SANTA CLARA, CA – Kenneth Walker III’s impressive playoff run was punctuated with a Lombardi Trophy and a Super Bowl MVP.

Walker provided consistent offense in what was a defensive battle throughout the 29-13 win. The Seahawks running back rushed 27 times for 135 yards. He registered 161 yards from scrimmage in the victory.

Walker’s ground total was the most rushing yards by a player in the Super Bowl since Terrell Davis romped for 157 yards in Super Bowl 32. He’s also the first running back to win Super Bowl MVP since Davis won the award in Super Bowl 32.

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Walker found room to run against a stout Patriots defense and was tough to tackle.

The MVP award capped off a superb postseason campaign for Walker. He amassed more than 100 yards from scrimmage in all three of Seattle’s playoff games. Including the regular season, and produced at least 100 yards from scrimmage in four straight games. It’s the longest such streak of his career.

Walker had a 30-yard run and a 29-yard scamper in the second quarter that set up a successful Jason Myers field goal. The running back had a catch and run that went for 20 yards in the third quarter that led to another Myers field goal which extended the Seahawks’ lead, 12-0.  

The Seahawks running back averaged five yards per carry.

Walker’s contract is set to expire this offseason. But the running back proved his worth throughout the postseason and underscored his value in Super Bowl 60.

Seattle’s win now gives the franchise two Super Bowl titles.

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The dust has now settled on the 2025 NFL season, as the Seattle Seahawks beat the New England Patriots 29-13 in Super Bowl 60 to capture their second-ever Lombardi Trophy.

With a winner now determined in that contest, NFL fans will eagerly look ahead to next season, which is shaping up to bring a lot of change.

Already, 10 NFL teams have hired new coaches. Soon, clubs will make major changes to their rosters through free agency and the 2026 NFL Draft, hoping to shape themselves into contenders for what figures to be another wide-open playoff race.

Of course, many teams will also be looking to get healthier during the offseason. Notably, the Kansas City Chiefs will be hoping Patrick Mahomes can quickly recover from a torn ACL he suffered in Week 16 while the Indianapolis Colts will have to make a decision about Daniel Jones in free agency and hope he can recover from a torn Achilles in time to start Week 1.

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Add in the uncertainty surrounding veteran players like Kirk Cousins, Kyler Murray, Tua Tagovailoa and Aaron Rodgers, and the NFL’s quarterback carousel could spin at a dizzying pace this offseason.

All that potential change makes it difficult to prognosticate exactly who should win the Super Bowl next season. Here’s an early look at the Super Bowl 61 odds for every NFL team as the league’s 2025 season and playoffs wind to a close.

Super Bowl 61 odds

The Seahawks (+950) and Rams (+950) are co-favorites to win Super Bowl 61, according to odds from DraftKings Sportsbook. They are the only teams to boast better than 10-1 odds to win the Lombardi Trophy.

The Baltimore Ravens (+1300) have the shortest Super Bowl odds among teams that failed to make the playoffs last season. Meanwhile, the Arizona Cardinals and Miami Dolphins – who each changed coaches during the offseason and are dealing with questions at the quarterback position – are tied with the longest odds to win the 2027 Super Bowl.

Below is a full look at the latest odds to win Super Bowl 61:

Seattle Seahawks (+950)
Los Angeles Rams (+950)
Buffalo Bills (+1100)
Philadelphia Eagles (+1300)
New England Patriots (+1300)
Baltimore Ravens (+1300)
Los Angeles Chargers (+1400)
Green Bay Packers (+1400)
Detroit Lions (+1400)
Kansas City Chiefs (+1500)
San Francisco 49ers (+1700)
Houston Texans (+1900)
Denver Broncos (+1900)
Jacksonville Jaguars (+2000)
Chicago Bears (+2500)
Cincinnati Bengals (+2800)
Dallas Cowboys (+3500)
Tampa Bay Buccaneers (+4000)
Washington Commanders (+6000)
Pittsburgh Steelers (+6000)
Minnesota Vikings (+6000)
Indianapolis Colts (+6000)
New York Giants (+7000)
Atlanta Falcons (+8000)
Tennessee Titans (+10000)
New Orleans Saints (+10000)
Carolina Panthers (+10000)
Cleveland Browns (+15000)
New York Jets (+18000)
Las Vegas Raiders (+18000)
Miami Dolphins (+20000)
Arizona Cardinals (+20000)

SANTA CLARA, CA — Super Bowl 60 was disrupted early in the fourth quarter when a fan bolted onto the field. 

A shirtless man ran on from the direction of the Seattle Seahawks end zone, briefly forcing a pause in the action. He ran a good length of the field as security tried to converge on him but actually split them on the opposite half of the field, spreading his arms in a victorious pose as he continued his sprint. As he approach another pocket of guards deploying to stop him, Patriots receiver Kyle Williams left his huddle and jogged toward the man in what appeared to be a half-hearted attempt to stop him. 

Williams stood near the fan as security finally apprehended the fan around the 10-yard line and took him away. 

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Coincidentally or not, the Patriots scored their first points of the night on a touchdown pass to Mack Hollins shortly thereafter.

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Sam Darnold became the first quarterback to win a Super Bowl after playing with five or more NFL teams. His parents have been there for every step of the way.

While Darnold’s low point followed him to his different stops, until he made it as a starter with the Vikings, and subsequently, the Seahawks, the passer made it clear that his parents were the crutch he needed to continue his NFL odyssey.

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Following the 29-13 Super Bowl win, the passer shared a heartfelt message about the belief his parents instilled in him:

‘It’s special,’ Darnold said postgame. ‘I shared a great moment with my parents and my fiancee Katie after the game, and I think that’s what kind of got me a little bit. Me and my dad don’t cry very often. I told my dad, and my mom … I’m here because of their belief in me. They believed in me throughout my entire career, and I think that’s why I was able to believe in myself almost ad nauseum.‘

He continued: ‘Some people called me crazy throughout my career for believing in myself so much, and having so much confidence. It was because of my parents, because of the way they believed in me throughout my entire career. It allowed me to go out there and play free, and have a ton of confidence.’

While Darnold didn’t have the flashiest Super Bowl stat line – 19 of 38 passing, 202 yards, one touchdown – it was enough to get the job done.

Leaning heavily on its defense, Seattle kept the Patriots at bay until the game was all but secured in the second half. Running back Kenneth Walker earned Super Bowl MVP honors, gashing the Patriots defense for 135 yards rushing..

Now, the Darnolds have a Super Bowl-winning son – and one who’s clearly thankful for them.

A first impression can be a lasting one – just ask Kenneth Walker’s dad.

The elder Walker watched his son Kenneth run around, through and over the New England Patriots defense en route to a Super Bowl MVP in Seattle’s 29-13 Super Bowl 60 victory.

While Walker’s dad is very familiar with his son’s talents, it was the first time he got to take in a performance from the running back in person during an NFL game.

‘My dad, he comes out to Seattle all the time to watch games, but he never goes to the game ’cause he don’t like crowds,’ Walker said. ‘This is his first NFL game, and we won a Super Bowl, so it means a lot to me, and I know he’s proud of me, for real.’

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Walker added that his agent convinced his father to come to the game, and that he was even mic’d up for the duration. The running back said he wasn’t sure that his dad would be in attendance.

To his credit, Walker put on a show: with 135 yards on 27 carries, Walker gave his dad something to remember for a lifetime.

MILAN — Ilia Malinin didn’t want to skate the long program in the Olympic figure skating team competition. He wanted to rest up for the more important individual men’s event beginning Tuesday. His coaches felt the same way. It was a definite no. 

But when U.S. Figure Skating called upon him late Saturday night, saying the event was going to be too close and potentially lost without him, he had no choice but to say yes.

It turned out to be the best decision of his young career.

On a night in which the Olympic team competition finally arrived as a major event after three underwhelming attempts in 2014, 2018 and 2022, Malinin saved the United States from an embarrassing final-day collapse and delivered the Americans the well-earned gold medal. 

“Absolutely, this is definitely the smartest decision I’ve made,” Malinin told USA TODAY Sports during an exclusive interview after the medal ceremony. “I got a chance to just really feel the ice, feel the environment, just feel the atmosphere. I’m just so proud of everyone and myself for what we put out there tonight.

‘This definitely is one of the happiest days of my life, and really just sets me up in the right mood and mindset for the next days to come.”

The 21-year-old self-proclaimed “Quad God” was backstage when the scores of the only man who could beat him, Japan’s Shun Sato, popped onto the big screen in the Olympic figure skating venue. Malinin’s long program score was 200.03 points. 

Sato’s? 194.86. Malinin had done it. The Americans had won. 

At that moment, Malinin came running from behind the curtains to celebrate with his teammates in the rink-side team boxes. But he didn’t just dash to them — he dove into the cheering collection of happy Americans, his arms raised high. He was lifted off his feet. He was flying. This was the image of the athlete in triumph. He would worry about how much this took out of him for the individual event on another day. This was the highlight of his already stellar young career.

This is the second consecutive Olympic gold medal for the United States in the team event. Ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates, who won both of their team competitions, are the only Americans to repeat as champions. Last time, they had to wait two and a half years to receive their medals due to the excruciating long investigation of the Kamila Valieva doping scandal. This time, they got them right away.

The final night in the three-day competition showed that this is a test of wills, and skating skills, but it’s also basic math. As the evening began, the United States carried a five-point lead over Japan into the final three long programs: pairs, women and men. 

The evening started off well for the Americans, who gained an unexpected point when pairs team Ellie Kam and Danny O’Shea finished fourth, not fifth, in the pairs long program. The little things mattered on this night.

That became evident when three-time U.S. champion Amber Glenn turned in a nervous and underwhelming performance to finish third, two places behind Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto. All of a sudden the competition was tied with just one discipline left, the men’s long program. Had Kam and O’Shea not gained that extra point, Japan would have taken the lead. 

And then it came down to what most Olympic figure skating competitions are all about: one skater against another. Ilia Malinin against Shun Sato. Malinin won last year’s world championships, his second in a row. Sato was sixth. Sato was replacing countryman Yuma Kagiyama, who defeated a shaky Malinin in the short program Saturday night.

Both men rose to the occasion; Malinin just did a little bit more. “Ilia was spot on with what he needed to do,” said 1988 Olympic champion Brian Boitano, co-host of USA TODAY’s Milan Magic podcast. 

To think that deciding battle might never have happened had Malinin not said yes to skating the long program. 

But he did.

MILAN ― Lindsey Vonn broke her leg during the women’s downhill event Sunday, Feb. 8 at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Vonn, who was skiing on a torn ACL, crashed after her arm hooked a gate.

U.S. Ski said Vonn is in stable condition. She was treated by a multidisciplinary team and “underwent an orthopedic operation to stabilize a fracture reported in her left leg,” the Ca’ Foncello hospital said in a statement to the AP.

“She’ll be OK, but it’s going to be a bit of a process,” Anouk Patty, chief of sport for U.S. Ski and Snowboard told AP. “This sport’s brutal and people need to remember when they’re watching (that) these athletes are throwing themselves down a mountain and going really, really fast.”

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Vonn hooked the fourth gate with her right arm, and it spun her off-balance. She fought to regain control, but her legs had already splayed and her weight quickly shifted to the back of her skis, pulling her backward. She fell to her right and then tumbled headfirst in the snow.

‘Things just happen so quick in this sport,’ U.S. teammate Bella Wright said after the race. ‘It looked like Lindsey had incredible speed out of that turn, and she hooked her arm and it’s just over just like that.’

The three-time Olympic medalist remained prone in the snow, and she could be heard wailing in pain. The gasps and groans from fans faded into shocked silence as medics worked on her. Vonn remained on the course for approximately 13 minutes before being loaded into a helicopter.

Follow our live file from Cortina on the day of the crash to read all the details.

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Vonn was in obvious pain after the crash, but she was moving her arms, head and neck.

About 18 minutes after the crash, the helicopter slowly began flying toward Cortina. “Let’s let Lindsey Vonn hear us!” the American announcer said as the chopper flew away with her, and the crowd cheered and applauded.

Vonn’s sister Karin Kildow was at the course today for the downhill and spoke to NBC reporters during their live broadcast:

‘I mean that definitely was the last thing we wanted to see and it happened quick and when that happens, you’re just immediately hoping she’s okay. And it was scary because when you start to see the stretchers being put out, it’s not a good sign,’ Kildow said. ‘But she really … she just dared greatly and she put it all out there. So it’s really hard to see, but we just really hope she’s okay.

‘She does have all of her surgeons and her PT staff here and her doctors, so I’m sure they’ll give us a report and we’ll meet her at whatever hospital she’s at.’

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It was second time in as many weeks Vonn left a mountaintop on a chopper. She fully ruptured her left ACL, sustaining meniscus damage and bone bruising, in a downhill crash on Jan. 30, in the final World Cup event prior to the start of the Olympics.

Vonn is also skiing with a partial replacement of her right knee. She had dominated the sport before the crash, making the podium in all five downhill races this season and winning two of them.

Despite the latest injury, Vonn was determined to race at her fifth and final Olympics. She said her knee felt stable and strong, and she had spent the last week doing intense rehab, pool workouts, weight lifting and plyometrics. She skied both training runs, posting the third-fastest time in the second run before it was canceled because of fog and snow. 

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MILAN — Amber Glenn said she ‘couldn’t believe the outlandish backlash’ she received for speaking out about LGBTQ issues in the United States.

The first-time Olympian figure skater revealed her feelings about the response to her comments after Team USA won team event gold on Sunday, Feb. 8.

‘I couldn’t believe the outlandish backlash I received for just supporting people,’ she said. ‘Of course, I have people supporting me, and I’m not online right now because of it, but I’m gonna keep speaking my truth. I’m gonna keep representing what I believe in and what I think all Americans believe in, which is freedom and being able to love and do what you want. So, I just I hope we can keep going forward and be positive.’

After her performance in the free skate, Glenn said she has ‘never had so many people wish me harm before.’

“That was really disappointing, and I do think it kind of lowered that excitement for this,’ she added.

Glenn, who is part of the LGBTQ community, is an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ rights and mental health awareness. Given her advocacy, she was asked by reporters ahead of the Games on Wednesday, Feb. 4 about President Donald Trump’s approach to the LGBTQ community. Her response was that “it’s been a hard time for the community overall.”

“It isn’t the first time that we’ve had to come together as a community and try and fight for our human rights,” she said. “Now especially, it’s not just affecting the queer community, but many other communities, and I think that we are able to support each other in a way that we didn’t have to before, and because of that, it’s made us a lot stronger.’

She added she wanted to use her platform during the Winter Olympics to encourage people ‘to stay strong in these hard times.”

“I know that a lot of people say you’re just an athlete, like, stick to your job, shut up about politics, but politics affect us all,” Glenn said. “It is something that I will not just be quiet about, because it is something that affects us in our everyday lives. So, of course, there are things that I disagree with, but as a community, we are strong and we support each other, and brighter days are ahead.”

Glenn posted a response on her Instagram story on Saturday, Feb. 7 regarding the reception to what she said.

“When I chose to utilize one of the amazing things about the United States of America (Freedom of speech) to convey how I feel as an athlete competing for Team USA in a troubling time for many Americans I am now receiving a scary amount of hate/threats for simply using my voice WHEN ASKED about how I feel. I did anticipate this but I am disappointed by it. I will be limiting my time on social media for my own wellbeing for now but I will never stop using my voice for what I truly believe in,” she wrote.

Glenn isn’t the only U.S. Olympian to speak on representing Team USA and the political climate in the country; Alysa Liu, hockey star Hilary Knight, freestyle halfpipe skier Hunter Hess and aerials freestyle skier Chris Lillis all have.

Trump specifically called out Hess in a social media post, labeling him as a ‘real loser.” Vice President JD Vance has attended events in Milano Cortina, including the opening ceremony, where he was booed.

Despite the unsatisfactory showing, Glenn said she didn’t think the comments had anything to do with her performance.

MILAN — Ilia Malinin secured gold for Team USA.

There was no Quad Axel from the ‘Quad God,’ but he pulled off a one-footed backflip that stunned the crowd and gave his country back-to-back team titles. The U.S. and Japan were tied for first place going into the final programs of the team event.

Malinin performed in the men’s free skate of the team event Sunday, Feb. 8. He decided to go for the Triple Axel instead and had a stumble that looked like might doom him. Instead, he powered through and delivered the sequence of the night with a quad salchow and triple axel, and then for good measure, did the backflip that brought everyone to their feet.

It was as strong of a finish as you can get, and he earned a whopping score of 200.03, with a 110.32 technical score and 89.71 points from the component. Japan’s Shun Sato closed the night with a score of 194.86 — technical score 106.49, component 88.37 ― giving Japan the silver medal.

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Malinin took the ice after Amber Glenn turned in a shaky performance for third place in the women’s free skate that required Malinin to beat out Japan’s Shun Sato for Team USA to take gold.

Malinin’s program is set to the song ‘The Ball’ by Asaf Avidan, ‘The Smell of the Sea’ by Alan Mayer and ‘Code Duello’ by Power-Haus and Sergiu-Dan Muresan.

These were the elements of Malinin’s for his free skate program:

Quad Flip
Triple Axel
Quad Lutz
Quad Loop
Change Foot Camel Spin 4
Step Sequence
Quad Lutz + Single Euler + Triple Flip
Quad Toeloop + Triple Toeloop
Quad Salchow + Triple Axel + Sequence
Choreo Sequence
Flying Sit Spin
Change Foot Combination Spin

This story will be updated with the results from Malinin’s performance.

The Seattle Seahawks not only are champions of Super Bowl 60 … they finally have a measure of revenge for Super Bowl 49.

In 2015, with the Seahawks one yard from a go-ahead touchdown in the final 30 seconds, the New England Patriots intercepted Russell Wilson and denied Seattle its second straight Super Bowl championship.

But with their 29-13 victory in Super Bowl 60, the Seahawks became the 17th franchise with at least two Super Bowl championships.

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