FILE – Carolina Panthers defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero looks on before an NFL football game against the New Orleans Saints Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, in Charlotte, N.C. Evero met again with the Atlanta Falcons to discuss their head coaching vacancy, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, joining Rams assistant Raheem Morris and former Patriots coach Bill Belichick…
When Jim Harbaugh took a pay cut from Michigan after the 2020 season, getting another chance to be an NFL head coach seemed like a long shot for him. If Nick Saban had retired after the 2022 season it’s doubtful Kalen DeBoer would have been his replacement at Alabama. And few college football fans would…
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – Todd Helton and Joe Mauer will become just the sixth pair of players inducted together into the Hall of Fame after spending their big league careers with one organization. “A lot of things had to go right,” Helton said Thursday during a news conference in the Hall’s plaque gallery alongside Mauer and…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Patrick Mahomes was willing to admit Thursday that this season has been perhaps the most challenging of his career. His statistics were down across the board. The Chiefs lost six games, including five in an eight-week stretch midway through the season. He had several very visible sideline blowups, his pent-up anger…
Alabama sophomore Nick Dunlap is turning pro after becoming the first amateur in 33 years to win on the PGA Tour. Dunlap announced his decision Thursday in a campus news conference, four days after the reigning U.S. Amateur champion won The American Express. He secured the one-shot victory with a 6-foot par putt on the…
Lamar Jackson, Christian McCaffrey and Dak Prescott are finalists for The Associated Press 2023 NFL Most Valuable Player and Offensive Player of the Year awards. The winners will be announced at NFL Honors on Feb. 8. A nationwide panel of 50 media members who regularly cover the league completed voting before the playoffs began. Bills…
To get right down to it, yes, it’d be swell if the Detroit Lions took out the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday night and advanced to the Super Bowl. For me, it all traces back to the 1969 New York Mets. Stay with me on this. Background: In 1969, as the Amazin’ Mets were climbing…
Hall of Famers Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova are calling on the women’s tennis tour to stay out of Saudi Arabia, saying that holding the WTA Finals there “would represent not progress, but significant regression.” “There should be a healthy debate over whether ‘progress’ and ‘engagement’ is really possible,” the two star players, who were…
There’s no bigger insult in hockey than to be accused of being selfish. Putting personal interests ahead of the good of the group goes against the culture of the sport, contradicting the unwritten code that success is built with a united front and can’t come from a bunch of self-absorbed individuals who happen to wear…
CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Browns are interviewing former Philadelphia offensive coordinator Brian Johnson to help bring out the best in quarterback Deshaun Watson, a person familiar with the team’s plans told The Associated Press on Thursday. Johnson, who was fired by Eagles coach Nick Sirianni on Tuesday, has a meeting with the Browns to be…
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