The LR defense held Barton to just 121 yards of total offense and just nine first downs in the 20-0 win.
The Oregon football team's decision to exploit a loophole in the rules late in a win over Ohio State is hardly new.
The league released picks this week following voting from media members at last week's “ACC Tipoff” preseason media days.
ATLANTA — With Georgia Tech having sold its 2025 home game with archrival Georgia for $10 million, the next step is to hock the rivalry’s nickname for some more sweet, juicy cash. Just spitballing for Tech athletic director J Batt and UGA counterpart Josh Brooks – we can do much better than …
ORLANDO, Fla. — I hate to say it, but leaving UCF was the best career move Dillon Gabriel ever made. Gabriel has played college football’s unfettered free agency system better than anyone in the NIL/transfer portal era, jumping from UCF to Oklahoma and then to Oregon, where he is now quarter…
ATLANTA — Something clearly is amiss with Georgia, and it’s not just coach Kirby Smart bizarrely shoving Mississippi State quarterback Michael Van Buren on the sideline Saturday or taking to task the Bulldogs fan base for its lack of ardor the previous Saturday. Passes are getting dropped on…
SEATTLE — We’ve got the sports. NFL, MLB, NHL, Big Ten football and basketball, MLS, WNBA, NWSL — they’re all here. We’ve got success stories. A Super Bowl, a national football championship, four WNBA titles, two MLS Cups to start. We might not be Boston or L.A., but we’re a long way from Bu…
SEATTLE — Money isn’t everything. If it was, Oregon would have won a national title by now. Jimbo Fisher would have stockpiled playoff appearances at Texas A&M. Texas would not have twice as many losing seasons (4) as 10-win campaigns (2) across the last decade. In college football, culture matters. Scheme matters. Fit matters. Development matters. Money matters, too. But as former Alabama ...
“We have to get a fair amount of teams into the tournament for that national respect,” Syracuse coach Adrian Autry said during the “ACC Tipoff” preseason media days. “Which is crazy to me, because every time we get into the tournament, our teams all do well. So, that should be enough credibility.”
DALLAS — After the current edition of the Dallas Cowboys nearly removed the 1985 squad from the team record book for biggest margin of defeat, it seems relevant to remember a few things about the season Dallas lost to the Super Bowl-shuffling Chicago Bears, 44-0. The biggest, perhaps, is that team made the playoffs, anyway. The â€85 Cowboys not only got swamped by Chicago at Texas Stadium in ...
Kansas was picked first in the AP Top 25 preseason men’s basketball poll Monday, getting the No. 1 nod on half of the 60 ballots from a national media panel to start the season ahead of Alabama and two-time defending national champion UConn.
Jalen Ferguson connected with DeAree Rogers for two touchdowns, and the Bears defense held the Wolves to just 1-of-13 on third down conversions.
Parity reached another level in college football on Saturday, with four games involving at least one ranked team going to overtime and four others being decided by three or fewer points.
CHAPEL HILL — North Carolina football player Tylee Craft died Saturday morning from a rare form of lung cancer, coach Mack Brown said.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Mark Pope is 2-0 as the head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats in Rupp Arena. And his team hasn’t played a game yet. Nearly six months to the day after Pope made a triumphant return to the building he once called his basketball home, the new UK coach presided over his first Big Blue Madness. That introductory press conference back in April — two days after Pope was announced as ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — During Chiefs training camp at St. Joseph in 2023, I spoke with linebacker Drue Tranquill about becoming the NFL chess champion and parallels between those two pursuits. About that time, safety Justin Reid revealed what happened when he took on the champ. “Be careful what you wish for,” Reid said, smiling. Which led to the initial premise of this piece: a game of chess or ...
The thrilling game between the Ole Miss Rebels and the LSU Tigers was won by LSU, 29-26 Key plays from Jaxson Dart and Garrett Nussmeier shake up playoff odds.
Anyone who got up a couple minutes before the half Saturday to beat the rush to a Cotton Bowl restroom pretty much missed the game. A three-play series of fumble-touchdown-fumble turned what had been a dud of an affair into the makings of Texas’ second laugher in their last three at the State Fair. One of these teams doesn’t seem quite ready for what its new membership in the SEC requires. ...
ATHENS, Ga. — Carson Beck threw for career-high 459 yards and tied the school record for completions in a game with 36 as the No. 5-ranked Georgia Bulldogs defeated Mississippi State 41-31 at Sanford Stadium on Saturday. So, there’s that. About 850 miles away and a half-hour earlier Saturday, No. 1 Texas was putting the finishing touches on a 34-3 win over 18th-ranked Oklahoma in the Red River ...
The Bears dropped to no. 17 in the latest AFCA Division ll Coaches Poll after suffering their first loss of the season, 31-20, at Emory & Henry last Saturday.
LONDON — Standing on the sideline at the 5-yard line with his back to the field, Nathan Chapman could boomerang kick a football over his head and — get this — through the uprights at the Green Bay Packers practice fields. John Bonamego, the Packers special teams coordinator at the time, swears it happened. He witnessed it. With amazement. And Bonamego believes if Chapman — who was a ...
LOS ANGELES — Fran Tarkenton arrived in New York City exhausted, dispirited and maybe a little confused. Three days earlier, the Minnesota quarterback had lost to the John Madden-coached Oakland Raiders in the Super Bowl, trudging off the field at the Rose Bowl on Jan. 9, 1977, leaving the Vikings with an 0-4 record on football's biggest stage. Now, a different stage. Win or lose, Tarkenton ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. — An NCAA study on social media abuse of athletes, coaches and other officials during championship events found nearly one in five posts that were flagged by an AI-based algorithm and determined to be abusive involved sexual harassment and 12% were related to sports betting, according to results of the pilot study released Thursday.
Things to watch this week in the Atlantic Coast Conference:
The plan seemed straightforward for Florida State: find a veteran quarterback in the transfer portal, then plug him in for the reigning Atlantic Coast Conference champion and preseason favorite to win it again.
PITTSBURGH — So what if it took 34 years? Pitt football fans can finally dream big. That's what a perfect first month will do. Suddenly, anything is possible. Pitt is 5-0. This has been the kind of start that had eluded the Panthers for their first 33 years of conference play (and for eight years before that, but who's counting?). I don't know how long this will last. Who cares? The idea at ...
Michael Hawkins Jr. chose the hard path. Or, at least in this era of college football, the path that often ends with a trip to the transfer portal and a fresh start elsewhere. If not the path of most resistance, it was the path of least guarantees. Oklahoma, at the time that Hawkins committed to the program in April of last year, had five-star recruit Jackson Arnold signed and in line to ...
A collection of some of the top sports photos in the past week by AP photographers around the world.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Mark Stoops opened his weekly press conference on Monday with this: “I don’t have to worry about selling Vanderbilt anymore and telling you how good they are.” No, you don’t. Not now. Not after last Saturday. Not after Vanderbilt 40, Alabama 35. Not after the Commodores’ first win over a No. 1-ranked team since, well, ever, as it turns out. Not since Vanderbilt, who lost 30-27 ...
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Maryland defensive end Quashon Fuller enjoys cooking on and off the football field. The 6-foot-3, 264-pound redshirt senior usually hosts a weekly dinner for his defensive line teammates (and some stragglers) at his apartment. He whips up the meal, and the players watch an NFL or college football game or review game film as part of Fuller’s plan to further connect them. ...