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Super Bowl odds: 49ers still favorite with Ravens close behind entering championship games
The NFL is down to its final four teams, and the San Francisco 49ers (+145) remain favorites to win Super Bowl 58 in Las Vegas.
After narrowly escaping with a win against the Green Bay Packers in the divisional round, the 49ers host the Detroit Lions in the NFC Championship game next week. The 49ers are favored by a touchdown.
Baltimore has the second-best odds after cruising to a 34-10 win over Houston in the divisional round. Lamar Jackson should win the MVP trophy this season, and he showed why in a second-half domination that saw the Ravens outscore the Texans 24-0 after halftime. Baltimore is favored by a field goal against Kansas City next week.
If you aren’t a Ravens, Chiefs or 49ers fan, you’re likely now rooting for the lovable underdogs: the Detroit Lions.
Detroit has the longest odds of winning the Super Bowl at +700 entering next week’s NFC Championship. The Lions are big underdogs next week and — using betting power rankings — the Lions would be underdogs to both the Ravens and Chiefs in the Super Bowl if they were to upset the 49ers in the NFC Championship game.
Kansas City will play in its sixth straight AFC Championship game. Patrick Mahomes has advanced to the AFC title game in each of his six years starting for the Chiefs and he’s 3-2 in the previous five trips. The Chiefs beat the Bills 27-24 in the divisional round after a missed field goal by Tyler Bass in the last two minutes of regulation.
The Chiefs opened as the betting favorites (+600) for this year’s Super Bowl after winning Super Bowl LVII last year against Philadelphia. San Fransisco opened at +900, Baltimore opened at +1800 and Detroit opened at +2500. The Lions had early betting support as they opened the season at +2200 to win the Super Bowl at BetMGM.
Super Bowl MVP odds
The Super Bowl MVP markets are up and Jackson is the favorite to win that award. It’s interesting because typically the starting quarterback on the favored team is the front-runner to win the MVP award, as it seems to always default to a quarterback. Cooper Kupp did win the MVP for the Rams in Super Bowl LVI.
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Jameis Winston, not Russell Wilson, will start Sunday for the Giants if Jaxson Dart can’t
Jameis Winston entered last Sunday as the New York Giants’ No. 3 quarterback.
This week, he appears to be set to make his first start of the season.
Winston has been moved ahead of fellow veteran quarterback Russell Wilson on the Giants’ depth chart, according to multiple media outlets. The move puts Winston in line for what appears to be a likely start Sunday against the Green Bay Packers as regular starter Jaxson Dart remains in concussion protocol.
It’s the first major decision made by interim coach Mike Kafka since the Giants’ firing of coach Brian Daboll on Monday. New York went 20-40-1 in three-plus seasons under Daboll, including a 2-8 start to this season.
A 10-time Pro Bowl selection and a Super Bowl champion with the Seattle Seahawks, Wilson started 11 games for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2024, his 13th NFL season. He was signed during the offseason by the Giants to be their 2025 starting quarterback.
Winston was signed to be Wilson’s backup. In his previous 10 NFL seasons, Winston had gone 36-51 as the starting quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, New Orleans Saints and Cleveland Browns, with 154 touchdowns and 111 interceptions.
In April, the Giants traded up nine spots in the draft to select Dart with the No. 25 overall pick. The rookie out of Mississippi ended up earning the No. 2 quarterback spot. But Wilson was largely ineffective during the Giants’ 0-3 start, and Dart was promoted to starting quarterback in Week 4.
Dart helped spark the Giants to wins over the Chargers and the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles in two of his first three starts. Overall this season, Dart is 2-7 as a starter, completing 63% of his passes for 1,417 yards passing with 10 touchdowns and three interceptions.
Last week against the Chicago Bears, Dart hit his head on the ground during the third quarter and eventually was checked for a concussion for the fourth time this season. Wilson entered the game mid-drive and led the Giants to an eventual field goal and a 20-10 lead.
Overall, however, Wilson was ineffective again — he completed three of seven passes for 45 yards and was sacked twice — as the Giants collapsed and lost the game 24-20.
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Antonio Brown pleads not guilty to Miami attempted murder charge
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Former NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown pleaded not guilty to an attempted murder charge stemming from a May shooting in Miami.
Brown’s lawyer, Mark Eiglarsh, said in an email that he has already filed a written not guilty plea to the attempted murder charge. Brown could be in a Miami courtroom as early as Wednesday morning for a bond hearing, Eiglarsh said.
Eiglarsh said Brown was simply protecting himself from a person he had problems with before.
Antonio Brown attends his album release dinner at Panda on April 28, 2022 in New York City. (Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Images)
“The actions he was forced to take were solely in self-defense against the alleged victim’s violent behavior. Brown was attacked that night and acted within his legal right to protect himself,” Eiglarsh said.
The charge stems from an event in Miami in May, with the alleged victim just so happening to be the same person who waved a Palestinian flag during Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime performance in February.
Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu was arrested in June on charges of resisting an officer and disturbing the peace by interrupting a lawful assembly, revealing a link between the shooting incident and the Super Bowl.
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Antonio Brown attends Friday’s at Red Martini Restaurant and Lounge on February 3, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Prince Williams/Wireimage)
Several videos on social media showed Brown getting into a fight with multiple people following matches at an Adin Ross boxing event in May. The popular streamer hosted a 10-match card sponsored by Stake, Kick and Brand Risk Promotions.
One video showed Brown appearing to fight in a parking lot as a crowd moved toward an alley. Then a gunshot appeared to ring out, sending spectators running in the opposite direction.
Brown admitted that he had “slammed” one person’s security guard. He said he told one of the officers that he hadn’t done anything. The Washington Post reported the next month that a warrant was out for Brown’s arrest.
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Tom Brady #12 of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers reacts with Antonio Brown #81 during the second half of the game against the Carolina Panthers at Bank of America Stadium on December 26, 2021, in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)
The former NFL star has had multiple legal issues in the past. He was sued in 2019 over allegations of rape and sexual misconduct, which he eventually settled with his accuser. He pleaded no contest to felony battery and burglary charges in June 2020. Brown was arrested again in 2023 over allegations of unpaid child support.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Combate Global MMA franchise to move production to Burbank from Miami
In a small win for California’s film and TV industry, mixed martial arts franchise Combate Global will relocate production from Miami to Burbank.
The franchise, which will air on Spanish-language network Estrella TV after a six-year run on Univision, will film 20 live events at Estrella’s new networks studio, starting in February. That space seats 500 people and has been used to film the talent competition show “Tengo Talento Mucho Talento.”
The franchise wanted to relocate to Southern California because of the bigger media market, said Campbell McLaren, chief executive of Combate Global and co-creator of the UFC.
The move is expected to create about 60 jobs, and is estimated to have an economic impact of more than $1 million on an annual basis for the 20 shows, which is up from the eight produced this year, he said.
“It’s a bigger market, access to more talent, access to more behind-the-camera talent, access to more on-camera talent,” McLaren said. “We feel we’re making a big, big step.”
The move also allows the franchise to target the large Mexican American market in L.A. — Combate Global currently has its largest viewership in Mexico — as well as others who have not been as exposed to the mixed martial arts events, such as the Korean community. The sport’s Japan vs. Mexico nights have also been popular and could find broad appeal in in L.A., McLaren said.
“It’s a move to super serve our core audience,” he said. “We’re going to have real audience traction.”
The news comes as California tries to lure film and television productions back to the Golden State after many have relocated to other states and countries in search of more lucrative tax incentives.
Over the summer, state legislators bulked up the state’s film and TV tax credit program and agreed to more than double the annual amount allocated to it. So far, dozens of projects have been awarded tax credits, including 22 series and 52 movies. (Combate Global did not receive a tax credit because sports do not qualify for the program.)
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