Facing elimination, Taurasi carries Mercury to semifinals
NEW YORK -- Phoenix coach Sandy Brondello hasn't always loved the WNBA's new knockout playoff format. But it's safe to say she has come around on it.The Mercury, inconsistent for much of the regular season, beat New York 101-94 in an elimination game Saturday to advance to the WNBA semifinals against Minnesota. That isn't bad for a team that finished the regular season two games below .500.Editor's PicksNew York Liberty coaches and players locked arms as a show of solidarity, and two Phoenix Mer..>> view originalWhat we learned in Week 4: Les Miles' time at LSU has run out after latest gaffe
What a way for Les Miles to end his LSU Tigers career. Les Miles produced the most Les Miles finish ever Saturday night -- that's saying something -- and it's going to finally cost him his job.Because let's be honest: It's over from here on out. The only question is the expiration date. Twelve years of mostly good fortune with clock mismanagement came home to roost as LSU (2-2) botched the waning seconds of a loss to Auburn Tigers , which won without..>> view originalCollege Football|Stanford's Flawless Finish Masks Its Need for a Quarterback
Photo Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey, right, had 165 all-purpose yards against Cameron Judge and U.C.L.A., but until late in the game, the Cardinal had to settle for three field goals. Credit Chris Carlson/Associated Press PASADENA, Calif. — Because an airplane’s flight recorder is so durable that it often survives crashes, a common joke goes, “Why don’t they make the whole plane out of the black box?”A similar line could be used in regard to college football, and it wo..>> view originalWisconsin might not be exciting, but it's fun to watch
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- They do football the old-fashioned way at Wisconsin. Remember huddles? Remember fullbacks? Old-fashioned might be too newfangled a descriptive for this offense."Archaic," head coach Paul Chryst said after his No. 11 Badgers humiliated No. 8 Michigan State 30-6 in both teams' Big Ten Conference opener.The Badgers don't flip the ball to the official and run back to the line of scrimmage. They huddle until the 40-second clock has done half its work. They walk back to the line..>> view originalSloppy Pirates fall 6-1 to Nationals, who clinch NL East
AP 12:47 a.m. EDT September 25, 2016Pittsburgh Pirates' Josh Bell, left, rounds first after hitting a solo home run off Washington Nationals starting pitcher Joe Ross, right, in the third inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)(Photo: The Associated Press)PITTSBURGH (AP) — On a night when the Washington Nationals clinched their third National League East title in five years, the Pittsburgh Pirates played like anything but a champi..>> view originalSix additional bouts announced for UFC Fight Night 100 on Nov. 19 in Sao Paulo
By: MMAjunkie Staff | September 25, 2016 5:45 am BRASILIA, Brazil – The UFC’s final 2016 trip to Brazil now has eight confirmed bouts. With the UFC Fight Night 100 headliner between Antonio Rogerio Nogueira and Alexander Gustafsson confirmed during Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 95 broadcast on FS1, UFC Senior VP and GM of Brazil Giovani Decker announced six other matchups at the evening’s post-event news conference. The new additions include middleweights Krzysztof Jotko vs. Thales Leites..>> view originalColin Kaepernick joins Oakland high school football team's protest
Colin Kaepernick joined a high school football team in its protest Friday night in Oakland, California, where numerous players were photographed lying on their backs with their hands raised while the San Francisco 49ers quarterback kneeled during the pregame playing of the national anthem.Kaepernick visited with players from Castlemont High School and spoke with the team in the locker room before the game, telling them that "you are important, you make a difference, this matters. Everything you ..>> view originalCollege football winners and losers in Week 4: A wild, wacky day in the SEC
Tennessee Volunteers has finally accomplished something in the social media era: beating Florida Gators . That should quell angry #VolsTwitter -- at least for the next week. Tennessee's victory was merely one of a few notable results in the SEC. Ole Miss laid a beatdown on Georgia Bulldogs , and LSU-Auburn had one of the weirdest endings you'll see this season. Then again, would you expect anything else from that game?With so muc..>> view originalYankees have sinking feeling after three straight shutout losses
TORONTO -- The New York Yankees will be trying to do something they have failed to do for the past three games when they play the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday afternoon. They will try to score a run, or even better, several of them, The Yankees have not scored in their past three games, the past two against Toronto and the first against the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday. It is the first time the Yankees have been held scoreless in three consecutive games since July 27 (a doubleheader) a..>> view original
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