Новости за 17.01.2020

After the 49ers beat the Vikings on Saturday, conventional wisdom suggested that San Francisco preferred a rematch with the Packers to a rubber match with the Seahawks. But there’s no guarantee that Packers-49ers II will also end in a first-half TKO. The 49ers won the Week 12 Sunday night game easily, by the score of [more]

The news that Larry Fitzgerald will play in 2020 raises a question that once seemed unthinkable: Could Jerry Rice’s record for career catches be broken? Rice retired after the 2004 season with 1,549 catches in his career. At the time, he was 448 ahead of the next-closest receiver, Cris Carter, and no one coming along [more]

Friday is the deadline for college underclassmen to declare their intention to enter the 2020 NFL Draft and another member of the LSU national champions threw his hat into the ring before the window slammed shut. Linebacker K’Lavon Chaisson announced his desire to kick off his professional career with a social media post. He’s the [more]

Former Browns offensive coordinator Todd Monken has found a place where he can call plays. And which, presumably, isn’t a “total mess.” According to Mark Schlabach, Monken is being hired as offensive coordinator at the University of Georgia. Monken has worked at both the college and pro levels in recent years, with a stint as [more]

Watford begins a run of three matches in five days with a visit from Tottenham Hotspur to Vicarage Road, kicking off the Premier League weekend.

Bruce Schlicker will lead Ross Chastain's No. 10 team and Alex Yontz will lead Justin Haley's No. 11 team.

Ultimately, the Houston Astros didn’t get away with the biggest baseball imbroglio since the Black Sox Scandal of 1918. But the Astros kind of did. Even if baseball strips them of their 2017 World Series title and goes around and collects the trophies and the rings and forces players and others to pay back whatever [more]

When Larry Fitzgerald decided to come back for a 17th season, he cited the development of quarterback Kyler Murray as one of the reasons. That was moving for Murray, and incentive to keep working to improve on his productive first season. After announcing his decision to come back for another year, Fitzgerald spoke glowingly of [more]

Wales is preparing for EURO 2020, where it's in Group A with Turkey, Switzerland, and Italy. The USMNT is 1-0 all-time versus the Dragons.

Ben McAdoo’s push to get back in the NFL has taken him to Jacksonville. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that McAdoo interviewed with the Jaguars this week about their offensive coordinator position. The Jaguars fired John DeFilippo after one year in that job. McAdoo has also met with the Panthers as he looks for [more]

There was enough pressure on the Colts quarterbacks coach this year, considering Andrew Luck retired during the preseason and they had to adjust on the fly. But being an outlier made the job that much more difficult for Colts quarterbacks coach Marcus Brady. He’s one of the two minority quarterbacks coaches in the NFL (along [more]

Chelsea maintains a five-point gap over Manchester United in its bid to claim a Top Four place in the Premier League, while Newcastle sits 13th.

Scott Linehan was out of the NFL in 2019 after being ousted as the Cowboys offensive coordinator last January, but he’s trying to get back into the game. Chris Mortensen of ESPN reports that Linehan has lined up several interviews for assistant coaching positions. Per the report, Linehan is slated to meet with the Giants, [more]

"I would probably think he wouldn't be ready but let's see. it's 48 hours, so let's see," said the Manchester United manager.

Serving as the Chiefs offensive coordinator served as a stepping stone to a head coaching job for Doug Pederson and Matt Nagy, but Eric Bieniemy hasn’t been able to make the same leap. Bieniemy has interviewed with multiple teams over the last two hiring cycles without landing a position, which has led to a couple [more]

Maguire replaces Ashley Young as skipper. Other recent Manchester United captains include Michael Carrick, Wayne Rooney, and Nemanja Vidic.

Robert Saleh is not the head coach of the Cleveland Browns today. Instead, he’s preparing for the NFC Championship Game. He seems OK with that. Via Scott Bair of NBCSportsBayArea.com, the 49ers defensive coordinator said he’s focusing on the large task in front of him rather than the larger one that isn’t. “There’s no disappointment,” [more]

The Packers won 13 games in the regular season and they’re taking a six-game winning streak with them into Sunday’s game, but they aren’t favored to beat the 49ers. Green Bay is a 7.5-point underdog ahead of their trip to Santa Clara to play for the NFC title, which the Packers see as reason to [more]

It’s not often that the league’s leading rusher gets to the Super Bowl, but Titans running back Derrick Henry can do it this season. After leading the NFL with 1,540 rushing yards in the regular season, Henry is now one Titans win over the Chiefs on Sunday away from getting to the Super Bowl. If [more]

If Antonio Callaway wants to play football in 2020, his first chance will be in the XFL. According to Scott Patsko of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the former Browns wide receiver was claimed by the XFL’s Tampa Bay Vipers. Callaway lost his appeal of a 10-game suspension for violating the league’s substance abuse policy in [more]

Before the Cowboys played their final game of the 2019 season, tight end Jason Witten said he will make a “pretty quick” decision about whether or not he will play in 2020. Witten did not play in 2018 while serving as a commentator on Monday Night Football, but said that his new post-playing aspiration is [more]

Brad Keselowski details how the new short track package should bring back closer racing, mirroring the 2017 duel he had with Kyle Busch at Martinsville.

The Steelers are happy to play an international game. But they have a clear preference on where that game would be. Via Joe Rutter of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Steelers president Art Rooney II said the team is willing to play in Mexcio City in 2020. “We continue to raise our hand and say that we’re [more]

Exhale, Bengals fans. There won’t be an Eli Manning situation at the top of this year’s draft. Jimmy Burrow, whose son Joe is likely to be the first pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, said his son has no qualms about being drafted by Cincinnati if that’s how it works out. (Narrator voice: That’s how [more]

New Carolina Panthers head coach Matt Rhule is bringing along a couple more coaches from his staff at Baylor along with him to Charlotte. According to David Smoak of ESPN Central Texas, Frisman Jackson and Evan Cooper are also headed to the Panthers coaching staff along with Phil Snow and Mike Siravo. Jackson will be [more]