Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Week 18 finalized the playoff bracket, and it accurately represents the oddity of the season. Joe Flacco is in, but Trevor Lawrence is nowhere to be found. The teams that lost Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers made it. Three teams from the AFC North are…
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save HOUSTON — The famous football program at Michigan, which spent the first two decades of the young century in that murky wilderness of good-but-not-great, even fading into afterthought at times, spent Monday night completing a dizzying three-year climb to the summit it always craves. It…
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Franz Beckenbauer, who led the West German national team to World Cup championships as player and coach and whose on-field presence was so dominant that he was nicknamed “Der Kaiser,” died Jan. 7 at 78. His family announced his death in a statement to German…
The Washington Nationals signed first baseman Lewin Díaz to a minor league contract Friday, according to a person familiar with the matter. The deal includes an invite to spring training. Díaz, 27, spent last season with the Baltimore Orioles’ Class AAA affiliate, ending the year with a .268 batting average and an .804 OPS in…
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save The New England Patriots are moving on from the NFL’s greatest modern dynasty and starting entirely over. Bill Belichick is leaving the franchise he coached to six Super Bowl triumphs, four mostly discouraging seasons after quarterback Tom Brady made his exit. Belichick and the Patriots…
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save We’ll always remember these good times. They started the day when Josh Harris, his super friends and their $6.05 billion deal to purchase the Washington Commanders went official and it seemed as though a pall that had stretched from Landover to Ashburn and beyond had…
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…
Ben Johnson, Detroit Lions offensive coordinator: The 37-year-old helped revive the career of quarterback Jared Goff and turned the Lions’ offense into one of the more prolific in the NFL over the past two seasons. He takes an analytical approach and has 12 years of NFL coaching experience, including seven (2012 to 2018) with the…
