The NFL put on a rare show Saturday: a triple-header of games, each with significant playoff implications. Over the course of about 10 hours, we saw: The Texans clinch the AFC South. The Patriots win the AFC East. The Vikings clinch a playoff spot.
The 49ers trailed for most of Saturday night's game before rallying to beat the Rams, 34-31. After facing two double-digit deficits earlier in the game, the 49ers won the game on Robbie Gould's 33-yard field goal as time expired. Jimmy Garoppolo's 46-yard ...
Philadelphia Eagles running back Darren Sproles will retire after the season, ending his 15-year career in the NFL. Sproles, who is out for the remainder of this season with torn right hip flexor muscle, announced his decision Saturday, saying in a statement ...
It didn't take long for Chris Driedger to shake off the cobwebs. After backing up in each of the last seven games, the 25-year-old goaltender made a career-high 42 saves in his return to the crease to help the Florida Panthers push their winning streak to three ...
BOSTON -- Ryan Ellis scored with 55 seconds left in overtime to give the Nashville Predators a 4-3 victory against the Boston Bruins at TD Garden on Saturday. Roman Josi scored two goals, Ryan Johansen had three assists and Pekka Rinne made 29 saves ...
DENVER -- The Chicago Blackhawks scored four straight goals in the third period to rally for a 5-4 win against the Colorado Avalanche at Pepsi Center on Saturday. Jonathan Toews had a goal and two assists for the Blackhawks (15-16-6), who have won two ...
LAS VEGAS -- Ohio State had been in control the entire second half. But Kentucky was hanging around. And then a bad thing happened for the Buckeyes with 3:30 remaining. The ref blew his whistle. He pointed at Kaleb Wesson. And everybody here inside ...
CHICAGO (AP) — CJ Fredrick had 21 points, Joe Wieskamp had 16 and Luka Garza had 12 points and 13 rebounds as Iowa pulled away late for a 77-70 victory over Cincinnati on Saturday night after losing a 15-point second-half lead. Bakari Evelyn had 15 ...
Washington Wizards guard Isaiah Thomas was ejected late in the fourth quarter of Saturday's 125-108 road loss against the Philadelphia 76ers after going into the stands and verbally confronting a fan at Wells Fargo Center. After he made 1 of 2 free throws ...
Another year, another FCS Championship Game featuring North Dakota State. The Bison have won seven of the last eight FCS titles and can add another to their trophy cabinet when they face James Madison on Saturday, Jan. 11, at Toyota Stadium in Frisco, ...
Whatever buzz was starting to build around the Atlanta Hawks after Trae Young's brilliant second half of last season has quickly disappeared just a few months into this campaign. John Collins got popped for violating the league's anti-drug program and was ...
When he sat in front of reporters in a San Diego hotel this month, Angels manager Joe Maddon praised his new team's owner and its top baseball operations executive. Arte Moreno, the billionaire who purchased the team in 2003, had committed to adding ...
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Mitch Ballock made the biggest shot of the game, but he was not about taking credit. Ballock's fourth 3-pointer gave Creighton four-point lead with 56 seconds remaining, and his break-away dunk put the final touches on a 67-60 victory ...
Florida Atlantic rallied around interim coach Glenn Spencer to win the 2019 Boca Raton Bowl on Saturday. Chris Robison threw two touchdown passes in a 52-28 win over SMU in front of the home crowd at FAU Football Stadium. Head coach Lane Kiffin left ...
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Cassius Winston was productive as usual, scoring 21 points and making seven assists, when No. 15 Michigan State routed Eastern Michigan 101-48. For a change, the senior star had some help. Foster Loyer scored a ...
NEW YORK — Giannis Antetokounmpo had a triple-double, though his brother had the highlight. And while the NBA MVP wasn't interested in talking about his stats, he certainly was impressed by Thanasis' one basket, a follow slam with his left hand in the ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jonah Mathews scored 15 points, Nick Rakocevic added 14 and Southern California rallied in the second half on Saturday night to defeat LSU 70-68 in the Basketball Hall of Fame Classic at Staples Center. Mathews' 3-pointer with ...
FILE - In this July 10, 2019, file photo, home plate umpire Brian deBrauwere, left, huddles with officials while wearing an earpiece connected to a ball and strikes calling system before the Atlantic League All-Star minor league baseball game in York, Pa.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Josh Nebo scored 15 points and Texas A&M used a big second half to rally from an 11-point deficit and beat Oregon State 64-49 on Saturday night. Quenton Jackson and Savion Flagg added 13 points apiece for Texas ...
LINCOLN, Neb. — North Dakota coach Paul Sather didn't know that the Fighting Hawks hadn't beaten Nebraska since 1933 after they nipped the Huskers 75-74 Saturday. He just knew his team had played its best game of the year in a hostile environment.
Jules Bernard couldn't recall exactly how many traveling violations and bad passes and offensive fouls and other ways UCLA had lost the ball in the first half Saturday when his coach offered some assistance. "It was 14," Mick Cronin interjected while seated ...
The biggest story for the Boston Celtics coming out of Friday's 114-93 victory over the Detroit Pistons was Tacko Fall's first appearance in a regular-season game at TD Garden. Late in the fourth quarter with the Celtics firmly in control, the home crowd urged ...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala - Alabama basketball (5-5) will play the Belmont Bruins (8-3) in the second and final leg of its state tour. The Crimson Tide is coming off of 105-87 victory over Samford in Birmingham on Wednesday night. Tipoff is set for 2:30 p.m. on the ...
Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz's 114-107 win over the Charlotte Hornets from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen. 1. Rudy Gobert's brilliance forces Hornets to adjust, Jazz take advantage. Rudy Gobert played his best quarter of the season in the ...
DETROIT (AP) -- Zach LaVine scored 33 points and Coby White added 19 to help the Chicago Bulls outlast the short-handed Detroit Pistons 119-107 on Saturday night. The Pistons were without Blake Griffin and Derrick Rose, and the Bulls pulled away late ...
Kawhi Leonard sparked a dominating third quarter by the Clippers, who pulled away from the San Antonio Spurs for a 134-109 victory on Saturday night at AT&T Center. The All-Star forward had eight points, four assists and two rebounds during eight minutes ...
The Bruins have twiddled their thumbs for the better part of the last three weeks. They twiddled and diddled some more Saturday night and gave away another point in an embarrassing 4-3 overtime loss to Nashville in which the Predators scored two goals in ...
PHOENIX — The building went quiet when James Harden went to the free-throw line for three shots after a foul behind the arc by Suns forward Dario Saric in the first quarter. Down four, the Rockets were off to another slow start. But that soon changed. Harden ...
The Packers placed offensive tackle Yosh Nijman on injured reserve Saturday, the team announced. Nijman will miss the rest of the season with an elbow injury. The rookie did not see any action after signing with the Packers' 53-player roster in late ...
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Yoeli Childs had 28 points as Brigham Young easily defeated Weber State 91-61 on Saturday night. Childs hit 11 of 13 shots. He added eight rebounds. Alex Barcello had 18 points for BYU (10-4), which earned its fourth consecutive ...
FARGO, N.D. – Top-ranked North Dakota State will play for its eighth FCS national championship in nine seasons after a 42-14 victory over Montana State in Saturday's playoff semifinal at the Fargodome. The Bison (15-0) won their 36th straight game overall ...
Whenever the Buffalo Sabres win, you can hear the Bachman-Turner Overdrive '70s ditty "Takin' Care of Business" pulsing through their dressing room. It's pretty appropriate for what we saw Saturday in KeyBank Center. The Sabres were hardly spectacular ...
Hunter Cattoor looks nothing like Santa Claus, but he certainly delivered a big gift to the Virginia Tech basketball team four days before Christmas. On a day in which Virginia Tech played poorly for the most part, Cattoor came off the bench to score a ...
SUNRISE, Fla. — Joe Pavelski remembers playing in his very first NHL game back in 2006 because the journey to get there would probably leave most travelers jet-lagged and numb. He received the phone call at 3 a.m. and then was on a flight from Boston ...
Leave it to the graduate transfer to finish Stanford's 25-16, 25-17, 25-20 victory over Wisconsin in Pittsburgh on Saturday. Madeleine Gates wrote finish to another Stanford women's volleyball national championship, delivering an exclamation-point kill for ...
Bjorkstrand suffered an undisclosed injury in the third period of Saturday's game versus the Devils, Blue Jackets team reporter Jeff Svoboda reports. Bjorkstrand appeared to take a cross check and had to leave the game. He scored the Blue Jackets' first two ...
ST. LOUIS — David Jacob has watched the Braggin' Rights game on TV religiously every December. He changed his pre-holiday plans this season, though, and made the trip from Springfield to St. Louis to catch the game in person for the first time.
NORTH LITTLE ROCK – Arkansas was down five (63-58) with 4:14 left in the game but went on a 12-2 run, thanks to a highlight-reel blocked shot by Adrio Bailey and two 3-pointers by Mason Jones, to pull out a 72-68 victory over Valparaiso Saturday night at ...
VIKINGS PLAYOFF SEEDING. • The Vikings became the final NFC team to clinch a playoff spot Saturday night when the 49ers eliminated the defending conference champion Rams with a 34-31 victory. • The Vikings could win the NFC North with two victories ...
A decade is coming to a close. There was a lot of great moments in the past decade of Ravens football. Joe Flacco was crowned Super Bowl MVP at the end of the 2012 season. Lamar Jackson catapulted the Ravens into a new era to close out the decade.
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