MIAMI GARDENS, FL — Fernando Mendoza delivered some late magic and No. 1 seed Indiana held on to beat No. 10 Miami, 27-21, in the College Football Playoff championship game to claim the first title in program history. The win completes a stunning turnaround orchestrated by second-year coach Curt Cignetti, who inherited what is historically one of the weakest programs in ...
Indiana football beat Miami 27-21 on Monday night to become the fourth Big Ten team overall and the third in a row to win the national championship during the College Football Playoff era, joining 2014 Ohio State, 2023 Michigan and 2024 Ohio State. The Big Ten’s run comes after the SEC dominated the first decade of the playoff, winning titles ...
As Indiana celebrated winning a national championship at Hard Rock Stadium, an incident unfolded on the field. ESPN cameras caught Miami running back Mark Fletcher Jr. throwing a punch at Indiana defensive lineman Tyrique Tucker postgame. Fletcher can be seen taking a swipe at Tucker as and appearing to try and grab him while yelling at him before a Miami staff ...
After the Rose Bowl, it was a movie. But after the national championship, it became real. Moments after defeating Miami 27-21 in a thrilling national championship that came down to the wire, Indiana coach Curt Cignetti finally allowed himself to believe a Hoosiers football national championship is possible. Speaking to ESPN’s Molly McGrath on the field after the game, Cignetti ...
It was a busy week on the NCAA women’s hockey schedule. Most of the women’s Beanpot championship took place in Boston, with the home of the Boston Bruins hosting the final two games on Tuesday. Boston College takes on Northeastern in the third-place game at 4:30 p.m. ET, while Harvard and Boston University will battle for the championship at 7:30 ...
Robert Saleh is back among the head coaching ranks of the NFL. The Tennessee Titans are hiring Saleh, the San Francisco 49ers’ defensive coordinator, to be their next head coach, a person with knowledge of the situation confirmed to The Tennessean, part of the USA TODAY Network. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the deal was not ...
STORRS, CT — UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma was famously unhappy with the Huskies postgame pizza on Jan. 15. “The Pizza Capital of the world, my ass,” Auriemma said, adding the meal was basically ‘some red stuff they poured on the box and called it pizza, that must have been delivered hours before at shootaround.’ Not one to settle, Auriemma ...
Goalie fights are rare in the NHL nowadays because linesmen try to keep combative netminders apart. But there was one Monday night because Florida Panthers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky charged down the ice and went after the San Jose Sharks’ Alex Nedeljkovic before anyone could react. The scrap happened during the third period after Florida’s Evan Rodrigues hit Vincent Desharnais, who ...
Kansas Jayhawks head coach Bill Self was reportedly hospitalized on Monday and did not travel with the team to Colorado ‘out of an abundance of caution,’ according to ESPN. Per ESPN, the school said Self was feeling ‘under the weather’ and was later taken to LMH Health, where he was reportedly given IV fluids. According to a statement released by ...
All eyes were on Fernando Mendoza on Monday as he warmed up on the field and prepared to lead the Indiana Hoosiers into the College Football Playoff national championship game at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. But there was one group in the building whose stakes in watching Mendoza were a bit higher than most. Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark ...