PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mike Tomlin isn't much on aesthetics. The Pittsburgh Steelers coach knows his team hasn't played particularly well over the first month of the season. The offense remains a work in progress behind Aaron Rodgers, who has played steadily if not spectacularly. The defense is ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Don Kelly feels like he spent his first couple of months as the interim manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates drinking from a fire hose. At some point after the All-Star break, the pace of the job started to slow down. And a season that was on the verge of careening out of ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cleveland Browns acquired offensive tackle Cam Robinson from the Houston Texans in a trade involving late-round draft picks. Coach Kevin Stefanski confirmed the trade during his Monday news conference. The Browns sent a 2027 sixth-round draft pick to the Texans for the ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Detroit's Tarik Skubal will be back on the mound at Progressive Field on Tuesday for the first game of the AL Wild Card Series against Cleveland. The start comes one week after the Tigers ace had a nightmare sixth inning against the Guardians. Skubal threw a 99 mph fastball ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cincinnati came crashing into the postseason on the final day of the regular season, and the callow Reds are riding a surge of momentum they hope will carry them against the defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers. "The dangers are the youthful enthusiasm, the ...
DENVER (AP) — Bo Nix and the Denver Broncos finally justified their head coach's talking them up all offseason. Nix threw for two touchdowns and ran for another to atone for his end zone interception and the Broncos snapped a two-game skid by sending the Cincinnati Bengals to their second ...
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Cody Hagen scored on a 32-yard run early in the fourth quarter and Bear Bachmeier threw two touchdown passes, helping No. 25 BYU rally from an early deficit to beat Colorado 24-21 on Saturday night. Cougars linebacker Isaiah Glasker sealed the win by intercepting Kaidon ...
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Dillon Thieneman intercepted Drew Allar's pass in the second overtime and No. 6 Oregon outlasted No. 3 Penn State 30-24 on Saturday night. Jamari Johnson ran for a touchdown in overtime, Dierre Hill Jr. caught a touchdown pass, Jordan Davison ran for another score ...
DUBLIN (AP) — Even though he's relatively new to the Pittsburgh Steelers, Aaron Rodgers fully understands the Rooney family's connections to the Emerald Isle. They didn't want to disappoint Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings in Ireland's first regular-season NFL game. Kenneth Gainwell did ...
ATLANTA (AP) — Ronald Acuña Jr. hit a two-run home run in the first inning and the Atlanta Braves ended their season with a 4-1 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday. Chris Sale (7-5) allowed one run on four hits with nine strikeouts and five walks in 5 2/3 innings after coming on in ...
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The Philadelphia Eagles don't need a tush push when the fake is even more effective. Saquon Barkley scored on a fake tush push, Jalen Hurts threw one of his two touchdown passes on another variation of the play, and another special-teams score helped the Eagles beat the ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Trea Turner won his second career NL batting title, Kyle Schwarber led the league with 56 homes and 132 RBIs and Nick Castellanos capped Philadelphia's 96-win season with a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning as the Phillies beat the Minnesota Twins 2-1 on Sunday. Turner and ...
Oregon and Mississippi would earn top-four seeds and receive first-round byes in the College Football Playoff if the bracket were based on The Associated Press Top 25 released Sunday. Ohio State would remain No. 1 and be followed by No. 2 Oregon, No. 3 Miami and No. 4 Mississippi. Ole Miss ...
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Cincinnati Reds lost their regular-season finale 4-2 to the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday but still reached the playoffs because the New York Mets fell to the Miami Marlins. Cincinnati entered Sunday knowing it could reach the playoffs if it beat Milwaukee or if the Mets ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — It was fitting in many ways that Brayan Rocchio hit the walk-off homer that put an exclamation point on the Cleveland Guardians' historic run to an AL Central title. Even though Cleveland had secured its 13th division crown in the eighth inning when the Boston Red Sox beat ...
DETROIT (AP) — Jared Goff's connection with Amon-Ra St. Brown is so good, it helped the Detroit Lions overcome a relatively lackluster game on offense to rout the Cleveland Browns. Goff threw two touchdown passes to St. Brown, Kalif Raymond returned a punt 65 yards for another score and the ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Devon Dampier responded to Utah's first loss with one of his best performances. Dampier threw a career-high four touchdown passes and ran for another score to lead the Utes to a 48-14 win over West Virginia on Saturday. Dampier bounced back from a lopsided home loss ...
PROVO, Utah (AP) — BYU built its football reputation on high-flying passing offenses. Now the Cougars are finding success with a potent running attack. No. 25 BYU (3-0) enters its Big 12 opener against Colorado (2-2, 0-1) on Saturday leading the conference with 265.6 rushing yards per game ...
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Gavin Lux hit two doubles and scored the go-ahead run as the Cincinnati Reds defeated the Milwaukee Brewers 3-1 on Friday night, overtaking the New York Mets for the third National League wild-card spot. Cincinnati's win and New York's 6-2 loss to Miami enabled the Reds to ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Alejandro Osuna hit a three-run homer in the first, rookie Jack Leiter matched a career high with 10 strikeouts and the Texas Rangers beat Cleveland 7-3 on Friday night. The Guardians (86-74) remained tied with Detroit for the AL Central lead after the Boston Red Sox rallied ...