Super Bowl Debate: 49ers vs Chiefs, who will win in Las Vegas?
The San Francisco 49ers tackle the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVIII on Monday – JULIAN LINDEN and JAMIE PANDARAM debate who will claim the crown.
The San Francisco 49ers tackle the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVIII on Monday – JULIAN LINDEN and JAMIE PANDARAM debate who will claim the crown.
The 2024 NFL Super Bowl pits the Kansas City Chiefs against the San Francisco 49ers – with a big dose of Taylor Swift. What are the odds and the best bets for the big game?
When Kansas City entered Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium this week at the Super Bowl Opening Night, the jeers were deafening. Somewhere along the line, the Chiefs became the NFL antiheroes.
Staging the Super Bowl is another plank in the transformation of the Las Vegas desert into a sporting hub, mirroring Saudi Arabia’s quest for global sporting dominance.
They have stars like Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce, but as ANDREW BEATON and JOSHUA ROBINSON write, Kansas City also has a defensive weapon in L’Jarius Sneed who makes opposition offensive threats disappear.
Fox, Warner and ESPN have announced a new sports streaming service joint venture as media rights for major US sports increase. Here are the key talking points.
“Kicking was the thing that let him down.” The very skill that stifled Mitch Wishnowsky’s WAFL ambitions is about to create Super Bowl history, writes ELIZA REILLY.
Australia’s outsized NFL fandom began with Don Lane getting weeks-old game videos delivered from the US, then a phone call that changed everything, writes SHANNON GILL.
Scott Swift played a solitary football season at the University of Hawaii in 1970. ANDREW BEATON and JOSHUA ROBINSON write that his old teammates are now just discovering who he is related to.
Over the last 25 years spread offences have become the blueprint for NFL teams, but 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan has his team doing the opposite. ANDREW BEATON writes how the San Francisco squeeze has landed them in the Super Bowl.
Patrick Mahomes has obliterated the doubts surrounding the Kansas City Chiefs all season in a magical playoff run. BRIAN COSTELLO writes that this quest for back-to-back NFL titles confirms his greatness.
That the NFL is staging the Super Bowl in the sports betting capital of Las Vegas is the clearest sign of the league’s changed attitude towards legal wagering writes ANDREW BEATON.
The Kansas City Chiefs dynasty of Patrick Mahomes and America’s No. 1 boyfriend will meet the dream killers of San Francisco and their underdog quarterback in a Las Vegas Super Bowl writes JASON GAY. And a certain famous Chiefs fan will traverse the globe to be there.
San Francisco has MVP candidates at the glamour positions and a visionary head coach, yet the key to the 49ers’ success is a 35-year-old lineman, writes ROBERT O’CONNELL.
Will the NFL let the Baltimore Ravens make the Super Bowl while Taylor Swift fever surrounds the Kansas City Chiefs? JASON GAY tackles that and other major AFC/NFC Championship questions.
Mahomes vs Lamar! The Niners D vs Detroit’s O! The NFL Conference Championship games are here and deliver two huge, mouth-watering matchups: who makes it to the Super Bowl?
There has been a development for disgraced former NRL star Jarryd Hayne as he launches an appeal against his rape conviction.
Just like Michael Jordan cruelled the title dreams of a slew of 1990s NBA stars, Patrick Mahomes is shutting out the championship ambitions of his NFL contemporaries, writes RYAN DUNLEAVY. This time it was Josh Allen.
Dan Campbell appeared more like a pro wrestler than football coach when he took on the Detroit Lions, yet as JASON GAY explains, he’s transformed the franchise from perennial losers to an NFC Championship game.
It’s the best weekend of NFL football each season: so which teams will win through a massive NFL Divisional Round of the playoffs?
It was the cognitive test that predicted Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow and Brock Purdy for NFL stardom, but as ANDREW BEATON and LOUISE RADNOFSKY report, the performance of rookie C.J. Stroud is casting doubt over the scouting tool.
Canberra-born, Tweed Heads prop Jotham Russell will join returning Gold Coast Suns convert Patrick Murtagh as Australia’s representatives in this year’s NFL international pathway.
More Australians are streaming NFL games than ever before. The US mega-league is also staking its claim for the hearts and minds of Aussie school kids, writes SHANNON GILL.
Tory Taylor is not your typical footy prodigy turned gridiron punter. Yet he’s smashed US college football records and had Donald Trump lauding his red-hot NFL Draft prospects, writes PETER MITCHELL.
24 seasons, nine Super Bowl appearances, six titles and a fair share of controversy. JASON GAY explores coaching icon Bill Belichick’s legacy after he and the New England Patriots part ways.