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Analysis | What to know from NFL Week 18: The Eagles are limping into the playoffs
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…
Michigan barrels through one final obstacle, tops Washington for CFP title
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…
Franz Beckenbauer, German soccer star, dies at 78
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…
Nats add another option at first, signing Lewin Díaz to minor league deal
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…
Bill Belichick leaves Patriots after 24 seasons, six Super Bowl wins
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…
Perspective | Josh Harris will finally have to make his first tough call in Washington
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…
College Football Playoff highlights: Michigan beats Washington to claim national title
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.
MLB star Wander Franco freed amid Dominican sex-abuse probe
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…
Warriors’ Chris Paul to undergo surgery on fractured left hand
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…
