Bosa wins AP Defensive Player of the Year award
Nick Bosa made it a landslide for the AP Defensive Player of the Year award.
San Francisco's All-Pro defensive end received 46 first-place votes after leading the NFL with 18 1/2 sacks in the regular season.
Dallas Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons finished second with 101 points, far behind Bosa's 237. Parsons didn't get a first-place vote but had 30 second-place votes and 11 for third.
Kansas City Chiefs defensive tackle Chris Jones came in third with 56 points. Jones had one firstplace vote.
Philadelphia Eagles edge rusher Haason Reddick got two first-place votes but ended up in fourth place.
Bosa is due for a hefty pay raise this offseason. He's set to play on his fifthyear option worth nearly $18 million for 2023 but it's likely he'll get an extension that could be worth more than $30 million a year.
MAHOMES WINS 2ND MVP AWARD AHEAD OF SUPER BOWL >> Patrick Mahomes dominated the voting for the AP NFL Most Valuable Player award. Now, he'll try to break the MVP curse.
Mahomes, who also won in 2018, easily outdistanced Jalen Hurts, receiving 48 of 50 first-place votes from a nationwide panel of media members who regularly cover the league. He earned 490 points to 193 for Hurts, who got one first-place vote, 26 seconds, 11 thirds and 10 fourths.
Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs (16-3) face Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles (16-3) in the Super Bowl on Sunday.
The last nine MVPs to play in the Super Bowl that season are 0-9. Kurt Warner was the last to win both the MVP award and Super Bowl following the 1999 season. RYANS WINS AP ASSISTANT COACH OF THE YEAR >> DeMeco Ryans will take the AP Assistant Coach of the Year award with him to Houston.
The new Texans head coach received 35 firstplace votes after guiding the league's No. 1 ranked defense in San Francisco.
Ryans, who spent the past two seasons as the defensive coordinator of the 49ers, earned 206 points. He was named on 48 of 50 ballots.
Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson finished second in voting with 113 points, including 11 first-place votes.
NBA
WARRIORS CONFIRM CURRY OUT THROUGH ALL-STAR BREAK >> Stephen Curry will miss at least three more games with a leg injury.
The Warriors ruled Curry out through the AllStar break Thursday shortly after news broke that the team was trading James Wiseman to the Detroit Pistons in a move to help the Warriors ultimately bring Gary Payton II back.
Curry, who turns 35 next month, injured his left leg by colliding with Mavericks guard McKinley Wright IV in the second half of the Warriors' win over Dallas on Saturday night. An MRI revealed partial tears to his superior tibiofibular ligaments — which connect the leg's two lower bones, the tibia and fibula — and a membrane in the lower leg.
The NBA will have to name a replacement AllStar to take Curry's place in the game Feb. 19 in Salt Lake City.
College football
MOVE BY TEXAS, OKLAHOMA FROM BIG 12 TO SEC BUMPED TO 2024 >> Texas and Oklahoma are heading to the Southeastern Conference in 2024, a year earlier than originally planned, after Big 12 officials cleared the way Thursday for the storied programs to exit their league.
Texas and Oklahoma will leave behind the $50 million each school would have received over the next two seasons under the Big 12's media contracts.
BYU, Central Florida, Cincinnati and Houston are joining the Big 12 prior to the 2023 football season, giving the league a temporary membership of 14 schools.
Golf
TAYLOR, HADWIN LEAD IN PHOENIX AFTER FROST DELAY, GUSTY WIND >> Morning frost gave way to gusting wind at the WM Phoenix Open, leading to tricky scoring conditions at TPC Scottsdale.
Canadian friends Nick Taylor and Adam Hadwin shared the lead at 5-under 66 when play was suspended because of darkness with the entire afternoon wave unable to finish.
Xander Schauffele opened with a 67. Jason Day and Jim Herman also were 4 under, with Day finishing 10 holes and Herman 13.