NORMAN, OK – The damn thing was over. The rout was on. Hell, even Michigan wouldn’t have wanted a piece of Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer after this debacle in the first round of the College Football Playoff. And then a remarkably beautiful thing happened in a 34-24 come-from-behind victory over Oklahoma: DeBoer finally, mercifully, forced the impatient Alabama fan base ...
By the end of Saturday, we will know the eight quarterfinalists in the College Football Playoff. We already know five of them, and now it’s time to learn who will be joining Indiana, Ohio State, Georgia, Texas Tech and Alabama in a little over a week. If you don’t remember much about the round of 12 the first time we ...
Jake Paul stepped into the ring with a quality boxer and it showed. The main event fight officially came to an end when former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua knocked Paul out with 1:31 left in the sixth round. Paul was seen with a bloodied mouth after taking a right-handed shot to the face in the corner. Paul quickly fell out ...
No. 9 Alabama climbed out of a 17-0 hole and beat No. 8 Oklahoma 34-24 to advance to the quarterfinals of the College Football Playoff. It was the first road win for a team in the playoff in the second year of the 12-team format. The Crimson Tide will next face No. 1 seed Indiana in the Rose Bowl. The ...
Jake Paul stepped into the ring with Anthony Joshua and didn’t get the result he wanted in the Netflix main event on Friday night. “I think my jaw is broke, by the way,” Paul said during his in-ring interview. ‘It’s definitely broke.” Paul did not take part in a post-fight press conference as he went to the hospital to address ...
After a big flurry, the holiday roster freeze is here, which means no trades until after Christmas. There were two big trades on Dec. 11, with the Minnesota Wild acquiring defenseman Quinn Hughes from the Vancouver Canucks, plus the Edmonton Oilers acquiring goalie Tristan Jarry from the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for Stuart Skinner. Then two trades beat the 11:59 ...
Week 16 of the 2025 NFL season kicked off with a massive NFC West battle between the Los Angeles Rams and Seattle Seahawks, and the stakes are high again today with three of four teams in action currently inside the NFC playoff picture. On the final weekend before Christmas, the NFL takes over with its first Saturday games of the ...
Anthony Joshua delivered what legions of Jake Paul haters have been waiting for. A crushing knockout of the former YouTuber. Joshua knocked down Paul four times and finished him off in the sixth round of their heavyweight fight Friday at the Kaseya Center in Miami. “The end goal was to get Jake Paul, pin him down and hurt him,’’ Joshua ...
For a certain caliber of NBA superstar, the trade rumors often don’t stop once they start. Not in previous generations of the league and certainly not in the current climate, in which what comes out of an NBA trade machine often resonates more than what comes out of an NBA game. Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo is feeling the effect ...
The family of deceased pitcher Tyler Skaggs and the Los Angeles Angels reached a settlement Dec. 19 in the civil lawsuit the left-hander’s loved ones filed against the ballclub, ending a three-month trial and more than six years of legal matters following the pitcher’s 2019 death. Financial terms were not available. The Skaggs family released a statement noting that the ...