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No. 14 Oklahoma sacks South Carolina offense in easy win
Tory Blaylock ran for 101 yards and a touchdown and Oklahoma's defense had six sacks and forced a pair of turnovers as the No. 14 Sooners beat South Carolina 26-7 on Saturday in Columbia, S. C.,Oklahoma had struggled to run the ball most of the season, but didn't have much of an issue moving the bal...
UCF cruises past West Virginia, behind dominant offense
Tayven Jackson threw a pair of touchdowns to Chris Domercant in the opening quarter on fourth down, as UCF rolled to a 45-13 victory over visiting West Virginia Saturday afternoon in Orlando, Fla.,Jackson returned after sitting out last week's loss with a shoulder injury sustained two weeks ago agai...
Sabres hand Panthers fourth straight loss
Josh Doan netted his first goals with Buffalo by producing two power-play markers, goaltender Alex Lyon denied all 32 Florida shots, and the Sabres blanked the visiting Panthers 3-0 on Saturday afternoon. ,Traded by the rebranded Utah Mammoth to Buffalo in late June, the 23-year-old Doan tallied in ...
No. 12 Georgia Tech stifles Duke behind record fumble return TD
No. 12 Georgia Tech's defense kept host Duke off track and the Yellow Jackets produced their only touchdown drives in the fourth quarter for a 27-18 victory Saturday afternoon at Durham, N.C.,Omar Daniels had a 95-yard return of a fumble for a touchdown in the first quarter, marking the longest fumb...
Diego Pavia does it again as No. 17 Vanderbilt beats No. 10 LSU
Diego Pavia ran for two touchdowns and passed for one to help No. 17 Vanderbilt defeat No. 10 LSU 31-24 on Saturday in Southeastern Conference play at Nashville, Tenn., ,Pavia passed for 160 yards and rushed for 86, and the Commodores (6-1, 2-1 SEC) scored on five of their first six possessions and ...
12 Georgia Tech stifles Duke behind record fumble return TD
No. 12 Georgia Tech's defense kept host Duke off track and the Yellow Jackets produced their only touchdown drives in the fourth quarter for a 27-18 victory Saturday afternoon at Durham, N.C., ,Omar Daniels had a 95-yard return of a fumble for a touchdown in the first quarter, marking the longest fu...
Joe Fagnano leads streaking UConn past Boston College
Joe Fagnano threw for four touchdowns and rushed for another as UConn beat New England rival Boston College for the second time in Huskies coach Jim Mora's four seasons 38-23 on Saturday afternoon in Chestnut Hill, Mass.,Fagnano was 23 of 31 for a season-high 362 yards to lead the Huskies (5-2) to t...
Two second-half interceptions fuel Wolverines past Huskies
Michigan took advantage of two second-half interceptions to defeat Washington 24-7 in a Big Ten game on Saturday in Ann Arbor, Mich.,The Wolverines (5-2, 3-1) scored 17 unanswered points in the second half to rebound from last week's loss at USC that knocked them out of the Top 25.,They started by c...
Game-winning field goal helps Houston slip past Arizona
Ethan Sanchez hit a 41-yard field goal as time expired to give Houston a 31-28 win over Arizona in a Big 12 Conference game on Saturday afternoon in Houston, Texas., ,Sanchez, the reigning Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week, missed a 48-yarder earlier in the fourth quarter that allowed Arizona ...
Marta's PK enables Pride to snap Spirit's long unbeaten streak
Marta's penalty kick in the 72nd minute broke a tie in the Orlando Pride's 3-2 road victory against Washington on Saturday afternoon, snapping the Spirit's 12-match unbeaten streak.,Orlando's Kerry Abello was responsible for the game's first two goals, scoring one and the other an own goal. The Prid...
Alex Ovechkin nearing 900 club as Capitals host Canucks
Alex Ovechkin is two away from becoming the first player in NHL history with 900 goals as his Washington Capitals host the Vancouver Canucks on Sunday afternoon.,The 40-year-old forward scored the first goal of his 21st season -- No. 898 of his career -- in Friday's 5-1 home win over the Minnesota W...
Swiss Stage continues at $5M World Championships
FlyQuest, Gen.G Esports, G2 Esports and Hanwha Life won their Swiss Stage matches on Saturday at the $5 million League of Legends 2025 World Championship in Beijing.,Competing in best-of-one Round 3 Mid Matches between 1-1 teams, FlyQuest sank Secret Whales in 32 minutes on blue; Gen.G toppled T1 in...
WTA roundup: Elena Rybakina rolls into Ningbo final
No. 3 seed Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan and No. 4 Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia cruised into Sunday's final of the Ningbo Open in Ningbo, China.,Rybakina knocked out No. 2 seed Jasmine Paolini of Italy 6-3, 6-2 in one hour and 29 minutes. Rybakina struck 10 aces, won 88% of the points on her first...
Buoyed by late eagle, Sei Young Kim stays atop BMW Ladies
Sei Young Kim carded a 3-under-par 69 on Saturday to carry a four-stroke lead heading into the final round of the BMW Ladies Championship in Haenam, South Korea.,Kim benefited from an eagle on the 17th hole to highlight an eventful day in which she had five birdies against four bogeys at Pine Beach ...
Cal hangs on to keep Bill Belichick, UNC winless in ACC
Brent Austin forced and recovered a late game-saving fumble in the end zone, and Cal kept North Carolina and beleaguered coach Bill Belichick winless in Atlantic Coast Conference play with a 21-18 victory Friday night in Berkeley, Calif. ,In a three-point game, the Tar Heels' Nathan Leacock caught a...
Reign edge Royals on 2nd-half PK, clinch postseason berth
Sofia Huerta scored on a tiebreaking penalty kick midway through the second half and the Seattle Reign clinched a playoff spot with a 2-1 victory over the visiting Utah Royals on Friday night.,Ainsley McCammon scored her first professional goal late in the first half for Seattle (10-7-8, 38 points),...
Manaka Matsukubo registers hat trick as Courage thrash Bay FC
A hat trick from Manaka Matsukubo kept North Carolina Courage's playoff hopes alive in a 4-1 win Friday night over Bay FC, in San Jose, CA.,The Courage (8-9-8, 32 points) survived two late potential match-tying moments in the 65th and 67th minutes before Shinomi Koyama and Matsukubo sealed the victo...
Brock Boeser shootout goal pushes Canucks past Blackhawks
Brock Boeser scored the shootout winning goal to give the visiting Vancouver Canucks a 3-2 comeback victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday.,Jake DeBrusk and Max Sasson scored in regulation time for Vancouver, which has won the first two outings of a five-game road trip, and erased 2-0 deficit...
Nick Schmaltz records hat trick as Mammoth break away from Sharks
Nick Schmaltz recorded his second career hat trick and added an assist to lead the Utah Mammoth to a 6-3 win over the San Jose Sharks in Salt Lake City on Friday night.,Clayton Keller added a goal and three assists and Liam O'Brien and Michael Carcone also scored for the Mammoth. Karel Vejmelka made...
Shohei Ohtani's 3-HR, 10-K gem caps Dodgers' NLCS sweep
LOS ANGELES -- Shohei Ohtani was a one-man show, hitting three home runs and striking out 10 in six-plus scoreless innings as the Los Angeles Dodgers advanced to the World Series for the second consecutive season with a 5-1 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday.,Ohtani hit home runs in the fi...