1:42 PM ET U.S. sportsbooks capped one of their most lucrative football seasons ever with a big win on the Super Bowl. More than $136 million was bet on the Super Bowl LV with Nevada sportsbooks. The state’s books won a net $12.6 million on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers‘ upset of the Kansas City Chiefs,
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9:55 AM ET KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Patrick Mahomes is scheduled for surgery Wednesday for the turf toe injury that bothered the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback late in the season and throughout the playoffs, a source confirmed to ESPN. Mahomes is expected to miss most of offseason work with the team but be full go
9:19 AM ET ESPN News Services Former NFL head coach Marty Schottenheimer died Monday after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 77. Schottenheimer was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2014. He was moved to a hospice facility near his home in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Jan. 3o due to complications from the irreversible, progressive
9:28 AM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ rout of the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl drew a total audience of 96.4 million viewers. CBS said Tuesday the audience included record digital numbers for a game that had lost its competitive edge by halftime — Tampa Bay won 31-9
6:00 AM ET INDIANAPOLIS — One potential quarterback — Matthew Stafford — is off the board for the Indianapolis Colts. There are other options for the Colts to try to replace retired Philip Rivers. Whom it will be is still up in the air. But ESPN’s Adam Schefter recently reported the Colts have interest in
7:15 AM ET A most unique and exhausting NFL season — one that followed a most unique and exhausting offseason — is over. The NFL and the NFL Players Association can take a breath. They just better make it a quick one. The COVID-19 pandemic will shape the 2021 offseason as well, and both the
8:00 AM ET HISTORY WILL SUGGEST that Tom Brady was the story of Super Bowl LV, but history will lie. The man who won his seventh ring and his fifth Super Bowl MVP was a story, to be sure, but the Tampa Bay Buccaneers became the first NFL team to win a championship in its
4:58 PM ET Set to become an unrestricted free agent in March, San Francisco 49ers cornerback Richard Sherman‘s next NFL stop is likely to be his last. Sherman, who will be 33 in March, has long maintained that he wants to play until he’s 35, told Stephen A. Smith on his ESPN+ show Stephen A’s
5:34 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Mayor Jane Castor expressed frustration Monday over individuals not following her executive order for masks to be worn in certain outdoor areas of the city. The city handed out more than 200,000 masks, and still places such as Ybor City were packed with maskless crowds of partiers and
2:53 PM ET KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs don’t plan to let Sunday’s loss in Super Bowl LV define them. While the previous two teams to lose the Super Bowl didn’t reach the playoffs the following season, the Chiefs seem poised to break that streak next year, even after their stunning 31-9