Kansas City chiefs win Super Bowl LIV

The wait for the Kansas City Chiefs and for their head coach is finally over. A Half-century after winning their first Super Bowl, the Chiefs are champions once more, winning Super Bowl LIV in epic fashion at Hard Rock Stadium. Kansas City, led by Mahomes, overcame a 10-point deficit to stun the San Francisco 49ers 31-20, making the Chiefs the first team in NFL history to win three games after trailing by 10 or more points in a single postseason.

Mahomes, last year's league MVP, is now a Super Bowl MVP. He joins Ben Roethlisberger and Tom Brady as the only quarterbacks to hoist a Lombardi Trophy before their 25th birthday. At 24 years and 138 days old on Sunday, Mahomes is the youngest quarterback to win Super Bowl MVP honors and is the second-youngest quarterback to win a Super Bowl (Roethlisberger, at 23, is the youngest).

Mahomes is also now the youngest player to win both an NFL MVP award and a Super Bowl title, surpassing Pro Football Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith (24 years, 233 days old on the last day of his MVP 1993 season). Mahomes is the third African American quarterback to win a Super Bowl, joining Doug Williams (with Washington in Super Bowl XXII in 1988) and Russell Wilson (Seattle, Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014).

And it's the first title for Andy Reid, 61, who up until Sunday night had been known as the best head coach to have never won a Super Bowl or NFL championship. This was his second Super Bowl appearance in his 21-year head coaching career. Now, with career win No. 222, Reid is a champion. He broke the record for the most wins (including the playoffs) by a head coach before at last winning it all, surpassing 2020 Pro Football Hall of Famer Bill Cowher's 152 wins.

Novak Djokovic wins eighth Australian Open

Novak Djokovic has defended his Australian Open crown beating Austrian Dominic Thiem in 5 sets and 4 hours to lift his 17th Grand Slam and 8th title at Melbourne Park. Having struggled physically after winning the 1st set and surrendering the next two, Djokovic came back strongly to brush aside Thiem’s challenge whose wait for a maiden major title just got further elongated.

Djokovic clashed with the umpire over a time violation in the second set and sought a medical timeout for dizziness and dehydration in the third, but he recovered to level proceedings in the fourth and put on a show in the final set to secure victory.

The 32-year-old extended his Australian Open record ahead of Roger Federer, who has won six titles at Melbourne Park and defended his 2019 title in the process. Prior to the final, the No. 5 seed had played three four-set matches and one five-setter, while Djokovic had only been taken to four sets twice. Thiem had also played seven tiebreakers to the Djoker's three. Djokovic now has 17 Grand Slam titles overall. He's just two behind Rafael Nadal's 19 and three behind Federer's 20.

Federer turns 39 this year, and Djokovic is a year younger than Nadal, who has had significantly more injury issues to deal with over the course of his career, so he has an excellent chance of surpassing both by the time they've all retired. As for Thiem, the 26-year-old has now reached a Grand Slam final for three years running. He's beaten Djokovic and Nadal four times apiece and holds a 5-2 head-to-head record against Federer, so if anyone is poised to break the trio's stranglehold on the Grand Slams, it's him.

F1 2019: Lewis Hamilton won Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

As the curtain came down on the 2019 Formula 1 season, Lewis Hamilton enjoyed a silky smooth evening beneath the floodlights at Abu Dhabi to record his 11th win of the season, ahead of the Red Bull of Max Verstappen and the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc.

Hamilton’s 50th pole-to-win of his career was arguably his most straightforward victory this season, as he comfortably eased away in the early part of the race before enjoying an untroubled run to the flag, to maintain Mercedes’ 100% win record at Yas Marina since 2014. It also meant that Hamilton tied his hero Ayrton Senna’s record for the 19th lights-to-flag victory of his career.

Behind the podium trio, Valtteri Bottas recovered from a back-of-the-grid start to end up fourth, less than a second behind Leclerc. A penultimate lap pass by Sebastian Vettel on Alex Albon gave the Ferrari driver fifth, while a fascinating last-lap scrap between Lando Norris and Sergio Perez saw Perez ultimately come out on top to claim ‘best of the rest’ in P7, ahead of Norris.

Daniil Kvyat was ninth for Toro Rosso, while Carlos Sainz also made a last lap pass, on Renault's Daniel Ricciardo, to take a point for P10 - enough to see him claim sixth in the drivers’ standings for 2019.