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HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Nick Bosa has been making a high-profile impact for the San Francisco 49ers on Sundays ever since entering the league as the No. "Nick’s gotten really good at it. I’m not as nervous anymore.’"He is really good at it. Nick doesn’t waste words because he doesn’t use many of them.”The speeches aren't long, lasting just a few minutes. “But once I get it down what I’m thinking what I’m going to say, I’ll be fine.”___

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☆ Las Vegas hopes to hit the jackpot with the Super Bowl
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Alicia Wallace | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —When Super Bowl Sunday rolls around each year — whether it’s in Miami, New Orleans, Los Angeles or Minneapolis — Las Vegas still draws the crowds. It took years — and a Supreme Court ruling legalizing sports betting — for the National Football League to view Las Vegas in a different light. “We’re sold out, have been for the last month,” said Paul Hobson, general manager of the Sahara Las Vegas hotel-casino. “Las Vegas has a lot of people going there for Super Bowl weekend anyway,” Stephenson said. Additionally, the visitors it attracts spend a whole lot more than the ones who would show up on your typical Super Bowl weekend, Hill said.

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☆ Taylor Swift's world tour is a promotional windfall for the NFL as it tries to grow its international fanbase
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Taylor Swift is en route to support Travis Kelce in the Super Bowl after her Tokyo concert. Some of Swift's fans in Tokyo were wearing Kelce's Kansas City Chiefs jersey. Swift's tour is welcome marketing for the NFL as it works to scale internationally. Executives said in the announcement that the NFL intends to increase the number of international games annually to break into new international markets. Tokyo itself has been home to more international NFL games than any other city in the world.

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☆ This is the first Super Bowl powered by 100% renewable energy
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Catherine Boudreau | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Allegiant Stadium is the first in NFL history to get all its power from renewable sources. A sprawling solar farm in the Nevada desert is creating the power supply. Sign up for our newsletter to get the latest on the culture & business of sustainability — delivered weekly to your inbox. Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas will be powered by 100% renewable energy — a first in Super Bowl history. The electricity is supplied by a sprawling solar farm of 621,000 panels and battery storage in the Nevada desert that’s owned by the utility NV Energy and was developed by EDF Renewables.

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☆ For Some Couples, Marrying on Super Bowl Weekend Is a Win
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In weddings, as in football, the will to win may be nothing without the will to prepare. That’s why Laura Arvizu and Robert Marquez, of Paso Robles, Calif., started planning their wedding in Mexico 14 months ago. “But we also wanted our guests not to miss out on an American holiday.” That is, Super Bowl LVIII, taking place in Las Vegas on Feb. 11. On Sunday, 65 wedding guests will join them for an outdoor viewing party at the same resort. “We did have a couple of people tell us, ‘I’m going to the Super Bowl and I’m so sorry,’” she said.

Persons: Laura Arvizu, Robert Marquez, “, ”, Arvizu, Marquez, ‘ I’m Organizations: Super Locations: Paso Robles, Calif, Mexico, Las Vegas

☆ The odds that Travis Kelce proposes to Taylor Swift post-Super Bowl are heavily against you. You can bet on it anyway.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

"It's been pretty incredible," Tim Williams, director of public relations for BetUS told Business Insider. "This is the very first time we've seen any off-field prop bets challenge or even overtake the half-time show." Propositions, or prop bets unrelated to gameplay are largely prohibited in the US. At BetOnline, the site offers 89 wagers — a reference to Swift's "1989" album — solely around Swift and Travis Kelce. Nobody is getting rich off of these prop bets, however, according to Williams.

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☆ Uber Eats to edit Super Bowl commercial after facing backlash for peanut allergy joke, charity says
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Nathan Rennolds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Uber Eats faced a backlash over a new commercial released ahead of Super Bowl LVIII. The "Don't Forget Uber Eats" ad has been criticized for appearing to use a peanut allergy as a joke. The CEO of a food allergy charity has said that the company has agreed to edit the commercial. AdvertisementUber Eats has said it will edit its new Super Bowl commercial after it was criticized for appearing to make a joke about a man's peanut allergy. The ad, titled "Don't Forget Uber Eats," features stars David and Victoria Beckham and actors Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer, and is based on the idea of people forgetting things.

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☆ Superb Owl weekend has arrived! Enjoy the fruits of your typo.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

It's Superb Owl weekend! As fans search for Super Bowl news, many will mistakingly type Superb Owl. To make the mistake worth their while, here are some owls that are, indeed, superb. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . So to make your typo worth it, we've collected some images from what is likely to be this weekend's most popular typo: Superb Owl.

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☆ How much is Usher earning from his Super Bowl halftime show performance?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Madeline Berg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

More than 100 million people tune in to the Super Bowl yearly, but the halftime show performers are not typically paid any more than SAG-AFTRA's minimum union rate. AdvertisementFirst are the checks for endorsement deals, particularly for ads and campaigns around the Super Bowl. Lady Gaga saw album and song sales skyrocket 1,000% on the day of her Super Bowl gig in 2017, Billboard reported. In past years, StubHub has reported that search traffic has jumped as high as 50% for halftime show acts following the Super Bowl. So, Usher, go get that money, money, money.

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Now, if a league or network isn't doing something to appeal to younger fans, they are behind the times. Nickelodeon will air its fifth NFL game on Sunday when the Kansas City Chiefs face the San Francisco 49ers for the Vince Lombardi Trophy. Networks and leagues also continue to experiment with social media and creating more viral highlights to keep younger fans interested. “There’s just so many more tools now at our disposal to address the complex consumption habits of young fans. The pie has many more pieces to it for young fans,” Lehanski said.

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☆ There's still time to plan next weekend's travel
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Joi-Marie Mckenzie | Jordan Parker Erb | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . I'm Joi-Marie McKenzie, the editor in chief of Life at Business Insider and your new Saturday anchor. Emily HartDispatchThere's still time to plan next weekend's travelRaise your hand if you're taking advantage of the upcoming Presidents’ Day weekend. If you’re like me and forgot to plan an amazing three-day vacation, don’t worry.

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It's by choice, yet she still suffers FOMO when Valentine's Day rolls around. She became a certified matchmaker last year and has organized a speed-dating event ahead of Valentine's Day. Like Valentine's Day, loneliness has become big business, complete with an outpouring of books offering up self help and data. Her best advice for making it through Valentine's Day is as sweet as those candy conversation hearts that circulate this time of year. On Valentine's Day, the project is offering a free Zoom coloring session for anyone who cares to sign up.

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs placed All-Pro left guard Joe Thuney on injured reserve and activated running back Jerick McKinnon on Saturday, finalizing the roster that they will take into the Super Bowl against the San Francisco 49ers. The Chiefs ruled Thuney out for Sunday's game earlier in the week because of an injury to his pectoral muscle that he sustained in their divisional win in Buffalo. Veteran backup Nick Allegretti will get his second start in a Super Bowl in his place. McKinnon is especially useful in the passing game, where he had 25 catches and four touchdowns in 12 games this season. The Chiefs designated defensive tackle Mike Pennel to be their lone practice squad elevation for the Super Bowl.

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☆ Why Taylor Swift Is Being Blamed for Everything - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Jennifer Weiner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ask the people in your life to name a woman who’s got it good, with wealth and beauty and talent and true love, and I’d bet at least a few of them would name Taylor Swift. Swift, the 34-year-old pop icon, who made history last Sunday as the only musician to win four best-album Grammy Awards, checks many of the important boxes. message boards or watching TikToks, you will notice that factions that do not agree about anything share an absolute certainty that Taylor Swift is trouble. She’s doing too much, except when she’s not doing enough, and she’s always doing it wrong. — the pretty blonde endorses Democrats.

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☆ What it’s really like to go to the Super Bowl
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Harmeet Kaur | Scottie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

The person who attended the Super Bowl nine timesMike Quackenbush has been to the Super Bowl nine times — but he didn’t personally pay for tickets because, technically, he was there on business. It’s a great event and I was super lucky to go all those years.”The first-time Super Bowl attendee who went during the pandemicChelsea Bear was all smiles at the 2021 Super Bowl. Lennox McLendon/AP Most rushing yards in a Super Bowl: Washington quarterback Doug Williams won the Super Bowl MVP award in 1988, but rookie running back Timmy Smith set a Super Bowl record that year with 204 rushing yards against Denver. Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Longest pass in a Super Bowl: Carolina wide receiver Muhsin Muhammad caught an 85-yard touchdown pass from Jake Delhomme during Super Bowl XXXVIII in 2004. Paul Sancya/AP First score in Super Bowl history: In the first quarter of what we know now as Super Bowl I, Green Bay Packers wide receiver Max McGee scored a touchdown on a 37-yard pass from Bart Starr.

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Officials have weighed in on her ability to park her jet in Las Vegas airports. The Japanese Embassy in Washington posted on social media that she could make the Super Bowl in time, including in their statement three Swift song titles – “Speak Now”, “Fearless” and “Red." “If she departs Tokyo in the evening after her concert, she should comfortably arrive in Las Vegas before the Super Bowl begins,” it said. If it all goes as planned she’s then expected to fly to Australia later this week to continue her tour. “This week is truly the best kind of chaos,” Swift posted Wednesday on Instagram.

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☆ Once an Escape, Sports Talk Embraces Politics
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Ken Bensinger | Kellen Browning | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Just before flying to Las Vegas this week for the Super Bowl, Clay Travis announced his prediction for the game on his popular sports podcast, “OutKick.” The San Francisco 49ers would defeat the Kansas City Chiefs. Other topics on that episode: the future of college football and whether President Biden is “actually capable” of serving in the White House. The Super Bowl may be the one event that can bring Americans of all stripes together, but the chatter about it — and of sports in general — is increasingly fracturing along partisan lines. A growing number of sports pundits and personalities are eagerly blending sports and politics, taking advantage, like other media, of a thriving market in partisanship. Sports talk listeners skew male, just like Republican voters.)

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☆ The Big Pregame (Vegas’s Version)
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Emmanuel Morgan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Music blared as the Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. had a conversation across a barricade. Close by were Machine Gun Kelly, the platinum-blond musician, and his partner, the actor Megan Fox. Outside the 45,000-square-foot, strobe-light-filled tent near the Las Vegas Strip, a man climbed a life-size statue of an elephant. Super Bowl week is important for business: When the N.F.L. crowns a champion, it also feeds television networks and gives a valuable platform to advertisers and performing artists.

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☆ Bill Maher says Taylor Swift could swing the 2024 election and warns Republicans against attacking her: 'This is someone who transcends parties'
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Lauren Edmonds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Maher cautioned the GOP against criticizing Swift because she could swing the 2024 US election. AdvertisementBill Maher thinks Taylor Swift could swing the upcoming 2024 election, so far-right pundits should tread carefully. "This is a national news story in the sense that this is a person who could literally swing the election," Maher said. "Her voters perhaps are not registered at all, and she doesn't have to say who she's voting for. They know who she's voting for."

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As one of the first countries to the west of the international dateline, Tokyo is a full 17 hours ahead of Las Vegas. The two friends who secured tickets to Saturday’s last show said they started out as NFL fans and became “Swifties” after Kelce and Swift’s romance began. Roke Hiro (left) say they are originally NFL fans and became Swifties after Kelce and Swift began dating. Prior to her win of the coveted award, Swift was tied with Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon, who along with her all previously won album of the year three times. Speaking at the Tokyo concert on Wednesday, she said she had planned to announce the new album at the Grammys if she won anything – and announce it in Tokyo if she didn’t win.

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☆ How to be a power couple like Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Madeline Holcombe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Both at the top of their respective industries, Swift and Kelce have become the latest model of a power couple. It isn’t always easy to be part of a power couple, however. Have discussions about what is important to each of you as individuals, as well as the life you are building as a couple, O’Neal said. This mission statement also needs to be clear about who each individual is and what the expectations are of the relationship, Cantor said. A key to a good power couple is prioritizing the relationship and finding ways to lift your partner up when you are on top of the world, O’Neal said.

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☆ Usher’s path to the Super Bowl: How the ‘hearthrob of R&B’ evolved over a 30-year career
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Antoinette Radford | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Now, some 30 years later, the R&B singer will perform in his first Super Bowl halftime show. “He is one of the greatest displays of showmanship that we have ever seen,” Nicolas-Tyrell Scott, a London-based music critic, told CNN. His debut album — “Usher,” released in 1994 — barely caught the media’s attention. Musician Usher (aka Usher Raymond IV) records vocals for the song "U Will Know" on July 26, 1994 in New York City. “He is the heartthrob of R&B,” Scott said.

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☆ DraftKings and FanDuel are set to be the big Super Bowl winners amid record betting activity fueled by Taylor Swift
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Filip De Mott | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewSports betting companies are set to score big at this weekend's Super Bowl, with DraftKings and FanDuel leading the rush, Bank of America said in a Friday note. Sunday's game will see the Kansas City Chiefs play against the San Francisco 49ers, paving the way for blowout betting activity. DraftKings and FanDuel stand to benefit the most from this weekend of big betting, BofA equity strategists led by Shaun Kelley wrote. AdvertisementSports betting industry players are also positioned to benefit from the expected attendance of Taylor Swift, whose presence may kick betting activity into a higher gear, BofA wrote. Some examples of these proposition bets — wagers not tied to the game's outcome — include DraftKings' "how you get the girl," where Kelce scores a touchdown in each half.

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☆ The Super Bowl's 15 highest-paid players and coaches
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Cork Gaines | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers are set to compete in Super Bowl LVIII. Both teams invested heavily in their rosters, with the Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes being the highest-paid player. AdvertisementThe Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers will face off Sunday in Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas. However, even before that, both teams handed out enormous contracts to their top players and head coaches, aiming to build rosters that could contend for a Super Bowl. While the Chiefs have the most expensive player in the big game, with quarterback Patrick Mahomes making $45 million annually, the 49ers have the next three highest-paid players.

Persons: Patrick Mahomes, — Organizations: Kansas City Chiefs, San Francisco 49ers, Chiefs, 49ers, Service, Business Locations: Las Vegas

The biggest upcoming football event for many of the N.F.L. owners and business executives who will populate luxury boxes at the Super Bowl this weekend is not, perhaps surprisingly, the game. It actually won’t take place until six weeks later, in Orlando, Fla., when football executives gather for the National Football League’s annual meeting — an event that has particular significance this year. Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League have already relaxed their ownership rules. But the N.F.L.

Persons: Arthur Blank, Greg Penner Organizations: National Football, Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, Atlanta Falcons, Home Depot, Walmart, Denver Broncos Locations: Orlando, Fla, Florida

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