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6 NCAA tournament coaches with pressure to win immediately
Every coach in the NCAA men's tournament feels a measure of pressure to advance. Yet all pressure is relative. → Read More
Jim Boeheim never stopped loving Syracuse, and college basketball will never forget him
For decades, Rick Pitino would enjoy a laugh while telling an old story about his old boss, and later coaching rival, Jim Boeheim. → Read More
Jets are right to go big in their pursuit of Aaron Rodgers
It's been a long stretch marred by butt fumbles and five-win seasons, of draft busts and bumbling coaches. → Read More
With Derek Carr off the market, Jets make it clear that it's Aaron Rodgers or bust
Let's give the New York Jets credit for this: they didn't panic and they didn't jump. → Read More
Alabama allowing Brandon Miller to continue to play is now the story of the college basketball season
The second-ranked Alabama basketball team hosts Arkansas on Saturday at 2 p.m. ET. Brandon Miller and Jaden Bradley are expected to start, as they did Wednesday in the Crimson Tide's victory at South Carolina. → Read More
The year the real world came for college basketball
Alabama, currently ranked second in the country, had one of its players, Darius Miles, charged with capital murder after a single mother was killed in a wild shootout in the student bar district of Tuscaloosa. → Read More
Alabama's Brandon Miller could have stopped a tragedy. He didn't.
In the early morning hours of Jan. 15, a wild shootout erupted in front of a popular string of bars in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, just steps from Alabama's campus. Nearly a dozen shots rang out, two vehicles were hit and a 23-year-old mother named Jamea Harris was killed. → Read More
32-year-old Kenny Dillingham has a plan to make Arizona State a power
TEMPE, Ariz. — Wearing a Jake Plummer jersey on his back and Arizona State paint on his face, Kenny Dillingham attended his first Sun Devil football game. → Read More
Patrick Mahomes adds to legend with Super Bowl performance worthy of championship belt he rocked after it
GLENDALE, Ariz. — A replica of the WWE World Heavyweight Championship belt sat inside black cloth bag which sat the chair in front of Patrick Mahomes' locker. → Read More
4 1/2 hours for pizza? How a small eatery became the most exclusive Super Bowl spot in Phoenix
PHOENIX — Gronk was throwing a beach party up in Scottsdale. Shaq had sponsored a concert with Snoop Dogg. At the PGA's Waste Management Phoenix Open, you might need to trade a kidney to get into a luxury box surrounding the famous par-3 16th. → Read More
Jalen Hurts hasn't played well in the playoffs, college or pro. Will that change in the Super Bowl?
PHOENIX — Jalen Hurts has never really performed well in a playoff game. Not in the NFL. Not in college. → Read More
'Philly Special' still captures heart of its city, especially with Eagles on verge of second Super Bowl title
PHOENIX — With 34 seconds remaining in the second quarter of Super Bowl LII, Philadelphia coach Doug Pederson called time out. His Eagles were facing fourth-and-goal from the New England 1-yard line. They led 15-12 and it felt like everyone from the Philly radio booth to the corner bars back in East Passyunk were screaming to kick a field goal. → Read More
Super Bowl 2023: Tom Brady remains Plan A for Fox. Yet Greg Olsen has network admitting 'certain amount of regret'
PHOENIX – Last May, Tom Brady agreed to a 10-year, $375 million contract to become Fox Sports' lead NFL analyst "immediately following his playing career." → Read More
Remember Left Shark? Where is the man behind Katy Perry's viral Super Bowl moment now?
The accidental star of the 2015 Super Bowl didn't intend to shimmy his way into viewers' hearts during Katy Perry's halftime show. → Read More
Super Bowl 2023: Nick Sirianni's brash, confident persona is a long way from his bumpy start as Eagles coach
PHOENIX — For about an hour on Monday Night, Nick Sirianni sat behind a Super Bowl Opening Night podium and answered questions. → Read More
Tom Brady's evolution from David to Goliath was buoyed by this Michigan moment
Three games into his second season at the University of Michigan and Tom Brady finally got onto the field. It was late in the Wolverines' blowout victory over UCLA, but the chance to play, the chance to show what he could do after all the waiting and all the practice was coveted nonetheless. → Read More
Tom Brady retires with nothing left to prove and nothing left to give
Tom Brady had just stepped onto the campus of Junipero Serra High School in California when he went out for quarterback on the freshman football team. He wasn't any good. This isn't hyperbole or a downplaying of reality for literary effect. He literally sat on the bench, never cracking the lineup, for an 0-8-1 team that managed just two offensive touchdowns the entire season. → Read More
Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs wouldn't be here without an incredible success rate in the draft
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Patrick Mahomes is in year 2 of a 10 year, $450 million contract with the Kansas City Chiefs. For the 2022 season, he, alone, gobbled up 17.2% of the team's salary cap, according to spotrac.com. → Read More
Joseph Ossai's hit on Patrick Mahomes goes down in Bengals infamy, but he didn't face scrutiny alone
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — B.J. Hill stands 6-foot-3, weighs 311 pounds and had just spent three hours trying to haul down Patrick Mahomes. → Read More
Super Bowl 2023: Chiefs beat Bengals to win AFC thanks to crucial penalty that sets up game-winning field goal
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The ankle was an issue. So was a fast, hard-hitting, opportunistic Cincinnati defense and a Bengals team that simply wouldn't go away. → Read More