By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Defending national champion Ohio State is going to the Cotton Bowl for the third season in a row, this time for a College Football Playoff quarterfinal game on New Year's Eve against Miami or Texas A&M. The Big Ten ...
By MARK LONG AP Pro Football Writer JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Jacksonville Jaguars are still reeling from the biggest collapse in franchise history. A month after that fourth-quarter debacle in Houston, the loss continues to "haunt" players and coaches. And they keep using it as ...
By ERIC OLSON AP College Football Writer Tulane and Mississippi, teams that share a long history, will square off for the second time this season when they meet Dec. 20 in the first round of the College Football Playoff. The winner in Oxford, Mississippi, will be matched against No. 3 ...
By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tyler Shough has faced the two top teams in the NFC South and beat them both on the road. The New Orleans Saints are more competitive than their record indicates. Shough ran for two touchdowns and the Saints upset the Tampa Bay ...
By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Christian Anderson had 27 points, eight assists and five rebounds and No. 19 Texas Tech handed LSU its first loss, blowing out the Tigers 82-58 on Sunday. J.T. Toppin added 11 points and 15 rebounds while LeJuan Watts had 15 ...
By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Nobody paying attention over the past 24 months would be surprised to see Indiana leading the way into this year's College Football Playoff. But anyone paying attention over the last 24 hours knew the only sure thing beyond the Hoosiers was that the ...
By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — The next stop on No. 1 Indiana's storybook journey to the top of college football is nothing less than the most fabled bowl venue in the sport. The Big Ten champion Hoosiers (13-0) are headed to their first Rose Bowl in 58 years ...
By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Darryn Peterson scored 17 points in his return after a month lost to a hamstring injury, and No. 21 Kansas used a 23-3 run spanning halftime to seize control against Missouri, before the Jayhawks rolled to an 80-60 victory over ...
By JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — In the waning seconds of a blowout win, fans at Arizona's McKale Center started a chant of "Number 1!" The second-ranked Wildcats can certainly make a case with Saturday night's dismantling of No. 20 Auburn and top-ranked Purdue's ...
By ERIC OLSON AP College Football Writer Indiana is the No. 1 team in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll for the first time after going through the regular season and Big Ten championship game 13-0, ending Ohio State's 14-week run atop the rankings. The Hoosiers' 13-10 win ...
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer MIAMI LAKES, Fla. (AP) — The Dukes got in over Duke, and facing the Ducks is their reward. Bob Chesney will be bringing his UCLA team to Oregon next year, which would have been his first time going up against the Ducks. But he's about to get an unplanned ...
By W.G. RAMIREZ Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Petr Yan stunned Merab Dvalishvili with a dominating effort to capture the bantamweight championship by unanimous decision at UFC 323 on Saturday night. With punishing strikes and several crushing kicks to the rib cage, Yan (20-5) ended ...
By AARON BEARD AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — It wasn't hard to spot Ben Overby and James Turner as they weaved through the stands at Saturday night's Atlantic Coast Conference championship game between No. 16 Virginia and Duke. They were proudly wearing the purple of their ...
By STEVE REED AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Duke has its first outright Atlantic Coast Conference football championship since 1962. Now it wants a little more. Blue Devils coach Manny Diaz wasted little time Saturday night advocating for his team to make the 12-team College ...
By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Nathan MacKinnon scored 2:46 into overtime for his second goal of the game, helping the Colorado Avalanche top Artemi Panarin and the New York Rangers 3-2 on Saturday. MacKinnon finished Colorado's third win in four games when he beat Igor Shesterkin ...
By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Alabama is forcing the committee that will set the College Football Playoff bracket to revisit an old question: Should a 12-team tournament to determine the national champion include a program with three losses? And Duke is bringing up a new ...
By The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Fernando Mendoza's 17-yard touchdown pass to Elijah Sarratt gave No. 2 Indiana the lead midway through the third quarter and the Hoosiers' stingy defense shut down No. 1 Ohio State the rest of the way in a 13-10 victory on Saturday night for their ...
By JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Koa Peat scored 18 points, Jaden Bradley added 16 and No. 2 Arizona blew out No. 20 Auburn 97-68 on Saturday night. The Wildcats (8-0) won their first three games against ranked teams away from Tucson and made an emphatic ...
By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza made all the big plays Saturday night. Then his Hoosiers teammates and their fans celebrated like it was 1967. Mendoza's neatly tucked 17-yard pass to Elijah Sarratt gave the No. 2 Hoosiers the ...
By DAN GREENSPAN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brandt Clarke scored twice to help Los Angeles break out of an offensive funk, Darcy Kuemper made 23 saves and the Kings beat the Chicago Blackhawks 6-0 on Saturday night to split a two-game set. Warren Foegele, Andrei Kuzmenko, Mikey ...