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A journey through Macon, Miss., the town that produced Kamario Taylor
It was a deflating Saturday for Mississippi State and QB Kamario Taylor, who had energized his hometown of Macon, just 40 minutes from campus.
Despite deflating loss, Kamario Taylor remains Mississippi State's hometown hero
MACON, Miss. -- To much of America, he seemed to materialize at once, thrilling in the propulsive way the football left his hand, statuesque in that 6-foot-4 frame and those 230 pounds at age 19, endearing in the way he said, "Yes ma'am," in that postgame interview.
A cathartic win 293 days in the making: Hanging in The Grove for Lane Kiffin’s return
After unmatched hype and buildup — and an epic scene at The Grove — Ole Miss got the best of Lane Kiffin and LSU.
A cathartic win 293 days in the making: Hanging in the Grove for Lane Kiffin's return
OXFORD, Miss. --- The sun felt murderous enough that it seemed to have relocated from 93 million miles away to maybe 12. Areas of shade felt almost like a form of CPR.
How Arch Manning handles formidable fame
"It's not what everyone thinks it is, and what it's all cracked up to be." -- Madonna, in 2005, on the subject of fame. Fame, which used to have more patience, took its time cozying up to Archie Manning six decades ago, an era when high school football players didn't get famous and recruiting garnered little attention, analysis or hyperventilation.
How Arch Manning handles formidable fame
The Texas quarterback has been a name since he started high school. His also-famous grandfather had a little more time to adjust to the spotlight.
Granddad, McConaughey and Arch Manning’s dealings with fame
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U.S. closes pool play with 105-64 rout of Czechia
BERLIN -- Breanna Stewart had 19 points, seven rebounds and six assists to help the United States rout the Czechia 105-64 on Monday. The Americans rebounded from their worst preliminary-round game in 50 years after edging Italy 55-52 on Sunday. Stewart set the tone early to make sure that wouldn't happen again as the U.S. won its 33rd in a row in the tournament, going back to a semifinal loss to Russia in the 2006 World Cup. Next up for the U.S. is the quarterfinal round on Thursday.
Noah Lyles out for season, won't run meet with $150,000 top prize
BUDAPEST, Hungary -- Olympic champion sprinter Noah Lyles shut down his season because of injury and will not compete for the $150,000 first prizes in this week's track Ultimate Championships.
Belgium's Julie Allemand breaks World Cup assist record in win
BERLIN -- Julie Allemand stands alone atop the assist list in World Cup history. Allemand broke Laia Palau of Spain's mark of 108 assists in the first half of Belgium's 80-68 win over Australia that clinched a spot in the quarterfinals. She now has 111 in her World Cup career. "I'm just so proud because for Belgium, this is how we play," Allemand said. "We are so unselfish.
Team USA escapes with win over Italy at women's World Cup
BERLIN -- Jackie Young scored 10 points and the U.S. survived its toughest test in the women's basketball World Cup in two decades with a 55-52 victory over Italy on Sunday. The U.S. has won 32 straight World Cup games dating back to a loss to Russia in the 2006 semifinals. Only one team had come within single digits of the Americans before Sunday during this run, when Australia lost by eight in 2010.
Katie Taylor y el estruendo de una despedida inolvidable
En Croke Park, una nación le devolvió con 83,000 voces el amor que su campeona le entregó durante 25 años. DUBLÍN -- El sonido, esa consecuencia tan familiar del deporte, volvió a vivir una noche de esplendor el sábado. Retumbó en el viejo Croke Park con tanta fuerza que parecía capaz de levantar las olas al otro extremo de Irlanda, en la bahía de Galway. Fue un recordatorio de que nada iguala al deporte cuando se trata de producir esos sonidos que erizan los vellos de la nuca.
One final time, Dublin sounded off for Katie Taylor
With the pressure of Ireland’s appreciation heavy on her, Katie Taylor cemented her legacy in her final bout.
One final time, Dublin sounded off for Katie Taylor
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One final time, Dublin sounded off for Katie Taylor
DUBLIN -- Sound, that familiar byproduct of sport, had another heyday Saturday night. It thundered across old Croke Park with such might you would have thought it could have swelled the waves clear across Ireland in Galway Bay. It reminded us that sport remains peerless at making the sounds that dance with the neck hairs.
Katie Taylor’s last fight and 80,000 thank-yous at Croke Park
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Katie Taylor’s last fight and 80,000 thank-yous at Croke Park
On Saturday night in Dublin, Ireland’s most beloved fighter gets the ending few athletes ever receive: one last walk, one packed Croke Park and 80,000 fans cheering.
College football is back, and Bill Belichick’s North Carolina? ‘They’ve improved’
College football made its now annual restart in Ireland, where local color mixed with Carolina blue and TCU purple.
College football is back, and Bill Belichick’s North Carolina? ‘They’ve improved’
College football made its now annual restart in Ireland, where local color mixed with Carolina blue and TCU purple.
College football is back, and Bill Belichick’s North Carolina? ‘They’ve improved’
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College football is back, and Bill Belichick’s North Carolina? ‘They’ve improved’
College football made its now annual restart in Ireland, where local color mixed with Carolina blue and TCU purple.
College football is back, and Bill Belichick's UNC has 'improved' Original
DUBLIN, Ireland -- What might a memory bank retain from America's funkiest sport making another funky foray over here where the people prefer their football Gaelic? Which recollections from another AerLingus College Football Classic, as they call it, might withstand the Guinness and carry on? Maybe people will recall the end of the third quarter, when the speakers in Aviva Stadium blared Dolly Parton's "9 to 5," another signal of the global reach of a songwriter who just departed.
Dallas Wings to play 2027 home games in same arena as Mavericks
DALLAS -- The Dallas Wings will make their anticipated full-time move to downtown Dallas next season, when they will play all of their home games in the same arena as the NBA's Mavericks. Wings officials announced the move Monday, though playing their full home schedule at the 20,000-seat American Airlines Center is expected to be a temporary situation.
Inside the disunited United States that shadows the WNBA
Sophie Cunningham said what she said about transgender women in sports. Now others want their say, whether the WNBA wants to hear them or not.
Inside the disunited United States that shadows the WNBA
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Inside the disunited United States that shadows the WNBA
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Here was the disunited United States in late July 2026: The national carousel of wrangling and grievance had rotated to the Pacific Northwest. The intricate issue of transgender women in sports had spent the waning days of the month hurling another loud groan into the WNBA's optimistic era. That meant a smattering of people opined and argued outside an arena on a late Friday afternoon while the wildfires burned out in Oregon and the great Mount Hood stood in a shroud.
The joy and wonder of Cabo Verde's unlikely World Cup journey
The first hint of World Cup wonder concerning one tiny nation arose in the mid-afternoon of June 2 at Logan Airport in Boston in a vast room freighted with human meaning: international arrivals. That's where a hundred-strong throng carried flags and held up scarves and sang songs, and somebody brought along a whistle. Any everyday people standing nearby, holding flowers and balloons for incoming travelers, might have wondered: What is this Cabo Verde, and why is it so euphoric?
‘More excitement than there ever has been’: On the…
Montreal in May 2026 is proving a monthlong revival of Habs fans’ hopes and dreams.
Montreal is THE place to be in the sporting world …
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Generations of Canadiens fans loving this playoff run: 'Every win is magical'
MONTREAL -- Consider some of Earth's utmost cases of a civic euphoria spawned from the peerless force of sports. Daydream of Paris on the night of Sunday, July 12, 1998, just after the happy shock of France 3, Brazil 0. Think of Philadelphia on Feb. 4, 2018 (Super Bowl LII), or the gigantic Mumbai on April 2, 2011 (Cricket World Cup), or, best yet, Johannesburg on June 24, 1995, and a stadium boasting both a Rugby World Cup final and Nelson Mandela.
Generations of Canadiens fans loving this playoff run: 'Every win is magical'
7 hours ago The United States stayed alive in the 2026 IIHF Men's World Championship with a 7-3 win over Hungary on Monday. The U.S. squad will now look to advance to the tournament quarterfinals in a Tuesday matchup with Austria to wrap up the preliminary round. Here's a closer look at Monday's action as well …
Carta de agradecimiento a Jason Collins, por su legado en la NBA
Jason Collins, quien falleció el martes, deja un legado extraordinario como el primer jugador abiertamente gay de la NBA. Gracias, Jason Collins, por ser grande: grande de espíritu, grande en importancia, pero también grande en estatura física. Eso, de por sí, ayudó.
Jason Collins, who died Tuesday, leaves a remarkable legacy as the NBA’s first openly gay active player.
A thank-you letter to Jason Collins, the first ope…
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A thank-you letter to Jason Collins, the first openly gay NBA player
Chuck Culpepper Thank you, Jason Collins , for being large -- large of spirit, large of import, but also large of physical stature. That itself helped. It helped reinforce that gay people, an immutable portion of nature, breathe and thrive most everywhere, even in the merciless zones beneath NBA baskets among bruising collisions and untoward elbows and immovable giants. Thank you for much more, of course. Thank you for making life that much more breathable for people like myself.
A thank-you letter to Jason Collins, the first openly gay NBA player
Thank you, Jason Collins, for being large -- large of spirit, large of import, but also large of physical stature. That itself helped. It helped reinforce that gay people, an immutable portion of nature, breathe and thrive most everywhere, even in the merciless zones beneath NBA baskets among bruising collisions and untoward elbows and immovable giants. Thank you for much more, of course. Thank you for making life that much more breathable for people like myself.
A miracle allows Kentucky Derby’s most remarkable …
Bob Weihe attended 79 straight Kentucky Derbys. This is the miraculous story of how he made his 80th.
A miracle allows Kentucky Derby’s most remarkable …
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Kentucky Derby's most remarkable fan makes 80th straight race
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Something screwy happened lately with the vital signs of an 88-year-old man. He had just spent four months in hospital rooms and rehab floors in quiet agony and ostensible decline. All of a sudden, the blood pressure monitor, so huffy for so long as Bob Weihe's pressure kept nosediving enough to thwart rehab efforts (and pretty much all else), chimed in with a fresh reading. It declared an impossible, impeccable 120/80.
A teenager fled Cuba in 1960. His grandson just became a football icon.
Sixty-five years and three months on, his predominant memory would be something so often an icon of promise: the portable staircase to an airplane. He remembers ascending to the Pan Am at age 14 even if he cant quite hear his own bygone footsteps. He had a limited notion of the heaviness of the situation and a small measure of confusion, but he remembers this: To tell you the truth, I was excited, a kid in an airplane. He remembers gentle sunshine.
Indiana wins a national championship that is almost too much to fathom
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. Maybe sometime this month or this summer or this century, all the fans and alumni widely known as Hoosiers and all the people who follow college football might scale a deeply human mental hurdle about the rousing theater of Monday night. They might find a way to believe what they saw. They might believe the gobsmacking truth that when a storybook five months ended, the confetti in Hard Rock Stadium rained down Indiana crimson-and-cream.
Indiana fights off Miami, caps perfect season with national championship
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. Indiana, which spent a century-plus buried so dimly in the American football consciousness that it seemed less an afterthought than not really a thought at all, won the national championship Monday night but exceeded even that delirium.
A sprawling college football season ends with a matchup thats so very Miami
MIAMI In the vein of Miami as an adjective just as much as a proper noun, this College Football Playoff championship game has wound up so very Miami. Its as Miami as the yellow-green iguanas of Miami Beach, as Miami as the general practitioner who doubles as a plastic surgeon, as Miami as the richness of languages and dialects overheard on a daily walk, as Miami as the mean drivers on Interstate 95 who try out triple-digit mph and ransack your innards.
A sprawling college football season ends with a matchup that’s so very Miami
1 hour ago Mario Cristobal is a perfect example of never giving up on your dreams. The Miami football coach will lead the Hurricanes in the College Football Playoff national championship game Monday, Jan. 19, against No. 1 Indiana with a chance to help Miami win its first national title since 2001. For …
Indiana didn’t just buy a championship team. It built one from the scrapyard. Original
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MIAMI — Quick, what would be your favorite bio of a current football player from the mind-bending Indiana? Might it be the charismatic alpha linebacker from Fredericksburg, Virginia, who left high school toting along his alleged smallness, his alleged slowness and his confirmed zeros in recruiting stars and power conference scholarship offers?
Indiana didnt just buy a championship team. It built one from the scrapyard.
MIAMI Quick, what would be your favorite bio of a current football player from the mind-bending Indiana? Might it be the charismatic alpha linebacker from Fredericksburg, Virginia, who left high school toting along his alleged smallness, his alleged slowness and his confirmed zeros in recruiting stars and power conference offers? Could it be the blur of a cornerback who lacked power conference offers but doesnt lack the will to role-model for those deemed lacking in physical stature?
Indiana didn’t just buy a championship team. It built one from the scrapyard.
Novak Djokovic ready to turn back clock at Australian Open despite falling behind Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner. Novak Djokovic can still crack a joke when discussing the Carlos Alcaraz-Jannik Sinner rivalry that for two years has prevented him from becoming the most decorated tennis player …
The Fiesta Bowl proved the games can still speak louder than the noise
GLENDALE, Ariz. Every once in a while an oft-forgotten old character resurfaces and reasserts its eminence. Its the game itself. A certain game suddenly breathes, then pulsates, then soars. It insists. It supersedes all else, all the whole lot of else. Anymore, games can seem secondary or even tertiary, buried in emphasis and online traffic behind the transfer portal or the coaching whirl or the rumor swirl, lost in chatter about whats to come (as if anyone knows) above what just happened.
In a Fiesta Bowl for the ages, resurgent Miami throws the final punch
GLENDALE, Ariz. That hard old empire from the extreme southern continental latitude has reawakened in full, enough that it gets to go home to hosannas and heft. Miami will play a national championship game in its home stadium with the forecast calling for warmth and nostalgia, almost as if football history has echoed and the 1980s have resumed. The No. 10 Hurricanes, the last team permitted into the 12-team College Football Playoff when the bracket was set Dec.
Follow the nutty Mississippi coaching flux! If you can!
The daffy case of the fluctuating Mississippi coaching staff during the magnified playoff season has captivated football geeks, drama freaks and other malcontents. Its almost as if they might watch the College Football Playoff semifinal Thursday at the Fiesta Bowl while holding a makeshift scorecard indicating who seems to be coaching Mississippi against Miami and who does not. The Rebels brand new coach and brand new defensive coordinator have compared the uncertainty to covid days.
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