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Patriots fire coach Jerod Mayo shortly after his 1st season endsVideo
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots fired coach Jerod Mayo on Sunday after one season, beginning another reboot for the franchise just a year after it parted with longtime coach Bill Belichick. Owner Robert Kraft announced the firing in a statement shortly after New England closed its 4-13 season...
Penguins forward Philip Tomasino placed on injured reserve
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Philip Tomasino was placed on injured reserve Sunday. He suffered an undisclosed ailment during a 3-2 shootout road loss to the Florida Panthers on Friday. Per a team spokesperson, Tomasino is considered “week to week” in his recovery. Since being acquired in a trade with the Nashville...
NFL Week 18: Mike Evans reaches 1,000 yards receiving, Buccaneers clinch NFC South with win over SaintsVideo
TAMPA, Fla. — Baker Mayfield used his legs and arm to help the Tampa Bay Buccaneers clinch their fourth straight NFC South title while putting Mike Evans over 1,000 yards receiving. Mayfield fired a 32-yard touchdown pass to Jalen McMillan for the go-ahead score and then scrambled 28 yards for...
Browns fire OC Ken Dorsey, O-line coach Andy Dickerson
BEREA, Ohio — The Cleveland Browns quickly began trying to fix a brutal, broken 2024 season. There’s no shortage of items needing repair. Hours after finishing with a loss at Baltimore in the finale of a season that was expected to carry into the playoffs, coach Kevin Stefanski fired offensive...
Pitt volleyball All-American Rachel Fairbanks signs pro contract with League One Volleyball
Rachel Fairbanks, the most decorated setter in Pitt volleyball history and a two-time, first-team All-American, has signed a professional contract with the Atlanta franchise in League One Volleyball. She joins former Pitt teammate Valeria Vazquez Gomez, who previously agreed to a deal with the Omaha Supernovas of the Pro Volleyball...
With Quinn Ewers, Arch Manning, Texas could be Quarterback UVideo
DALLAS — Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian, if you haven’t noticed, is busy, surely too preoccupied amid his team’s College Football Playoff run for a one-on-one phone interview. Somehow, though, Sarkisian between team meetings and broader media obligations found a few minutes to talk, anyway, seemingly because he’d been told...
Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi digs deep into transfer portal for 7 new Panthers
Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi was busy over the weekend, hosting and getting verbal commitments from seven transfers looking to re-start their careers. After landing defensive end Blaine Spires, who previously played at Bowling Green and Utah State, Pitt added six more players to the roster, including a wide receiver, another...
Flowers’ injury a concern for the Ravens after their AFC North-clinching victory over Cleveland
BALTIMORE — Baltimore’s division-clinching victory over Cleveland was about as routine as expected. Except for one second-quarter play that could be a major problem for the Ravens’ dynamic offense. Zay Flowers, the team’s top receiver, went down with a knee injury and didn’t return to the game Saturday. Coach John...
Packers WR Christian Watson leaves with knee injury and QB Jordan Love is also hurt
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Green Bay Packers wide receiver Christian Watson was carted into the locker room and quarterback Jordan Love hurt his throwing elbow in the second quarter Sunday against the Chicago Bears. The Packers announced in the second quarter that both players were questionable to return, but they...
Penn State rally comes up short against Indiana at The Palestra
PHILADELPHIA — Oumar Ballo scored 25 points and grabbed 13 rebounds as Indiana held off a late rally to beat Penn State, 77-71, on Sunday in a game played at The Palestra in Philadelphia. The game was the fifth Big Ten contest Penn State has held at “The Cathedral of...
Analysis: Pitt carries momentum, plenty of solid hope into Cameron Indoor Stadium to confront No. 4 Duke
Over the past 21⁄2 seasons, Jeff Capel and his players have raised the profile of Pitt’s basketball program, winning 58 games and standing tall among the best teams in the ACC. Yet in the early days of 2025, there is so much more to prove to exhausted Pitt fans, who...
Penn State, Notre Dame take stock of one another as Orange Bowl prep intensifies
In boxing, there’s usually a brief delay before the fighters close in on one another and start exchanging punches. Steadily, they will close the distance from opposite ends of the ring, feeling each other out for a bit until that inevitable moment when it’s time to begin delivering blows. Ahead...
5 things we learned: Steelers make wrong kind of history as they enter playoffs on 4-game slide
Five things we learned from Bengals 19, Steelers 17: 1. History makers Not only will the Steelers be heading into the AFC playoffs without any type of momentum, which coach Mike Tomlin coveted earlier in the week, they will enter it on a historical downward trajectory. The Steelers will join...
Steelers vs. Bengals: What they’re saying in Cincinnati after win
The Cincinnati Bengals delivered the final blow to the Pittsburgh Steelers Saturday night — the team’s fourth consecutive defeat and end to its regular season. With losses to the Philadelphia Eagles, Baltimore Ravens, Kansas City Chiefs and now the Bengals, the Steelers blew a chance to clinch the AFC North...
Airing of Grievances: ‘Anemic’ offense; late-arriving defense result in Steelers’ 4th straight lossVideo
The Steelers’ recent losses to the Philadelphia Eagles, Baltimore Ravens and Kansas City Chiefs were one thing. Those defeats could be explained by simply saying the club played a trio of the best teams in the NFL — three division winners with a combined 40-9 record. Saturday night’s defeat to...
Entering postseason on 4-game losing streak, Steelers have ‘choice to respond the right way’
Despite backpedaling into the AFC playoffs on a four-game losing streak, the Pittsburgh Steelers late Saturday night sounded more like a team ready to wear their white jerseys than wave a white towel. After winning 10 of their first 13 games, the Steelers ended the regular season with losses to...
‘I’m not blinking on George’ — Russell Wilson stands by Steelers’ Pickens after he has 0 yards in lossVideo
George Pickens had more drops than yards gained Saturday. More inflammatory interactions with fans at Acrisure Stadium, too. It was that kind of night for the Pittsburgh Steelers’ No. 1 wide receiver, who had one reception on six targeted throws for 0 net yards in a 19-17 loss to the...
Steelers notes: 1st-round playoff opponent, time, date soon to be set
One thing is certain about the four-game losing streak that ended the Pittsburgh Steelers’ regular season. It assured them they won’t open up the playoffs with a home game. But where the Steelers will play on wild-card weekend is yet to be determined. And it will be the Los Angeles...
Joe Burrow leads long drives as Bengals beat Steelers in season finale
Before the Pittsburgh Steelers’ season finale even began, they endured their first set of hard knocks when the Baltimore Ravens clinched the AFC North Division title by beating the Cleveland Browns. Then the Cincinnati Bengals delivered an even bigger blow, handing the spiraling Steelers their fourth consecutive defeat. Joe Burrow...
Lamar Jackson, 1st member of 4,000-900 club, looks toward playoff run
BALTIMORE — Lamar Jackson capped a sensational regular season with a rather ordinary performance. It was still plenty good enough to set a pair of NFL records and lead the Baltimore Ravens to a second straight AFC North title. Jackson completed 16 of 32 passes for 217 yards and two...
Minor league report: Penguins, Filip Larsson shut out Wolf PackVideo
Goaltender Filip Larsson made 33 saves for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 5-0 win against the Hartford Wolf Pack at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Saturday. The result was Larsson’s fourth shutout of the season — tied for most in the American Hockey League — and boosted his record...
Pitt rolls to victory against Stanford, stays unbeaten in ACC
The beard is coming in nicely, if a bit scruffy in its infancy. So, Pitt junior Guillermo Diaz Graham said he plans to keep the tough-guy look for the foreseeable future. “I’m going to run with it,” he said. Yet the beard was only a small part of the story...
Ravens wrap up AFC North with rout of Browns; WR Zay Flowers leaves with injuryVideo
BALTIMORE — The road to a division title was bumpy for the Baltimore Ravens, who started 0-2, faced a schedule packed with playoff teams and had to rally from a two-game deficit with four to play. Having overcome all that, Lamar Jackson is looking ahead to the most important challenges...
Notre Dame RB Jeremiyah Love expected to be ready for Orange Bowl vs. Penn StateVideo
Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love is expected to start Thursday against sixth-seeded Penn State, enabling the seventh-seeded Fighting Irish and their trademark ground game to operate at — or near — full capacity in the first College Football Playoff semifinal. Love reinjured his ailing right knee late in the...
Chargers ‘D’ looks to finish with fewest points allowed in NFL
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Jesse Minter’s turnaround of the Los Angeles Chargers’ defense has the unit on the verge of something the franchise hasn’t done in 61 seasons: allowing the fewest points in the league. The playoff-bound Chargers (10-6) go into Sunday’s regular-season finale at Las Vegas allowing an NFL-low...
