The Los Angeles Rams have won the Super Bowl for the second time in their history, after they beat the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 on home soil in California overnight. Trailing 20-16 deep into the fourth quarter, quarterback Matthew Stafford found Cooper Kupp for the match-winning touchdown with the Bengals unable to produce another act of escapism with 1.25 on the clock. The Rams' victory comes six years after their return to California following a 20-year spell in St Louis.
West Ham needed an injury-time goal from Craig Dawson to emerge with a 2-2 draw away to struggling Leicester City yesterday. Kurt Zouma was a late withdrawal from the Hammers squad and this morning Ken Early has suggested David Moyes was in a lose-lose situation, following his decision to play the French defender last week after a video emerged of him kicking his pet cat. Elsewhere yesterday Liverpool were 1-0 winners over Burnley, Newcastle's resurgence continued with a 1-0 win over Aston Villa and Tottenham ended a miserable week with a 2-0 defeat to Wolves.
The Six Nations goes to bed for a week now with France the champions elect after their bruising 30-24 win over Ireland in Paris on Saturday. And Garry Ringrose has backed Andy Farrell's side to bounce back after a "sickening" defeat at the Stade de France. You can read five things we learned about Saturday night's game HERE, while Nathan Johns has all the reaction from the French media after Les Bleus emphasised their title credentials. Elsewhere yesterday, England bounced back from their opening defeat to Scotland with a 33-0 win away to Italy.
It wasn't the best weekend for Kilkenny hurling, with the Cats narrowly beaten 1-19 to 1-18 by Tipperary in their Division 1B league meeting yesterday. This followed an All-Ireland club final defeat for Ballyhale Shamrocks on Saturday, after they were beaten 2-17 to 1-19 by Ballygunner in injury-time.
And 15-year-old Kamila Valieva has been cleared to continue competing at the Beijing Winter Olympics by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, after it ruled she should face no provisional suspension for a failed drugs test.
