Month: September 2019

6:56 PM ET Associated Press CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Trevor Lawrence connected with Tee Higgins on a 38-yard touchdown pass with 9:54 left and top-ranked Clemson stopped a late two-point conversion to hold off North Carolina 21-20 on Saturday. The Tigers (5-0, 3-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) had trouble all day in trying to extend their
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6:54 PM ET The Colorado Avalanche signed top line winger Mikko Rantanen to a six-year, $55.5 million deal Saturday, taking another big-name restricted free agent off the board. Rantanen’s deal runs through the 2024-25 season and carries an average annual value of $9.25 million, though the salaries per year fluctuate — including $12 million in
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1:59 AM ET If not for a failed 2-point conversion attempt, who knows where we’d be five weeks into the college football season? But Brent Venables’ Clemson defense made the play it had to make, and the defending national champion Tigers survived a 21-20 scare at North Carolina. The beauty of college football is the
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5:18 PM ET Jared Cannonier is not going away. The former heavyweight — turned light heavyweight, turned middleweight contender — scored perhaps the biggest win of his career on Saturday, as he knocked out Jack Hermansson with ground strikes just 27 seconds into the second round. The 185-pound fight headlined UFC Fight Night at Royal
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6:24 PM ET Maryland starting receiver DJ Turner was charged on Sept. 20 with driving while under the influence of alcohol, according to the state’s judiciary case search, and was suspended for Friday night’s home game against Penn State. Records show University of Maryland Police stopped Turner at 1:23 a.m. ET as he was heading
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6:29 PM ET Associated Press CONCORD, N.C. — AJ Allmendinger raced to his first NASCAR victory in five years Saturday in the Xfinity Series playoff race on The Roval at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Allmendinger has transitioned this season from full-time racing to the broadcast booth, but he agreed to drive a handful of Xfinity Series
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5:13 PM ET Before welterweight world titleholders Errol Spence Jr. and Shawn Porter meet to unify belts at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Saturday, a lot of other good fights are taking place on the undercard. Anthony Dirrell puts his WBC super middleweight world title on the line against David Benavidez and Mario
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