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Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff, dies at 88
Mills Lane, Hall of Fame boxing referee, dies at 85
Mills Lane, the Hall of Fame boxing referee who was the third man in the ring when Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield’s ear, died Tuesday. He was 85. Lane had suffered a stroke in 2002 and his son, Tommy, said his father had taken a significant turn for the worse...
Ronaldo a solitary figure after being benched at World Cup 
LUSAIL, Qatar — Cristiano Ronaldo was a solitary figure as he walked off the field following a World Cup match in which he was not the center of attention. He had come off the bench in a 6-1 victory over Switzerland on Tuesday that moved Portugal into the quarterfinals. Ronaldo’s...
Bennett, Duggan, Stroud, Williams are Heisman finalists 
Quarterbacks Stetson Bennett of Georgia, Max Duggan of TCU, C.J. Stroud of Ohio State and Caleb Williams of Southern California were announced as finalists for the Heisman Trophy on Monday night. The award given to the outstanding player in college football, determined by a vote of more than 900 sports...
Ohio State’s Jaxon Smith-Njigba to skip CFP game, will enter NFL draft
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State star receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba will not play in the College Football Playoff semifinal game against top-ranked Georgia while he continues to rehabilitate a leg injury and prepare for the 2023 NFL draft. The AP Preseason All-American was hurt in the Buckeyes’ opener against Notre Dame...
Preseason No. 1 North Carolina drops out of AP Top 25 men’s basketball poll
Houston and Texas remain firmly entrenched atop The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll, while preseason No. 1 North Carolina has dropped out entirely after a fourth straight loss. The Cougars earned 37 of 62 first-place votes in Monday’s poll, extending the program’s first stay at No. 1 since the...
Cincinnati hires Louisville’s Scott Satterfield as football coach
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Cincinnati has tweeted that it has hired Louisville’s Scott Satterfield to be its next coach. Louisville was 7-5 this season under Satterfield and earned a berth in the Fenway Bowl, where coincidentally it will face Cincinnati. He replaces Luke Fickell, who recently left to become coach at...
USC QB Caleb Williams has ‘significant’ hamstring injury, status unclear for bowl 
ARLINGTON, Texas — The status of Southern Cal quarterback Caleb Williams for the Cotton Bowl is uncertain because of what his coach described Sunday as a “significant” hamstring injury for the likely Heisman Trophy finalist. Williams got hurt on a run in the first half of USC’s loss to Utah...
Coach Prime delivers pizzazz to college football’s wasteland
BOULDER, Colo. — Part politician, part preacher and part pitchman, Deion Sanders fired up a crowd of alumni, boosters, former players and other VIPs celebrating his hire as Colorado’s coach on Sunday. He spewed motivational sayings that he promised will soon adorn the walls inside the complex at Folsom Field,...
Playoff field set: Georgia vs. Ohio State; Michigan vs. TCU
The defending national champions, two Big Ten powers and an upstart that wasn’t even expected to contend in its conference this season. Georgia, Michigan, TCU and Ohio State were selected Sunday to play in the College Football Playoff, giving the Big Ten multiple programs in the four-team field for the...
Michigan dispatches Purdue in Big Ten title game
INDIANAPOLIS — Donovan Edwards ran for 185 yards and a score, J.J. McCarthy threw three touchdown passes, and No. 2 Michigan beat Purdue, 43-22, on Saturday night for its second straight Big Ten title and a likely No. 2 playoff seed. College football’s winningest program has the first 13-win season...
Clemson crushes North Carolina in ACC championship game
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Backup quarterback Cade Klubnik completed 20 of 24 passes for 279 yards and a touchdown and ran for another score and No. 10 Clemson reclaimed the Atlantic Coast Conference championship with a 39-10 victory over No. 24 North Carolina on Saturday night. Cornerback Nate Wiggins broke up...
Colorado hires Deion Sanders away from Jackson State to turn program around
BOULDER, Colo. — Deion Sanders is taking over as head coach at Colorado, bringing his charisma and larger-than-life persona to a beleaguered Pac-12 program that’s plunged to the bottom of college football. The deal was announced Saturday night by CU athletic director Rick George. The Pro Football Hall of Famer...
No. 1 Georgia romps into playoff with rout of LSU in SEC championship game 
ATLANTA — With all sorts of turmoil behind them in the rankings, No. 1 Bulldogs left no doubt about the top team heading into the College Football Playoff, dismantling No. 11 LSU, 50-30, in the SEC championship game Saturday. Stetson Bennett’s threw a season-high four touchdown passes in another stellar...
No. 3 TCU loses in OT to Kansas State in Big 12 title game 
ARLINGTON, Texas — TCU quarterback Max Duggan was battered and bloodied, physically exhausted and mentally drained. And still unsure if the third-ranked Horned Frogs had done enough to get into the four-team College Football Playoff. Duggan dropped to his knees in the end zone after his 8-yard TD run ended...
Mark Madden’s Hot Take: U.S. men’s soccer team accomplished nothing, as expected
Let’s finally bury the romantic notion that U.S. men’s soccer will ever be anything more than it was at this year’s World Cup. It won’t be. The U.S. team did exactly like expected. It scored just two goals in three games to narrowly navigate its way through a weak group...
Netherlands eliminates U.S. in round of 16 at World Cup
AL RAYYAN, Qatar —Memphis Depay and Daley Blind scored in the first half, and Denzel Dumfries added a late goal as the Netherlands eliminated the United States from the World Cup with a 3-1 victory Saturday that advanced the Dutch to the quarterfinals. Second-half substitute Haji Wright cut the U.S....
No. 4 USC falls to Utah in Pac-12 championship, damaging playoff hopes
LAS VEGAS — No. 12 Utah pounded a limping, bloodied Caleb Williams and roared past No. 4 Southern California, 47-24, on Friday night to win the Pac-12 Championship and put USC’s College Football Playoff hopes in doubt. The loss by the Trojans (11-2) could open the way for Ohio State...
No. 23 USTA tops North Texas in Conference USA title game
SAN ANTONIO — Frank Harris threw for 341 yards and four touchdowns and ran for 49 yards and another score, lifting No. 23 UTSA to its second-straight Conference USA championship with a 48-27 victory over North Texas on Friday night at the Alamodome. UTSA knocked off North Texas for the...
Explainer: How will College Football Playoff expansion work?
The College Football Playoff will include 12 teams, starting with the 2024 season. An expansion plan that was crafted for two years and haggled over for another 18 months finally cleared all the obstacles needed to go from idea to reality. The CFP announced Thursday that the current four-team system...
U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter to draw on Dutch lessons at World Cup
DOHA, Qatar — Gregg Berhalter felt like a student when he signed with the Dutch club Zwolle 28 years ago. The U.S. coach plans to apply the lessons he learned when the Americans play the Netherlands on Saturday for a berth in the World Cup quarterfinals. “I went to Holland...
No. 4 USC hopes to break playoff dry spell for Pac-12
LAS VEGAS — The Pac-12 will take a neutral stance when No. 4 Southern California plays No. 12 Utah in the championship game Friday night, but there’s little doubt what a USC victory would mean for the conference. A win by the 11-1 Trojans would put them in the College...
TCU takes its CFP hopes into Big 12 title game vs. Kansas State
ARLINGTON, Texas — It has been quite a comeback for third-ranked TCU, one much bigger than that 18-point deficit the Horned Frogs erased to beat Kansas State six weeks ago. A year after Sonny Dykes became their coach, the Frogs (12-0, 9-0 Big 12, No. 3 CFP) still haven’t lost...
No. 2 Michigan begins Big Ten title quest against Boilermakers
INDIANAPOLIS — Michigan needed a decade to reach its first Big Ten championship game. On Saturday, the Wolverines return to Indianapolis with even bigger aspirations. They can win back-to-back conference titles for the first time since 2003-04, break the single-season school record with win No. 13 and clinch a second...
No. 1 Georgia looks to add SEC title to trophy case vs LSU
ATLANTA — The No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs have their eyes on the biggest prize of all. Yet there’s a gnawing desire to add another Southeastern Conference title to the trophy case. Undefeated Georgia heads into Saturday’s SEC championship game against No. 11 LSU having surely done enough to earn a...
College Football Playoff expands to 12 teams in 2024 season
The College Football Playoff announced Thursday it will expand to a 12-team event starting in 2024, completing an 18-month process that was fraught with delays and disagreements. The announcement came a day after the Rose Bowl agreed to amend its contract for the 2024 and 2025 seasons, which was the...


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