ATLANTA — College football fans had every reason to believe that Saturday's SEC championship game might be a classic. On one hand, you had the No. 1 team in the Amway Coaches Poll in LSU trying to finish off an unbeaten season and win its first SEC ...
For most NFL fans, drafting a player from your favorite team is all a part of the fantasy football experience and for the most part, a few New York Giants players could put up quality fantasy numbers during the 2019 season. Yet, Week 14 could be one of the few ...
Lane Kiffin does nothing without a flourish … even if it means doing nothing. Maybe that is the most surprising part of him taking the Ole Miss job. Kiffin restrained himself in the moment Friday night as the internet broke with news he was breaking back into the ...
Lucas Oil Stadium has become a home away from home for No. 1 Ohio State and No. 8 Wisconsin. The site of the Big Ten Championship Game has seen plenty of these programs in its short history as no two schools have played in the game more often.
The Cleveland Browns entered 2019 with great expectations after ending 2018 on a high note and adding former New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. in March, but they've sputtered to a 5-7 season with the No. 21 scoring offense. Mary Kay ...
VANCOUVER -- J.T. Miller scored a power-play goal at 3:21 of overtime, and the Vancouver Canucks recovered for a 6-5 win against the Buffalo Sabres at Rogers Arena on Saturday. Miller won it with a one-timer from the right circle after Marcus Johansson ...
OAKLAND -- Sunday's game is the biggest of the Raiders' regular season. Yeah, you've read that before. Maybe, you know, on this website and in this weekly series. That's because the Raiders had a chance to pull even atop the AFC West in last week's ...
A former Kennesaw State University cheerleader was awarded a $145,000 settlement two years after she faced repercussions for taking a knee during the national anthem at a college football game, court documents show. The former cheerleader, Tommia ...
Lionel Messi scored a hat-trick for Barcelona when they hammered Mallorca 5-2 at the Camp Nou on Saturday, retaining their spot at the peak of La Liga. Antoine Griezmann played a key role early on and also got on the score sheet along with Luis Suarez, ...
Mark Almond | preps@al.com. UAB coach Bill Clark gets angry over a penalty call at Legion Field in Birmingham, Ala., Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019. (Mark Almond | preps@al.com). 7. By Evan Dudley. Lee Dufour couldn't be more proud. Even in a distraught locker ...
CINCINNATI — Naji Marshall tied his career high with 31 points and Xavier regained the city's bragging rights on its home court, beating Cincinnati 73-66 Saturday for its ninth win in the last 13 games of the crosstown rivalry. The junior forward led a run that ...
DALLAS (AP) -- With Kristaps Porzingis joining Luka Doncic in the Dallas lineup this season, the Mavericks expected to be better. But Boban Marjanovic? Doncic scored 28 points in 26 minutes, Porzingis had 13 points and the 1,500th rebound of his career ...
Central Michigan football was the Cinderella story of the Mid-American Conference this season. But it was the Miami RedHawks who came away with the win in front of 22,247 fans at Ford Field on Saturday. Miami proved itself as the top team from a wild MAC ...
When answering a question in the postgame news conference after Butler's 76-62 win over Florida, Butler forward Sean McDermott shrugged at least four times. "I think it was more the guys on this team, and our coaching staff that told me the same thing," ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Detroit Lions have been fined $75,000 for violating the NFL's injury report policy before quarterback Matthew Stafford missed a Nov. 10 game at Chicago. The league confirmed the fine Saturday, saying the team failed to properly ...
Memphis coach Mike Norvell has been a hot commodity during the coaching silly season, and he appears to be in line to nab one of the biggest jobs on the market. Norvell, 38, will be named coach of Florida State on Sunday, according to ESPN's Chris Low.
PHILADELPHIA — Tyasha Harris scored 21 points and Mikiah Herbert Harrigan added 15 to help No. 6 South Carolina beat Temple 78-71 on Saturday. This was the Gamecocks' first game since knocking off then-No. 2 Baylor in the finale of the Paradise Jam ...
Moments after his team won its second consecutive Sun Belt Conference championship game, Appalachian State coach Eli Drinkwitz continued to set the bar higher. "It better be the Cotton Bowl!" Drinkwitz told fans on the field at Kidd Brewer Stadium when ...
Don Sweeney wasn't sweating the risk when he signed Brett Ritchie last summer. The Bruins general manager committed one year and $1 million, a decent bet on a 6-foot-4-inch, 220-pound right wing with a promising combination of youth (26) and past ...
MADISON, Wis. — Kobe King scored a career-high 24 points and Wisconsin shot a season-high 54% to beat Indiana 84-64 on Saturday, handing the Hoosiers their first loss. Nate Reuvers added 20 points on 8-of-12 shooting, including 2 of 3 from 3-point ...
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Anthony Cowan Jr. made a free throw with 2.1 seconds left and No. 3 Maryland erased a 15-point deficit in the second half to rally past Illinois 59-58 Saturday in the Big Ten opener for both teams. The Terrapins (10-0, 1-0 Big Ten) ...
Bill Belichick jokingly suggested he may try to tempt Wes Welker out of retirement as the Patriots continue to search for a solution to their kicking issues. The Pats boast a 10-2 record this season despite having to chop and change the identity of their kicker, ...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Dalton Nixon had 17 points off the bench to carry Brigham Young to an 83-50 win over UNLV on Saturday. Alex Barcello had 13 points for Brigham Young (7-4). Yoeli Childs added 13 points and 14 rebounds and Connor Harding ...
DIRIYAH, Saudi Arabia—The six strange months that saw a roly-poly Mexican-American fighter named Andy Ruiz Jr. rule boxing as heavyweight champion of the world came to an end early on Sunday morning. In one of the most improbable settings the sport ...
Rookie running back Benny Snell Jr. has started for the Pittsburgh Steelers over recent weeks with incumbent starting RB James Conner dealing with injuries. Snell has performed so admirably that he has worked his way into the conversation of being a ...
FOXBOROUGH -- It was a season no one expected. It was a season filled with challenges. It was a season worth remembering. Unfortunately, though, that season ended Saturday afternoon with a loss as Swampscott defeated Amherst, 21-0, during the ...
CANTON, Ohio — Clyde won its second OHSAA state football championship in school history Saturday at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium, taking down Licking Valley with a 42-14 victory in the Division IV title game. The Fliers last won a state ...
Kevin Keatts had a hard time focusing on the final 28 seconds of N.C. State's 91-82 win over Wake Forest on Saturday. The Wolfpack coach was more concerned about the health of sophomore forward Jericole Hellems than the final half-minute. Hellems ...
Maximum Security seized the lead at the start and rolled to a commanding victory in the $750,000 Cigar Mile H. (G1) at Aqueduct, likely cementing the Eclipse Award for champion 3-year-old male. Luis Saez guided the Gary and Mary West homebred to the 3 ...
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Thunder had found multiple ways to lose close games this season. Not this time. Chris Paul scored a season-high 30 points and Oklahoma City pulled off an improbable 139-127 overtime victory over the Timberwolves on Friday night ...
Boise State made the plays the University of Hawaii couldn't en route to a 31-10 victory to clinch the Mountain West Conference Championship football game before a boisterous Broncos crowd that has come to expect nothing less. The Rainbow Warriors had ...
Fans can catch a partial preview the 2020-21 Duke basketball roster by watching two of next season's freshmen in Durham compete against one another. Three 2020 Duke basketball signees will be on the same court on Saturday at 8:45 p.m. when IMG ...
After a couple weeks off, we have fights once again, with UFC on ESPN 7 going down Saturday from Washington, D.C. The majority of the focus this week is on the boys on the poster, as Alistair Overeem (45-17) takes on rising star Jairzinho Rozenstruik (9-0), ...
BROOKINGS, S.D. — A 10-point second half pushed No. 6 Northern Iowa past No. 10 South Dakota State, 13-10, at Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium Saturday afternoon in the second round of the FCS Playoffs. "This was just a big win," UNI coach Mark Farley said.
A.J. Hinch has an opening on his coaching staff. ON TEXAS SPORTS NATION: Astros face a question-filled winter meetings. Astros first-base coach Don Kelly will become the Pittsburgh Pirates' new bench coach. Pittsburgh recently hired Derek Shelton as its ...
Record-breaking Montana swamps SE Louisiana in FCS 73-28. MISSOULA — Dalton Sneed threw five touchdown passes and Marcus Knight rushed for three scores to lead the Montana Grizzlies' 73-28 rout of Southeast Louisiana in a FCS second-round ...
Jones will start Saturday's game in Tampa Bay, Curtis Pashelka of Bay Area News Group reports. Jones will draw the unenviable task of trying to slow down a Lightning attack that ranks second in the league with 3.62 goals per game. He's 10-2-0 in his last 12 ...
Dominic Calvert-Lewin's double gave Duncan Ferguson a perfect start as Everton caretaker as they beat Chelsea 3-1 at Goodison Park. Thrust into his first managerial role following the departure of Marco Silva on Thursday, Ferguson was celebrating wildly ...
Week 14 of the 2019 NFL season will feature a marquee Sunday Night Football game on Sunday, December 8, 2019 when the Seattle Seahawks take on the Los Angeles Rams at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. Kickoff is ...
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