Jessica Pegula is the third-ranked tennis player on the planet. And as she begins her suddenly realistic quest to win her first major, at the Australian Open, the football team her parents own is angling to win a title of its own.
The Bills ranked among the league leaders in wins this season and are short-listed amid the favorites to win the Super Bowl. Led by a quarterback who spent much of the season undertaking a convincing impression of an MVP candidate, the team sometimes presented football at its most elevated, an 11-man braid of beauty, a symphonic whole, a team greater than the sum of its component parts.