Tom Brady is calling it a career once again. This time around, it does seem as if this is the last we’ll see of the seven-time Super Bowl champion. Brady proclaimed that he’ll be stepping away from the game after 23 seasons on Wednesday a few weeks following Tampa Bay’s playoff loss to the Dallas Cowboys to wrap up Super Wild Card Weekend.

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We’re now into the NFL final four, and by the end of this weekend we’ll know what the Super Bowl LVII matchup in Arizona will be.

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Longtime college basketball analyst Billy Packer has died, his family announced Thursday night. Packer, 82, spent 34 years on Final Four broadcast teams, 27 of them with CBS as its Emmy award-winning college basketball analyst before his last Final Four in 2008.

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CARBONDALE, Ill. – The Southern Illinois men’s basketball program will play in front of a national television audience for the fourth time this season with ESPNU picking up the Drake and SIU game on February 11 in Des Moines. The game will tip off at 1 p.m. CT inside the Knapp Center.

The Salukis currently sit atop the Missouri Valley Conference standings at 9-2 and 17-5 overall — the best start for the team since the 2006-07 season. A front-runner for the Larry Bird MVC Player of the Year Award, senior forward Marcus Domask is leading the Salukis with 16.9 points, six rebounds, and 3.4 assists per game. Domask ranks fifth in the MVC in scoring, seventh in assists, seventh in field goal percentage, and 12th in rebounding.

SIU begins a two-game road swing on Sunday with a trip to Illinois State before traveling to Bradley for a Wednesday tilt with the Braves.

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MARION — Jerzy Bittle came into the game needing 10 points to break the Marion all-time girls scoring record. She got that and one more in the first quarter to lead the Lady Wildcats to a 61-29 win over Meridian in a non-conference girls basketball game at Virgil “Cuss” Wilson Gymnasium on Thursday night.

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For the second consecutive year, the Cincinnati Bengals and Kansas City Chiefs will face each other in the AFC Championship Game.

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The Chicago Bears signed a purchase agreement for Arlington International Racecourse in September 2021, a move that takes the team a step closer toward securing property for a new stadium and leaving their longtime home at Soldier Field.

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As he pulled his hands back, lifted his left foot up, and readied to whip his bat forward, the sensation Paul DeJong felt this past season was not a swing he could trust.

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You couldn’t ask for much more parity entering one of the greatest football times of year, conference championship weekend. Unfortunately it’s come at the expense of the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes, whose high-ankle sprain has opened the door for the most wide open Super Bowl race we’ve ever seen at this point in the year.

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