Новости за 26.01.2021

The first full moon of the NHL season arrives on Thursday.

Some in the league office, if being candid, would say that they’d prefer to play the Super Bowl this Sunday, not next Sunday. With more time between games, players, coaches, and essential staff will have more chances to be exposed to the virus. It becomes more important than ever for everyone associated with the Chiefs [more]

Robert Saleh is now the head coach of the Jets, but 49ers linebacker Fred Warner doesn’t think that Saleh’s departure will lead to a pronounced shift on defense. The 49ers have promoted linebackers coach DeMeco Ryans to the defensive coordinator position and Warner believes his former position coach is “more than prepared and ready” to [more]

Bills coach Sean McDermott may realize, in hindsight, that he should have been more aggressive on fourth downs in Sunday’s AFC Championship Game. But at the time, he thought he had to play it safe. McDermott said today that he worried about going for it on fourth down and seeing his team get discouraged if [more]

With just about the halfway point of the 2020-21 season here, our mid-term Premier League grades have arrived.

Former Alabama Devonta Smith is small. How small is he? No one knows, at least for now. Smith declined to be weighed or measured at the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama. He’ll do it instead at the Alabama Pro Day workout. (He easily could gain weight by then; it’s unclear how he could gain height [more]

NASCAR stars will compete in a 10-race virtual series beginning March 24 on Bristol's dirt layout. NBC Sports will air the final five races.

The Lions and Vikings may be competing for the same assistant coach. According to a report from Jordan Raanan of ESPN, Giants assistant defensive backs coach Anthony Blevins has interviewed with both teams for their vacancy at special teams coordinator. Blevins started in New York as an assistant special teams coach in 2018 under then-head [more]

In the latest transfer news Bryan Reynolds to Roma and Kaide Gordon to Liverpool are the reports which catch the eye.

Pittsburgh radio host Mark Madden made an interesting claim on Monday. Interesting enough to get the subject of it to respond. Madden claimed that Steelers linebacker T.J. Watt skipped his end-of-season exit interview with the team. “I am told that T.J. Watt refused to participate in his exit interview,” Madden said Monday at the top [more]

Pietrangelo signed a seven-year deal in Vegas after 12 years with the Blues.

The Steelers bumped Matt Canada from quarterbacks coach to offensive coordinator and they’ve reportedly started the process of finding a new quarterbacks coach. Gerry Dulac of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that the team is speaking to Mike Sullivan about the position. Sullivan last worked in the NFL as the Broncos quarterbacks coach in 2018. He [more]

The Green Bay Packers have spoken. CEO Mark Murphy, appearing Monday on The 5th Quarter Show on WNFL in Green Bay, addressed quarterback Aaron Rodgers‘ recent comments suggesting uncertainty regarding his future with the team. “We’re not idiots,” Murphy said. “Aaron Rodgers will be back, he’s our leader.” He’s a leader that they undermined and [more]

Coverage of Capitals-Islanders begins at 6:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN and the NBC Sports app.

Premier League transfer news keeps on coming, as the January window is bubbling up nicely before deadline day on Feb. 1.

Andy Reid has coached against Tom Brady many times and will again in Super Bowl LV. The Chiefs were the last team to beat the Buccaneers this season, back in Week 12. Tampa Bay has won seven games in a row since then, in large part due to Brady’s execution of the offense. “You can [more]

Former Bears quarterback Henry Burris returned to the team as a Bill Walsh Coaching Fellow last year and he’ll be staying with the team for the 2021 season. Field Yates of ESPN reports that Burris has been named an offensive quality coach on Matt Nagy’s staff. Burris had spent the last few years as an [more]

"I try not to put myself back in that headspace, because it's just too dark." —LeBron James

Tuesday's collection of links.

The Deloitte Football Money League is one of those lists that every single season people sit up and pay close attention to.

Washington made it official on Tuesday morning, announcing Jennifer King has been promoted to assistant running backs coach. She is the first Black woman to serve as a full-time assistant coach in the NFL. King spent the 2020 season as a coaching intern for Washington. “Coach King is well deserving of the promotion to assistant [more]

If one franchise should know better than to motivate LeBron, it should be Cleveland.

Bills offensive coordinator Brian Daboll’s work the last couple of seasons moved him onto the list of head coaching candidates for several teams, but Daboll won’t be leaving Buffalo. The Texans have not filled their opening, but Daboll is not in the mix for that job and is set for a fourth season running the [more]

Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch are closing in on 60 Cup wins. Denny Hamlin seeks to make history in the Daytona 500.

Tyreek Hill didn’t score any of the Chiefs’ five touchdowns in the AFC Championship Game, but he did have the longest gain of the contest. Hill caught a short pass from Patrick Mahomes in the third quarter and found himself starting to get hemmed in along the right sideline. He cut back across the field, [more]