'One of the greatest to ever play'
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More than a dozen Black colleges and universities got bomb threats  'One of the greatest to ever play'  Tom Brady of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers waves to the crowd as he runs off the field after defeating the New England Patriots in at Gillette Stadium on October 3, 2021, in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Even late in playoff games, with his team trailing well behind and time running out, there was still a sense of inevitability that National Football League legend Tom Brady would pile up successive drives down the field and engineer a sensational comeback. It happened so often that some casual fans knew not to bother tuning into a Super Bowl until the fourth quarter when the star quarterback turned it on.
But the clock that even the best quarterbacks cannot stop did finally run out for the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers great on Tuesday as he announced his retirement at the age of 44. He rides off into the sunset with seven Super Bowl championships and after throwing for more touchdowns and yards and notching more playoff wins than any quarterback in history.
"There is a physical, mental, and emotional challenge EVERY single day that has allowed me to maximize my highest potential. And I have tried my very best these past 22 years," Brady, the 199th pick in the 2000 NFL draft, wrote on Instagram. "There are no shortcuts to success on the field or in life. This is difficult for me to write, but here it goes: I am not going to make that competitive commitment anymore."
The kind of self-belief needed to survive more than two brutal decades of NFL hits can come across as arrogance. And Brady was rarely beloved and was a quixotic and sometimes controversial figure. His stunningly successful partnership with longtime Patriots coach Bill Belichick was abrasive, to put it mildly.
But Brady's greatness and dedication were never in doubt, especially after he left chilly New England and took Tampa to yet another Super Bowl and collected another winner's ring in his first year in Florida.
Rival NFL teams still stinging from losses inflicted by Brady's ultra-precise passing issued warm tributes. The sad-sack New York Jets quipped on Twitter: "this better be real." And league Commissioner Roger Goodell had the last word for history — at least until Brady's certain first ballot Hall of Fame entry in 2027 — assuming the GOAT doesn't pull off one last comeback.
"Tom Brady will be remembered as one of the greatest to ever play in the NFL," Goodell said.
New hope for parents The pandemic has been hard on everyone, but it's been particularly stressful and exhausting for parents of young kids.
As CNN's Kate Sullivan writes for Meanwhile, many parents are juggling working from home and looking after their children as infections shut down day cares. Getting a tantrum-prone toddler to keep his or her mask on can seem nearly impossible. Anxious parents are confused about what is safe for them and their families to do if their kids aren't eligible for vaccines.
As many fully vaccinated Americans start going out and living their lives more normally again, lots of parents of young kids are feeling pretty isolated going into year three of the pandemic.
Which is why many will be relieved to hear that Pfizer and BioNTech are requesting emergency use authorization for their two-dose Covid-19 vaccine for children age 6 months up to 5 years. Extending the vaccine eligibility to more people is a huge step forward in America's response to the pandemic. But as misinformation about the vaccines runs rampant and the anti-vaccine movement swells, how many children will actually get the shot is another question.
The Pfizer vaccine has been authorized for children 5 and older since late October, but only about 28% of kids ages 5 to 11 have received at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose as of January 18, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Vaccines are widely available and free but only about 68% of the eligible US population (those ages 5 and older) is fully vaccinated, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Many say they will never get the shot, despite health and medical experts recommending the vaccines as the best protection against the virus.
Those low vaccine numbers are particularly troubling as more children than ever before are getting Covid-19 and getting hospitalized with the disease as the Omicron variant's dominance intensifies.
New Covid-19 cases among children in the US topped 1 million for the first time since the American Academy of Pediatrics began tracking cases, the group said last week. For the week ending January 20, there were at least 1.15 million new cases, a rate that is nearly five times greater than the peak of last winter's surge, the group reported. Thanks for reading. On Wednesday, it's day one of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics torch relay. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson takes questions in the House of Commons as his boozy party scandal rages. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Space Launch Complex in California to put a classified satellite into orbit for the US National Reconnaissance Office. It's Groundhog Day in the US and spectators gather at Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, as Phil the groundhog makes his prediction on how long winter will last. View in browser | All CNN Newsletters
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