[Highlight] On this day, 27 years ago, Super Bowl MVP Desmond Howard returns a kick for a 99-yard touchdown in Super Bowl XXXI

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[Rapoport] Former Bears OC Luke Getsy, who keyed late-season improvement in Justin Fields, will interview with the Raiders for their vacant OC job today.

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[Russini] Former Chargers head coach Brandon Staley is interviewing for the Packers vacant defensive coordinator position, sources tell @mattschneidman and me.

https://twitter.com/dmrussini/status/1750897936886612162?s=12&t=x5-NzdOmzxVdg9621hs9Tw

NFC Gameday: GM delays shift at Flint plant so workers can watch Detroit Lions in NFC championship game

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[Charania] Sources: Doc Rivers is signing a contract through the 2026-27 season worth in the range of $40 million to be the Bucks’ head coach. Milwaukee is paying out former coaches Mike Budenholzer and Adrian Griffin, and now Rivers for next 3.5 years.

https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1750537265254916295

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[Draper] Unless CNN suddenly has a secret NBA source, I have a guess at how this happened. An NBA TV scriptwriter pre-wrote a news item about Milwaukee hiring Doc Rivers, assuming someone else would break it first and CNN would then confirm it. Somehow this gets read on-air at NBA TV an hour ago

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Unless CNN suddenly has a secret NBA source nobody else has, I have a guess at how this happened. It is important to know that Warner Bros. Discovery owns CNN and TNT, and operates NBA TV.

An NBA TV scriptwriter pre-wrote a news item about Milwaukee hiring Doc Rivers, assuming someone else would break it first and CNN would then confirm it. Somehow, this gets read on-air at NBA TV an hour ago.

This then floats over the transom to TNT and Inside the NBA, where producers don’t apply enough skepticism — who at CNN confirmed this? where is the news story or tweet? why doesn’t woj have this? — and repeat it and put it on air.

CNN is a serious news organization that breaks things far more important than NBA coaching news. They have a process. None of that process includes no sourcing info, letting news first break on NBA TV and not writing an article about it.

(A WBD Sports spokesman has not responded to my questions about what is going on with this report)