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CINCINNATI — After Joe Burrow was lost for the season with a wrist injury in November, coach Zac Taylor insisted the Bengals had been built to win even without their franchise quarterback. Well, yes and no. Backup Jake Browning exceeded expectations by winning three of his first four starts, helping Cincinnati get into the heat [...]
HOUSTON — C.J. Stroud’s rookie campaign has been so remarkable that he’s turned around the Houston Texans and restored hope among fans in a city that had all but given up on this franchise after three dreadful and often embarrassing seasons. The polished quarterback and first-year coach DeMeco Ryans have the Texans — winners of [...]
Members of the women's basketball community say the new NCAA eight-year deal with ESPN that will pour an estimated $65 million annually into the sport reflects the growth of the game. Now many are looking for one missing piece that is important to them: a revenue sharing program that gives performance units for success in [...]
NEW ORLEANS — The four-team playoff changed college football. Not just the postseason and crowning of a national champion that finally could be called undisputed. College Football Playoff 1.0, which wraps up a 10-year run tonight when No. 1 Michigan (14-0) faces No. 2 Washington (14-0) in the national championship game, created a new standard [...]
Billy Edwards Jr. became a test pilot of sorts for the type of helmet communication technology that might soon become commonplace in college football. The Maryland quarterback was a fan. "I think overall it was good," Edwards said after the Terrapins beat Auburn in the Music City Bowl. "On one of my runs down there [...]
CLEVELAND — The Browns are in both the playoffs and an unusual spot: They can treat their regular-season finale like a preseason game. With a wild-card berth already locked up, Cleveland coach Kevin Stefanski indicated this week he may rest some starters, including red-hot quarterback Joe Flacco, for Sunday's final regular-season game at Cincinnati. "We're [...]
TAMPA, Fla. — Driving a car with the opposite foot or shaving with the other hand would be major challenges for anyone. That’s how offensive linemen describe moving from right tackle to left tackle and vice versa. It’s a new position that requires different footwork, hand-and-eye coordination and other techniques all while trying to keep [...]
COLUMBUS — Devin Brown can thank the transfer portal for his first career start at quarterback for Ohio State, coming up against Missouri in the Cotton Bowl. Brown, the backup this season, was named the starter more or less by attrition when Kyle McCord decided to transfer. Now Brown has a chance to show coach [...]
Standing on a portable stage erected at home plate of the Milwaukee Brewers ballpark, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers recently praised the professional baseball team as an "essential part" of the state's "culture and identity" and "economic success." With fanfare, Evers then signed off on $500 million in public aid for the stadium's renovation, adding to [...]
BOSTON — Growing up in a Boston suburb in the 1960s, Charlie Baker learned his first political lesson — the art of listening to competing viewpoints — around the dinner table as his Democratic mother and Republican father hashed out the topics of the day. There was a reason he was given two ears and [...]