JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A busy Week 7 of the high school football season is all but in the books, with one very big game left on the schedule. Area teams largely put Week 7 to bed on Friday night with a heavy slate of games, headlined by wins from four Super 10 teams. No. 1-ranked … Read more
Last April nearly 30 minutes into a conversation with defending NCAA champion coach Dan Hurley, then podcaster/broadcaster JJ Redick asked Hurley about a specific offensive action the Huskies run. By putting a nonshooting big man in the corner and throwing a cross-court skip pass to him, the opposing center is forced out of the paint … Read more
Standing in the middle of his home field on Friday night, St. John Bosco coach Jason Negro revealed that history was about to be made for his team’s Trinity League opener against Orange Lutheran. “Twenty-two years of coaching, I’ve never started a freshman at quarterback,” he said. Koa Malau’ulu, the son of former Carson and … Read more
EUGENE, Ore. – Dillon Gabriel threw a pair of touchdown passes and ran for another to help No. 6 Oregon remain undefeated with a 31-10 victory over Michigan State on Friday night. Gabriel completed 20 of 32 passes to finish with 257 yards and Jordan James ran for 166 yards and another score for the … Read more
LAS VEGAS – LeQuint Allen powered into the end zone from a yard out in overtime to give Syracuse a 44-41 victory over No. 25 UNLV on Friday night, four days after the Rebels broke into the AP Top 25 for the first time in program history. After Caden Chittenden made a 41-yard field goal … Read more
DETROIT – Greg Landry, the former Detroit Lions quarterback and assistant coach, has died. He was 77. The Lions announced Landry’s death on social media Friday. No cause of death was given. “We join the NFL community in mourning the loss of former Lions quarterback and coach Greg Landry,” the team said in its posting. … Read more
If Aaron Judge is the New York Yankees’ Superman, the Kansas City Royals may believe that they have his kryptonite in Michael Wacha, their Game 1 starter in the American League Division Series. Judge has just one hit (a single) in 18 career at-bats (.056) vs. Wacha, a righty veteran. It’s Judge’s lowest career batting … Read more
Ever hear the one about the daredevil plasterer who lit an Olympic flame in a four-time first-team All-Pro defensive end? Jared Allen roars at the mention of Eddie ‘The Eagle’ Edwards, the face of the 1988 Winter Games and embodiment of Pierre de Coubertin’s mantra. The beaming, bespectacled British ski jumper finished last in the … Read more
Time is on my side, yes it is…Time is on my side, yes it is… ORLANDO, Fla. — Mike Krzyzewski, as ever, didn’t mince words. “When I was at Duke, I was 18,” Paolo Banchero said Tuesday. “And I remember Coach K would just be on me, all the time, (about) using my voice, as … Read more
This article is part of our Origin Stories series, an inside look at the backstories of the clubs, drivers, and people fueling the sport. As Chloe Chambers navigated the final lap of Race 2 in Barcelona on her way to her first win in F1 Academy, she took a different approach. The American driver was … Read more