MUNICH — New York Giants co-owner John Mara gave coach Brian Daboll and general manager Joe Schoen a vote of confidence on Oct. 24. That was three losses ago during a season that hit rock bottom with a 20-17 overtime loss to the lowly Carolina Panthers on Sunday in front of an international audience. That…

Ohio State moved up to No. 2 behind Oregon in the AP Top 25 on Sunday, and the Big Ten captured four of the top five spots with Penn State moving to No. 4 and Indiana to No. 5. According to the AP, it’s the first time the Big Ten has had four of the…

San Francisco 49ers rookie wide receiver Ricky Pearsall scored his first NFL touchdown Sunday — just 10 weeks after being shot in the chest. Pearsall connected with quarterback Brock Purdy on a deep crosser, setting up the rookie from the University of Florida to outrun the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defense for a 46-yard score. Pearsall…

Alabama’s 42-13 blitzkrieg at LSU coupled with Ole Miss’ 28-10 rout of Georgia has created quite the muddled mess in the SEC. At least eight different teams could still reach the SEC Championship Game. For the purposes of this exercise, I’m projecting the Dawgs to beat Tennessee next week and Texas to win at Texas…

The 12-team College Football Playoff has made it challenging to pinpoint just how big the fall’s biggest games are. For decades, the result of a regular-season game could feel definitive. Even if it wasn’t quite so, it could be pretty darn close. That’s not the case anymore. After the number of unbeaten teams shrunk to…

KANSAS CITY — Only one rookie quarterback has beat Patrick Mahomes at Arrowhead Stadium since Mahomes became the starter for the Chiefs in 2018. That was Aidan O’Connell of the Raiders in 2023. He won here on Christmas Day despite completing just 9-of-21 passes for 62 yards, thanks to back-to-back touchdowns from the Las Vegas…

The first bombshell of Major League Baseball’s offseason landed Saturday when the Chiba Lotte Marines announced 23-year-old pitching phenom Roki Sasaki will be able to sign with an MLB club this winter. “I will do my best to climb up from a minor-league contract and become the best player in the world,” Sasaki said in…

It was like a wrestling promo interrupted. Friday night, following New York’s 116-94 thumping of the Milwaukee Bucks, Knicks star Jalen Brunson had his back to his locker and a herd of reporters in his face. The guard was talking about everything New York did right when, between answers, music hit abruptly from the doorway…

And now, 20 Final Thoughts from Week 11, in which Louisiana’s governor imported a rogue tiger from Florida to show off on the field before the Alabama game. (Yes, this really happened.) 1. Nick Saban won so many trophies in his 17 seasons at Alabama, it’s easy to forget all the times we thought no…

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana junior receiver Elijah Sarratt, a zero-star recruit as a high schooler in Virginia, delivered a figurative roasting to Michigan sophomore cornerback and former four-star recruit Jyaire Hill, leaving him behind in the open field and cruising under a 36-yard touchdown pass from Kurtis Rourke. Indiana junior defensive end Mikail Kamara, a…