November 30, 2025 7:51 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Carson Beck passed for 267 yards with three touchdowns and an interception as No. 13 Miami beat No. 24 Pittsburgh 38-7 on Saturday to keep its slim hopes for a spot in the ACC title game alive, at least for a few hours. The Hurricanes (10-2, 6-2 ACC) need several other outcomes across the league to go their way later Saturday to earn a spot in the conference championship next week in Charlotte. The more long-range — and far more pressing — matter for Miami is whether it has done enough to earn one of the at-large berths in the College Football Playoff. The Hurricanes ripped off four straight wins by an average of 27.5 points to close the regular season. “I believe we can compete with anybody, in my opinion, and honestly not even in my opinion,” Beck said. “I think we’ve shown that.” Miami’s resume also includes a victory over No. 6 Notre Dame in the season opener. A lot has happened over the last three months, though the Hurricanes hope their play down the stretch puts them back in the position they thought they’d be to start the season: in the mix to play for a national title.
November 29, 2025 4:41 am
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Kris Letang scores 58 seconds into overtime, leading the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 4-3 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets. Sidney Crosby adds a pair of goals, tying him with Dave Andreychuk for 15th on the NHL’s career list. Bryan Rust also scores, and Tommy Novak contributes two assists. Tristan Jarry makes 26 saves. Zach Werenski scores for Columbus, becoming the first Blue Jackets defenseman with three different home goal streaks of at least three games. The Blue Jackets have gone to overtime in eight of their last 11 games. They are 4-2-5 in their last 11 overall. Pittsburgh has a 6-3-2 record in home games and a 12-6-5 record overall. The Penguins are 12-2-1 when scoring at least three goals. The Penguins host the Toronto Maple Leafs tonight.
November 29, 2025 5:02 am
The California Vulcans hosts Frostburg State in the second round of the NCAA Playoffs this afternoon at Adamson Stadium. The Vulcans and Bobcats, which previously met in Week 9, both earned road victories over seeded CIAA teams last weekend. The Vulcans scored two touchdowns off turnovers early in the first quarter while claiming a 27-24 victory at third-seeded Virginia Union in the first round of the NCAA Playoffs. Junior Khalil Taylor led the team with eight tackles and added 1.5 TFL and one pass break-up. Fellow junior Keith Charney and sophomore Malachi Thomas each added six stops. Junior Kendrick Agenor finished with 122 rushing yards and one touchdown, while quarterback Roman Purcell rushed for two scores. The Vulcans and Bobcats are meeting for the second time in four weeks. Cal posted a victory at Adamson Stadium in Week 9 of the regular season this year in the first meeting between the programs since 1983.
November 29, 2025 4:56 am
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Noah Fifita threw for 286 yards and a touchdown, and Arizona spoiled rival Arizona State’s Big 12 championship game hopes with a dominating 23-7 win. The reigning Big 12 champion Sun Devils entered the most anticipated Territorial Cup game in a decade with a slim chance of reaching the title game again. Arizona squeezed the life out of their chances with a suffocating defense that forced five turnovers and limited Arizona State to 214 total yards. Arizona State quarterback Jeff Sims, making his fourth start for the injured Sam Leavitt, threw three interceptions and lost two fumbles. His botched handoff at Arizona State’s 6 to open the third quarter set up Fifita’s 9-yard touchdown pass to Cameron Barmore.
November 29, 2025 4:55 am
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Devon Dampier passed for 253 yards and three touchdowns, leading No. 14 Utah to a 31-21 comeback win over Kansas. Elijah Davis added a 97-yard interception return for a score. The Utes, now 10-2, kept their Big 12 championship hopes alive. They need several outcomes to go their way to play for the title. Kansas quarterback Jalon Daniels passed for 187 yards and a TD, but also threw three interceptions. Utah’s defense capitalized on Kansas’ mistakes, securing the win. Kansas ends its season with a 5-7 record, missing bowl eligibility for the second straight year.
November 28, 2025 4:45 am
BALTIMORE (AP) — Joe Burrow threw two second-half touchdown passes in his return for Cincinnati, and the Bengals snapped Baltimore’s five-game winning streak with a 32-14 victory over the fumble-prone Ravens. Baltimore lost three fumbles in the first half and turned the ball over five times in the game. Although the Bengals didn’t take full advantage of those miscues, Burrow and his receivers began to click in the final two quarters. Tanner Hudson made a terrific one-handed grab in the end zone for a 14-yard touchdown to put Cincinnati up 19-7, and after the Ravens answered with Keaton Mitchell’s 18-yard touchdown run, Burrow threw a 29-yard scoring pass to Andrei Iosivas in the third quarter.
November 28, 2025 4:44 am
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Dak Prescott threw for two touchdowns, Malik Davis sprinted 43 yards for a score and the Dallas Cowboys overcame two fourth down TD throws from Patrick Mahomes in a 31-28 Thanksgiving victory over the Kansas City Chiefs. CeeDee Lamb scored the first Dallas touchdown and finished with 112 yards on seven catches four days after drops plagued the star receiver in a victory over defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia. The Cowboys (6-5-1) have won three straight, knocking off both of last season’s Super Bowl teams in the past five days, and they dropped the defending AFC champion Chiefs (6-6) back to .500 in a matchup of playoff-chasing teams. Mahomes had four touchdown passes.
November 28, 2025 4:44 am
DETROIT (AP) — Jordan Love converted a pair of fourth downs with touchdown passes in the first half and finished with a career-high-matching four touchdown throws, leading the Green Bay Packers to a 31-24 win over the Detroit Lions on Thursday. The Packers swept the season series to earn a potential tiebreaker in the NFC North. The two-time defending division champion Lions entered the game out of the playoff picture, then fell further back in the hunt with a third loss in five games.
November 28, 2025 4:46 am
Masters and U.S. Open champion Fuzzy Zoeller has died at the age of 74. Zoeller was one of golf’s most gregarious characters and great champions. But his career was tainted by a racially insensitive joke he made about Tiger Woods at the 1997 Masters. Woods was on his way to the most dominant victory in Augusta National history. Zoeller in a CNN interview jokingly said for Woods not to serve fried chicken at the Masters Club dinner. He apologized. He says he got death threats. He said years later he had come to realize that moment would never go away.
November 27, 2025 4:57 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bryan Rust and Kevin Hayes scored in the third period and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Buffalo Sabres 4-2 on Wednesday night to snap a two-game losing streak. Hayes tapped in Erik Karlsson’s pass from the top of the crease with 7:26 remaining to give Pittsburgh a 3-1 lead. Jack Quinn trimmed the deficit for Buffalo with 4:18 left, and Connor Dewar had an empty-net goal for Pittsburgh in the final minute. Mathew Dumba also scored for Pittsburgh. The Penguins have won just three of last 10 games since an 8-2-2 start. Karlsson had an assist to tie Brad Park for the 12th-most assists by a defenseman in NHL history with 683. Jason Zucker also scored for Buffalo.
