Deion Sanders: ‘I think I got more blood clots … I’m hurting like crazy’
Colorado football coach Deion Sanders revealed after Saturday’s 35-21 loss at TCU that he thinks he has more blood clots in his leg after already undergoing numerous surgeries because of blood circulation in his lower body. Sanders said he was in pain this week, in addition to his recovery from...
32 things we learned in NFL Week 5: Many teams ready for throne after Eagles’ first loss
The 32 things we learned from Week 5 of the 2025 NFL season: 0. The number of wins for New York Jets rookie coach Aaron Glenn, whose team was embarrassed at home 37-22 by the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday. With Kellen Moore’s New Orleans Saints getting off the mat against...
Edmonton Oilers are still class of Pacific Division for everyone else to chase
Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl and the Edmonton Oilers, for all the questions swirling around them, remain the class of the Pacific Division when it comes to success when it matters most. Sure, McDavid is in the final year of his contract and goaltending remains an uncertainty, but they’ve won the...
Bill Belichick, Alabama, Penn State lead college football Week 6 winners and losers
Let’s be honest: If Bill Belichick still had his fastball he’d be in the NFL. North Carolina’s stunning incompetence through the first five games of Belichick’s debut is proof positive that college football may be too much for him, just as success in the NFL escaped his grasp after losing...
Upstart Jaguars face true Monday night test against Chiefs
In terms of “Monday Night Football” appearances, the Jacksonville Jaguars and Kansas City Chiefs have been at opposite ends of the spectrum of late. Jacksonville has played a Monday night game in each of the last two seasons. Before that, there was a 12-year gap between appearances, dating back to...
Chargers WR Keenan Allen fastest in NFL history to reach 1,000 receptions
Los Angeles Chargers receiver Keenan Allen became the fastest player in NFL history to reach 1,000 career receptions during Sunday’s game against the Washington Commanders. Allen’s second catch of the game — a 4-yarder from Justin Herbert in the second quarter — was No. 1,000 and it came in his...
Bengals’ big comeback comes up short in loss to Lions
CINCINNATI — David Montgomery tossed a touchdown pass and ran for another in his return to his hometown as the Detroit Lions hung on to beat the Cincinnati Bengals, 37-24, on Sunday before a disgruntled home crowd. The Lions (4-1) were rolling to their fourth straight blowout win before the...
Blue Jays clobber Yankees, push Bombers to brink in MLB playoffs
The Toronto Blue Jays administered a historic two-game beatdown against the New York Yankees, unleashing a special rookie and a relentless offensive attack before getting out of Canada with a 2-0 lead in the American League Division Series. Behind a suffocating no-hit effort from Trey Yesavage, who was making just...
Shane van Gisbergen wins another NASCAR road race, this time in playoffs
Trackhouse Racing experienced the full gamut of emotions in the season’s final road-course race Sunday. Shane van Gisbergen dominated again on the NASCAR Cup Series’ twisty layouts by winning the Bank of America Roval 400 Round of 12 elimination race, but teammate Ross Chastain was trimmed from title contention at...
NFL Week 5: Panthers erase 17-point deficit in 27-24 win over Dolphins
CHARLOTTE N.C. — Bryce Young threw a go-ahead, 4-yard touchdown pass to Mitchell Evans with 1:59 remaining, Rico Dowdle ran for 206 yards and a score, and the Carolina Panthers overcame a 17-point first-half deficit to beat the Miami Dolphins 27-24 on Sunday. Young completed 19 of 30 passes for...
Freeport grad Merli confident his final season with UPJ men’s soccer team will be his best
There are a number of things Jon Merli wants to accomplish in his final season of collegiate soccer, so he isn’t about to let a nagging ankle injury slow him down. Merli, a Freeport grad and senior defender on the Pitt-Johnstown men’s team, has been dealing with an ankle issue...
Tommy Gainey takes fast track to a PGA Tour Champions victory at Furyk & Friends
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Tommy “Two Gloves” is a winner again. Unlike his stints on the PGA Tour and Korn Ferry Tour, Tommy Gainey is proving to be a quicker study on the PGA Tour Champions. Gainey, who turned 50 years old on Aug. 13, won the Constellation Furyk & Friends...
The Stanley Cup still runs through Florida and an Atlantic Division as dominant as ever
Of the NHL’s four divisions, the Atlantic has stood above all recently, and that is not going to change this year if the threepeat-minded Florida Panthers have their say. No matter how many games — 314 including playoffs — the two-time defending champion Panthers have logged making three straight Stanley...
C.J. Stroud heats up, Texans rout overwhelmed Ravens
C.J. Stroud passed for 244 yards and four touchdowns, and the Houston Texans rode a dominating defensive performance to a 44-10 road victory over the injury-plagued Baltimore Ravens on Sunday. The Texans (2-3) were 0-8 in Baltimore before dismantling the Ravens (1-4). Stroud was exceedingly efficient, completing 23 of 27...
Ex-NFL player Mark Sanchez stabbed, charged for alleged role in incidentVideo
Fox NFL analyst Mark Sanchez, 38, was hospitalized in stable condition after being stabbed early on Saturday in Indianapolis, and police said he has been arrested and charged with three misdemeanors for his alleged role in the incident. Sanchez, a former NFL quarterback, was in the city to cover the...
NHL’s Central Division remains a gantlet through the season and playoffs
Mikko Rantanen was a staple for Colorado, helping the Avalanche win the Stanley Cup as part of his dominant decade in Denver. Then, all of a sudden last winter he was gone, traded to Carolina and by spring back in the division with bitter rival Dallas. “Someone was like, ‘Yeah,...
Old guard still runs Metropolitan Division, though times could be changing soon
The winds are beginning to change in the NHL’s Metropolitan Division, though not before the old guard gets at least one more shot. Washington easily won the division last season and has much of the same lineup back, potentially with career goal scoring leader Alex Ovechkin playing his final season...
Analysis: UCLA stepped up, Penn State didn’t in stunning loss
PASADENA, Calif. — You could argue Penn State’s hopes of making the College Football Playoff were on life support before its match with winless UCLA kicked off in the Rose Bowl on Saturday afternoon. James Franklin’s Nittany Lions were 3-1 after losing in double overtime to Oregon at home, and...
Jordan Addison’s late touchdown gives Vikings win over Browns in London
LONDON — Vikings receiver Jordan Addison caught a 12-yard touchdown pass from Carson Wentz with 25 seconds left to give Minnesota a 21-17 victory over the Cleveland Browns at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Sunday. The 10-play, 80-yard drive gave the Vikings (3-2) a much-needed win on their historic international road...
Penguins defenseman Ryan Graves, 4 others assigned to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
The Pittsburgh Penguins assigned five players to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) after they cleared waivers on Sunday. That group includes forwards Rafael Harvey-Pinard, Boko Imama and Sam Poulin, as well as defensemen Alex Alexeyev and Ryan Graves. The most notable member of the group is Graves, who...
Texas and Penn State fall out of AP Top 25; Miami jumps Oregon to No. 2 behind Ohio State
Miami moved back to No. 2 in the Associated Press college football poll on Sunday, Texas Tech has its highest ranking since 2008 and Penn State and Texas fell all the way out of the Top 25 for the first time since 2022 after the two top-10 teams lost to...
Analysis: Complete victory over Boston College rekindles Pitt’s season aspirationsVideo
Even after Pitt dropped two games in a row to West Virginia and Louisville, and looked disorganized in the process, a modicum of belief could be attached to the assertion that the Panthers were still a team with attainable goals. For coach Pat Narduzzi and players, those goals center around...
Things look ‘pretty cool’ for Penguins rookie Ville KoivunenVideo
Like many athletes, Ville Koivunen has a crutch phrase he leans on when he explains things. Nugatory idioms such as “obviously” or “at the end of the day” as well as “for me, personally” litter the landscape of sporting sound bites. In contrast, the Pittsburgh Penguins rookie forward employs a...
Panthers face daunting task of trying to win another Stanley Cup without captain Aleksander BarkovVideo
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Images of Aleksander Barkov hoisting the Stanley Cup are scattered all over the Florida Panthers’ team facility. It’s the ultimate reminder of the last two championship seasons: the team captain being the first one to lift hockey’s chalice. Now, the Panthers face perhaps the ultimate challenge:...
Tristan Jarry is back (in black) and ready to keep his job as the Penguins’ top goaltender
Tristan Jarry is a fan of the man in black. No, not Johnny Cash. Another outlaw. Ron Hextall. The former Pittsburgh Penguins general manager was a fiery goaltender during his playing career and occasionally donned black gear in the cage. Jarry and Hextall struck up a kinship based on their...
