9:22 PM ET Two things have been true of the College Football Playoff committee’s first eight years of selections. First, the committee has almost certainly gotten the top four correct on every occasion. For any debates over Ohio State in 2014 or Alabama in 2017, the eventual results — a national championship for both —
Month: December 2022
8:22 PM ET ESPN News Services ATLANTA — With all sorts of turmoil behind them in the rankings, the No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs left no doubt about the top team heading into the College Football Playoff, dismantling No. 11 LSU 50-30 in the Southeastern Conference championship game Saturday. Stetson Bennett threw a season-high four touchdown
8:30 PM ET With Alabama’s College Football Playoff future in limbo, coach Nick Saban said on Saturday that there was an argument for his team to be included among the top four and framed the debate over who’s in and who’s out with a single question: How are they playing at present? The question lends
7:01 PM ET After Tyson Fury’s one-sided TKO victory over Derek Chisora at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday, Mike Coppinger shares what should be next for Fury and reacts to Fury’s comments during his postfight interview about a right hand injury and possible right elbow surgery. Is he finally heading for the most-anticipated undisputed
7:26 PM ET Mason Cobb, Oklahoma State‘s leading tackler this season, announced Saturday that he has entered the transfer portal. Cobb, a 6-foot junior from Provo, Utah, has two years of eligibility remaining. “I will always be a Cowboy at heart!” he wrote in a statement posted on his Twitter account. “It’s time for me
6:49 PM ET Associated Press NASSAU, Bahamas — The warm sun in the Bahamas brought out plenty of mud on the rain-soaked fairways and created some wild shots for just about everyone but Viktor Hovland. He made 10 birdies Saturday to build a three-shot lead in the Hero World Challenge. Hovland ran off six birdies
6:53 PM ET DOHA, Qatar — Luis Chavez‘s thunderbolt of a freekick in Mexico’s win over Saudi Arabia was the most powerful shot leading to a goal in the group stages of the World Cup, according to the technology inside the match ball used in Qatar. Chavez 52nd minute strike gave Mexico a 2-0 lead
5:00 PM ET Argentina captain Lionel Messi broke Diego Maradona’s World Cup goals tally in his side’s 2-1 round-of-16 win against Australia on Saturday. Messi equalled Maradona’s eight World Cup goals in Argentina’s previous game against Mexico, scoring from distance to set the Albiceleste on their way to a 2-0 win. He surpassed the 1986
6:04 PM ET AL RAYYAN, Qatar — Lionel Messi says he will not celebrate his personal milestone of reaching 1,000 professional matches after helping Argentina to a 2-1 victory over Australia in the World Cup round of 16, but instead admits his overriding emotion was relief at having come through a physical test just 48
7:25 AM ET KANSAS CITY CHIEFS left defensive end Carlos Dunlap lined up for a third-down play in the first quarter of a recent game against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Nov. 13. This play was different from any other in Dunlap’s 13-season career. It completed a quest that began when he arrived in the NFL