10:48 PM ET NEW ORLEANS — Tom Brady and Drew Brees will actually do something next week that they have never accomplished in their storied NFL careers: Face each other in a playoff game. The second-seeded New Orleans Saints will host the fifth-seeded Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the grand finale of next weekend’s divisional-round matchups
Month: January 2021
first Quarter CLE PIT TD 14:46 Karl Joseph Fumble Recovery in the End Zone, Cody Parkey Made Ex. Pt 1 play, -20 yards, 0:14 7 0 TD 9:46 Jarvis Landry Pass From Baker Mayfield for 40 Yrds, C.Parkey extra point is GOOD, Center-C.Hughlett, Holder-J.Gillan. 3 plays, 46 yards, 0:58 14 0 TD 4:40 Kareem Hunt
9:25 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Finally able to shed his cumbersome protective face mask, Kawhi Leonard enjoyed a milestone Sunday that included the best quarter of his life and reaching 10,000 career points. Leonard scored 35 and tied his career high of making seven 3-pointers, leading the Clippers past a red-hot Zach LaVine and
9:00 PM ET Dallas Mavericks big man Kristaps Porzingis could make his season debut Monday night against the New Orleans Pelicans. Porzingis, who underwent surgery in October to address a lateral meniscus injury in his left knee, is listed as questionable for the first time this season. He is included among the Mavs’ likely starters
8:30 PM ET The Los Angeles Lakers exchanged DeMarcus Cousins‘ roster spot for Markieff Morris back in February. In Cousins’ first game against his former team Sunday, he and Morris got in a testy exchange of their own. Neither player ended up finishing the game. Morris and Cousins were called for double technical fouls with
10:13 PM ET I am decades removed from Nickelodeon’s target demographic, and watching the network’s first NFL playoff game Sunday afternoon necessitated a suspension of all snark and sarcasm, but you are about to read words that I never imagined typing: The Nick broadcast was a hell of a lot of fun, maybe the best
8:01 PM ET NEW ORLEANS — Drew Brees vs. Tom Brady, Part III. Another one for the history books. The second-seeded New Orleans Saints will host the fifth-seeded Tampa Bay Buccaneers in a playoff matchup for the ages next weekend after the Saints slogged through a 21-9 victory over the Chicago Bears on Sunday. &•
8:34 PM ET The start to the Cleveland Browns‘ first playoff game in 18 years couldn’t have gone more perfectly on Sunday night. On the first play of the game, Pittsburgh Steelers center Maurkice Pouncey snapped the ball over the head of quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. After a scramble for the ball, Cleveland’s Karl Joseph recovered
7:08 PM ET ESPN News Services NEWARK, N.J. — The New Jersey Devils have re-signed restricted free agent forward Jesper Bratt to a $5.5 million, two-year contract. Devils general manager Tom Fitzgerald announced the deal on Sunday, four days before the season opener at home against the Boston Bruins. The 22-year-old Bratt will make just
5:00 PM ET NEW ORLEANS – Nothing has come easy for the New Orleans Saints offense against a feisty Chicago Bears defensive front. That was especially true on Drew Brees’ improvised 6-yard touchdown pass to running back Latavius Murray late in the third quarter. Brees barely got rid of a dump-off pass to Murray after