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Stanford hired Troy Taylor as its next head football coach, the school announced Saturday.  Taylor was the head coach of Sacramento State, who were eliminated in the FCS playoffs on Friday by Incarnate Word 66-63, the…

Buffalo Sabres forward Jeff Skinner reacted strongly to a slash Friday night, and now he will be sitting out for three games. The NHL’s Department of Player Safety announced Saturday that Skinner was being suspended for his cross-check to…

Anyone else observing the binge investing into college football coaching and support staffs may label it excessive.    To Georgia athletics director Josh Brooks, whose program sits No. 1 in the College Football Playoff, it’s called attention to detail.  “There’s so much that goes on…

With professional golf tours on their annual holiday hiatus, it’s time for yet another made-for-TV match. Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy will square off against Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas on Saturday at 6 p.m.…

Here’s how the NFL playoff picture looks with Week 14 underway:  AFC 1. Buffalo Bills (9-3), AFC East leaders: Pretty good Sunday when, from the comfort of the couch – in the wake of Week 13’s victory…

The Los Angeles Rams played a home game Thursday night, but the atmosphere inside SoFi Stadium didn’t appear that way. Playing in front of a plethora of Raiders fans, the Rams stunned the franchise that…

It helped that Josh Heird had a head start.  The Louisville athletic director, like many of his peers in college athletics, keeps coaching candidate shortlists at the ready. You never know when you’ll have to…

NFL players age nearly a decade faster than the general population and suffer from arthritis and high blood pressure as early as their 20s, according to a new study from Harvard Medical School. The study, published Thursday,…

The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association are giving each other more time to decide if they want to opt out of the league’s current Collective Bargaining Agreement, a person with knowledge of the…

A quarterback-only Heisman Trophy ceremony will still have something for everyone. Start with one of the most successful walk-on players in Bowl Subdivision history, Georgia senior Stetson Bennett, a somewhat surprising invitee to the ceremony…