SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Few people proselytize about the importance of tight ends more than San Francisco’s George Kittle. He helped the NFL create a “holiday” to honor the position each October and launched the annual Tight End University where scores of players gather to share tips of the trade. So Kittle showed no surprise…
Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs took a different route to face the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC championship game. They’re going on the road. After hosting this game five straight seasons, the No. 3 seed Chiefs had to beat Josh Allen and the Bills in Buffalo and now travel to Baltimore to face…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The National Football League has urged teams for years to hire more minority head coaches. That mission finally seems to be paying off. Four minority head coaches have been hired this year, including Atlanta’s Raheem Morris, New England’s Jerod Mayo, Las Vegas’ Antonio Pierce and Carolina’s Dave Canales, bringing the number of…
The United States is predicted to top the medals tables — both the overall count and gold-medal count — for the 2024 Paris Olympics, according to one forecast released Friday, six months before the Games open on July 26. The forecast comes from Nielsen’s Gracenote Sports, which supplies statistical analysis for sports leagues around the…
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Camden County’s Jeff Herron, one of the best high school football coaches in Georgia history, is calling it a career. Herron announced his retirement on Friday morning, saying that treatment for prostate cancer over the past two and a half years have taken their toll. Herron said that he needed to step…
Horse racing’s feel-good story of the last two years reached its inevitable climax on Thursday night when Cody’s Wish was named horse of the year at the 53rd Eclipse Awards, held in Palm Beach, Fla. The retired 6-year-old also won the award for older dirt male. The horse was named after Cody Dorman, a teenager…
Lakers forward LeBron James made more NBA history on Thursday when he became the first player to be named to 20 All-Star teams with his selection to the Western Conference starters for the game that will be played in Indianapolis on Feb. 18. James surpassed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for the most All-Star selections in league history….
DJ Rodman’s quest for a bit of revenge and Bronny James’ progression are among the things to watch for when USC plays host to rival UCLA on Saturday.
Four years after his death, Kobe Bryant is still heard. When the Dodgers were courting superstar Shohei Ohtani this winter, they needed an inspirational voice to seal the deal. They needed a powerful closer to deliver a final winning pitch. They showed a video of Kobe. It was from 2017. It was Bryant spouting the…
It was supposed to be a glorious homecoming for Jared Goff. In 2016, five months after the Rams made the Marin County native and former California star the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft, Goff was on the field at Levi’s Stadium for the season opener against the San Francisco 49ers. Goff did not…
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