SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Brad Marchand broke a tie at 2:19 of the third period and the two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers beat Philadelphia 2-1 on Thursday night to spoil Rick Tocchet's Flyers coaching debut. Marchand fired a wrist shot from the left boards past goalie Dan ...
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Cam Skattebo and Jaxson Dart sat next to each other on the flight home from New Orleans and lamented the turnovers they committed that caused the New York Giants to lose a game they felt they should have won. The conversations continued this week, while Dart was ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Justin Brazeau beat Ilya Sorokin on a breakaway with 5:39 left to lift the Pittsburgh Penguins past the New York Islanders 4-3 on Thursday night. Brazeau collected a lead pass from Evgeni Malkin, then deked his way by a sprawled Sorokin as the Penguins won for the second ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers didn't blink as the pressure built, inning after scoreless inning. Both teams pushed a single run across, forcing extra innings. Then came one of postseason baseball's craziest endings. Orion Kerkering made a wild throw ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Orion Kerkering airmailed a throw into the Los Angeles night that not only unimaginably ended the Phillies' season — it all but ended the run of the core of a roster that suffered through four straight postseasons without a World Series title. NL home run and RBI ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Ryan O'Reilly scored a power-play goal early in the third period, and the Nashville Predators opened the season Thursday night by beating the Blue Jackets 2-1 and extending their home winning streak over Columbus to 10 games. The Predators ' streak on home ice against ...
BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Shedeur Sanders has waited patiently for his chance to play for Cleveland. He's real close. Sanders will back up Dillon Gabriel on Sunday in Pittsburgh, meaning the Browns, who haven't won a regular-season game on their rival's home field since 2003, will face the Steelers ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Blake Snell had yielded to the Los Angeles Dodgers' bullpen after a masterful start and was just a bystander when the Philadelphia Phillies — without any help from their All-Star trio at the top of the batting order — finally mustered a rally in the ninth inning. A ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The 50-plus-yard field goals that once were a rarity in the NFL are now as routine as far shorter kicks a generation ago. The range for many kickers now exceeds 60 yards, changing late-game strategy in a major way. The kicking revolution has sparked questions about ...
Miami moved back to No. 2 in The Associated Press college football poll on Sunday, Texas Tech has its highest ranking since 2008 and Penn State and Texas fell all the way out of the Top 25 for the first time since 2022 after the two top-10 teams lost to unranked opponents. No. 1 Ohio State was ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers didn't play a down last weekend. Their early hold on the AFC North strengthened anyway. While the Steelers rested up following the first regular-season game in Dublin, Ireland — a milestone win over the Minnesota Vikings that boosted them to 3-1 ...
Joe Flacco is on the move again. The Cincinnati Bengals (2-3) acquired the veteran quarterback from the Cleveland Browns along with a 2026 sixth-round draft pick on Tuesday for a fifth-round pick next season. The 40-year-old Flacco gives Cincinnati another option. Jake Browning has struggled ...
CINCINNATI (AP) — Brendan Sorsby passed for 214 yards and two touchdowns, Evan Pryor ran for 111 yards and two TDs and Cincinnati used a 17-point first quarter to beat No. 14 Iowa State 38-30 on Saturday. The Bearcats (4-1, 2-0 Big 12) beat a ranked opponent at home for the first time since ...
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma backup Michael Hawkins Jr. passed for three touchdowns and ran for another, and the fifth-ranked Sooners rolled past Kent State 44-0 on Saturday. Hawkins led the Sooners (5-0) to points on their first five possessions. He passed for 162 yards and ran for 33 as a ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ryan Day expanded the game plan for quarterback Julian Sayin during Ohio State's practices in preparation for Minnesota. The redshirt freshman was more than ready to show he could handle it. Sayin passed for 326 yards and three touchdowns and the top-ranked Buckeyes ...
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Winless in four games in which they never led, their head coach fired, two coordinators gone and No. 7 Penn State in town. UCLA couldn't get much lower. "Nobody in the world expected us to win," Bruins safety Key Lawrence said. Indeed, the Bruins were 25 1/2-point ...
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Gavin McKenna scored his first goal for Penn State on a power play with 1:53 left to give the Nittany Lions the lead in a 4-2 victory over Arizona State on Saturday night Expected to be the No. 1 pick next year in the NHL draft, the 17-year-old McKenna beat goalie Connor ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Teoscar Hernández tries to stuff any mistakes — like an earlier defensive lapse that led to a two-run triple — "in the trash" before the Dodgers right fielder faces any clutch playoff moment at the plate. He felt euphoric once he put one in the seats. Hernández ...
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Bear Bachmeier threw for a career-high 351 yards and a touchdown to lead No. 23 BYU to a 38-24 victory over West Virginia on Friday night. BYU (5-0, 2-0 Big 12) rolled up 517 total yards and had two takeaways. Chase Roberts had a career-high 161 yards on four catches, and ...
By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Shohei Ohtani is more the Sultan of Squat than a modern day Babe Ruth when the Los Angeles Dodgers star plays in Philadelphia. He's yet to hit any of his 250 homers in Philly. He's batting .250 lifetime in Citizens Bank Park with just ...