Tom Brady is one win away from the Super Bowl, two wins away from a seventh ring.

NEW ORLEANS – Tom Brady’s best game in three tries against New Orleans kept the Buccaneers moving on in the NFL playoffs, and has Saints quarterback Drew Brees headed home – perhaps for good.

Loyalty potentially pays. If you drive to one of the nine Maverik gas stations in Spokane or anywhere in the Intermountain West, perhaps you'll be rewarded with a new automobile and much more. That's what recently happened to Johnathan Holguin. The limitations for Holguin's old minivan with high mileage were severe. 

Aaron Rodgers made sure he’d play an NFC championship game at home for the first time in his Hall of Fame-caliber career.

Sarah Fuller was a goalie on the Vanderbilt women's soccer team when a chance at history tapped her on the shoulder.

Seattle Seahawks cornerback D.J. Reed might not have the locker-room clout of a Russell Wilson or a Bobby Wagner. He might not have the popularity of a DK Metcalf or the résumé of a K.J. Wright.

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. – Josh Allen regained his early-season groove, throwing three touchdown passes and scoring one rushing, and the Buffalo Bills beat the Seattle Seahawks 44-34 on Sunday.

The NFL has just about reached the halfway point of its regular season, and as we hand out midseason awards, the league and the NFL Players Association deserve some recognition for navigating eight weeks without losing a game. Their goal is to get in 256 games over 17 weeks, and while there is still a long way to go, it has been impressive that the NFL has made it this far with only minor schedule changes.

BALTIMORE – Patrick Mahomes put on a scintillating show while outperforming Lamar Jackson, and the Kansas City Chiefs deftly played the role of defending Super Bowl champions in a 34-20 thumping of the Baltimore Ravens on Monday night.

The Baltimore Ravens have terminated the contract of seven-time Pro Bowl safety Earl Thomas, who got involved in a fight with a teammate Friday and did not attend practice Saturday.

When Wichita, Kansas, country singer-songwriter Logan Mize called the morning of Feb. 3, he was looking at about a foot of snow in Salt Lake City, and it was the morning after the Super Bowl in Miami, where Patrick Mahomes and his Kansas City Chiefs orchestrated an incredible fourth-quarter comeback against Jimmy Garoppolo and the San Francisco 49ers.

An impaired driver taking a “joy ride” Wednesday along the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade route was put into a forced spin by law enforcement officers who then arrested the driver and another person at gunpoint, according to officials and video footage of the incident.

The Super Bowl might have gone San Francisco’s way if only 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan had followed Bill Belichick’s lead and copied Vic Fangio’s blueprints.

It took the Chiefs five full decades to bring the Lombardi Trophy back to Kansas City. They don’t intend to wait that long again. With confetti still swirling and their thrilling Super Bowl triumph over the San Francisco 49ers mere minutes old, most of the Chiefs were already talking about next season. They got a taste of reaching the AFC title game last season and it drove them to make it back this season, and now that they’ve had a taste of winning the championship, the organization’s mindset is quite simple: Why stop at just one?

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – When the Super Bowl halftime show began, Yol-Itzma Aguirre and her relatives watched with anticipation. The El Paso, Texas, family was curious how Colombia-born Shakira and New York-raised Jennifer Lopez, two of the world’s most popular Latina artists, would seize the stage. The performance Sunday was draped in Hollywood tropes of female sexuality. But it also contained subtle political messages about anxieties shared by many Latinos in the U.S. – children in cages, Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and the urge to be heard.

Katie Sowers made history, becoming the first woman to coach in the Super Bowl.

Kyle Shanahan will now have another Super Bowl collapse to answer questions about.

Andy Reid wasn’t about to let this Super Bowl slip away, like he did in Philadelphia.

Super Bowl 54, in contrast to the Senate impeachment inquiry, felt like a fair trial: unmistakable video evidence, plenty of witnesses, a definitive and satisfying conclusion.