>The Latest on the NFL playoffs on divisional weekend (all times EST):11:50 p.m.Tom Brady passed for three touchdowns and 337 yards Cheap Customized Dallas Cowboys Jerseys , and the New England Patriots cruised past the Tennessee Titans 35-14 to advance to their seventh consecutive AFC championship game.New England (14-3) will host the winner of Sunday’s divisional matchup between Jacksonville and Pittsburgh.It was Brady’s 10th postseason game with at least three TD tosses, moving him past Joe Montana for the most in NFL history. James White caught a touchdown pass and ran for another, and Danny Amendola had 11 catches for 112 yards.The Titans (10-8) took an early 7-0 lead, but New England scored 35 straight points to take control.Marcus Mariota completed 22 of 37 passes for 254 yards and two touchdowns, but was under duress for most of the second half. He was sacked eight times, a Patriots playoff record.11:05 p.m.Another touchdown for the Patriots.And more milestones for Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski.Brady hit Gronk for a 4-yard TD early in the fourth quarter to give New England a 35-7 lead over the Tennessee Titans.It was Brady’s 10th playoff game with three or more passing touchdowns, passing Joe Montana for the most in NFL history.And it was Gronkowski’s 10th postseason TD. He’s tied with five others for third all time. But it’s the most for a tight end.Gronk also moved into second all time for a tight end with 835 postseason receiving yards.He passed Keith Jackson, and only Dallas Clark is ahead of him.鈥?Jimmy Golen reporting from Foxborough, Massachusetts.10:45 p.m.The Patriots have run off 28 straight points against the Tennessee Titans in their AFC playoff game. Brandon Bolden ran for a 2-yard score to give New England a 28-7 lead late in the third quarter.Since taking a 7-0 lead in the first quarter, the Titans have punted five times and turned the ball over on downs once.鈥?Jimmy Golen reporting from Foxborough, Massachusetts.10:40 p.m.Injury updates from New England: Titans tight end Jonnu Smith needed a cart to get off the field after a third-quarter kickoff. He could not put any weight on his leg as he climbed into the cart.Patriots lineman LaAdrian Waddle has a knee injury and his return was questionable.鈥?Jimmy Golen reporting from Foxborough, Massachusetts.10:35 p.m.Rob Gronkowski is third on the NFL’s all-time list for postseason receiving yards by a tight end.Gronk caught a 27-yard pass from Tom Brady midway through the third quarter to give him 815 yards receiving in his career. That passed Shannon Sharpe for No. 3 on the career list. Dallas Clark is first with 847 yards.鈥?Jimmy Golen reporting from Foxborough, Massachusetts.10:30 p.m.Both teams are down a right tackle in the AFC playoff game in New England.Early in the second half, Patriots lineman LaAdrian Waddle limped off the field to the sideline. There was no immediate information about his condition. Tennessee’s Jack Conklin left in the first quarter. The Titans say he had a leg injury and will not return.鈥?Jimmy Golen reporting from Foxborough, Massachusetts.10 p.m.The Patriots took a 21-7 lead into halftime in their AFC playoff game against Tennessee Hayden Hurst Color Rush Jersey , but it could have been worse.After the Titans went for it on fourth-and-1 from the New England 46 鈥?and lost 5 yards 鈥?the Patriots got the ball just over midfield with 17 seconds left.That was enough for Tom Brady to run three plays. On the third, he hit Danny Amendola for an 11-yard gain in the middle of the field before the receiver went down to kill the clock with 1 second remaining.But Stephen Gostkowski’s 53-yard field goal attempt was wide left.It was the only time the Titans stopped the Patriots in the second quarter, when New England rallied from a 7-0 deficit with three straight touchdowns.鈥?Jimmy Golen reporting from Foxborough, Massachusetts.9:45 p.m.Tom Brady has his second touchdown pass of the game, connecting with Chris Hogan from 4 yards to give the Patriots a 21-7 lead with under two minutes left in the first half.After punting on its first two possessions and falling behind 7-0, New England scored on three straight drives to pull away.It’s the 21st time in his career that Brady has thrown for two or more TDs in a postseason game. That extends his own NFL record.鈥?Jimmy Golen reporting from Foxborough, Massachusetts.9:25 p.m.James White has made it 14-7 for the Patriots with his second touchdown of the game.White ran it in from 6 yards midway through the second quarter, carrying a tackler over the goal line just inside the pylon to give New England its first lead of the game.White also scored early in the quarter on a 5-yard pass that was essentially a handoff.White had three TDs in the Patriots’ previous playoff game 鈥?the victory over the Atlanta Falcons in the Super Bowl. White had one TD receiving in that game and two running, including the game-winner in overtime.鈥?Jimmy Golen reporting from Foxborough, Massachusetts.9 p.m.The Patriots have quickly tied their AFC divisional playoff game against the Tennessee Titans.Tom Brady threw a short shuttle pass to James White, who ran it in from the 5-yard line to make it 7-7 early in the second quarter.The Patriots appeared to have a touchdown three plays earlier, when Dion Lewis caught a pass from Brady and was tackled by Wesley Woodyard at the 19.Lewis landed on top of the defender, then got up and continued to the end zone.The officials initially ruled that he had never been down and called it a touchdown. But replays showed Lewis’ butt hit the ground at the 19.8:50 p.m.The Tennessee Titans have opened the scoring in their AFC divisional playoff game against the New England Patriots.Corey Davis made a one-handed catch on a 15-yard pass from Marcus Mariota in the corner of the end zone to give the Titans a 7-0 lead with 1:14 left in the first quarter.The Patriots were 13-point favorites at home. They punted on their first two offensive possessions.8:45 p.m.Titans ta A billboard down the street from the Milwaukee Bucks‘ nearly completed new arena makes a proclamation in big, bold letters: ”The Future is Here.”

The rebuilding process is over. Winning a playoff series could make that message resonate as loudly as a Giannis Antetokounmpo rim-rattling dunk .

”I think it’s crucial,” Bucks President Peter Feigin said about the confluence of the playoffs and new arena. ”We’re at a point … we want to go into the new arena for lots of reasons in a sold-out capacity. That would be the way to usher in a new arena and really have demand and a peak.

”Part of that is performance and how successful we are on the court Adidas Jamie Benn Jersey ,” Feigin said.

The seventh-seeded Bucks have work to do to climb out of a 2-0 deficit to the second-seeded Boston Celtics. Game 3 is Friday night in Milwaukee.

”We have to protect home court,” guard Jason Terry said after the 14-point loss in Boston on Tuesday.

The Bucks haven’t won a playoff series since a team coached by George Karl reached the Eastern Conference finals in 2001. Back then, Ray Allen was draining 3s, forming a formidable threesome with Glenn Robinson and Sam Cassell.

Seventeen seasons later, they’re still trying to get out of the first round.

But there is renewed hope in Milwaukee since a new ownership group led by Wes Edens and Marc Lasry took over four years ago. The Bucks were coming off a 15-win season in 2013-14, a low point for a franchise that had essentially been at or below .500 for years. At the time, a gangly 19-year-old Antetokounmpo was still getting used to NBA life.

The Bucks have been on a slow and steady rise since then, making the playoffs three out of the last four years.

”If you study that, eight, 10, maybe 12 teams in the NBA have done that. I think you put yourself in an above-average class just doing that … Now we focus on how you win in the first round. How do you advance?” general manager Jon Horst said late in the regular season.

Handing the ball to Antetokounmpo helps. The 23-year-old’s athleticism makes him a threat to make the highlight reel at any second.

Whether the future includes a new coach or forward Jabari Parker remains a question. It could depend on how far the Bucks go this postseason.

Veteran assistant Joe Prunty was promoted to replace the fired Jason Kidd in January, leading the team to a 21-16 record following a 23-22 start under Kidd. The Bucks have said that they plan to have a coaching search after the season, with Prunty expected to be a candidate.

Parker returned from the second major knee injury of his four-year career in February, averaging 12.6 points in 31 games. He has struggled so far in the playoffs, scoring just two points in 24 minutes off the bench. Celtics forward Al Horford in particular has been a tough matchup.

The second overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft can become a restricted free agent following the season after the two sides could not reach agreement on a long-term extension last year. He has said that hopes to stay Shaquem Griffin Color Rush Jersey , but realizes that the NBA is a business.

Lately, Parker has been frustrated about the lack of playing time. When asked after practice on Thursday how to get more minutes, Parker said: ”Be on my coach’s good side. Yeah. Whatever that is, just try to be on the good side.”

Prunty understood Parker’s desire for more minutes.

”That’s not new, and that’s a good thing. We want everybody to be competitive. We want everybody to step on the floor and be assertive with their games,” Prunty said.

The Bucks do have the makings of a good nucleus entering its prime regardless of what happens to Parker.

Khris Middleton averaged a career-high 20.1 points, and provides steady, all-around play. Eric Bledsoe, acquired from Phoenix early in the season, gives the Bucks a spark plug at point guard. Malcolm Brogdon offers solid, two-way productivity.

Horst, a longtime team executive who took over as GM last year, said the Bucks are a team that has ”established itself in a consistent way, in that we have a core group of guys that can continue to move forward, continue to build on what we’ve done here in the last couple years.”

For players http://www.philadelphiaeaglesteamonlines.com/avonte-maddox-jersey , the desire to advance in the postseason trumps what’s going on off the floor. But the players do understand the big picture, too, Feigin said.

It’s hard not to ignore the construction next door to the Bradley Center on the new arena that is nearly 90 percent complete. The Bucks are scheduled to start play in their new home in the fall. They moved into a new, state-of-the-art training center across the street from the construction site last summer.

Feigin said the team has sold 1,600 new season tickets between January and the end of March, a number not reached until the end of the summer a year ago. BMO Harris Bank, Johnson Controls and Miller Brewing Co., are among the businesses signed on as corporate partners.

In Antetokounmpo, the Bucks have a telegenic frontman poised to become a league-wide household name for years to come.

”For us, we’ve had this really cool parallelism between off court and on court,” Feigin said. ”You’re running into a new arena, you’re running into a new foray to having a superstar in the league and growing around it. The future is here.”

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