We're getting down to the nitty-gritty as we head into Week 13, with 30 NFL teams still in contention (sorry, Jets and Jags) for the 14 spots in this year's expanded postseason. Ideally, teams should be playing some of their best football in December as they try ...
NEW ORLEANS (9-2) at ATLANTA (4-7). Sunday, 1 p.m. EST, Fox. OPENING LINE — Saints by 3 1/2. RECORD VS. SPREAD — Saints 6-5; Falcons 5-6. SERIES RECORD — Falcons lead 53-50. LAST MEETING — Saints beat Falcons 24-9 on Nov.
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump on Thursday called Lou Holtz "one of the greatest coaches in American history" as he honored the college football Hall of Famer and political ally with the nation's highest civilian honor. Holtz, whose 34-year ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kids have been drawing up plays in the playground dirt as long as football has been played, their audacious designs usually featuring creative reverses, multiple laterals and even tight ends throwing passes back to the quarterback ...
Deshaun Watson is still trying to mentally recover from the Houston Texans decision to trade away DeAndre Hopkins, and the last thing he wants is to have a future that also doesn't involve Will Fuller. The latter has been suspended six games by the NFL for ...
As the old man on the roster, Landen Akers has been at Iowa State even longer than fifth-year coach Matt Campbell. The Cyclones occupied the spot next to Kansas at the bottom of the Big 12 when the wide receiver from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, arrived in Ames.
After tossing up a couple of airballs, the University of Washington basketball team opens conference play at Utah on Thursday, trying to overcome a lot of glaring deficiencies. Look for the Huskies (0-2) to shake up their lineup, turning to one or more new ...
The AFC playoff picture is starting to come into sharper focus. Now, with Week 12 finally in the rearview mirror — thanks, Steelers and Ravens — we have an even better idea was to which teams can start making postseason plans and which ones will have ...
Romain Grosjean has returned to the Formula One paddock for the first time since his fiery accident at the Bahrain Grand Prix. Editor's Picks. F1 will learn lessons from Grosjean's crash but also faces hard truths. Grosjean's car split in two and was engulfed in ...
Non-tender day was supposed to be the most interesting one of an extremely quiet offseason, a day when MLB perhaps found itself trending for a few hours. Naturally, a sport that doesn't much care for a buzzworthy offseason couldn't even pull that off.
While the start date for the 2020-21 NHL season has yet to be determined, as the league and players' union haggle over a series of issues, a quartet of teams are looking ahead to games — and trying to make fans a part of those plans. According to a ...
Kirk Cousins was named the NFC Offensive Player of the Week for his efforts in Minnesota's 28-27 come-from-behind win over Carolina on Sunday. More Vikings coverage. Vikings fantasy football outlook: Take a flier on Kirk Cousins · Vikings' Cousins named ...
GREEN BAY – Quarterback Aaron Rodgers is the Packers' nominee for the 2020 Art Rooney Sportsmanship Award. The award was created in 2014 in honor of the Pro Football Hall of Famer and late founding owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Art Rooney, ...
Kentucky closes the most unusual of regular seasons this Saturday when it plays host to South Carolina on Senior Day at Kroger Field. Game time is 7:30 p.m. EST and it will be televised on the SEC Network. The Wildcats will honor 19 players before the ...
After two straight postseason appearances in 2018 and 2019, the Milwaukee Brewers slashed payroll last winter, with owner Mark Attanasio saying that the team had operated "in the red" after the end-of-season payroll had risen past $120 million in 2019.
Major League Baseball's tender deadline passed on Wednesday night. For those who are unaware, that's significant because it represents the point in time when teams have to decide if they're going to tender contracts to their players who are in either the ...
The Minnesota Timberwolves released their 2020-21 city edition uniform Thursday. The Timberwolves' fourth city edition uniform gives a nod to one of Minnesota's nicknames "The North Star State." The threads are midnight black and feature aurora green ...
James McCann reportedly in free-agent talks with Mets originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago. It sounds like James McCann is about to get paid. Local. hilton chicago 33 mins ago. Health Officials Investigating Large Wedding Held at Suburban Hotel in ...
Kelvin Beachum is a sage veteran, an intelligent man who has brought something beyond just his human-shield abilities at right tackle this season to the Cardinals. He waxes philosophical when it comes to the fits and stops of the Cards' offense thus far.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The Maryland men's basketball team, which received nine votes in the most recent Associated Press Top-25 poll, is set to host Saint Peter's Friday afternoon at 3:00 pm on Big Ten Network. The Terps were originally scheduled to play ...
New Mets owner Steve Cohen hasn't made much of an impact on organizational personnel yet — team president Sandy Alderson still is looking for a general manager and hasn't made any major free-agent additions — but he has made his presence known ...
The Niagara University men's basketball team has a small window to prepare for the start of its season. The Purple Eagles were paused for much of November due to Covid-19 issues, and recently resumed workouts for their season opener at 8 p.m. Thursday ...
Valtteri Bottas has admitted it will not look good if he gets beaten by Mercedes' substitute driver George Russell at this weekend's Sakhir Grand Prix. Russell was drafted in from Williams to race alongside Bottas when it emerged world champion Lewis ...
Ex-Formula 1 driver Kevin Magnussen has signed with Chip Ganassi Racing for a full-season campaign in the team's new Cadillac DPi-V.R alongside Renger van der Zande. The duo were confirmed by CGR on Thursday, in what will mark the 28-year-old ...
STORRS, Conn. – The No. 3 UConn women's basketball team will now open the 2020-21 season vs. UMass Lowell on Saturday, Dec. 12, at Gampel Pavilion. The Huskies and River Hawks will face off at 1 p.m. on SNY. An out-of-market streaming provider for ...
Longtime Vanderbilt play-by-play broadcaster Joe Fisher announced on Thursday morning that he had resigned following "unacceptable" behavior during a recent radio broadcast on 102.5-FM. During the Commodores' Coaches show on Monday night, ...
(NEXSTAR) — This week on Big Game Bound, Jack Doles goes one-on-one with Hall of Fame NFL Insider, John Clayton. He'll talk about the hot-head coaching candidates and what it's like covering the NFL during a pandemic. After watching the Packers ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Ja Morant confirmed he was at a party at a Memphis club over the weekend that has come under fire for attendees allegedly were not wearing masks or practicing social distancing. The Memphis Grizzlies point guard said he should've ...
The New England Patriots defense looked like it was in need of speed in the early weeks of the season, and yet their rookies sat on the sideline or on injured reserve. Safety Kyle Dugger and linebackers Josh Uche and Anfernee Jennings were nowhere to be ...
The Cavaliers will pay tribute to Cleveland's rock & roll roots with their 2020-21 City Edition uniforms, which were unveiled Thursday. In partnership with the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and designed in collaboration with Nike, the black uniform shell features ...
ABC to simulcast games, plus an NFL Wild Card game in January. Buffalo Bills at San Francisco game airs Dec. 7, while Buffalo at New England airs Monday, Dec. 28. In anticipation of the NFL postseason, ABC will simulcast two of ESPN's "Monday Night ...
INDIANAPOLIS – Until Rigoberto Sanchez returns, Ryan Allen is the Indianapolis Colts' punter. The team sought an experienced veteran to temporarily replace Sanchez. They not only found one, but added a punter with championship pedigree and ties to ...
The Duquesne athletic department announced their plans for men's and women's basketball games for the months of December and January. The UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse, the future home of Duquesne basketball, is still being renovated so for this month ...
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