Super Bowl

Chiefs quarterback and NFL MVP Patrick Mahomes led the Chiefs to their third Super Bowl victory (and second in three years).

The Eagles tried to let the Chiefs score a touchdown (to give them maximum time to try to score a touchdown of their own) but Kansas City ran the clock the down and kicked a field goal with 8-seconds left to go up 38-35. The Eagles punted on their next possession (just their second of the game) and the Chiefs capitalized. The Eagles decided to go for two to try to even the score. On the next drive, the Eagles booted a field goal to extend the score to 27-21 and that was the tally at the end of the third quarter. Mahomes came into the Super Bowl as a two-time NFL MVP in his third Super Bowl appearance (won in 2020 and lost in 2021). For the first time in the game, with 12-minutes left, Kansas City was leading: 28-27. The Eagles would not be slowed - going for it on two fourth-downs with Hurts capping the drive with a three-yard scamper for his second rushing touchdown to give the Eagles a 21-14 lead. So it was no surprise that as the Chiefs opened the second half, Mahomes was back leading his team. Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, the NFL MVP who has sparkled all season long, was tackled late in the second quarter as he scrambled to get a first down. What the scoreboard didn't show was the Eagles dominance. The Chiefs' Nick Bolton picked it up and darted into the end zone to even the score 14-14. But Jalen Hurts made a rare mistake fumbling the ball — the Eagles first turnover of the postseason — as he tried to evade a tackler.

The singer surprised fans as she delivered a hit-heavy performance at the half-time show.

Fans of Rihanna admit the singer doesn't necessarily have the best voice in music. And surely everybody can all be grateful that her set wasn't dragged down by her most recent release - Lift Me Up from the soundtrack to Marvel's Wakanda Forever. In the late noughties and early 2010s, she churned out chart-toppers faster than the industry's top songwriters could compose them. But monster hits such as Rude Boy were balanced with the somewhat harder-edged and lesser-known Pour It Up. Model Cara Delevingne was among the attendees sporting one on Sunday. I couldn't be an enabler," she said at the time. Instead, Rihanna deployed some her biggest hits as she hurtled towards the end of her set, climaxing with her ode to British weather, Umbrella, and the rousing, anthemic Diamonds. But what has set Rihanna apart from some of her peers is the sheer number of hits she has to her name. Weird but whatever." "I just couldn't be a sellout. [her representatives confirmed](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/rihanna-pregnant-rep-confirms-super-bowl-halftime-show-1235323383/) the singer was indeed pregnant with her second child. The singer rattled through several of her most recognisable hits, front-loading her set with some of her most danceable and up-tempo numbers including Only Girl (In The World) and the excellent Where Have You Been.

After seven years largely away from the stage, the singer and mogul used the halftime show to perform a dozen hits, nod to her nonmusical business and ...

And for Rihanna, playing halftime is a milestone befitting the scope of her achievements. Rihanna — one of the crucial pop hitmakers of the 21st century — needs the Super Bowl less than the Super Bowl needs her, and her performance was a master class in doing exactly enough. So in its marketing, the Super Bowl amplified how it was a coup to land her most visible effort in years. But the involvement of The event was the event. There was little variation in tone or energy, no aesthetic nods to the lightly themed set list. But for Rihanna, who [last year gave birth to her first child](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/07/style/rihanna-pregnancy-fashion.html), it was a stroke of performance savvy nonetheless — maybe the only gesture that could outshine, and reframe, the show she had just given. And she had not performed a show of this scale since 2016. Rihanna’s hits are plentiful — she has charted more than 60 times on the Billboard Hot 100 — and they are varied. During “Work,” she led them as if she were a tutor calling out moves but not participating in them. In 13 minutes, Rihanna casually performed snippets of 12 hits, universally known songs that don’t require much in the way of fluffing or bombast. She followed that song immediately with “Run This Town,” another collaboration with Ye (and Jay-Z).

"Breaking Bad" stars Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston reunited in an ad for PopCorners. From PopCorners. WINNERS. Movies: The movie business hasn't rebounded to ...

What the ad didn’t do is make a case for that being a Bud Light. That just feels like their creative is stuck in the ’90s. Yet despite being one of the few ads about something that played Sunday, the goal of its message seemed muddled, a perception reinforced by details about The ads for this evangelical campaign were certainly arresting in reminding people, say, that Jesus was a refugee, and to love everyone. Hollywood will likely never completely bounce back in the streaming age, but the studios appeared to serve notice that they’re not giving up without a fight. [This year](https://www.cnn.com/sport/live-news/super-bowl-2023-eagles-chiefs/index.html), the scales tipped heavily toward celebrity talent – in several cases, thrown together in incongruous bunches – in commercials that were loud but frequently didn’t make a whole lot of sense. Of that roster of titles, give the nod to “The Flash,” which should stoke enormous interest in that Warner Bros. title (like CNN, a unit of Warner Bros. A fun idea, indifferently executed. Where were the other highlights, which were outnumbered (as usual) by the middling or low ones? Then again, this year’s crop of beer ads were mostly flat, especially given the high bar that Budweiser has customarily set for Super Bowls past. While this doesn’t include every spot that aired, if an ad featured four or more celebrities, assume it leaned toward the “loser” column.

The Kansas City Chiefs have won their second Super Bowl in the past four seasons, downing the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35 Sunday at State Farm Stadium in ...

Doctors and trainers gave Hamlin CPR on the field and he was rushed out of the stadium in an ambulance, leaving players, coaches, fans and those watching on TV in shock, unsure whether he was alive. “I kind of like my privacy in a way, but you know, this situation kind of just brought me to the light of the world, which is a good thing in a way because I really feel like I stand for so much good,” he said. That and the extra point made it 21-14 with 2:20 left in the half. Mahomes hopped to the sideline, winced in pain on the bench and at one point, briefly put his head on the shoulder of a staff member. But seeing the 24-year-old who almost died on the field last month having fun at the big game was heartwarming. And in Super Bowl it came with just under two minutes remaining in a tie game. Mahomes aimed a pass for JuJu Smith-Schuster that sailed over the Chiefs wide receiver into the Eagles’ end zone. “I’ll worry about that in the offseason.” And his two-point conversion via the ground made it 35-35. He said some players, given the enormity of the moment, played out of character in the first half. On the game-winning drive, Mahomes had another vital rush for 26 yards that put the winners in field-goal position. Mahomes, who suffered a high ankle sprain on his right leg against the Jacksonville Jaguars on January 21, appeared to hurt the same ankle late in the first half.

Led by quarterback Patrick Mahomes, the Chiefs overcame a 10-point halftime deficit to defeat the Eagles 38-35 in Super Bowl 57.

[defeat the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35](https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/super-bowl/2023/02/12/super-bowl-2023-live-updates-chiefs-eagles/11218626002/), winning [Super Bowl 57](https://www.usatoday.com/super-bowl/). Kansas City became the 10th franchise to win the Super Bowl at least three times. The Chiefs' first Super Bowl win came under Lamar Hunt following the 1969 season, but it took 50 years before their second. Running back Isiah Pacheco and receiver Skyy Moore both scored touchdowns, Kansas City joining the vaunted 1985 Bears as the only teams in Super Bowl history to get TDs from multiple rookies. Travis Kelce had a huge night with six catches for 81 yards and a first-quarter TD. Hurts was at his multi-dimensional best, rushing for 70 yards and three touchdowns (both Super Bowl records for a quarterback) while passing for another 304 yards and one TD. Wideout Kadarius Toney, a midseason trade acquisition from the New York Giants, was a huge asset for Kansas City. [Mahomes, who was named Super Bowl MVP](https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/super-bowl/2023/02/12/patrick-mahomes-super-bowl-mvp-chiefs-qb-wins-award-2nd-time/11243764002/) for the second time just days after collecting his second league MVP award, was magnificent, despite aggravating his high ankle sprain late in the first half. The Eagles' third-year star finished with 18 rushing touchdowns, a single-season record for a quarterback when including postseason stats. But he was hardly the only story in one of Super Sunday's more remarkable matchups. Among the biggest plays was linebacker Nick Bolton's 36-yard touchdown off Hurts' second-quarter fumble. Mahomes' heroics aside, Philadelphia's Jalen Hurts nearly crafted an MVP performance of his own.