It gave the Packers (13-3) the No. 1 seed in the NFC playoffs. With that comes a first-round bye -- the only one in the conference thanks to the expanded playoff field -- and home games between now and the Super Bowl.
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- — Russell Wilson connected on two fourth-quarter touchdown passes to Tyler Lockett and the Seattle Seahawks rallied for a 26-23 win over the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday to end the season on a four-game winning streak.
INDIANAPOLIS -- — Jonathan Taylor rushed for a franchise-record 253 yards and two scores, capping the Indianapolis Colts' 28-14 playoff-clinching victory over Jacksonville on Sunday with a 45-yard touchdown run with 3:35 to go. Philip Rivers threw for ...
CHICAGO -- — Aaron Rodgers threw for four touchdowns, breaking his franchise record for scoring passes in a season, and the Green Bay Packers clinched the No. 1 seed in the NFC by beating the playoff-bound Chicago Bears 35-16 on Sunday.
HOUSTON -- — The Tennessee Titans won the AFC South on Sunday. All it took was Derrick Henry surpassing 2,000 yards rushing and rookie Sam Sloman's 37-yard field goal that bounced off the upright and through for a 41-38 victory over the Houston ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- — Drew Brees threw for 201 yards and three touchdowns, the Saints had five interceptions and New Orleans defeated the Carolina Panthers 33-7 on Sunday to wrap up the No. 2 seed in the NFC playoffs. The Saints will host the ...
The 92-yard touchdown by @jerryjeudy is the longest reception of any NFL player this year. It is also the third-longest reception by a rookie in Broncos history (longest since @EddieRoyalWR in ...
The 2021 NFL Draft is months away, but we now know the order for the top five picks of the draft: the Jacksonville Jaguars, New York Jets, Miami Dolphins, Atlanta Falcons and Cincinnati Bengals. The Jaguars' and Jets' selections were determined during last ...
The top 18 picks in the 2021 NFL Draft are in place following Week 17's results. With the NFL's expansion of the playoffs to 14 teams, that's two less teams in the draft order than are normally known at this point in the league calendar. But it's more than half the ...
The Washington Football Team controls their own destiny. A win against the Philadelphia Eagles (4-10-1) at Lincoln Financial Field on Sunday and Washington (6-9) clinches the NFC East title and the No. 4 seed in the playoffs. If Washington loses, the New ...
Ahead of Washington's Sunday Night Football clash against Philadelphia, Smith's wife, Elizabeth, posted an Instagram about how far Smith has come over the past two years. In the post was the picture of the brace ...
He can't be credited with the win alone, but Fatts Russell certainly earned the save on Sunday afternoon. The University of Rhode Island was on the verge of what would have been a brutal Atlantic 10 defeat against a staggering Saint Joseph's. Its senior ...
The Giants bent in the second half but didn't break, holding on for 23-19 win over the Cowboys and keeping their playoff hopes alive -- at least for now. >> Box score. Eight takeaways from Sunday's game. - New York led 23-19 on the final Cowboys drive of ...
I have a Paul Westphal story. This makes me neither special nor unique. Those are adjectives better spent affixed to Westphal, who was special and unique in the best of ways, which reminds me. I have a Paul Westphal story: This is about 15 years ago, and ...
Barcelona stretched their unbeaten run in La Liga to six games as they beat bottom-of-the-table Huesca 1-0 on Sunday. Frenkie de Jong scored the only goal at the Estadio El Alcoraz, turning home Lionel Messi's cross in the 27th minute as Barca moved up ...
(Photo of KFC Yum! Center: Sam Upshaw Jr./Courier Journal via Imagn Content Services, LLC). LOUISVILLE, Ky. - New year, same scheduling dilemmas for the Louisville women's basketball program. The Atlantic Coast Conference announced Sunday night ...
ATLANTA -- — Jose Alvarado scored 25 points, Michael Devoe added 17, and Georgia Tech cruised to its fourth straight win Sunday night with a 70-54 victory over Wake Forest. Alvarado made his first five shots after halftime, scoring 15 points during Georgia ...
And that left coach Brian Flores and the Miami Dolphins having squandered a chance to make the postseason. In a season-ending game in which the Dolphins had far more riding on the outcome, the Bills put an empathic stamp on their breakthrough year ...
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The New York Giants won, and then they waited — hoping for a big win from a bitter rival. "We'll be pulling for Philly, no doubt," quarterback Daniel Jones said. Far from .500 but still full of hope, the six-win Giants got to the ...
The Clippers traveling party to Phoenix to take on the Suns will be a little smaller, as seven members of the team's support staff are in quarantine after someone tested positive for COVID-19, per ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski. The group traveled back to Los ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Nia Clouden scored 13 of her 23 points in the final 10-plus minutes to help No. 25 Michigan State turn aside a feisty Purdue rally, 71-64, and preserve the Spartans' best start to a season in eight years on Sunday. Alisia Smith added ...
Lansing State Journal sports reporter Nathaniel Bott breaks down Michigan State hockey's 1-0 loss against Penn State on Sunday: What happened. MSU was in control for most of the opening period, generating a few good scoring chances on 13 shots – only ...
With 70, the New England Patriots' Cam Newton has more rushing touchdowns than any other quarterback in NFL history. The former Auburn All-American also had thrown for 188 touchdowns in the NFL after a 7-yard TD toss to running back James White in ...
The Browns lead 24-16, but they may have lost a key piece of their defense if they advance to the postseason. Olivier Vernon was carted back to the locker room with an ankle injury after going down early in the fourth quarter. Vernon left the game following a ...
Ally VanTimmeren barely had time to move into her Boston College dorm and unpack after leaving Jenison eight days ago. But VanTimmeren appeared right at home on the basketball court when she made her collegiate debut against No. 3 ranked North ...
I had a lot of optimism in regards to the Sixers' franchise players — Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons — when the team found better fitting players via the draft, the trade market, and free agency. Danny Green and Seth Curry in particular would allow the duo to ...
A lackluster first three quarters didn't quite spell doom for the Seattle Seahawks as they came up with a gutsy, 26-23 win over the San Francisco 49ers Sunday afternoon in their regular season finale. Down by four with time running out, Russell Wilson and ...
Hughes announced his retirement Sunday, Bob Nightengale of USA Today reports. Hughes hasn't played since August of 2018, and he officially brought his career to an end Sunday. The right-hander spent 12 seasons in the majors with the Yankees, Twins ...
Indiana and Maryland are two Big Ten teams looking to establish momentum after inconsistent starts to the season. The Hoosiers (6-4, 1-2 Big Ten) will wrap up a two-game homestand on Monday night against Maryland, looking to build off their first ...
Emotions were running high in the Arizona Cardinals' 2020 regular season finale. With starting quarterback Kyler Murray hobbled by a first-quarter leg injury, the Cardinals had to turn to backup Chris Streveler for the majority of Sunday's 18-7 loss. Down 15-7 ...
Wow! Just wow! That's really the only thing you can say about Justin Fields' performance in the College Football Playoff Semifinal against Clemson in the Sugar Bowl Friday night. This is great news for NY Jets fans as we may have just seen the Jets' future ...
Syracuse, N.Y. -- Syracuse announced Sunday evening over social media that its men's basketball team had practiced in the Carrier Dome. Usually, that detail would be informative, though not particularly insightful. But Syracuse has been a program on ...
With 255 of the 256 NFL regular season games in the books, we now know who 13 of the 14 teams that will be taking part in this year's playoffs. We know that the Minnesota Vikings won't be there, but let's take a look at the matchups anyway.
In a stroke of what Spurs coach Gregg Popovich called "bad, bad luck," guard Derrick White headed back to the injured list for Sunday's game against Utah after spraining the second toe of his left foot two nights earlier against the Lakers. For those familiar ...
The Wild Card Round games will be played next Saturday and Sunday with kickoff times of 12:05 p.m, 3:40 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. CT each day. It's unclear which of those six slots the Bears-Saints game will go into.
The Buckeyes (8-3) dropped to 2-3 in Big Ten play following a 77-60 loss to No. 21 Minnesota (10-2). Minnesota junior center Liam Robbins proved too much for Ohio State underneath the basket, and the 7-footer poured in a game-high 27 points. Despite ...
Naz Hillmon scored 26 and Leigha Brown scored 22 and 16th-ranked Michigan shook No. 15 Northwestern 84-63 on Sunday. Brown and Hillmon each scored 20 in the first half. Brown's jumper with 6:58 left in the third quarter put the Wolverines up 35 ...
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Chelsea Dungee scored 25 points and No. 10 Arkansas hit all eight of its free throws in the final 2:08 to beat Missouri 91-88 on Sunday. Amber Ramirez, who was perfect at the line down the stretch, finished with 17 and Makayla ...
This afternoon Larry Brooks reported that, per New York Rangers head coach David Quinn, the Blueshirts are entering training camp with Tony DeAngelo on the left side skating on the top pair with Jacob Trouba.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Courtney Ramey scored 18 points to lead five Texas players in double-figures scoring, and No. 8 Longhorns routed third-ranked Kansas 84-59 on Saturday to match the most lopsided win by an opponent in the history of Allen ...
Ryan Garcia says he had never been knocked down before when an early blow sent the rising star to the canvas in his biggest test yet against Luke Campbell. The 22-year-old Californian had an impressive response, staggering Campbell with a body blow to ...
STARKVILLE – Mississippi State had no answer for Rhyne Howard and Kentucky's 3-point shooting on Sunday afternoon. No. 13-ranked Kentucky beat No. 12 Mississippi State in overtime, 92-86, in the Humphrey Coliseum. Howard, the preseason SEC ...
Newcastle – Leicester City: Leicester City returned to the win column, holding off a late Newcastle United challenge to win 2-1 at St. James' Park on Sunday. All of the goals came in the second half, with James Maddison and Youri Tielemans staking the ...
The Vikings' schedule has been set for next season. At least a 16-game version of it. The NFL could add a game in 2021 for a 17-game regular season. If that happens, the Vikings, who finished third in the NFC North and closed the season with a 37-35 victory ...
The Kansas City Chiefs' home and away opponents for the 2021 NFL season have been finalized. The 2021 NFL schedule won't officially be revealed until sometime in April, so we don't have all the details on dates, times and when the games will be played ...
Justin Stepp, Arkansas wide receivers coach, huddles with players in a timeout Saturday, April 6, 2019, during the Arkansas Red-White game at Reynolds Razorback Stadium. FAYETTEVILLE — Ace recruiter and wide receivers coach Justin Stepp is leaving ...
By Alex Barth, 985TheSportsHub.com. Could the Patriots' 2021 quarterback search involve a familiar face? With the news that the Patriots will likely be moving on from Cam Newton in 2021, the team once again finds itself in need of a quarterback.
The Minnesota Gophers have added Wayzata, Minn., native Colin Schmidt to their hockey roster for the second phase of the 2020-21 season. He comes to the U of M from Union College, where he played 32 games last season. Written By: Jess Myers | Jan ...
Manchester City put Chelsea to the sword at Stamford Bridge courtesy of a devastating first half display in which Ilkay Gündogan, Phil Foden and Kevin De Bruyne were all on the scoresheet. Pep Guardiola's men were ahead inside 20 minutes when ...
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