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League-leading Philadelphia and the Buffalo Bills will try to clinch first-round byes and home-field advantage for the NFL playoffs in the penultimate week of the regular season.
FIFA said Pele was simply "immortal" after the Brazil legend, named by world football's governing body as the greatest player of the 20th century, died on Thursday aged 82.
After the death of Pele at age 82 in Sao Paulo on Thursday, AFP Sport looks at key dates in the life of the football great:
Neymar led the tributes to Pele after the Brazil legend's death on Thursday as the Paris Saint Germain star said his iconic compatriot had "transformed football into an art".
Neymar led the tributes to Pele after the Brazil legend's death on Thursday as the Paris Saint Germain star said his iconic compatriot had "transformed football into an art".
Mikaela Shiffrin clinched a hat-trick of World Cup wins in Semmering on Thursday taking her tally to 80 World Cup wins as the American stormed through the 60-gate course fastest on both slalom runs.
Pele's crowning glory was winning the 1970 World Cup as he approached his 30s, four years after he had vowed never to play in the tournament again after being kicked out of 1966.
Pele, arguably the greatest footballer of all time, died aged 82 on Thursday in his native Brazil.
Pele burst onto the global stage at just 17 with dazzling goals as Brazil won the World Cup for the first time in Sweden in 1958.
When FIFA declared Pele and Diego Maradona jointly the players of the 20th century, and effectively the best of all time, they side-stepped but did not resolve a heated debate that has grown more complicated as Lionel Messi has dominated the 21st century.
Brazilian football legend Pele, who died on Thursday at the age of 82, is widely considered the greatest footballer of all time.
Pele was the best-loved footballer of his or any other generation, the eternal master of the beautiful game.
The deteriorating health of sports legend Pele has rekindled curiosity about the quiet town of Tres Coracoes in southeastern Brazil, where the football prodigy was born 82 years ago.
Norway's Halvor Egner Granerud won ski jumping's Four Hills opening round on Thursday as defending champion Ryoyu Kobayashi of Japan flopped in 15th place.
Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti insisted Thursday that French striker Karim Benzema has returned to La Liga from his World Cup nightmare "motivated and enthusiastic."
Arsenal will look to finish the year on a high when the Premier League leaders visit Brighton for their final match of 2022 this weekend.
All eyes will be on Clermont on New Year's Day as they welcome Toulouse to the Stade Marcel Michelin at a time when the home side appear to be on the cusp of a freefall.
Jurgen Klopp says Liverpool's £40 million ($48 million) swoop for PSV Eindhoven forward Cody Gakpo will have an effect on his plans for the January transfer window.
Mikaela Shiffrin set up a possible hat-trick of World Cup wins in Semmering when she was quickest down the course in the first run of Thursday's slalom.
Pakistan will need to bat-out the last day to avoid defeat in the first Test after New Zealand gained the upper hand Thursday through a masterly undefeated double-hundred by Kane Williamson in Karachi.
Marco Odermatt underlined his World Cup credentials with a stunning victory in Thursday's Super-G at Bormio, just hours after Austrian triple Olympic champion Matthias Mayer had announced his immediate retirement.
Six months on from the chaos that put lives at risk at the Champions League final in Paris, there are Liverpool fans still too frightened to return to watching matches live.
Triple Olympic champion Matthias Mayer announced his immediate retirement from skiing on Thursday, shortly before the start of the men's Super-G World Cup event in Bormio.
Stefanos Tsitsipas fired his 12th ace on match point to give Greece a 2-0 lead over Bulgaria with a comeback win against Grigor Dimitrov on Thursday at the inaugural United Cup.
Novak Djokovic admitted Thursday that being deported from Australia was an experience he will never forget, but it was time to move on, as he enjoyed a warm welcome in Adelaide.
American world number nine Taylor Fritz and 11th-ranked Madison Keys cruised through their opening ties against the Czech Republic to get their seasons off to a winning start at the inaugural United Cup on Thursday.
Pay rises are in store for players at January's Australian Open with organisers Thursday announcing a 3.4 percent boost in the total purse to a record Aus$76.5 million (US$51.6 million).
Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James remains "locked in" on basketball with his 38th birthday fast approaching, but the four-time NBA champion made it clear Wednesday he wants to be a title contender.
South Africa were on the wrong end of a "hammering" against rampant top-ranked Australia on Thursday, losing the second Test by 182 runs and with it the series.
The Brooklyn Nets pushed their NBA winning streak to 10 games in dramatic style on Wednesday, rallying in the second half then hanging on to edge the Hawks 108-107 in Atlanta.
South Africa capitulated Thursday against rampant top-ranked Australia to lose the second Test in Melbourne by an innings and 182 runs On Thursday and with it the series.
Australia's Steve Smith took his 150th Test catch Thursday as South Africa lost three wickets in a forlorn battle to prevent a heavy defeat in the second Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.