Dynasty: In a largely defensive game, the combination of coach Bill Belichick, quarterback Tom Brady, and placekicker Stephen Gostkowskilast night won the 6^thSuper Bowl in 18 years for the New England Patriots. New England 13, Los Angeles Rams, 3.

  Brady said, “Everybody counted us out, but we’re still here.”

 Number 53 was the lowest-scoring Super Bowl ever. New England is now tied with Pittsburgh for the most Super Bowl wins.

  The Los Angeles defense was stubborn and so was New England’s while both offenses struggled. The Patriots didn’t score a touchdown until there was only 4:17 left on the clock. Gostkowski kicked 7 of 13 points for the Patriots.

 Brady, the greatest quarterback in the history of the game, didn’t have a great night. His first pass was intercepted and through most of the game he was looking a little old and off-point. He’s 41. The real Tom Brady appeared in the 4^thquarter and drove it home.

 Patriots owner Robert Kraft called Belichick and Brady the best at what they do in the history of the National Football League.

 There was also a loud halftime show and a lot of cleverly produced commercials.

The Super Sunday Interview:President Trump told CBS Newsthat he wants to stay in Iraq to continue keeping a military watch on Iran.

 “I want to be able to watch Iran,” Trump said in an interview aired yesterday CBS’s“Face the Nation.” Trump told host Margaret Brennan, “We’re going to keep watching and we’re going to keep seeing and if there’s trouble, if somebody is looking to do nuclear weapons or other things, we’re going to know it before they do.” 

  Trump claims Iran is cheating on its nuclear weapons deal with the West, although his intelligence chiefs say Iran is in compliance.

  Other than that, the Russia investigation is still a hoax, Trump is tougher on Russia than any previous president, his intelligence chiefs are wrong, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is bad for the country, and he won the Republican nomination in 2016 “very easily.”

The Maginot Line:The Pentagon said yesterday that it will send 3,750 more soldiers to the US-Mexico border to string another 150 miles of concertina wire and provide support for the Customs and Border Protection agency.

  The additions will bring the total number of troops on the border to 4,350. The soldiers are not allowed to sling guns or actually detain illegal immigrants coming over the border. Their deployment has been criticized as a political stunt to shore up President Trump’s claim that the southern border is being invaded.

On the Brink:Virginia’s Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam called a senior staff meeting last night to discuss the possibility that he should resign over the revelation of a racist photo on his page in his medical school yearbook. Northam has said he will not resign, but with increasing calls for his departure, the meeting is a clear signal that he’s considering getting out.

Nation:A small plane crashed into a house yesterday in Yorba Linda, Calif., killing two men and two women inside as well as the pilot. Debris was spread through the neighborhood. — The state of Oregon has hit a 90 percent rate of bottle and container recycling. The deposit was raised to 10 cents a bottle. — General Motors begins laying off 4,000 employees today. The ultimate target is 14,000. They say it will save them billions of dollars.

Bad Medicine:Hong Kong authorities say they intercepted a shipment of nine tons of pangolin scales and a thousand elephant tusks in the same shipment. 

  Pangolins are anteater-like creatures native to Africa and Asia whose scales are pulverized and used in traditional Chinese medicine. The meat is served as a delicacy. Hong Kong officials estimated that the intercepted scales had come from nearly 14,000 pangolins.

American Pie:Sixty years after Buddy Holly and two other musicians died in a plane crash, singer Don McLean says his song “American Pie” is not about Holly. Actually, it’s about eight minutes and 36 seconds.

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