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The Atlanta Falcons, fresh off a collapse in the Super Bowl, hired the offensive coordinator from an Alabama team that blew a lead in the final seconds of last season’s collegiate national championship game. Former Washington and USC head coach Steve Sarkisian was hired to replace Kyle Shanahan as the Falcons’ offensive coordinator. The new was first reported by Jordan Schultz of Huffington Post and confirmed by ESPN’s Adam Schefter….

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New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman is featured on the cover of the Super Bowl issue of Sports Illustrated. Edelman’s photo was selected from five cover options that also included photos of Tom Brady, James White and David Andrews. Fans were asked to weigh in on which photo was their favorite on Sports Illustrated’s Instagram by “liking” the one they would like to see on the cover. Brady was…

“My first thought was, ‘At my age? No way!’” she told People. “When I turned 30, I was like, ‘This is the last time I’m posing in a bathing suit!’ When this issue comes out, I’ll be 63. I thought, ‘Those days are over.’ But to get to do it with my girls, I thought, ‘One last go!’”

Greatest moment in Boston sports history? Yes. Absolutely. But the mere fact that we’re even having this discussion over what happened at NRG Stadium Sunday night is a hair-raising, bolt-of-lightning reminder of what it’s like to be a Boston sports fan. And that’s just in the last 15 years. It has been joyous, heart-pounding . . . gluttonous. It has been our very own Never Ending Story, with Wally the Green Monster…

Manchester City and England striker Izzy Christiansen won PFA Women’s Player of the Year in 2015-16. Women’s Sport Week will be “a fantastic campaign” and “encourage more women to try a new sport”, says minister for sport Tracey Crouch. The initiative returns from 19-25 June ahead of a busy summer of elite sport which includes the cricket and rugby World Cups in the UK and Ireland. The European Football Championship…

Atlanta sports fans are eternal pessimists, and for good reason, bad things keep happening to their teams in dramatic, devastating ways. Just when they think it can’t get worse, it does. No matter how big the late-game lead is, time appears to slow down to crawl, allowing the opponent to stage a comeback. This keeps happening to Atlanta — regardless of how many times fans say to themselves, “Maybe this…

Emmanuelle Hauguel/SI Christie Brinkley first covered the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 1979 (then set a record by landing the covers for the next two years). For decades thereafter, she toured the world posing in one exotic location after another, before hanging up her barely-there bikinis in 2004. But now, at the age of 63, she’s returning to the SI Swim family, proving her agelessness once again. And this time,…

Sports(Photo: File) COLLEGES MEN’S BASKETBALL BIG TEN STANDINGS Tuesday Maryland at Penn State, 6 p.m. Illinois at Northwestern, 8 p.m. Michigan State at Michigan, 9 p.m. Wednesday Rutgers at Ohio State, 7 p.m. Iowa at Minnesota, 9 p.m. Thursday Purdue at Indiana, 7 p.m. Wisconsin at Nebraska, 9 p.m. Saturday Minnesota at Rutgers, noon Penn State at Illinois, 2 p.m. Ohio State at Maryland, 4 p.m. Iowa at Michigan State,…

More on this HB2 controversy arises again after UNC’s trip to Greensboro Senate Democrats file HB2 repeal bill HB2 repeal effort fails Complete coverage: House Bill 2  Find News Near Me Raleigh, N.C. — North Carolina could lose dozens of NCAA championship events over the next six years if legislation limiting protections for the LGBT community isn’t repealed, the executive director of a sports group said. Scott Dupree, executive director…

By Kelby Vera At Dailymail.com Published: 21:53 EST, 6 February 2017 | Updated: 03:24 EST, 7 February 2017 e-mail 249 View comments It looks like being beautiful runs in the family if you’re a Brinkley! On Monday, Sports Illustrated revealed stunning shots of 63-year-old Christie her daughters Sailor, 18, and Alexa, 31. In an exclusive interview with People the supermodel, who first covered the magazine back in 1979, explained that she…

BUY TICKETS: See the Daytona 500 live! NASCAR is enhancing the race day experience for fans this season, beginning with the Advance Auto Parts Clash at Daytona. All throughout the season, fans will be able to tune in to MRN/PRN broadcasts free of charge, including MRN/PRN Monster Energy NASCAR Cup qualifying radio. The in-depth NASCAR Drive experience, which will also be available on mobile web and the app, can be…

On Sunday night, the New England Patriots pulled off a stunning and historic comeback to beat the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl LI. It was the first ever Super Bowl to go to overtime. All the Super Bowl coverage you need is right here. Baseball players, like millions of others, were sitting at home watching Tom Brady and Patriots complete their comeback. And, like millions of others, they were in…

There’s nothing magical about 30 that makes a player more likely to start to decline at that age, but it’s a useful round number when we start to look at players who might be on the downside of their careers. Every player doesn’t age the same, of course. Bryce Harper may have peaked at 22, while Jose Bautista didn’t even get going until he was nearly 30. Latest mocks, tiers,…

Tyler Fleming | Published 45 minutes ago Opinion editor Tyler Fleming Baseball is back. Football is dead. Well football isn’t dead, but it might as well be. Baseball is the better sport, and I am just one of many people trying to make this claim. Football brings out the worst in us. It encourages violence, inflicts pain and causes life-threatening concussions. Baseball has its fair share of injuries, but they…

BUY TICKETS: See the Daytona 500 live! Former NASCAR championship-winning team owner Robert Yates is “hanging tough” in his battle with liver cancer and has nearly completed chemotherapy treatments, according to his son, Doug Yates. “He has two more and then hopefully they can go to surgery,” Yates, CEO of Roush Yates Engines, said during a teleconference Monday. “But he’s hanging tough. He gets excited when we start racing so…

The 65th annual Beanpot tournament kicks off Monday night with a doubleheader, as Boston’s college hockey powers will duel it out at TD Garden. Harvard will face Northeastern at 5 p.m. ET, followed by Boston playing Boston College at 8 p.m. ET. The winning teams for Monday’s game will play in the championship on February 13 at 7:30 p.m. ET. The consolation game will be played prior to…

A onetime girls soccer coach for Champlin Park High School has agreed to plead guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old boy in his north metro bedroom, with the possibility that the case will later be dismissed. Rebecca L. Noonan, 33, of Minneapolis, pleaded guilty last week in Anoka County District Court to fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct in connection with her having intercourse with the boy in his Ramsey home…

On Sunday night, the New England Patriots pulled off a stunning and historic comeback to beat the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl LI. It was the first ever Super Bowl to go to overtime. All the Super Bowl coverage you need is right here. Baseball players, like millions of others, were sitting at home watching Tom Brady and Patriots complete their comeback. And, like millions of others, they were in…

Last week, on Twitter, Mike Petriello reminded me that, in January of 2016, I wrote a post entitled The Most Volatile Hitter in Baseball History. The headline was sexy and interesting, because I didn’t know any other way to convince you to read a post about Ryan Raburn. The gist: I looked at all four-year season stretches dating back to 1900, with at least 200 plate appearances in each…