November 20, 2024 4:24 am
Boise State received the fourth and final bye in this week’s College Football Playoff rankings, leaving BYU out of that mix and the Big 12 on the list of power conferences with a gripe. Undefeated Oregon received top billing once again, delivered by the committee a few hours after Big Ten number crunchers ran through tiebreaker scenarios and realized the Ducks had clinched a spot in the conference title game. Ohio State stayed at No. 2, one spot ahead of Southeastern Conference co-leader Texas. Miami of the Atlantic Coast Conference was ranked eighth but gets the third seed and a bye that goes to the top four ranked conference leaders. And likewise, Boise State was ranked 12th by the committee but was slotted into that fourth and final bye.
November 19, 2024 4:28 am
Hard-throwing Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes capped a remarkable season by winning the National League Rookie of the Year Award while Luis Gil of the New York Yankees edged Baltimore’s Colton Cowser to take the AL honor. It’s the first time the rookie awards went to two pitchers since 2011, when Tampa Bay starter Jeremy Hellickson and Atlanta closer Craig Kimbrel won. Skenes didn’t make his big league debut until May 11 but the right-hander was such an immediate sensation that he was selected to start the All-Star Game for the NL on July 16.
November 19, 2024 4:25 am
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Joe Mixon ran for three touchdowns, Derek Barnett returned a fumble 28 yards for a score and the Houston Texans beat the Dallas Cowboys 34-10. The Texans stopped just the second two-game losing streak in quarterback C.J. Stroud’s two seasons while maintaining a two-game lead in the AFC South. In a season filled with things gone wrong for the Cowboys, debris fell from their stadium’s retractable roof as it was opening a few hours before the game. Dallas lost its fifth consecutive game, and Cooper Rush dropped to 0-2 filling in for Dak Prescott after his season-ending hamstring tear.
November 19, 2024 4:29 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ismael Leggett scored 14 points and Jaland Lowe put up a double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds as Pittsburgh won its fourth straight home game to open the season, romping past VMI 93-48 in a Greenbrier Tip-Off home game. All five starters scored in double figures for Pitt and Jorge Diaz Graham added 12 points off the bench. Leggett, who has scored in double digits in each game, hit 6 of 9 from the floor but saw his three-game streak of 15 or more points snapped by a digit. Guillermo Diaz Graham scored 13 points and grabbed six rebounds. Cameron Corhen had a perfect shooting game, hitting all five of his shots from the field while going 2 for 2 from the line to score 12. Damian Dunn added 11 points.
November 19, 2024 4:35 am
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jake Paul’s unanimous victory over former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson might have been disappointing from a competitive standpoint, but it drew record betting. BetMGM says the fight between the YouTube star and the 58-year-old Tyson was its most-bet boxing or mixed-martial arts fight. The sportsbook took three times the number of bets and four times the money of any combat sport in BetMGM’s history. A Caesars Entertainment spokesperson compared the amount of betting to that on an NFL game.
November 18, 2024 4:42 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Chris Boswell tied a franchise record with six field goals and the Pittsburgh Steelers limited Lamar Jackson and the NFL’s top-ranked offense in an 18-16 victory over the Baltimore Ravens. The Steelers (8-2) won their fifth straight behind Boswell and a defense that never let Jackson, Derrick Henry or the rest of the offense get into a rhythm, opening up a little breathing room atop the AFC North. The Ravens were held to season lows in points and yards and while turning it over three times to fall to 7-4.
November 18, 2024 4:40 am
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — J.K. Dobbins rushed for a 29-yard touchdown with 18 seconds remaining, and the Los Angeles Chargers beat the Cincinnati Bengals 34-27 after squandering a 21-point third-quarter lead. Justin Herbert passed for 297 yards and two touchdowns, and rushed for 65 yards as the Chargers won their fourth straight. Dobbins ran for two TDs. Joe Burrow passed for 356 yards and three touchdowns, but the Bengals suffered another excruciating loss. They have five defeats by seven points or fewer. After its offense stalled for most of the second half, Los Angeles went 84 yards on four plays in 26 seconds on the decisive drive.
November 18, 2024 4:46 am
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Josh Allen ran for a 26-yard touchdown on fourth down with 2:17 left, sealing the Buffalo Bills’ 30-21 win over the Kansas City Chiefs and handing the two-time defending Super Bowl champions their first loss of the season. James Cook rushed for two touchdowns and Allen threw a 12-yard TD pass to Curtis Samuel for Buffalo. The Bills moved to 9-2 and closed the gap on the 9-1 Chiefs in the race for the AFC’s top seed. Patrick Mahomes and Chiefs were the NFL’s last undefeated team. They had won 15 straight, including playoffs, since last December. The Bills have won six straight.
November 18, 2024 4:43 am
Oregon remains the unanimous No. 1 team in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll after its close call at Wisconsin. Georgia returned to the top 10 with its win over Tennessee and LSU was unranked for the first time in two years. The unbeaten Ducks are atop the AP Top 25 for the fifth straight week. They received all 62 first-place votes for the third week in a row after scoring their fewest points in 37 games in a 16-13 win over Wisconsin. Ohio State, Texas, Penn State and Indiana rounded out the top five for the second straight week.
November 17, 2024 2:16 am
Jacob Pugh hit 20-of-33 passes for 305 yards and five touchdowns leading #18 W&J to a 45-0 win at Allegheny Saturday afternoon, clinching a share of the Presidents’ Athletic Conference championship. Coupled with Grove City’s win over Westminster, the victory gives W&J the League’s automatic bid to the NCAA playoffs, the Presidents’ first tournament bid since 2018. W&J scored on its first six possessions of the game while holding Allegheny to 148 total yards. Several W&J players crossed season and career thresholds in the win: Justin Johns registered five total tackles Saturday, becoming the school’s all-time leader in that category. Dawson Dietz moved to #4 on the Tackles for Loss list, sharing a sack in the fourth quarter. Pugh now has 92 career touchdown passes, moving him to fourth place on the all-time list. Wide receivers John Peduzzi and Jacob Macosko crossed the 1,000-yard season mark, Peduzzi moving into fourth place with now 3,048 yards. His two touchdowns Saturday moves the junior into a tie for third place with Aaron Krepps, one shy of Andrew Wulf’s 40 career TD receptions. Macosko, also a junior sits just 11 yards shy of a top ten single season mark, currently with 1,080 yards through 10 games.
W&J will travel to Ashland, VA to take on Randolph-Macon College (9-1) in the second round, Saturday, Nov. 30. Game time will likely be 12 noon. The Yellow Jackets have won seven straight, led by a dominant defense that’s held opponents to less than 240 yards per game, aided by 17 interceptions, five of which were returned for touchdowns.
PennWest-California lost to unbeaten Kutztown, 21-14, Saturday afternoon in the PSAC Championship game. CalU trailed 21-7 late, scored a touchdown but could not recover the on-side kick as Kutztown ran out the clock. With the win, Kutztown received the #1 seed in the NCAA tournament Super Regional. CalU is seeded third in the field and will host #6 East Stroudsburg (10-1) on Saturday at Adamson Stadium.
