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The Devils meet the Sabres in the Czech capital to open the NHL regular season
PRAGUE (AP) — Ondrej Palat has won the Stanley Cup twice. He's won a gold medal with the Czech Republic at the world championships. This week, the forward will check another item on his bucket list when his New Jersey Devils and the Buffalo Sabres open the NHL regular season with...
Broncos out to snap 8-game losing streak to Raiders who have long overcome distractions vs. Denver
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — A year after ending an ignominious losing streak against the Kansas City Chiefs, the Denver Broncos are out to extinguish another embarrassing skid Sunday when they host the Las Vegas Raiders. Kansas City has owned the AFC West for eight years while the...
Higashioka's homer starts rally as Padres beat Braves 5-4 to sweep NL Wild Card Series
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Kyle Higashioka's solo homer started a five-run rally against an ailing Max Fried with two outs in the second inning, and the San Diego Padres held on to sweep the Atlanta Braves with a 5-4 victory in Game 2 of their NL Wild Card Series on Wednesday night. Manny...
Mitchell hits tiebreaking HR in the 8th, Chourio goes deep twice and Brewers rally past Mets 5-3
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Jackson Chourio tied the game in the eighth with his second homer of the night and Garrett Mitchell delivered a two-run shot later in the inning to give the Milwaukee Brewers a 5-3 victory over the New York Mets on Wednesday that evened their NL Wild Card Series. ...
Messi quickly starts the process of looking ahead after Inter Miami wins MLS Supporters Shield
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — This was how 2024 started for Inter Miami: Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, Jordi Alba and Sergio Busquets, all former Barcelona teammates who won multiple titles together, sitting side-by-side after the first official training session of the new season. And...
Fried's early exit the latest Braves injury in a trying season that ends with playoff sweep
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Braves' best pitcher, NL Cy Young Award favorite Chris Sale, was back home in Atlanta with a back injury. Max Fried, who started his career as a San Diego Padres farmhand and won the clinching game in the 2021 World Series for the Braves, was in the trainer's...
Brewers' 20-year-old rookie Jackson Chourio stepping up his game in postseason
MILWAUKEE (AP) — That $82 million contract Jackson Chourio signed before ever playing a major league game looks like more and more of a bargain with every swing the Milwaukee Brewers rookie takes this postseason. Chourio homered twice Wednesday night to help the Brewers save their...
World ski body and UN weather agency team up to help winter sports plan for climate change
GENEVA (AP) — Facing a long-time crisis in winter sports because of climate change, the International Ski and Snowboard Federation teamed up with the United Nations weather agency on Thursday. The initial five-year partnership between FIS and the World Meteorological Organization...
Gritty Tigers close out playoff sweep of Astros with 5-2 victory in Game 2 of Wild Card Series
HOUSTON (AP) — Manager A.J. Hinch wanted his Detroit Tigers to embody their home city. Hard-working with a never-give-up attitude, but most of all a team that had grit. That's how they stormed into October — and just kept going. Andy Ibáñez hit a tiebreaking...
Pete Rose still not going into Hall of Fame. His MLB ban was permanent not 'lifetime'
Pete Rose still isn't going into the Baseball Hall of Fame. While the career hits leader's banishment from baseball 35 years ago was often referred to as a lifetime ban, and his death this week led some to believe that would end, Rose agreed to permanent ineligibility from Major...
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PFF adds an in-game grading feature to its NFL analysis
Pro Football Focus changed how many fans followed the NFL by providing grades and advanced statistics to help quantify how every player performed on a play-by-play basis from high-profile quarterbacks like Patrick Mahomes to more anonymous guards and linebackers. Now instead of...
The Devils meet the Sabres in the Czech capital to open the NHL regular season
PRAGUE (AP) — Ondrej Palat has won the Stanley Cup twice. He's won a gold medal with the Czech Republic at the world championships. This week, the forward will check another item on his bucket list when his New Jersey Devils and the Buffalo Sabres open the NHL regular season with...
Kiffin lets No. 12 Mississippi know that one loss does not end its championship hopes
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — One loss won't end the championship hopes of No. 12 Mississippi, no matter how bad the Rebels' offense looked in falling to Kentucky. Mississippi coach Lane Kiffin told his team just that this week as it prepared to face South Carolina (3-1, 1-1 Southeastern...
Rematch of last season's College Football Playoff championship game highlights Big Ten slate
Things to watch this week in the Big Ten Conference: Game of the week No. 10 Michigan (4-1, 2-0) at Washington (3-2, 1-1), Saturday, 7:30 p.m. ET (NBC) It’s a rematch of last year’s national championship game that Michigan won 34-13, but a whole lot...
No. 9 Missouri visits No. 25 Texas A&M to highlight SEC weekend slate
Things to watch this week in the Southeastern Conference: Game of the week No. 9 Missouri (4-0, 1-0) at No. 25 Texas A&M ( 4-1, 2-0), noon ET Saturday (ABC). Yes, it's early, but the Aggies are the only 2-0 team in Southeastern Conference play so far...
No. 22 Louisville seeks rebound against high-scoring SMU, with a share of the ACC lead at stake
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville's grind-it-out pattern has yielded mixed outcomes the past two games, a habit coach Jeff Brohm clearly wants to break ahead of the season’s toughest stretch. The No. 22 Cardinals must pick up their pace against a high-scoring SMU squad that has...
No. 8 Miami crosses the country to visit California in the headliner on the ACC weekly slate
Things to watch this week in the Atlantic Coast Conference: Game of the week No. 8 Miami (5-0, 1-0 ACC) at California (3-1, 0-1), Saturday at 10:30 p.m. ET (ESPN) The Hurricanes have their best start since winning the first 10 games of the 2017 season as...
Arizona's first Big 12 home game against Texas Tech, which is going for 3-0 league start
Things to watch this week in the Big 12 Conference: Game of the week Texas Tech (4-1, 2-0 Big 12) at Arizona (3-1, 1-0), Saturday, 11 p.m. ET (Fox) Arizona's first Big 12 home game starts under the lights with Texas Tech trying to get to 3-0 in conference...
No. 16 Iowa State is expecting frustrated Baylor Bears to pose a big challenge
To Iowa State coach Matt Campbell, Baylor has the look of a team on the cusp of breaking out following a couple of gut-wrenching losses. The 16th-ranked Cyclones (4-0, 1-0 Big 12) are going to do all they can to keep that from happening Saturday night when the Bears (2-3, 0-2) visit...
NASCAR season hits final 6 weeks under shadow of antitrust lawsuit filed by 2 of its teams
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — In the NASCAR-themed “Days of Thunder” movie, there is a scene where the Big John character modeled after series founder Bill France Sr. threatens a pair of feuding drivers. Tired of the on-track antics between drivers loosely based on Dale Earnhardt and...
