The top-ranked Wolverines capped an undefeated season with a victory over the No. 2 Huskies at NRG Stadium. The win gives Michigan its first national championship since 1997 and caps an eventful season that included a signal-stealing scandal and two suspensions for Coach Jim Harbaugh.
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco, one of baseball’s top young stars, was freed from custody by a Dominican court Friday as details emerged about an investigation in which he is accused of having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl and paying her mother…
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Golden State Warriors guard Chris Paul will undergo surgery next week to address a fractured left hand, the team announced Friday. Paul, 38, appeared to suffer the injury during the second half of a 113-109 home win over the Detroit Pistons. His timetable for a…
The Browns went 20-28 over Saban’s first three seasons as defensive coordinator before finally breaking through in 1994, going 11-5 and allowing a league-low 12.8 points per game. Despite a friendship that has endured over the years, Saban has called his four years coaching under Belichick the “worst of my life” and chafed under Belichick’s…
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save For long stretches of this season, the Washington Capitals were stealing games. The term “character win” came up regularly as they somehow held strong while being outshot and outplayed to prevail — perhaps more often than they should have. In the six games before the…
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save The Washington Commanders wasted no time starting anew. On Monday morning, a day after his team fell to the Dallas Cowboys to finish the season 4-13, Commanders owner Josh Harris fired coach Ron Rivera and announced he had enlisted former Golden State Warriors general manager…
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save HOUSTON — Apparently the honchos of college football intend to stage a national championship game Monday night with zero teams from the South. They seem hellbent on this sacrilege. How bold. Not since Ohio State and Oregon turned up at the first College Football Playoff…
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save The absolutely dreadful Washington Wizards managed their fourth win in 24 games Friday night, and if this season didn’t already feel like a slog, well, now there’s a dark lining to it all. Maybe, in five years, the Wizards will have pulled themselves from their…
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Early in the second half of Maryland’s most recent game, forward Julian Reese picked up his fourth personal foul, prompting Coach Kevin Willard to replace the Terrapins’ second-leading scorer with reserve center Caelum Swanton-Rodger. The sequence was part of a second-half unraveling against Minnesota during…
