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Team Liquid, Geekay Esports open OWCS NA Stage 3 playoffs with wins
Team Liquid and Geekay Esports began the playoff portion of the Overwatch Champions Series 2025 -- North America Stage 3 with victories on Saturday.,Team Liquid, which finished pool play as the No. 1 seed with a 7-0 record, swept NTMR 3-0 in one best-of-five upper bracket semifinal while Geekay Espo...
Northwestern blanks Purdue for first shutout in 8 years
Quarterback Preston Stone passed for two touchdowns and the Northwestern Wildcats piled up 232 rushing yards to extend their winning streak to four games with a 19-0 Big Ten victory over Purdue on Saturday afternoon in Evanston, Ill.,Joseph Himon Jr. had 87 yards rushing -- one of three Wildcats wit...
FC Dallas clinches playoff berth with season-ending win at Vancouver
Midfielder Kaick scored the go-ahead goal in the 47th minute and goaltender Michael Collodi made six saves to make it stand up as visiting FC Dallas clinched a playoff berth with a 2-1 Decision Day victory over 10-man Vancouver on Saturday night., ,Osaze Urhoghide also scored for Dallas (11-12-11, 4...
Steady QB Brendan Sorsby leads No. 24 Cincinnati to rout of Oklahoma State
The No. 24 Cincinnati Bearcats clinched bowl eligibility Saturday night with a 49-17 road win over the Oklahoma State Cowboys.,It's Cincinnati's first time being bowl eligible since 2022, and it's the first time Cincinnati (6-1, 4-0 Big 12) is eligible for a bowl game as members of the Big 12 and in...
Byrum Brown, No. 19 South Florida surge past Florida Atlantic
Byrum Brown had another all-around performance and quick-tempo No. 19 South Florida subdued the visiting, high-flying Florida Atlantic Owls 48-13 in an American Conference matchup on Saturday night in Tampa, Fla.,Brown, who came into the day with 14 total touchdowns in his last three games, continue...
After goal-line stand in OT, Mason Shipley’s FG lifts No. 21 Texas over Kentucky
Mason Shipley booted a game-winning 45-yard field goal in overtime after the Texas defense made a goal-line stand as the 21st-ranked Texas Longhorns Texas escaped with a 16-13 victory over upset-minded Kentucky on Saturday evening in a Southeastern Conference matchup in Lexington, Ky.,Shipley and Ke...
Iowa stages second-half comeback to top reeling Penn State
Quarterback Mark Gronowski ran for 130 yards and two touchdowns Saturday night and Iowa rallied from a 21-10 third-quarter deficit to edge visiting Penn State 25-24 in Iowa City.,Gronowski's 67-yard run set up the winning score, an 8-yard run on a jet sweep by receiver Kaden Wetjen with 3:54 remaini...
Late safety lifts No. 18 Virginia over Washington State for fifth straight win
No. 18 Virginia erased a 10-point fourth-quarter deficit and took its only lead on a safety with 2:41 left for a 22-20 victory over Washington State on Saturday night in Charlottesville, Va., ,The Cavaliers (6-1) won their fifth consecutive game and became bowl eligible for the first time since 2021...
Noah Cates' first career OT goal lifts Flyers past Wild
Noah Cates scored his first career overtime goal to propel the Philadelphia Flyers to a 2-1 victory over the visiting Minnesota Wild on Saturday.,Owen Tippett also scored for the Flyers, while Vladimir Tarasenko scored his first goal since joining the Wild. Philadelphia's Dan Vladar (15 saves) and M...
Fire catch a break, earn crucial draw vs. Revs to reach playoffs
A late Dor Turgeman own goal helped secure a crucial point for the Chicago Fire in a 2-2 draw against the host New England Revolution on Saturday night.,With the draw, Chicago (15-11-8, 53 points) finishes as the eight seed in the Eastern Conference. The Fire will host the East wild-card game agains...
Crew move up two spots, finish 7th in East with win over Red Bulls
Daniel Gazdag scored the go-ahead goal as the Columbus Crew defeated the visiting New York Red Bulls 3-1 on Saturday in the regular-season finale to avoid the Eastern Conference wild-card play-in match.,Gazdag put the Crew (14-8-12, 54 points) ahead in the 66th minute and Ibrahim Aliyu added an insu...
Report: Nuggets waive C Moses Brown, F Kessler Edwards
The Denver Nuggets have waived center Moses Brown and forward Kessler Edwards, per The Denver Gazette.,The 26-year-old Brown spent time with both the Indiana Pacers and Dallas Mavericks last season. Overall, he averaged 5.8 points and 3.4 rebounds in only 9.2 minutes per game.,He appeared in two pre...
Lawson Luckie hauls in 3 TDs, No. 9 Georgia upsets No. 5 Ole Miss
ATHENS -- Gunner Stockton completed 26 of 31 passes for 289 yards and four touchdowns, as No. 9 Georgia posted a 43-35 victory over visiting No. 5 Ole Miss on Saturday in Southeastern Conference play.,Stockton also ran for 59 yards and a score, while Lawson Luckie hauled in three touchdowns receptio...
Mariners on brink of history in ALCS Game 6 at Blue Jays
TORONTO - The Seattle Mariners will be sailing in uncharted waters Sunday night when they visit the Toronto Blue Jays for Game 6 of the American League Championship Series.,The Mariners can shed the albatross of never having reached the World Series with a victory.,They took a 3-2 lead in the best-o...
Ernie Els goes bogey-free again to keep Dominion Energy lead
Ernie Els fired a 5-under-par 67 on Saturday at The Country Club of Virginia in Richmond to build a two-stroke lead going into the final round of the Dominion Energy Charity Classic.,For the second day in a row, the 56-year-old South Africa native produced a bogey-free round.,"Well, that's never a g...
Wildcats blank Boilermakers for first shutout in eight years
Quarterback Preston Stone passed for two touchdowns and the Northwestern Wildcats piled up 232 rushing yards to extend their winning streak to four games with a 19-0 Big Ten victory over Purdue on Saturday afternoon in Evanston, Ill.,Joseph Himon Jr. had 87 yards rushing -- one of three Wildcats wit...
Knicks waive C Alex Len, G Garrison Mathews and F Matt Ryan
The New York Knicks waived center Alex Len, guard Garrison Mathews and forward Matt Ryan, the team announced Saturday.,Len is a 12-year NBA veteran who has spent time with the Phoenix Suns, Atlanta Hawks, Sacramento Kings, Toronto Raptors, Washington Wizards and Los Angeles Lakers. He has career ave...
Devils' Jack Hughes racks up 3 points to drain Oilers
Jack Hughes had two goals and one assist to pace the New Jersey Devils to a 5-3 win against the visiting Edmonton Oilers on Saturday afternoon in Newark, N.J.,Jesper Bratt had a goal and an assist, Connor Brown scored short-handed and Jake Allen made 27 saves for New Jersey, which has won four in a ...
49ers activate star TE George Kittle (hamstring) from IR
San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle was activated from injured reserve Saturday after missing five games due to a hamstring injury.,Defensive tackle Kevin Givens (pectoral) also was activated from the IR ahead of the Sunday night home game against the Atlanta Falcons.,Kittle was injured in t...
Islanders rally past Senators with late Anders Lee game-winner
Anders Lee scored with 1:03 left Saturday afternoon to cap a comeback win by the visiting New York Islanders, who edged the Ottawa Senators 5-4.,Lee outraced Jordan Spence to a loose puck deep in the Senators zone and whirled in the crease before tucking a shot between the legs of Linus Ullmark to c...