Новости за 08.01.2021

Aston Villa will use a team of youth players to face Liverpool in the FA Cup after a COVID-19 outbreak in the first team, while their Premier League game v. Tottenham is in doubt.

Can we order a Dallas vs. Denver playoff series, please?

By the end of Saturday, 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh will have interviewed with five of the six teams currently in the market for a head coach. Albert Breer of SI.com reports that Saleh will interview with the Jaguars and Chargers on Saturday. He is set to interview with the Jets on Friday and has [more]

Colts defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus will be trying to slow down the Bills on Saturday afternoon before moving on to meetings with a pair of teams who are in the market for a new head coach. Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that Eberflus is set to interview with the Jets on Sunday and the [more]

The Broncos will kick off their General Manager search with a pair of interviews on Friday. Albert Breer of SI.com reports that Bears assistant director of player personnel Champ Kelly and Vikings assistant G.M. George Paton will meet with the team. They are part of a group of five candidates who have been identified as [more]

Compelling arguments can be made this year in favor of many NFL head coaches for the official coach of the year award, for two reasons. First, there were many very good NFL head coaches this year. Second, the standard for this award continues to be very loose and vague. What does it mean to be [more]

23XI Racing, Trackhouse Racing and Live Fast Motorsports are all busy preparing the start of the season at Daytona.

Urban Meyer is meeting with the Jaguars today about their head coaching vacancy. No deal is imminent and the team isn’t done interviewing other head coaching candidates, NFL Network reports. Meyer has been identified since before Doug Marrone was fired as a potential next head coach of the Jaguars. Although Meyer has no NFL experience [more]

Colts linebacker Darius Leonard will be one of the best players on the field when this year’s playoffs begin on Saturday in Buffalo. But he knows not many people are giving his team a chance. Leonard says coach Frank Reich has made sure that everyone in the facility knows that the experts think the Colts [more]

Seth Curry, who played Wednesday night and was on the bench for the first quarter Thursday, reportedly tested positive.

Buffalo Bills running back Taiwan Jones has invited Valentino Dixon — a Bills fan who spent 27 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit — to attend Saturday’s playoff game against the Indianapolis Colts, per Marcel Louis-Jaques of ESPN.com. Dixon was convicted of murder in 1991 despite no physical evidence linking him to [more]

Joel Bitonio won’t be able to play for the Cleveland Browns on Sunday night against the Pittsburgh Steelers. But despite not being on the field, he’ll be on the mind of his teammates as they try to win the franchise’s first playoff game since 1994. “He’s important to our team,’’ wide receiver Jarvis Landry said [more]

After just one season on the Carolina Panthers coaching staff, assistant offensive line coach Marcus Satterfield is leaving the team to become the offensive coordinator at South Carolina, per Joe Person and Josh Kendall of TheAthletic.com. Satterfield followed Matt Rhule to the Panthers after spending the previous two seasons as the tight ends coach at [more]

Joe Harris scored a season-high 28 points.

The Carolina Panthers will interview a pair of internal candidates for their open General Manager position. According to Joe Person of TheAthletic.com, the team will interview Director of Player Negotiations & Salary Cap Manager Samir Suleiman and Director of Player Personnel Pat Stewart for the vacancy. Sueliman (pictured) and Stewart are the latest on the [more]

Manchester United and Manchester City are rolling, and the latter's cup shutout of the former this week was its 14th clean sheet over 23 matches. Wow.

JuJu Smith-Schuster is no longer literally dancing on the opponents’ logo. He did so figuratively on Thursday. “I think they’re still the same Browns teams I play every year,” the Steelers receiver said Wednesday, via Tom Withers of the Associated Press. “I think they’re nameless gray faces. They have a couple good players on their [more]

Packers offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett said earlier this week he was ready to become a head coach. “I think definitely ready,” Hackett said, via Ryan Wood of the Green Bay Press-Gazette. “I think it’s something you’re thinking about the minute you get into this profession.” Hackett interviewed with the Falcons, the team announced Thursday night [more]

Aaron Rodgers said during his videoconference Thursday that the Packers would have “some exciting news” to announce regarding “game day fun.” Now, we know what the quarterback was referring to. The Packers announced Thursday night they will welcome approximately 6,000 fans to Lambeau Field for their divisional-round game. Season-ticket holders who opted in this season [more]

Saints running back Alvin Kamara remains on the COVID-19 reserve list. The Saints placed him on the list last Friday after he tested positive for the coronavirus. Kamara, though, is eligible to return to the active roster before Sunday’s wild-card game against the Bears, but only on game day, after his 10-day isolation ends. Sean [more]

Lin hopes to use this as a stepping stone back to the NBA.

And now we know why Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson is telling teammates he may ask for a trade. A flood of reports has emerged on Thursday night, as reported have chased the story teed up earlier today by our item raising the question of whether Watson wants out. It’s now clear that he does. Albert [more]

If he knows, Rams coach Sean McVay isn’t giving away who will start Saturday’s wild-card playoff game. Neither is starting quarterback Jared Goff. “I’m in the mindset that if I have to play at any point, I’m ready to play,” Goff said, via Gary Klein of the Los Angeles Times. Goff is questionable to play [more]

The match is considered the biggest ever gap between two clubs in the third round of the FA Cup, where it is Marine v Mourinho, er, Tottenham.

A little over an hour after a report surfaced that the Texans were hiring Nick Caserio as General Manager on Tuesday, Deshaun Watson tweeted — and later deleted — what seemed his displeasure with the choice. “some things never change….” Watson wrote. The quarterback is “extremely unhappy with the organization” and not answering calls from [more]