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Next Sunday’s playoff games provide a contrast in starting quarterbacks. For the AFC title game it is a couple of youngsters, Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs and Josh Allen of the Buffalo Bills. The NFC game has a couple of old geezers, Tom Brady of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers.

Jan. 17—The Thunder-76ers game scheduled for Sunday night at Chesapeake Energy Arena was postponed 90 minutes before tip-off.

Northern Oklahoma College has released its attendance protocols for the 2021 basketball season for Enid and Tonkawa. According to the protocol, no fans will be allowed for the start of the spring basketball season in January.

Jan. 17—Baker Mayfield is the old man of quarterbacks in the American Football Conference playoffs.

As the final seconds ticked off at the Superdome, with Tampa Bay celebrating a 30-20 playoff victory over New Orleans, Buccaneers general manager fired off a two-word tweet that summed up the Sunday: “We Dat!”

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Patrick Mahomes’ mother Tweeted during the Chiefs’ 22-17 victory over the Browns in Sunday’s divisional round that Mack Wilson played “trash football” when he hit her son and knocked him out of the game, but Mahomes later seemed to absolve Wilson from wrongdoing.

In back-to-back games Friday and Saturday, Ponca City’s varsity basketball teams each lost twice. On Friday in games at Po-Hi’s Robson Field House, the Lady Cats girls’ team lost to Midwest City 61-34, while the boys took Midwest City to overtime before losing 72-62.

Ponca City: The ticket Link for the GIRLS game on Saturday, January 16th vs. Ponca City will be: https:// gofan.co/app/events/192968 The ticket link for the Boys game on Saturday, January 16th vs.

Jan. 15—STILLWATER — The first Bedlam men’s basketball matchup is postponed due to COVID-19.

SAN DIEGO — If you were stunned to see the Cleveland Browns go up 28 points on the Pittsburgh Steelers last week in an NFL playoff game, it didn’t mark you as a football rube. In Rancho Bernardo, football lifer Dale Lindsey stared in disbelief.