BOISE, Idaho – Ashton Jeanty ran for 209 yards and a touchdown and No. 10 Boise State earned a College Football Playoff spot, beating No. 19 UNLV 21-7 on Friday night for its second straight Mountain West title. Boise State (12-1, No. 10 CFP) is all but assured of a first-round bye in the playoffs … Read more
INDIANAPOLIS – The first big win in college football’s postseason goes to Boise State. The Broncos captured the Mountain West Conference title Friday night and earned their spot in the sport’s first 12-team playoff. The losers? Well, there was UNLV, which fell 21-7 to Heisman hopeful Ashton Jeanty and the Broncos in the conference title … Read more
ATLANTA — The bar for the Lakers to clear Friday night to look functional was remarkably low, a pair of unimaginably bad losses in Minnesota and Miami making “don’t get embarrassed” the only hurdle the Lakers needed to clear. The Lakers, while technically 70 points worse than the Timberwolves and the Heat, have shown that they … Read more
St. Bernard coach Bernard McCrumby decided to return to his alm mater as basketball coach this season after being head coach at Gardena Serra. So far, so good, especially after St. Bernard knocked off previously unbeaten Rolling Hills Prep 56-48 on Friday night. St. Bernard is off to an 8-0 start behind guards Joshua Palmer … Read more
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – It was the end of the playoff line for St. Augustine and Trinity Christian in the high school football state semifinals on a chilly Friday night. The Yellow Jackets saw their season end in the Class 4A semis with a 38-28 loss at powerhouse Plantation American Heritage. And Trinity Christian couldn’t stop … Read more
Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California, is the latest battleground in the ongoing national culture war over trans athletes in girls’ sports. Students at the school have gone viral on social media in recent weeks amid an ongoing lawsuit over two girls’ cross country runners allegedly being told they can’t wear t-shirts that … Read more
NEW YORK – Major League Wrestling (MLW) founder Court Bauer told Fox News Digital at the beginning of the year he believed the company was in for a “huge year.” It hardly gets bigger than Eric Bischoff. The former World Championship Wrestling (WCW) executive who launched the “Monday Night Wars” against WWE in the mid-1990s … Read more
All the Detroit Lions do lately is win football games. The Dan Campbell-led Lions knocked off the Green Bay Packers to secure an NFL-best 12th win Thursday night. Campbell’s fourth down gambles helped lift Detroit to a 34-31 victory. The fourth-year Lions head coach elected to keep the offense on the field on fourth down … Read more
Martin Luther King Jr. High School in Riverside, California, addressed a controversy involving a transgender athlete on its cross country team and a lawsuit by two girls on the team alleging their “Save Women’s Sports” T-shirts were compared to swastikas by school administrators. The school has faced criticism locally from its own students and nationally … Read more
NEW YORK – Pitcher Clay Holmes and the New York Mets have agreed to a $38 million, three-year contract, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press on Friday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the agreement for the 31-year-old right-hander was subject to a successful physical. Holmes can earn $13 … Read more