Nobody on the offensive side of Los Angeles is immune to criticism after their flop in Super Bowl LIII, a 13-3 loss to the Patriots that saw Tom Brady create more New England history and Goff utterly overmatched.
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Ed Graney came to the Review-Journal in May of 2006 as its lead sports columnist. He has covered all major sporting events, including Super Bowls to NBA championships to every Final Four since 1995. Graney also covered the Olympic Games in Beijing (2008) and London (2012). A graduate of San Diego State University, he is a five-time Nevada Sportswriter of the Year and past winner of Associated Press Sports Editors Top 10 for columns. He and wife Bonnie have two children, a son (Tristan) and daughter (Bridget).
Former Raiders coach Tom Flores was not included in the new Pro Football Hall of Fame class announced during the NFL’s annual Honors program Saturday.
The Los Angeles Rams and New England Patriots meet in the Super Bowl at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. Here’s a look at matchups for the game.
Marist School was founded in 1901 and is a picturesque setting from another time, where the current Rams head coach Sean McVay was a state champion as an option quarterback.
Super Bowl LIII has arrived to Atlanta, where an NFL season will conclude for the first time in 19 years with the Patriots engaging the Rams, the most important event yet at the $1.6 billion home of the Atlanta Falcons.
Tom Brady still owns an insatiable desire to succeed, and you could argue few have displayed his level of determination and commitment and unrelenting pursuit of excellence, one reason the 41-year-old quarterback of the Patriots has five Super Bowl rings.
Analysts at the NFL Network think Mike Mayock’s talent for evaluating players will make him a successful general manager and able to work with Raiders coach Jon Gruden.
For a ninth time, Bill Belichick will on Sunday stroll the sidelines as head coach of a Patriots team playing in a season’s final game. For the first time, he will share the moment with his two sons as part of the staff.
Too much is at stake now, too many billions of dollars wagered annually, to be worried about things like lengthening games or altering tradition when it comes to how missed calls are handled.
New England will make its 11th appearance in a season’s final game Sunday, when it meets the Rams in Super Bowl LIII at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, and yet it’s really only the last nine trips that seem to stick in those collective craws of jealousy.
The week officially commenced Monday with the Rams and Patriots officially gathered at State Farm Arena, the only time both teams will congregate in the same venue before Sunday’s game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
Gerard Gallant, last year’s runaway winner for the Jack Adams Award as the NHL’s Coach of the Year, has the Knights back in contention for a playoff spot.
Vegas reaches the All-Star break third in the Pacific Division at 62 points, just six fewer than it had at this time last year, a push made when Nate Schmidt returned from a 20-game suspension.
UNLV’s basketball team on Tuesday night knocked off another conference team from distance, and in the process swept the regular-season series from New Mexico for the first time in eight years with a 74-58 victory.
The Wild beat Vegas again Monday, this time by a 4-2 final before an announced gathering of 18,328, where the visitors forechecked any sort of raucous atmosphere right out of the Golden Knights home arena.