It was a professional football league that lasted for one season 19 years ago, but memories of the XFL are surprisingly vivid for fans over 30: He Hate Me, Jesse Ventura, no fair catches, the Memphis Maniax. So when the XFL returns this weekend with a new eight-team league, again owned by Vince McMahon of […] More
Were Beyoncé and Jay-Z making a political statement when they sat during the national anthem? Was Jennifer Lopez alluding to President Trump’s immigration practices by having children sitting in cage-like orbs? What about that Puerto Rican flag? At the Super Bowl, the most widely viewed television event of the year, political statements from international superstars […] More
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — For the first time in what felt like forever, America was treated to a Super Bowl without the New England Patriots on Sunday. The upstart San Francisco 49ers, with their smothering defense, took on the Kansas City Chiefs and their wunderkind quarterback Patrick Mahomes. With aging stars like Aaron Rodgers and […] More
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — It was midway through the third quarter of Sunday’s Super Bowl when Patrick Mahomes seemed to realize he needed to take over the game if his flagging Kansas City Chiefs were going to rally to defeat the San Francisco 49ers, whose confidence had noticeably swelled after taking a 3-point lead. But […] More
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The years since the Chiefs’ last Super Bowl victory have felt like decades and the decades like centuries in the Kansas City area, where season after season ended in emotional wreckage. The playoffs unspooled as if booby-trapped. Good teams cratered. Better ones collapsed. There are scars. Deliverance arrived on Sunday night. […] More
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The Kansas City Chiefs stormed back for a ridiculous 31-20 win over the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl, reeling off three touchdowns in just over five minutes to overwhelm one of the N.F.L.’s most dominant defenses. The win snapped a 50-year championship drought for the Chiefs, while handing San […] More
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — This had not been, by any stretch of the imagination, the best game of football that Patrick Mahomes had ever played. And then the Kansas City Chiefs arrived at the moment when they needed their star quarterback to be the Pat Mahomes he had been for most of the postseason. Down, […] More
Super Bowl LIV pits the N.F.C. champion San Francisco 49ers against the A.F.C. champion Kansas City Chiefs. Here is a look ahead. Here are key points about the game: When is the game? How can I watch? Will this be a good game? Who will perform at the halftime show? What should I read in […] More
