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🗓 This Past Weekend in Sports & Entertainment

Monday, Jan 31, 2022

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🎾 History in the making… Rafael Nadal came back from an 0-2 deficit to win his record 21st Grand Slam title late Sunday, beating Daniil Medvedev in the 2022 Australian Open men’s singles final. Ashleigh Barty won the women's singles title, becoming the first Australian player to win the Open since 1978.

🐐👍👎 Retirement roulette… Tom Brady is finally calling it quits… or is he? After a tweet from Adam Schefter led the rest of the NFL to breathe a sigh of relief (probably), Brady’s head coach said the star QB told him “he’s not even close” to making a decision.

  • The 44-year-old still has one year left on his contract with the Bucs and stands to receive $15 million of his signing bonus if he’s still on the roster by February 4.

🍿🕷️ A familiar face... Spiderman: No Way Home topped domestic box offices again in its seventh weekend of release, earning $11 million. The film is just $25 million away from eclipsing Avatar as the third-biggest North American movie ever – though not adjusted for inflation – and has now surpassed $1 billion at the international box office.

🏈 The road to the Super Bowl… Joe Burrow and the Bengals prevailed over Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs in overtime to win the AFC Championship Game by a field goal, 27-24. In the NFC, the Rams beat the 49ers 20-17 after erasing a 10-point deficit in the 4th quarter.

Thanks to the Pro Bowl this weekend, the Bengals and Rams will have an extra week off before meeting for Super Bowl Sunday in Los Angeles on February 13.

+Live from New York: SNL’s Weekend Update saw Peyton Manning stop by to discuss the NFL playoffs, his former rival Tom Brady’s possible retirement, and… Emily in Paris?

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