With 2021 NFL draft prospects all over the field, I'm fired up for Ohio State-Alabama in the College Football Playoff National Championship on Monday night (8 ET, ESPN and the ESPN app). There's Heisman Trophy winner Alabama receiver DeVonta Smith.
For as much sense as it may make at first glance, the NFL and NFLPA have no interest in bubbling teams locally for the postseason. This comes after the outbreak in Cleveland that has left the Browns without their head coach for the franchise's most important ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- My friend and colleague Doug Lesmerises labeled me a homer (even though I'm not even from Crocker Park *cue laugh track*) for picking the Browns to win on Sunday against the Steelers. I understood his argument. The Browns are ...
After a disjointed N.F.L. off-season, after training camp was restructured and the preseason canceled, three teams — Baltimore, Green Bay and Seattle — scored five touchdowns in their first game. In all, there were 87 touchdowns in Week 1, the most in an ...
You could pick almost any week, but you might as well start with the last time the New Orleans Saints played football, when in pregame warmups the two guys standing in the end zone alone playing catch represented the entirety of the team's running back ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Several hours after the Browns clinched a playoff appearance, I was driving home from FirstEnergy Stadium. I was thinking about how owner Jimmy Haslam finally found his "alignment" with Chief Strategy Officer Paul DePodesta putting ...
EAST LANSING — Answers and explanations did not come easy for Tom Izzo. Michigan State led Purdue almost the entire game Friday — including 19 minutes, 55.5 seconds of the second half — by dominating defensively, shooting above a 50% clip, ...
The No. 3 UConn Huskies (6-0) host the Providence Friars (5-6) at Gampel Pavilion on Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 1:00 PM ET. UConn Team Stats. UConn had a 78.7 points per game average a season ago, 16.5 more than the 62.2 Providence allowed per ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Pascal Siakam had 17 points, 11 assists and nine rebounds, Toronto made 20 3-pointers and the Raptors set a franchise record for scoring while winning for the second time this season, 144-123 over the Sacramento Kings on ...
Nassir Little's face lit up when Portland Trail Blazers coach Terry Stotts told him to enter Thursday night's 135-117 win over Minnesota in the fourth quarter. "When coach called his name, he started smiling right away and everybody on the bench kind of ...
Succinctly, here's what Hawks coach Lloyd Pierce said the team must do to jump-start the offense, which in the past three games has dipped significantly from its red-hot start to the season: "Make shots." Indeed, though the Hawks have had some trouble doing ...
There will be some novelty to the National Football League wild-card tripleheader Saturday. It's been a while since each of the six teams have met their opponent in the postseason. Makes for a little more fun. The Buffalo Bills and Indianapolis Colts, who will ...
HOUSTON (AP) — Nick Caserio's introductory news conference as the Houston Texans' general manager was dominated by questions about whether Deshaun Watson wants out. Caserio, a longtime executive with the New England Patriots, was hired on ...
The best three-point shooting team in the NBA couldn't get that shot to fall and a highly-productive bench group couldn't find the basket as the Milwaukee Bucks lost their first game at Fiserv Forum, 131-118, to the Utah Jazz on Friday night. Heading into the ...
Rams quarterback Jared Goff throws as Seattle's Carlos Dunlap II (43) pursues. Rams quarterback Jared Goff hasn't played since hurting his thumb in Week 16 against Carlos Dunlap and the Seattle Seahawks.
Bills call up Duke Williams for NFL playoff game. Updated Jan 08, 2021; Posted Jan 08, 2021. Buffalo Bills wide receiver Duke Williams reacts after a victory in an NFL game against the New York Jets on Oct. 25, 2020, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New ...
No. 13 Missouri paused team activities and postponed their game against LSU on Saturday due to COVID-19 protocols, the school announced on Friday. Missouri did not specify why it had paused activities, nor did it say whether a player or coach had ...
The Buffalo Bills are not sure if Cole Beasley will be healthy enough to play. But music aficionados certainly believe the man can play. Music, that is. The Bills receiver Cole Beasley, formerly of the Dallas Cowboys, dropped his latest song at midnight Thursday ...
While the 2020 college football season has unquestionably felt different than each one that came before it, what happens next will feel familiar. The offseason nears, and what was once a robust slate of games has been condensed down to a single matchup.
The first of two annual basketball meetings between Auburn basketball and Alabama features rivals on opposite streaks. The Tigers (6-5, 0-3 SEC) are struggling. They've lost three straight games to open SEC play. The Crimson Tide (8-3, 3-0), on the other ...
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — Down three key players who are quarantined and road weary, No. 1 Stanford needed every defensive stop down the stretch. Haley Jones returned to her hometown and had 18 points and six rebounds, and No. 1 Stanford beat No.
AUBURN, Ala. – The No. 14 Auburn gymnastics team opened the 2021 season Friday night in Auburn Arena, scoring a 195.725 in a loss to No. 1 Florida. The Gators won the meet with a 197.500. "It was a pretty good opening meet for us," head coach Jeff ...
Men's basketball. Noon: Miami at N.C. State (Fox Sports South). Noon: Wake Forest at Duke (ACCN). Noon: Alabama at Auburn (ESPN2). Noon: Ohio State at Rutgers (Big Ten). Noon: St. John's at Creighton (FS1). Noon: Richmond at George Mason (CBS ...
Mike Lange tried to reason with the doctors as he was in a hospital bed awaiting further testing. It was the mid-90s. The voice of the Penguins was already well on his way to a Hall of Fame career having called hundreds — maybe even thousands — of ...
Hawaii (3-0, 1-0) vs. UC Riverside (3-2, 0-1). Student Recreation Center, Riverside, California; Saturday, 7 p.m. EST. BOTTOM LINE: UC Riverside seeks revenge on Hawaii after dropping the first matchup in Riverside. The teams last played each other on ...
SOUTHFIELD - Could you have made money this year wagering against the Lions? You bet — and probably more ways than you thought possible. This was the first complete NFL regular season for legalized wagering in Michigan. The Lions season (7-9 ...
Carl Pierre did not have to stop and think when he was asked about being in Washington, D.C. Tuesday night and Wednesday with his University of Massachusetts teammates. He already had almost 48 hours to think about what had happened in our nation's ...
The Celtics fourth-straight victory looked like it was going to be easy in the third quarter. It appeared in jeopardy midway through the fourth quarter. But Boston held on for a 116-107 win Friday at TD Garden. The Celtics looked like they were going to roll, ...
adds detail, quotes. BIRMINGHAM, England, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Liverpool scored three goals in five second-half minutes to reach the FA Cup fourth round with a 4-1 win at Aston Villa on Friday after the home side were forced to field academy players due to a ...
The executive board of the Arizona Interscholastic Association voted 5-4 to cancel the 2021 winter high school sports season. The decision Friday came after an executive meeting was held. A recommendation from the AIA's Sports Medicine Advisory ...
BOXING sensation Ryan Garcia has added some new ink to his body following his stunning comeback win over Luke Campbell. The Golden Boy Promotions prodigy stopped the British lightweight last week with a vicious body shot. Ryan Garcia's new tattoo ...
A preview of the Mercer-UNCG men's basketball game: Who. Mercer (0-2 Southern, 7-3 overall) at UNCG (1-1, 6-4). When. 2 p.m. Saturday. Where. Greensboro Coliseum. How to watch. ESPN+. What to watch for. UNCG is coming off an 84-75 victory at ...
ADELBODEN, Switzerland (AP) — French skier Alexis Pinturault stretched his lead at the top of the overall World Cup standings by winning a giant slalom on Friday, posting the fastest time in both runs. Pinturault finished 1.04 seconds ahead of Filip Zubcic on ...
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Just under 2 percent of Bills fans selected to go to the game on Saturday tested positive for COVID and will not be able to attend the game. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said almost 7,000 fans were tested this week. Season ticket ...
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