’s divisional-round game in the same window. Per multiple reports, 39 million viewers (on average) watched Kansas City beat Buffalo, 27-24, to advance to the AFC Championship. The last time the same two teams met in the …

As someone who has read every conspiracy theory ever published on the internet, which by the way, you should never do, I have finally found the one that is going to take the NFL down.  We’re on to you Roger Goodell and your world is going to come crashing down this weekend when everyone learns that the NFL has been …