Nick Saban has Alabama on top again. The national rankings and SEC West? That’s old news. Already No. 1 in the nation, Alabama emphatically reclaimed the premier spot in the state by overwhelming bitter rival Auburn 36-0 on Saturday to end a six-year Iron Bowl losing streak and fashion the biggest margin in the series [...]
Whatever message new general manager Brian Burke gave to the Toronto Maple Leafs, it surely got through. One of Burke’s first acts as team president and GM was to address the players before Saturday night’s game against the Philadelphia Flyers. The theme of his message was that everyone should relax. The Maple Leafs did and [...]
K.J. Choi holed an 11-foot birdie putt worth $270,000 on the 18th hole Sunday to win the 26th Skins Game with $415,000. Stephen Ames missed a nine-footer that would have tied the hole and forced the foursome including Phil Mickelson and Rocco Mediate into a playoff. Instead, Choi’s putt gave him $340,000 for Sunday’s nine [...]
Oklahoma got all the bounces it needed to get past Oklahoma State in the highest-scoring Bedlam rivalry game ever. But did the Sooners do enough to bounce over Texas and into the Big 12 Championship Game? That’s for the voters and computers to decide. The third-ranked Sooners took care of their business on the field. [...]
Derrick Rose and Chicago have been struggling over the past week. Elton Brand had plenty of losing stretches with the Bulls, and he’s yet to land with a consistent winner. The Bulls and prized rookie Rose, concluding what has been a tough seven-game road trip, get their first look at former No. 1 overall pick [...]
Ray Allen had a stretch of 11 straight points in the third quarter Friday. Rajon Rondo had a hand in all of them. Allen scored 23 points and Kevin Garnett added 16 to lead the Boston Celtics to their seventh straight victory, 102-78 over the Philadelphia 76ers. Allen was 10-for-15 from the field, including 3-for-5 [...]
Sergei Samsonov used his speed to snap both a winning streak and losing streak. Samsonov scored with 1:07 left in overtime and the Carolina Hurricanes snapped the Philadelphia Flyers’ six-game winning streak 3-2 on Friday. “You try to get as much speed as you can to avoid the pokecheck,” Samsonov said of his winning goal. [...]
The Indianapolis Colts appear to have saved their season with four straight nail-biting victories. The Cleveland Browns’ year just keeps getting worse. The Browns will be without quarterback Brady Quinn for the rest of the season, which means Derek Anderson will start Sunday as Peyton Manning and the Colts try to deal Cleveland a fourth [...]
The Carolina Panthers and Green Bay Packers are both coming off defensive efforts they would like to forget. Each team looks to bounce back from a disappointing road loss when they meet Sunday afternoon at Lambeau Field Though both teams find themselves in the NFC playoff picture, they certainly didn’t play like teams ready for [...]
Defensive end Connor Barwin raised the gold-topped trophy above his head, then walked through hundreds of Cincinnati fans who got on their tiptoes and reached as high as they could, hoping to touch the keepsake with their fingertips. There’s never been a day quite like this in Cincinnati. The 16th-ranked Bearcats beat Syracuse 30-10 Saturday, [...]
