The Big Ten showdown between the Indiana Hoosiers and the Ohio State Buckeyes kicked off Week 13 Saturday’s slate with a thrilling action that had fans on the edge of their seats. The first half between the Big Ten frontrunners was exciting and lived up to the hype. The Hoosiers jumped out to an early lead when quarterback Kurtis Rouke ...

They are merely three high-end pitchers in a free agent class that, per usual, will not have a prize for everyone. Yet within the All-Star triumvirate of Corbin Burnes and left-handers Blake Snell and Max Fried, there are plenty of paths to pursue and talent to dream upon. None will be cheap. Among them, they have three Cy Young Awards ...

President-elect Trump tapped Brooke Rollins as his agriculture secretary. In a statement on Saturday, Trump lauded Rollins’ ‘commitment to support the American Farmer, defense of American Food Self-Sufficiency, and the restoration of Agriculture-dependent American Small Towns.’ ‘A proud Graduate of Texas A&M University, Brooke earned a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Agriculture Development, and J.D., with Honors,’ the announcement said. ...

Amazon on Friday announced it would invest an additional $4 billion in Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup founded by ex-OpenAI research executives. The new funding brings the tech giant’s total investment to $8 billion, though Amazon will retain its position as a minority investor, according to Anthropic, the San Francisco-based company behind the Claude chatbot and AI model. Amazon Web Services ...

American League MVP Aaron Judge has not spoken to Juan Soto since the end of the World Series, wanting to give him time and the privacy to make his own free agent decision, but it’s hardly as if he’s just sitting back and crossing his fingers that Soto returns to the New York Yankees. Judge divulged Friday during his MVP ...

Michigan football was able to land its quarterback of the future with a little bit of help from a quarterback from the Wolverines’ past — and not just any quarterback. Bryce Underwood, the Belleville star and the No. 1 player in the 2025 recruiting class, was the dominant story in the college football world Friday when he flipped his commitment ...

Beyond the action on the field, a college football weekend is compelling in many ways, especially in this era of a new playoff system, name, image, and likeness. But many stories would not otherwise be told if it weren’t for behind-the-scenes crews who put together video packages that not only pull in the audience but could have long-lasting effects long ...

Mikaela Shiffrin extended her record World Cup victories to 99 with a win Saturday in the women’s slalom in Gurgl, Austria. Shiffrin won in a combined time of 1 minute, 40.22 seconds, beating Italian prodigy Lara Colturi, who starts for Albania, by 0.55 seconds and Camille Rast of Switzerland by 0.57. It was the first World Cup top-three finish for Rast and Colturi, ...

President-elect Trump tapped Brooke Rollins as his agriculture secretary. In a statement on Saturday, Trump lauded Rollins’ ‘commitment to support the American Farmer, defense of American Food Self-Sufficiency, and the restoration of Agriculture-dependent American Small Towns.’ ‘A proud Graduate of Texas A&M University, Brooke earned a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Agriculture Development, and J.D., with Honors,’ the announcement said. ...

As far as physical activity goes, American kids are mostly C and D students. And “everything is graded on a curve,” says Jordan Carlson, a professor of pediatrics at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. Carlson is the committee chair of this year’s United States Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth, which was released last month. ...