10:31 PM ET The upstart Cincinnati Bengals are underdogs again. Sportsbooks on Sunday installed the Los Angeles Rams as 3.5-point favorites over the Bengals in Super Bowl LVI. The Rams opened as -170 money-line favorites to win the game straight up at Caesars Sportsbook, and the over/under total was set at 50.5 points. The Super
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8:56 PM ET KANSAS CITY, Mo. — There might have been a time early in his career when Patrick Mahomes would have looked back at a season where the Kansas City Chiefs lost in overtime of the AFC Championship Game and felt his team accomplished a lot. But he said after Sunday’s 27-24 overtime loss
9:50 PM ET ESPN staff Well now. Super Bowl LVI is going to give us a matchup that almost none of us expected when the 2021 season began. The Cincinnati Bengals were 125-1 preseason long shots to reach the Super Bowl, having won an NFL-worst two games in 2019 and then only four games last
7:45 PM ET Tory BarronESPN Editor Close Tory Barron is a Bristol-based writer and editor for ESPN.com. After retiring from playing lacrosse at UConn, the DC native decided to try her hand at writing about people playing sports. The Los Angeles Rams went all in this season. Now, Matthew Stafford, Odell Beckham Jr. & Co.
6:16 PM ET KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Break out the victory cigars. The Cincinnati Bengals are headed to the Super Bowl. For the first time in decades, the Bengals are AFC champions. Cincinnati defeated the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday in overtime, 27-24, to win its first conference championship since 1989. The Bengals will face
2:00 PM ET ESPN staff The NFL regular season is behind us, and we have five head-coaching openings. The first two hires of this job cycle were made on Thursday with the Denver Broncos‘ hiring of Nathaniel Hackett and the Chicago Bears‘ hiring of Matt Eberflus. The New York Giants followed on Friday by hiring
4:20 PM ET Tory BarronESPN Editor Close Tory Barron is a Bristol-based writer and editor for ESPN.com. After retiring from playing lacrosse at UConn, the DC native decided to try her hand at writing about people playing sports. Will the Kansas City Chiefs make it three straight trips to the Super Bowl, or will second-year
3:48 PM ET KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Cincinnati Bengals tight end C.J. Uzomah was taken to the locker room after suffering a left knee injury in Sunday’s AFC Championship Game against the Kansas City Chiefs. The Bengals initially said Uzomah was doubtful to return before ruling him out after halftime. Uzomah went down after he
1:46 PM ET The Las Vegas Raiders are expected to hire Josh McDaniels as their new head coach and Dave Ziegler as their new general manager, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The Raiders and McDaniels are still finalizing a contract, the sources said. The 44-year-old Ziegler, the New England Patriots‘ director of player personnel, would
11:33 PM ET Kansas City Chiefs safety Tyrann Mathieu is “good to go” for Sunday’s AFC title game against the Cincinnati Bengals, a source told ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler. Mathieu suffered a concussion in Kansas City’s win over the Buffalo Bills last week, but has had no setbacks in the concussion protocol and is set to