SUPER BOWL
Game time: Rams take on Patriots for NFL crown
ATLANTA (AP) — Super Bowl Sunday has arrived. It's time for the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams to square off in Atlanta for football's top prize.
If experience is a factor, the overwhelming edge is with the Patriots, who are back in the Super Bowl for the third straight year and ninth time overall looking for their sixth Lombardi Trophy. They're 5-3 in NFL title games with Tom Brady at quarterback and Bill Belichick on the sideline.
The Rams, whose past two Super trips were representing St. Louis in 2000 and '02, have four players who have gotten this far. New England has four on its defensive line alone.
Los Angeles will rely on second-year quarterback Jared Goff and coach Sean McVay, the youngest Super Bowl head coach at 33. Belichick, at 66, could become the oldest coach to win a Super Bowl. He has worked 41 postseason games, with 30 victories, most among head coaches in NFL history. He's the only head coach with five Super Bowl rings.
Brady, who's 41, is the oldest quarterback to start a Super Bowl. The 24-year-old Goff is one of the youngest.
The Rams' past two trips to the big game were tight affairs in which they beat Tennessee and lost to New England. In all of the Patriots' eight previous trips in the Brady-Belichick era, the result was in doubt until the final moments.
SUPER BOWL-TV
Come together: Super Bowl Sunday, the last stand of live TV
ATLANTA (AP) — The Super Bowl is America's last stand for live TV.
In an increasingly fragmented entertainment landscape, many people watch most shows on demand, streamed or recorded on a DVR. But people still want to watch sports live.
And the Super Bowl, commercials and all, remains the single event people want to see the most.
Of the 10 highest-rated television programs in U.S. history, nine were Super Bowls and one was the finale of "M.A.S.H."
Sunday's broadcast is sure to be the highest-rated broadcast of the year once again.
SUPER BOWL-OTHER SPORTS
Light sports schedule on Super Bowl day
UNDATED (AP) — Super Bowl Sunday brings a light schedule for other sports.
There are three NBA games, all in the afternoon: Memphis at New York, Oklahoma City at Boston and L.A. Clippers at Toronto.
The NHL schedule consists of Boston at Washington, Edmonton at Montreal and Calgary at Carolina, all afternoon games.
There are two Top-25 men's basketball games on the schedule, both underway: No. 14 Villanova vs. Georgetown and No. 17 Purdue vs. Minnesota.
TRUMP-SON PLAYING FOOTBALL
Trump says he wouldn't steer son Barron toward football
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump says he wouldn't steer son Barron toward football, saying it's "a dangerous sport," but also wouldn't stand in the way if the soccer-playing 12-year-old wanted to put on pads.
The NFL fan tells CBS' "Face the Nation" in an interview taped before the Super Bowl that football is "really tough."
He says equipment, including helmets, has improved "but it hasn't solved the problem."
Trump thinks the NFL "is a great product." But as for Barron playing, the president calls it a "very tough question."
"If he wanted to? Yes. Would I steer him that way? No, I wouldn't."
The president says many people, "including me, thought soccer would probably never make it in this country, but it really is moving forward rapidly."
