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Cam Newton Now Must Face A Sickening Reality
Anquan Boldin Named Walter Payton Man Of The Year
ANQUAN BOLDIN
San Francisco 49ers wide re- ceiver Anquan Boldin has been named the 2015 Walter Payton Man of the Year at this season's NFL Honors. The vet- eran, who is a three-time Pro Bowl selection, and Super Bowl champion, is undeniably one of the game's most dynamic play- ers, but it was his philanthropic endeavors that garnered him the prestigious award.
"When I first got into the NFL nobody could tell me any- thing. I was living life," Boldin said. "I had achieved my dream of one day making it into the NFL, but I soon realized that's not what life is all about. I real- ized my purpose in life was not to make it to the NFL and score touchdowns. God put me on this earth for something much bigger than that and I realized and understand what my pur- pose is now. ... It's my prayer and my hope that I can live out the rest of my life honoring God and help as many people as possible."
Boldin established the An- quan Boldin (Q81) Founda- tion in 2004 with the mission to expand the educational and life opportunities of underpriv- ileged children, and has since held charitable events in Phoenix, Baltimore, South Florida and the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2014, he and his wife Dionne announced a $1 million pledge to escalate the impact of the Foundation.
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DANA
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The dab is dead until further no- tice.
There would be no dabbing on this night for Cam New- ton — the biggest night of his NFL career, a night when the Panthers superstar was at- tempting to complete one of the greatest seasons a quarter- back has ever delivered.
As it does for every team that loses the Super Bowl, the end came in an almost violent abruptness.
Broncos 24, Panthers 10 in Super Bowl 50 Sunday night at Levi’s Stadium sucked the life from every one of the Carolina players, but none more than Newton, who’d been so bril- liant all season.
Newton, who threw 35 touchdown passes and rushed for 10 more in the regular sea- son, finished the game 16-of- 38 for 245 yards, an interception and two lost fum- bles that led to 15 Denver points.
When it ends for the Super Bowl loser, the finality of it all is something that players who’ve experienced it have a difficult time describing. Some even contend they’d rather not have gotten to the game at all if they were not going to win it. So just like that Sunday night, blue and orange confetti rained down on the field and Newton and the Panthers, who entered the game with a remarkable 18-1 record, were quickly ushered off the field to make way for the winners’ cel- ebration ceremony.
Modal Trigger Cam Newton gets stripped by Von Miller.
Cam Newton walks off the field as the Broncos celebrate.
Suddenly, the 45 touch- downs Newton accounted for of the 54 the Panthers scored in the regular season meant nothing. The league MVP hardware he just received for this season meant nothing.
No player or coach ever dares to consider the alterna- tive: Losing a Super Bowl.
For the best athletes in the world, it is not in their DNA to enter a game as significant as a Super Bowl worrying about the consequences of not win- ning it. Most of them would never be in the position to be playing in one if they did.
Coldplay, Beyonce, Bruno Mars Deliver Spectacle
Stephen A. Smith Leads Twitter Fury Over Super Bowl Refs
In a season marked by blown calls — or at least perceived blown calls — the refs couldn’t escape the first quarter of the biggest game of the year un- scathed.
Twitter pitchforks were out in full Sunday during Super Bowl 50 after a Jerricho Cotchery catch was ruled in- complete then upheld as a non-catch by official review.
The former Jet bobbled the Cam Newton pass then ap- peared to collect it and rest it against his body as Bronco Darian Stewart tackled him to the ground.
The ball did appear to move slightly while he was down, which likely decided the call. But fans who watched and re- watched the replay were out- raged that a play that human convention says is a catch the NFL rules is not a catch.
The leader of the incensed,
JERRICHO COTCHERY AND STEPHEN A. SMITH.
not so shockingly, was ESPN’s screamer-in-chief Stephen A. Smith, whose rage would not even allow him to spell Cotchery correctly.
Streams of others rushed to their computers and phones to blast the call, perhaps none more on the nose than Dez Bryant, who should know what a catch is and, most frus- tratingly for him, what isn’t a catch.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- The NFL promised a halftime show that would honor the past, present and future of the Super Bowl era. Coldplay and friends delivered a colorful spectacle on Sunday.
The show featured not just performances by Coldplay, Bruno Mars and Beyonce, but also a children's string or- chestra and an assortment of colorful props used in dance sequences up and down Levi's Stadium. There seemed to be things happening everywhere on the field, making this the biggest halftime show I can re- member.
Coldplay started the set with their biggest hit, "Viva La Vida" (with orchestral accom-
paniment), which gave way to the band's 2011 hit "Paradise." Then it was Mars' turn. His whole band -- plus Mark Ronson -- performed an ex- cellent version of the in- escapable 2014 hit "Uptown Funk."
Up next was Beyonce, who took over the production with a full team of dancers to per- form her new single "Forma- tion." Beyonce, Mars and Coldplay singer Chris Mar- tin eventually met at center stage for a final "Uptown Funk" refrain before Cold- play closed out the show with a medley of their 2005 hit "Fix You" and newer release "Up & Up."
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