10:37 PM ET Davidson rushed for 789 yards Saturday at San Diego — the most ever by an FCS or FBS team in a single game — and lost. Despite the historically bad day on rush defense, San Diego won 56-52 to clinch the Pioneer Football League championship. It’s the FCS school’s eighth straight season
10:15 PM ET Justin Verlander‘s offseason is off to a good start. The Houston Astros ace and supermodel wife Kate Upton welcomed a baby daughter, Genevieve Upton Verlander, to the world earlier this week, the couple announced Saturday. Upton announced the pregnancy on Instagram in July, with a picture of her in a red, high-waisted
9:28 PM GMT Wales coach Warren Gatland says the strength of their bench played a major role in the narrow 9-6 victory over Australia at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday. Wales, who will meet Australia in their pool in Japan, ended a 13-game losing streak against the Wallabies in an error-strewn arm-wrestle. The ability to
9:20 PM ET Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa — Northwestern clinched bowl eligibility and a spot in its conference title game on the same day. Only in the Big Ten West. Isaiah Bowser ran for 165 yards and a touchdown and Northwestern upset Iowa 14-10 on Saturday to clinch a spot in the Big Ten
1:19 AM ET CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. — Boston College starting quarterback Anthony Brown left Saturday’s 27-7 loss to No. 2 Clemson because of an upper-body injury sustained on the Eagles’ first possession. BC coach Steve Addazio said after the game that Brown was in the hospital with an “internal injury” but would not provide any
12:57 AM ET MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Caught off guard by the Philadelphia 76ers‘ blockbuster trade for Jimmy Butler, All-Star center Joel Embiid got in touch with two of the Minnesota Timberwolves‘ young stars to seek their opinions on his new teammate. While Butler’s final months in Minnesota were far from harmonious, Karl-Anthony Towns and Andrew
8:44 PM ET MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Star point guard Ben Simmons came away from a brief conversation with Jimmy Butler on Saturday convinced that the All-Star swingman is “going to fit in” with the Philadelphia 76ers. “He said he just wants to win,” Simmons said before Saturday night’s game against the Memphis Grizzlies. “I think
8:32 PM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — Scott McCarron moved into position to win the PGA Tour Champions’ season points race, birdieing the final two holes Saturday for a one-stroke lead in the Charles Schwab Cup Championship. Matt Kuchar’s third-round 65 at the Mayakoba Golf Classic gave him a four-shot lead over Whee Kim entering
8:15 AM ET Late in the regular season, a couple of Houston Astros players paused between their rounds of batting practice to speculate about some negotiations to come in the offseason, about what Bryce Harper and Manny Machado might get in free agency and where they might land. Last winter was tough for older free-agent
7:58 PM ET Pittsburgh Steelers running back Le’Veon Bell is unlikely to report to the team by Tuesday’s deadline, multiple league sources tell ESPN. Even as the Steelers now brace to lose their marquee running back for the entire year, Bell’s camp continues to maintain its cone of silence and repeatedly has declined to address