Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce are always going to be the top on-field stories when it comes to the Kansas City Chiefs, but Steve Spagnuolo and his stellar defense are earning their share of the spotlight — and their share of the Super Bowl odds buzz — once again this year.
Heading into Super Bowl 58, the Chiefs are rolling defensively. They held the Baltimore Ravens to 10 points in the AFC Championship Game, and an airtight secondary is giving the Kansas City front seven more pass-rushing opportunities.
That brings us to George Karlaftis, who’s jumped off the screen in his second NFL season. The signs were there in the latter part of his rookie season — 5.5 sacks in his final seven regular season games that year — and now…
The 2024 NFL schedule barely broke into October before the first head coach was handed his walking papers.
The New York Jets said “so long” to Robert Saleh on Tuesday morning following the team’s loss to the Minnesota Vikings in London this past weekend. Saleh, who was +2,500 in the first head coach fired odds heading into Week 5, will be replaced by defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich for the time being.
This move leaves Gang Green looking for a new HC and has sportsbooks prompting opening NFL odds on just who that will be. Here’s a look at the favorites to be the next head coach of the J-E-T-S.
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Similar to what The New York Times did for the 100m dash in 2012, The Wall Street Journal has developed a great graphic to show just how much faster the top speed skaters have gotten over the years. The still above is part of an animation pitting every male 500m gold medalist against each other; the 2002 winner (Casey FitzRandolph) would have beaten the 1924 winner (Charles Jewtraw) by almost 10 seconds. Top speeds increased steadily until 2002, but the trend seems to have leveled off a bit. Also, as the Journal points out, the very fastest finishes since 1998 have all occurred on high-altitude tracks, so it's very unlikely that anyone will be breaking any records at Sochi (where the course is 89 feet above sea level). It will probably still look really fast though. [ Wall Stre…
Jürgen Klopp has said Liverpool are not on a “revenge tour” against Real Madrid as the chance of reaching another Champions League final provides all the motivation his team requires.
The Premier League and Spanish champions meet on Tuesday for the first time since the 2018 final and, despite the absence of the injured Sergio Ramos, the quarter-final first leg will stir memories of a painful defeat in Kyiv for Klopp, Mohamed Salah and company, with the Egyptian injured in a challenge from Ramos. Klopp admits he revisited the 3-1 loss when the draw pitted his team against Zinedine Zidane’s side but the anger he felt that night no longer exists.
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William Saliba’s return to Arsenal in the summer after his loan spell at Marseille presented Mikel Arteta with a selection conundrum in defence. The Frenchman shone in Ligue 1 last season but Arteta already had two very good centre-backs in Ben White and Gabriel Magalhães. They were first choice last season, when Arsenal finished fifth, so Saliba’s return threw a spanner in the works.
Arsenal’s defensive line had a clear pattern last season: the left-back was given the licence to attack and the right-back would tuck inside to ensure the team was not caught out. Takehiro Tomiyasu joined from Bologna last year to carry out this duty at right-back, and he did it brilliantly when fit, but an injury towards the end of the campaign restrict…
‘She has been an inspiration’
Emma Hayes has been an inspiration to so many people. Her sporting intelligence and football insight are up there with the best managers but, more than that, her commitment to growing the women’s and girls’ game has been unwavering. I loved watching Chelsea as they took a leap forward in professionalism and success: fantastic football. I called out to her after a match at the World Cup in Australia last year. She came over to get her photo taken with our daughter and gave us that smile; she was super busy and could easily have said no. Elaine, Edinburgh
‘She made top-level football feel human’
The San Francisco Giants are wrapping up the season on a nice roll.And that’s the olive on top of the two-hour-old sundae.The Giants were 2024’s Most Disappointing Team. It’s one man’s opinion, and that makes it a unanimous selection.Really, the only competition comes from the Rangers, but you know Bruce Bochy takes a siesta every season after winning a championship; the Rays, who finally played down to their talent level; and the Cubs and Red Sox, just because their names are permanently etched on the list. En route to their third straight non-winning season after a 107-win campaign had them primed to be the 2020s Team of the Decade, the Giants were such a disaster in 2024, even the things that went right went wrong.But let’s start with the things that truly did go wrong.Manag…
The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will probably not be a comprehensive shitstorm like these 2016 Games are shaping up to be, but there is a decent chance they will be much more rad, thanks to the new sports that could get added to the program. Five sports have made it through to the final round of whatever labyrinthine, certainly-not-corrupt-at-all-or-anything-like-that bureaucratic machinations the IOC goes through to pick new sports, and skateboarding and surfing have a legit shot to be Olympic sports in 2020. The IOC released a statement detailing the process, which essentially boils down to a series of votes by a series of subcommittees. One group passed a motion to send the five sports to the next group today, and the final voting will take place in early August. Sport climbing, …