Iowa's 31-0 loss at Penn State certainly didn't help Hawkeyes offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz in his bid to meet metrics required for him to keep his job after this season. The game marked the first time since 2000 the Hawkeyes were shut out and lowered their season average to 21.3 points ...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Quarterback Cam Rising is still out, but Utah's defense is taking up the slack in a big way. Karene Reid returned an interception for a touchdown and Landen King had a TD catch for No. 11 Utah, which used a stifling defensive performance to beat No. 22 UCLA 14-7 with ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Nick Castellanos hit his 29th homer to move the Philadelphia Phillies within one win of a National League playoff berth after a 5-2 victory Sunday night, completing a four-game sweep over the New York Mets. The win was a bright spot in what the Phillies hoped would be a ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — John Means carried a no-hit bid into the seventh inning and Anthony Santander drove in a pair of runs, sending the AL East-leading Baltimore Orioles over the Cleveland Guardians 2-1 on Saturday night. Means, a 30-year-old left-hander, was making his third start in 17 months ...
CINCINNATI (AP) — TJ Friedl hit a two-run homer and drove in the tiebreaking run in the seventh inning as the Cincinnati Reds bounced back from an historic collapse the night before to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-2 on Sunday. Joey Votto received ovations from the crowd all day and singled ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Kyle Gibson pitched seven strong innings, Adley Rutschman reached base four times and the Baltimore Orioles moved closer to clinching the AL East title, defeating the Cleveland Guardians 5-1 on Sunday. Baltimore has a 2 1/2-game lead over second-place Tampa Bay in the ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Gifted great field position when their defense forced a turnover, the Tennessee Titans moved the ball — backwards. Incredibly, that was when they scored their only points in a 27-3 loss to the Cleveland Browns. Derrick Henry was held to 20 yards rushing, quarterback Ryan ...
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Rasheen Ali ran for 174 yards and two touchdowns to lift Marshall to a 24-17 victory over Virginia Tech on Saturday. Ali ran for touchdowns of 56 and 1 yards to keep the Thundering Herd (3-0) unbeaten. Virginia Tech (1-3) was without injured quarterback Grant Wells, ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Nicco Marchiol's first career start was full of hiccups, oversights and mistakes. The West Virginia quarterback sure was happy about how it turned out. "Ecstatic to come out victorious," Marchiol said. The redshirt freshman threw a touchdown pass in place of the ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Alec Bohm is used to teams intentionally walking Phillies slugger Bryce Harper in big spots to get him. Even Bohm concedes the move makes sense, teams simply don't want to get beat by the two-time NL MVP. So it looks like teams such as the Mets are going to get beat by ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Ramón Laureano drew a bases-loaded walk off Jacob Webb for the go-ahead run in the eighth inning, sending the Cleveland Guardians to a 5-2 victory over the AL East-leading Baltimore Orioles on Thursday night. The Guardians scored three times in the bottom of the eighth — ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Moments before being officially eliminated from the playoffs, the Guardians rallied as if a spot in October was on the line. In a season of so many setbacks, another stirring comeback. David Fry delivered a two-run double with one out in the ninth inning as Cleveland ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Twins have the AL Central title in hand. Now they can get back to the unfinished business of trying to stop that record postseason losing streak. The Twins secured their third division title in five years on Friday night, eliminating the Cleveland Guardians ...
Texas Tech (1-2) at West Virginia (2-1), Saturday, 3:30 p.m. ET (ESPN+) Line: Texas Tech by 6 1/2, according to FanDuel SportsBook. Series Record: Tied 6-6. WHAT'S AT STAKE West Virginia is on a two-game winning streak and coach Neal Brown has yet to win three in a row. Now in his fifth ...
BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Deshaun Watson has a history of starting slow, just never as a franchise quarterback expected to lift a team, franchise and city to new heights. In Houston, it was tolerated. In Cleveland, it's troubling. But while some may be panicking over his body of work — now an ...
No. 6 Ohio State (3-0) at No. 9 Notre Dame (4-0), Saturday, 7:30 p.m. ET (NBC) Line: Ohio State by 3, according to FanDuel Sportsbook. Series record: Ohio State 5-2. WHAT'S AT STAKE? The game is a resume-builder for the winner in the race for the College Football Playoff, though a loss ...
No. 20 Miami (3-0) at Temple (2-1), Saturday, 3:30 p.m. ET (ESPN2) Line: Miami by 23 1/2, according to FanDuel Sportsbook. Series record: Miami, 13-1. WHAT'S AT STAKE? It's a chance for Miami to move to 4-0 before it enters Atlantic Coast Conference play. Temple has a shot at ending a ...
CHICAGO (AP) — Joshua Palacios hit a three-run homer in a seven-run fourth inning and the Chicago Cubs' postseason drive remained stalled with their sixth loss in seven games, 13-7 to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday night. Connor Joe hit a two-run homer in the sixth as All-Star Justin ...
ATLANTA (AP) — Spencer Strider wore a Ronald Acuña Jr. 30-60 T-shirt and said: "He's going to negate the shirt pretty quickly." New T-shirts with 40-70 may be needed soon. Acuña homered twice on his bobblehead night and stole his 67th base, leaving him one long ball shy of becoming the ...
CINCINNATI (AP) — Willi Castro hit a two-run homer and made two spectacular catches, Kenta Maeda combined on a four-hitter and the Minnesota Twins beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-0 on Tuesday night in another step toward their third AL Central title in five seasons. Ryan Jeffers added a solo ...