Tag: Super Bowl

Rams’ Win Means SoFi Stadium to Host NFC Title Game, Super Bowl

LOS ANGELES—SoFi Stadium will become the first stadium to host an NFL conference championship game and a Super Bowl in the same season after the Rams punched their ticket to next week’s NFC championship game with a dramatic 30-27 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Jan. 23 in Tampa, Florida. The NFC title game…


LA County Hit Hard by Blood Shortage Amid COVID-19 Surge

Los Angeles County officials are urging residents to donate blood as the national blood shortage crisis is impacting local hospitals—to the point of prompting an hours-long shutdown of a trauma center by the county’s Department of Health Services earlier this week. Harbor-UCLA Medical Center’s trauma center had to stop accepting new patients for over two…


LA County Sheriff Says Super Bowl Draws Human Traffickers

LOS ANGELES—As Los Angeles prepares to host the Super Bowl, Sheriff Alex Villanueva Wednesday reminded residents that the event is a magnet for human trafficking. Villanueva also highlighted January as National Human Trafficking Prevention Month. “This is … always a lead-up to the Super Bowl, which ends up being one of the major events that…


LA County to Host Super Bowl With No Crowd Limits: Officials

Los Angeles County is working with the National Football League (NFL) to host the Super Bowl without crowd restrictions, county health officials announced Jan. 6. On the same day, the county’s public health department warned the public that Super Bowl parties can be COVID-19 super-spreader events and advised residents to stay away from them. The…


Tom Brady Named 2021 SI Sportsperson of the Year

Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady is the 2021 Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year. He began the year by leading the Buccaneers to a victory in Super Bowl LV, his record seventh championship and the first for the franchise since the 2002 campaign. Now in his second season with Tampa Bay and 22nd in…


Tom Brady’s Latest Milestone Is Another Untouchable One

TAMPA, Fla.—Tom Brady’s latest milestone is another untouchable one. Brady became the first player to throw 600 career touchdown passes and then tacked on two more in Tampa Bay’s 38-3 rout over Chicago on Sunday. Seven Super Bowl rings, 602 TD passes, 81,479 yards passing. And, he’s still going strong at age 44. “Yeah, the…


Super Bowl Expected to Deliver up to $477M to LA Economy

LOS ANGELES—Next year’s Super Bowl LVI is expected to deliver as much as $477.5 million to the Los Angeles economy, including thousands of new job opportunities in the event-production and hospitality sector, plus major contracts for local businesses, according to projections released Oct. 21. The event at the new SoFi Stadium in Inglewood will generate…


Tom Brady Plans to Play Despite Heavily Wrapped Right Hand

TAMPA, Fla.—Tom Brady says his heavily wrapped throwing hand is sore but he expects to play when the Buccaneers visit the Philadelphia Eagles on Thursday night. Brady injured his right hand in the first half of Tampa Bay’s 45-17 win over Miami on Sunday. He finished off his first career 400-yard, five-TD performance with a…


Analysis: Andy Reid’s Homecoming Easier Than Tom Brady’s

PHILADELPHIA—Andy Reid kicked off Homecoming Sunday with a record-setting win in Philadelphia, and Tom Brady finished it with one of his own against Bill Belichick in New England. The road to victory was easier for Reid. The 63-year-old coach watched Patrick Mahomes throw five touchdown passes to lead the high-powered Kansas City Chiefs to a…


Pick 6: Returning NFL Stars and How They Fared

Sometimes, the abdicating king, or the deposed one, returns to his kingdom. It happens often in the NFL yet rarely is as newsworthy as Tom Brady, who led the Patriots to six Super Bowl titles, going back to New England. He’ll do that on Sunday night, eight months after taking the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to…