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DETROIT — The Detroit Lions and their fans waited a long time to celebrate as they did last week after beating the Los Angeles Rams in the wild-card round.

COLUMBUS — The biggest show in women’s college basketball is coming to Columbus on Sunday afternoon when Caitlin Clark and Iowa visit Ohio State.

CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Browns may bring back one of their many former starting quarterbacks to oversee their offense.

SANTA CLARA — Christian McCaffrey scored his second touchdown on a 6-yard run with 1:07 to play, and the San Francisco 49ers mounted their first second-half comeback of the season to beat the Green Bay Packers 24-21 in a divisional-round playoff game. After spending all regular season as front-runners, the Niners needed to come from behind for a change and Brock Purdy and McCaffrey did just enough on the last drive to send San Francisco to its third straight NFC championship game. Dre Greenlaw sealed the win with his second interception of Jordan Love.

WAPAKONETA – Longtime Wapakoneta wrestling coach Jason Rostorfer had a feeling it was going to be a battle to the very end at Saturday’s Wapakoneta Invitational.

PANDORA – The way Delphos St. John’s boys basketball team is built, with four guards in its starting lineup and more off the bench, once they get a lead it’s not easy to take it away from them.

OTTAWA — Lima Senior vs. Ottawa-Glandorf has become one of the premier basketball rivalries in the area over the past few years.

ATLANTA — Donovan Mitchell had 18 points and eight assists and led a balanced attack as the Cleveland Cavaliers extended the NBA’s longest current win streak to seven games with a 116-95 win over the Atlanta Hawks. Jarrett Allen had 14 points and 11 rebounds, while seven Cavaliers scored in double figures with none reaching 20 points. Sam Merrill had 18 points with five three-pointers. Dean Wade scored 17 and Georges Niang had 14. The loss snapped a three-game winning streak for the Hawks, who were led by Dejounte Murray with 24 points.

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BALTIMORE — Lamar Jackson threw two touchdown passes and ran for two scores and the Baltimore Ravens pulled away in the second half for a 34-10 win over the Houston Texans to advance to the AFC championship game. Jackson helped the Ravens take control in the third quarter after the teams entered the half tied at 10. His 15-yard scoring run put Baltimore ahead to stay. C.J. Stroud had a solid, composed first half for Houston, but the Texans ultimately couldn’t turn enough promising drives into points. Now Baltimore will host the AFC title game for the first time since January 1971. The Ravens will take on the winner of Sunday’s matchup between Buffalo and Kansas City.