Venus Williams has not played a match since the US Open after picking up a horror knee injury.

Venus Williams is plotting another comeback after suffering a horror fall at Wimbledon last year.

The 43-year-old revealed that sister Serena doesn’t want her to retire as she outlined her plan to return to competition on home soil in March.

The elder Williams sister hasn’t played a match since August, when she crashed out in the first round of the US Open.

She rushed back after picking up a knee injury at Wimbledon but has been recovering ever since and is now set to compete in Indian Wells and Miami.

While the seven-time Grand Slam champion is still hungry to compete, she admitted that she had to have an “honest conversation” with herself after going out 6-1 6-1 to Greet Minnen in Flushing Meadows.

That was her worst loss at her home Grand Slam tournament.

But it was Serena who played a big part in her decision to keep playing. The 23-time Major winner ended her own career at the US Open in 2022.

“One of my big goals is to play United States, to play in the Miami Open and at Indian Wells,” Venus said in a new video. “I have not played there since 2019 due to injuries. It’s a long time… It’s a lot of years not to play at home.

When you think of countries at the forefront of submarine development, Spain likely isn’t the first that comes to mind. That’s not to say the nation hasn’t developed its own vessels. The latest is the S-80 Plus-class, four submarines powered not by a nuclear reactor, but through air-independent propulsion. Development began in the 1990s, but fell victim to several delays, one of which was caused by someone not looking over their work.

 

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A need to upgrade an aging submarine fleet

Isaac Peral (S-81) completing snorkel maneuvering sea trials, 2023. (Photo Credit: Martin C. / Europa Press / Getty Images)
The idea of updating the Spanish Navy’s Cold War-era submarines came about after the French began looking into replacing their own fleet of S-60 Daphné-class vessels. One of the designs proposed, dubbed the “S-80,” featured a new teardrop hull and a slew of new weaponry and sensors. However, it proved to be too expensive and was rejected.

Around this time, the Spanish firm Bazán also began to design a new submarine, which shared similarities with the proposed S-80. This led to a joint venture that was agreed upon by the Spanish Navy in 1998, but on the condition that the new vessel would be powered via air-independent propulsion for better endurance underwater.

That should have been the end of it, but other requests emerged as time went on. While initially focused on defense, naval officials had since decided they wanted a submarine for “power projection,” meaning that, on top of its increased endurance, it needed the ability to fire land-attack missiles.

Once that was confirmed, the Spanish government signed an agreement for four units.

Delay after delay after delay…

Handover ceremony for the Isaac Peral (S-81), 2023. (Photo Credit: Paul Hanna / Bloomberg / Getty Images)
At first, the plan was to have the first S-80 Plus-class submarine ready for delivery by 2011. Unfortunately, the project was soon hounded by delays, pushing the date to 2023. The first delays were caused by the government, as officials couldn’t agree on what company would supply the combat system. Shortly after, Spain suffered a budget crisis.

However, those were minor compared to the glaring error that was discovered in May 2013. Once construction began, it was found that one of the naval engineers had miscalculated the weight of each vessel, thanks to a decimal being put in the wrong place. This meant the submarines were between 75-100 tons heavier than anticipated, putting them at risk of not being able to resurface after submerging.

General Dynamics Electric Boat was brought in to resolve the issue, which involved lengthening each vessel by 10 meters and increasing the overall displacement by 100 tons. The increased size of the submarines also meant that their port needed to be enlarged.

This redesign took until the end of 2014 and saw the project go over budget by 30 percent. It also meant that the company in charge of constructing and delivering the submarines, Navantia, wouldn’t be able to complete the first unit until much later.

S-80 Plus-class specs

Isaac Peral (S-81) completing snorkel maneuvering sea trials, 2023. (Photo Credit: Martin C. / Europa Press / Getty Images)
S-80 Plus-class submarines have a displacement of 2,965 tons, which is dispersed over a length of nearly 266 feet. The combat system that was eventually agreed upon is the VC 9.0 SCA, which is equipped with active and passive sonars that have accurate electromagnetic detection systems. The system allows multiple targets to be acquired.

As aforementioned, the submarines are powered by air-independent propulsion, featuring three bioethanol engines and a single electric motor. This method affords the class a range of 5,000 miles, and speeds of up to 22 MPH when surfaced and 14 MPH once submerged.

To ensure the vessels can conduct their tasks in secret, low noise, radar, magnetic and infrared signatures were used, all of which reduce the risk of detection. This is of particular interest to Spain’s Special Forces, who need the ability to travel to remote places fast, without enemy combatants knowing.

S-80 Plus-class submarines were given the requested ability to launch land attacks, as well as sea ones. Each vessel is capable of launching an array of torpedoes and missiles, including the UGM-84 Sub-Harpoon Block II, DM2A4 torpedoes, Exocet missiles, MK48 torpedoes, TP2000 torpedoes, Spearfish torpedoes and Blackshark torpedoes.

The first S-80 Plus-class submarine enters service

Handover ceremony for the Isaac Peral (S-81), 2023. (Photo Credit: Paul Hanna / Bloomberg / Getty Images)
In mid-2022, the first S-80 Plus-class submarine, the Isaac Peral (S-81) embarked on seal trials, with the vessel conducting her first static dive that March. The remaining three – the Narciso Monturiol (S-82), Cosme García (S-83) and Mateo García de los Reyes (S-84) – are slated to be delivered in 2024, ’26 and ’28, respectively.

The rare moment could teach us about stellar death.

This illustration depicts a star (in the foreground) experiencing spaghettification as it’s sucked in by a supermassive black hole (in the background) during a ‘tidal disruption event’. In a new study, done with the help of ESO’s Very Large Telescope and ESO’s New Technology Telescope, a team of astronomers found that when a black hole devours a star, it can launch a powerful blast of material outwards. ESO/M. Kornmesser

When a star ventures a little too close to a black hole, the intense tidal forces suck into it like a giant noodle of star stuff in a cosmic (and much more chaotic) reenactment of that iconic scene in “Lady and the Tramp.” The black hole’s extreme gravitational pull shreds the star into thin strands of material—a process delightfully called “spaghettification.”  When these noodle-like strips get sucked into the black hole, they release a powerful bright flare of energy.

In September of 2019, the light from such a doomed encounter reached Earth. An international team of researchers, using a fleet of telescopes from the European Southern Observatory (ESO), monitored the flare—dubbed AT2019qiz—for a six-month stretch as it grew brighter then faded away. The phenomenon, known as a tidal disruption event, is detailed in a new study published last week in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

At about 215 million light-years away from Earth, the star’s flaring death throes was the closest such event astronomers had ever observed. “We were prepared—we had telescope time ready on some of the world’s biggest and best telescopes,” says astronomer Matt Nicholl, lead study author and Royal Astronomical Society research fellow at the University of Birmingham. The research team got a front-row seat to just what happens when a star is devoured by a gargantuan black hole, and the combination of the star’s proximity and timing allowed the astronomers to study it in “unprecedented detail,” according to Nichols.

Nicholl and his colleagues caught a glimpse of the star, which was approximately the same mass as the sun, soon after it started getting ripped apart. These powerful bursts of light are often obscured behind a curtain of interstellar dust and debris, according to Nichols, making it difficult for astronomers to study them in greater detail. But this latest tidal disruption event was discovered shortly after the star had been “spaghettified,” allowing researchers to study it before that curtain of dust and debris had fully formed. “It seems to have paid off because we really got a great look at this thing,” Nicholl adds.

Researchers observed this act of stellar cannibalism through ultraviolet, optical, X-ray, and radio wavelengths. With this vantage point, researchers could parse out that about half of the star’s mass was slurped by the black hole, which is over a million times bigger. The other half was simultaneously ejected outward into space.

Nicholl adds that the flare the star sends as its dying gasp in this particular event reached its maximum brightness particularly quickly. “It took about a month after encountering the black hole,” Nicholl says. “These faster ones are harder to find, so it suggests that there might be a lot of these short-lived flares that have escaped our attention until now.”

Going forward, astronomers hope their detailed observations of this incredibly destructive event can help us learn more about how black holes and matter interact. “The next step is to try and find lots more of these events and observe them in the same level of detail,” Nicholl says. “We can see if what we found for this one holds true for all of them.”

A lot has been discussed regarding how the latest generation of the British Royal Family presents itself. This has primarily had to do with how in (or out of) touch they appear to be with the lives of ordinary people. While the majority of modern royals live in their own bubble, the late Queen Elizabeth II seemed to many like one of the people over whom she reigned.

Prince William may have attended a university open to those who’d earned the grades and Harry distinguished himself by serving in Afghanistan, but it’s Elizabeth II who many have seen themselves in. Back in 1942, when she turned 16, she registered under the Ministry of Labour’s Registration Scheme, hoping to be selected for war duties alongside thousands of other young British women.

Her father, King George VI, disapproved, and it wasn’t until two years later that she was able to get her way.

16-year-old Princess Elizabeth registers for war service under the Ministry of Labour’s Youth Registration Scheme, April 1942. (Photo Credit: Central Press / Hulton Archive / Getty Images)
While George VI was convinced training in Royal protocols was more befitting a princess and future queen, he couldn’t stand in the way of his daughter. Elizabeth II joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) and was commissioned as an honorary second subaltern, equivalent to a second lieutenant in the United States.

The ATS was essentially a support service, but it wasn’t without its risks. In 1942, its first casualty was a woman killed by a bomb blast while serving at an anti-aircraft station.

In March 1945, the then-princess began vehicle maintenance training, something that once was an unusual sight, but became more and more common throughout the Second World War. As men went off to fight and children were evacuated to the countryside, women filled the gaps left behind in factories, garages and on farms.

Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) overalls and cap worn by Princess Elizabeth during the Second World War. (Photo Credit: DANIEL LEAL / AFP / Getty Images)
Elizabeth the Queen Mother was the official commandant in chief of the Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS), the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) and Women’s Auxiliary Territorial Service, so it was only natural for Elizabeth II to want to be part of things too, along with thousands of her contemporaries.

At the time, the press was delighted, with the public commenting that the uniforms worn by both women were the first war-like attire worn by a British Royal woman since the days of the legendary Queen Boudica.

George VI decreed that Elizabeth II would receive no special privileges, although she did get to return home to Windsor Castle every night, rather than sleep at the camp with her fellow student mechanics. Within five months, she’d earned a promotion to honorary Junior Commander.

Princess Elizabeth standing by an Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) first aid truck. (Photo Credit: Keystone / Getty Images)
When her parents and sister, Princess Margaret, paid a visit to the Mechanical Transport Training Section at Camberley, Surrey, Elizabeth II was quoted by LIFE Magazine as saying, “I never knew there was quite so much advance preparation [for a royal visit], I’ll know another time.”

The then-princess passed a military driving test and learned how to read maps, change a tire, and how to dismantle and rebuild an engine. She drove and maintained Austin K2/Y ambulances and “Tilly” trucks, and was the first woman from the Royal Family to be employed as a full-time active member of the women’s service.

Princess Elizabeth learning basic car maintenance as a Second Subaltern in the Auxiliary Transport Service (ATS), April 1945. (Photo Credit: Daily Mirror / Mirrorpix / Getty Images)
While she received the most attention, Elizabeth II wasn’t the only high-profile recruit to the service. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s daughter, Mary, also served in the ATS throughout the duration of World War II

Serena Williams has a goal in sight in her effort to lose all of that baby weight, which comes five moths after she and husband Alex Ohanian welcomed their second daughter to the family.

‘I got this cool Valentino skirt when I was pregnant and I was like, ‘I’m gonna be able to fit this when I don’t have a belly,’ the tennis legend, 42, revealed, while standing in front of a mirror in her bathroom.

‘I can’t fit it,’ she confessed before making an effort of two to pull the skirt on.

While starting to sound discouraged, Williams began to try and slip both legs into the prized garment: ‘But this is my goal. Honestly, I should’ve been able to fit it by now, but I ran into some, um… I got distracted for about a month.’

The seven-time Wimbledon champion admitted she about a month behind in reaching her goal, just as she turned to her side in front of mirror that showed her derriere sticking out over the waistline.

‘We got a ways to go,’ she confessed with a sense of humor, ‘Houston we have a problem.’

Knowing she has the ability to focus and hit the gym hard to get back into top shape, the Michigan native, who grew up in Southern California, set a new goal.

‘Okay, I feel like if I go to the gym and get fit I will be able to in it,’ she said with some hesitancy, which she showed by making a funny, not so confident look on her face.

The clip ended with a shot of the denim skirt sitting on top of a dresser with a message to her 17.1 million Instagram fans and followers: ‘back to the drawer…. for now!’

In another example of her sense of humor, Williams captioned the video ‘The Diary of a Denim skirt (part 1) #valentino.’

Williams and Alexis Ohanian fell head over heels for one another in 2015 when they met by chance while staying at the same hotel in Rome, Italy.

They began dating soon after and were going strong for more than year when Ohanian pulled out the romance card and proposed to the tennis legend in December 2016 at the very same hotel and table where they first met.

That came about two months after the birth of their first daughter, Olympia, now six.

The couple ended up welcoming their second daughter, a baby girl named Adira, this past August.

Basically, that breaks down to five months since Williams gave birth to their second child.

Ohanian is an internet entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder and former executive chairman of the social media site Reddit along with Steve Huffman and Aaron Swartz.

He also co-founded the early-stage venture capital firm Initialized Capital, helped launch the travel search website Hipmunk, and started the social enterprise Breadpig.

As for Williams, she is widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time after having a career where she was ranked number one in the world by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) for 319 weeks, and finishing as the year-end number one five times.

She retired in September 2022 with 23 Grand Slam women single’s titles, which is the most in the Open Era, and the second-most of all time.

Serena Williams also has the distinction of being the highest-earning woman athlete of all time.

Vast DNA Analysis of Hundreds of Vikings Reveals They Weren’t Who We Thought

A fascinating DNA study of more than 400 Viking skeletons has just re-written history. Today we know with certainty some Vikings were not those who we previously thought.

A Viking warrior.

Scientists have examined skeletons scattered across Europe and Greenland and cutting-edge DNA sequencing sheds new light on the history of Vikings.

The results of the six-year research project led by Professor Eske Willerslev, a Fellow of St John’s College, University of Cambridge, and director of The Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, University of Copenhagen reveals:

Skeletons from famous Viking burial sites in Scotland were actually local people who could have taken on Viking identities and were buried as Vikings.

Many Vikings actually had brown hair not blonde hair.
Viking identity was not limited to people with Scandinavian genetic ancestry. The study shows the genetic history of Scandinavia was influenced by foreign genes from Asia and Southern Europe before the Viking Age.
Early Viking Age raiding parties were an activity for locals and included close family members.
The genetic legacy in the UK has left the population with up to six percent Viking DNA.

“We have this image of well-connected Vikings mixing with each other, trading and going on raiding parties to fight Kings across Europe because this is what we see on television and read in books—but genetically we have shown for the first time that it wasn’t that kind of world.

Our Perception Of Vikings Have Changed

This study changes the perception of who a Viking actually was—no one could have predicted these significant gene flows into Scandinavia from Southern Europe and Asia happened before and during the Viking Age,” Professor Eske Willerslev said in a press statement.

The word Viking comes from the Scandinavian term ‘vikingr’ meaning ‘pirate’. The Viking Age generally refers to the period from AD800, a few years after the earliest recorded raid, until the 1050s, a few years before the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.

Norse-Viking invasions – Kingdom of Canute – Cnut The Great was England’s Danish King and ruler of one Of the largest Nordic Empires

The Vikings changed the political and genetic course of Europe and beyond: Cnut the Great became the King of England, Leif Eriksson is believed to have been the first European to reach North America – 500 years before Christopher Columbus – and Olaf Tryggvason is credited with taking Christianity to Norway.

Many expeditions involved raiding monasteries and cities along the coastal settlements of Europe, but the goal of trading goods like fur, tusks and seal fat was often the more pragmatic aim.

“We didn’t know genetically what they actually looked like until now,” said Willerslev. “We found genetic differences between different Viking populations within Scandinavia which shows Viking groups in the region were far more isolated than previously believed. Our research even debunks the modern image of Vikings with blonde hair as many had brown hair and were influenced by genetic influx from the outside of Scandinavia.”

The international team sequenced the whole genomes of 442 mostly Viking Age men, women, children, and babies from their teeth and petrous bones found in Viking cemeteries. They analyzed the DNA from the remains from a boat burial in Estonia and discovered four Viking brothers died the same day.

The scientists have also revealed male skeletons from a Viking burial site in Orkney, Scotland, were not actually genetically Vikings despite being buried with swords and other Viking memorabilia.

There wasn’t a word for Scandinavia during the Viking Age – that came later. But the study shows that the Vikings from what is now Norway traveled to Ireland, Scotland, Iceland, and Greenland.

The Vikings from what is now Denmark traveled to England. And Vikings from what is now Sweden went to the Baltic countries on their all-male ‘raiding parties’.

“We carried out the largest ever DNA analysis of Viking remains to explore how they fit into the genetic picture of Ancient Europeans before the Viking Age,” said co-first author Dr. Ashot Margaryan from the University of Copenhagen. “The results were startling and some answer long-standing historical questions and confirm previous assumptions that lacked evidence.

“We determined that a Viking raiding party expedition included close family members as we discovered four brothers in one boat burial in Estonia who died the same day. The rest of the occupants of the boat were genetically similar suggesting that they all likely came from a small town or village somewhere in Sweden.”

A mass grave of around 50 headless Vikings from a site in Dorset, UK. Some of these remains were used for DNA analysis.

DNA from the Viking remains were shotgun sequenced from sites in Greenland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Poland and Russia.

“We found that Vikings weren’t just Scandinavians in their genetic ancestry, as we analyzed genetic influences in their DNA from Southern Europe and Asia which has never been contemplated before,” said co-first author Professor Martin Sikora form the University of Copenhagen.

“Many Vikings have high levels of non-Scandinavian ancestry, both within and outside Scandinavia, which suggest ongoing gene flow across Europe.”

The team’s analysis also found that genetically Pictish people ‘became’ Vikings without genetically mixing with Scandinavians. The Picts were Celtic-speaking people who lived in what is today eastern and northern Scotland during the Late British Iron Age and Early Medieval periods.

“Individuals with two genetically British parents who had Viking burials were found in Orkney and Norway,” said co-first author Dr. Daniel Lawson from the University of Bristol. “This is a different side of the cultural relationship from Viking raiding and pillaging.”

How Vikings Changed Europe

The Viking Age altered the political, cultural, and demographic map of Europe in ways that are still evident today in place names, surnames, and modern genetics.

“Scandinavian diasporas established trade and settlement stretching from the American continent to the Asian steppe,” said co-author Professor Søren Sindbæk from Moesgaard Museum in Denmark.

“They exported ideas, technologies, language, beliefs, and practices and developed new socio-political structures. Importantly our results show that ‘Viking’ identity was not limited to people with Scandinavian genetic ancestry. Two Orkney skeletons who were buried with Viking swords in Viking style graves are genetically similar to present-day Irish and Scottish people and could be the earliest Pictish genomes ever studied.”

The Vikings were the lords of the oceans. One of the main reasons behind Vikings’ success to reach distant lands lies in their remarkable longships. The Vikings’ ships were the greatest technical and artistic achievement of the European Dark Ages. Without these great ships, the Viking Age would never have happened.

It’s Time To Re-Write History Books

“This is the first time we can take a detailed look at the evolution of variants under natural selection in the last 2,000 years of European history,” said co-first author Professor Fernando Racimo from the University of Copenhagen.

“The Viking genomes allow us to disentangle how selection unfolded before, during and after the Viking movements across Europe, affecting genes associated with important traits like immunity, pigmentation and metabolism. We can also begin to infer the physical appearance of ancient Vikings and compare them to Scandinavians today.”

The genetic legacy of the Viking Age lives on today with six per cent of people of the UK population predicted to have Viking DNA in their genes compared to 10 per cent in Sweden.

“The results change the perception of who a Viking actually was. The history books will need to be updated,” said Willerslev.

My heart almost jumped out ‘ Taylor swift Mom disclosed a heart felt message from daughter to him, wasn’t expecting it

For most parents, having a baby means experiencing disrupted nights and exhaustion. Many moms and dads will try anything to get their children to sleep, including singing, telling stories and playing music. And some parents swear that listening to Taylor Swift has an almost hypnotic effect on their children—and helps to send them off to sleep.

 

Rachael Shepard-Ohta, a mum of three from San Francisco, California, told Newsweek she first noticed it with her middle child

“It was right around the time the Folklore and Evermore albums came out when I was pregnant and postpartum with her,” she told Newsweek. “I am a huge Taylor fan, so I was listening to the music anyway, and realized it really worked with soothing her to sleep, especially when we were in the car—which she hated.”

She decided to share her discovery on Instagram and was inundated with messages from other parents, who said Swift helped their children to sleep too. “I ended up creating a playlist on Spotify and have tons and tons of testimonials from parents, saying it works like a charm,” she added.

Of course, as many parents will confirm, there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to getting a baby to go to sleep. It takes trial and error—and a child can go from sleeping through the night to waking up every few hours for a number of reasons, from teething to general development.

However, a growing body of research supports the theory that babies benefit from listening to music as they enjoy it—although it depends on the type of music.

Research has shown that quiet, gentle music can bring down a newborn’s heart rate and soothe their stress. In part, this may be because listening to music triggers the release of endorphins—a hormone that promotes a sense of happiness and contentment. In fact, listening to music can also aid a baby’s cognitive development and language skills.

But why are some parents swearing by Taylor Swift for an easier bedtime?

Nicole Ratcliffe, a sleep specialist supporting parents who are struggling with sleep at Baby 2 Sleep, told Newsweek it may have more to do with the parents themselves.

“If the parent is feeling calm, less anxious or hopeful that the music works, this calmness may rub off on their baby,” she explains. “How we feel as parents has a lot to do with how our little ones settle. If we are feeling anxious and our breathing and heart rate are faster, this is what our little ones pick up.”

But if we’re listening to music we enjoy—whatever it might be—we may be more likely to feel calmer and happier, which likely influences how a baby feels.

Ratcliffe listened to All Too Well by Taylor Swift and said the 10-minute version had a relaxing, hypnotic feel.

“There appears to be a really nice low tone under the melody, which is a bit like white noise. The harmonies are nice and it doesn’t get too loud or heavy in the beat,” she said.

“That being said, I don’t think the baby is listening to it and thinking it’s a great song to fall asleep to. It could be that the parent is breathing more slowly and more rhythmically, which offers a nice stable and secure feel for the baby.”

Ratcliffe added that there likely isn’t a magic song that helps babies sleep—and if there is, it is yet to be discovered. In 2016, however, psychologists at Goldsmiths, University of London teamed up with singer-songwriter Imogen Heap to develop a mood-enhancing track for babies.

They surveyed 2,300 parents and found that the sounds most likely to make infants happy included sneezing (51 percent), animal noises (23 percent) and baby laughter (28 percent). The resulting track, The Happy Song, features all of these things—plus raspberries, rhythmic plosive sounds—like pa and ba—and a gentle, upbeat tempo.

So what else can help babies sleep? According to Ratcliffe, how you feel as a parent can play a big role. “A calm and confident parent is likely to have better results than a parent who is worried, questioning themselves and not sure what to do,” she said.

Travis Kelce gets into a scuffle during the Chiefs’ win over the Raiders as Taylor Swift fans are left in awe of the Kansas City star: ‘He CAN fight’

Travis Kelce has proven to be a good teammate, after butting heads with Las Vegas Raiders cornerback Amik Robertson during the Kansas City Chiefs’ comeback win on Sunday evening.

 

The tussle happened with a little over 10 minutes left in the third quarter of the AFC West rivalry game, when Robertson appeared to have put all of his weight on Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice after an offensive play from the visiting team at Allegiant Stadium.

Kelce, 34, went over to push off his opponent in a bid to help out his teammate, but he was then quickly confronted not only Robertson, but also another Raiders player.

Kelce didn’t seem to back down, however, and had to be restrained by several of his Chiefs teammates while sharing some words to one of the game’s officials.

‘travis Kelce CAN fight,’ tweeted a Taylor Swift fan in awe over the Chiefs’ No. 87.

‘i don’t wanna hear “travis kelce can you fight” anymore,’ shared another.

‘The way he just threw an entire man off his teammate with what looked like a slight nudge… damn,’ wrote a different ‘Swiftie’ wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Against the Raiders (5-7), Kelce had six receptions for 91 yards and no touchdowns.

Despite his lack of availability in the end zone, Kelce became the fastest tight end ever to reach 11,000 yards.

What’s more, is that Andy Reid won his 125th career game as the Chiefs coach after Sunday’s win, passing Hank Stram for the team record.

That also made Reid the first NFL coach to hold that distinction for two teams. He won 130 games in Philadelphia.

Kansas City (8-3) fell behind 14-0 in the second quarter against Las Vegas, but tied it by halftime and pulled away after that. Isiah Pacheco rushed for two touchdowns, and Rashee Rice caught eight passes for 107 yards and a TD.

Mahomes passed for 298 yards and two touchdowns to rally past the Raiders 31-17.

She attended the game to watch Kelce shine

Taylor Swift was seen thanking stadium workers and tipping them generously after the Kansas City Chiefs duel against the Baltimore Ravers at M&T Bank Stadium.

The famous singer attended the game to watch her boyfriend Travis Kelce leading his team to the Super Bowl, as the Chiefs grabbed a 17-10 victory at the Ravens.

A worker reported that she personally handed out blue notes, believed to be $100 bills, to about four workers, expressing her gratitude before leaving.

“So I work on suite level @ M&T Bank Stadium and got word the freight elevator would be closed from 1pm-3pm due to her entourage and security,” the worker wrote.

“I had to deliver some things but she arrived around 1:30ish. We were forced to stand in the back corner while she walked past but I only caught I glimpse of her.

“Fast forward to the end of the game. I was moving some things downstairs and needed the freight elevator but yet again they had to hold it. This time none of our bosses were there to dispel us so security let us hang around. She was feverishly thanking everyone (employees) for our help and thanked us repeatedly.

“A coworker got her attention by calling her name then she walked over and asked her “Do you work here?”. She then announced she’d tip all of us for our service and pulled out a blue money phone inside an envelope, very modestly. She personally handed about 4 of us a blue note while thanking us before taking off. I still can’t believe it happened. We lost but what a day. Thank you Taylor!”

He made history in the AFC Championship game

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Travis Kelce showcased an unmatched desire for victory during the AFC Championship game against the Baltimore Ravens, highlighted by his record-breaking performance. With 11 catches for 116 yards and a touchdown, Kelce surpassed Jerry Rice for the most postseason catches in NFL history.

His exceptional play, including seven catches in the first half alone, contributed to his tie with Rice for the most playoff games with over 100 receiving yards. Kelce‘s postseason statistics continue to impress, solidifying his place among the NFL’s elite.

“Honestly, I could tell that he loved this victory more than any victory this season,” Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice said.

“Just ’cause we came in as outlaws and was able to come in and dominate as a team.”

Taylor Swift steps aside as Travis Kelce and Jason share emotional reunion: ‘Finish That Motherf***e

Mahomes proud of his teammate

Patrick Mahomes and others in the league recognize and appreciate the remarkable connection between Kelce and the Chiefs‘ offense, akin to the legendary partnership between Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski.

“He loves the challenge,” Mahomes said.

“All week, and rightfully so, we heard about how great their defense was, and they were, I mean, they shut us out in the second half.

“But for Travis, that’s like, ‘All right, what can I do against this great defense?’ He has that mindset, and he led us like that.

“Every single practice, every single walk-through, he was focused in, he was locked in bringing energy, and it makes my job a lot easier when you have a guy that’s in that room, that tight end room, that receiving room, and he can lead those young guys and show ’em how we go and lead us to an AFC Championship.”