The Los Angeles Rams have won Super Bowl LVI 23-20 over the Cincinnati Bengals.
The Bengals are into the Super Bowl for the first time in 33 years while the Rams rallied in a thriller against the 49ers.
Jessica Pegula faces Ashleigh Barty at the Australian Open on Tuesday night and hopes that the Buffalo Bills’ overnight loss,the NFL team her family owns,isn’t an omen.
If Tom Brady has played the last game of an unprecedented NFL career,he ended with one of his toughest losses after a stunning comeback. Meanwhile,a thrilling finish to the Bills-Chiefs clash ended in heartbreak for Buffalo in overtime.
Antonio Brown’s days as a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,and possibly as an NFL player,are over after he removed his shoulder pads and jersey,ran across the end zone and headed to the team’s locker room midway through the third quarter.
For Australian sporting clubs and competitions which have only just emerged from two years ensconced in bio-secure bubbles,the newest variant of the coronavirus brings with it a different sort of challenge.
They love an underdog in Philadelphia,including fictional ones. But the 160kg former South Sydney Rabbitoh doesn’t want them to cut him any slack.
The five-year NFL veteran,who has also played with Cleveland and Tampa Bay,said he had been meaning to announce that he was finally “comfortable getting it off my chest.”