Month: December 2021

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Walker Miller had a career-high 24 points as Monmouth won its seventh consecutive game, getting past Canisius 79-65. Armon Harried led the Golden Griffins on Sunday with 20 points.

By The Associated Press Ball State and Georgia State will have the college football spotlight to themselves on Christmas Day in the Camellia Bowl. The game in Montgomery, Alabama is the only one scheduled to be played on the holiday. Ball State is making a second straight bowl trip for just the third time in

By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Notre Dame will face Oklahoma State in the Fiesta Bowl in a matchup of two teams that just missed the College Football Playoff. The Fighting Irish will be led by new coach Marcus Freeman, who takes over for the departed Brian Kelly. The Cowboys are

By The Associated Press Old Dominion and Tulsa look to continue their late-season surges at the Myrtle Beach Bowl on Dec. 20. It’s the first meeting between the schools, although both were briefly in Conference USA when Old Dominion joined in 2013-14 before Tulsa left for the Big East the next season. The Monarchs enter

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — No. 16 Louisiana-Lafayette has promoted co-offensive coordinator and former Ragin’ Cajuns quarterback Michael Desormeaux to head coach. The announcement by athletic director Bryan Maggard comes less than 24 hours after Billy Napier won his final game as Cajuns coach in the Sun Belt Conference championship game against Appalachian State. Napier was

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Utah and Ohio State will meet for the first time in 35 years in the 108th edition of the Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day. The 10-3 Utes secured their first appearance in the Granddaddy of Them All with a 38-10 victory over Oregon in

By CHARLES ODUM AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — A milestone season for Pittsburgh and quarterback Kenny Pickett is continuing with a Peach Bowl matchup against Michigan State. No. 13 Pitt’s reward for its first Atlantic Coast Conference championship is the Panthers’ first New Year’s Six bowl since 2004 in the Dec. 30 game in

NIAGARA, N.Y. (AP) — Caleb Green scored 16 points as Fairfield got past Niagara 81-71. Zach Crisler had 14 points for the Stags. Taj Benning added 13 points. Jesus Cruz had 11 points. Jordan Cintron scored 14 points for the Purple Eagles.

BEAVER CREEK, Colo. (AP) — Strong wind led to the cancellation of a men’s World Cup downhill race at Beaver Creek, Colorado. It wasn’t immediately known when or if the downhill will be rescheduled. The starting point of the downhill was initially lowered on the hill due to wind gusts that reached approximately 45 mph

ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — Guy Ragland Jr. had 17 points and 12 rebounds as Cornell rolled past Keuka 122-64. Nazir Williams added 16 points, Darius Ervin scored 15 and Isaiah Gray had 15 for the Big Red. Mason VanDeMortel led the Storm with 21 points.

By DANIELLA MATAR Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Juventus managed to put aside its off-the-field problems as the Bianconeri beat relegation-threatened Genoa 2-0 in Serie A but coach Massimiliano Allegri had a touchline spat with Álvaro Morata. Juan Cuadrado and Paulo Dybala scored at either end of the match for Juve’s fourth win in five

By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — No. 6 Baylor and No. 8 Mississippi will match up in the Sugar Bowl on New Year’s Day. Baylor is coming off a Big 12 football championship after holding off Oklahoma State for a 21-16 victory Saturday in the conference title game. Ole Miss concluded

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Sisters Aubrey and Ashley Joens had double-doubles and No. 14 Iowa State bounced back from its first loss with a 94-56 win over Longwood. Sophomore Aubrey Joens had career highs of 24 points and 14 rebounds and senior Ashley Joens had 16 points and 12 rebounds. Beatriz Jordao, a senior transfer

JEDDAH Lewis Hamilton has won his third consecutive grand prix to pull even on points with Max Verstappen. That means Formula One’s championship race will now be decided at the season finale. Hamilton won Sunday’s inaugural Saudi Arabian Grand Prix to tie Verstappen in the standings ahead of next week’s closer in Abu Dhabi. The

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — It was bad enough for Jordan Spieth and Henrik Stenson to finish at the bottom of a 20-man field in the Hero World Challenge. They also got docked two shots for playing off the wrong tee box. Officials decided to move tee boxes for the

By STEVE BITTENBENDER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Hailey Van Lith scored 16 points for No. 10 Louisville as it beat Belmont 80-66. After dominating No. 12 Michigan defensively on Thursday, the Cardinals faced a tough challenge from a Bruins team that returned all five starters and 11 players from a squad that reached

LAKE LOUISE, Alberta (AP) — Sofia Goggia captured a World Cup super-G to go 3 for 3 in races at Lake Louise. The 29-year-old Italian finished in 1 minute, 18.28 seconds on a cold day to beat Swiss racer Lara Gut-Behrami by 0.11 seconds. Mirjam Puchner of Austria, who was starting 29th overall, finished in

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Carolina Panthers have relieved offensive coordinator Joe Brady of his duties. The team announced the change Sunday. Offensive assistant Jeff Nixon will take Brady’s place for the rest of the season. Brady was considered a major hire by Rhule before the 2020 season. He was the coordinator of LSU’s prolific

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Chase Audige and Pete Nance sparked a breakaway run in the final four minutes as Northwestern held off cold-shooting Maryland 67-61 in what was both the Big Ten opener for each team and Danny Manning’s debut as the Terrapins interim head coach. Nance led Northwestern with 17 points and 10

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Nerea Hermosa scored 14 points, including the winning free throws with 8.8 seconds left, Lorela Cubaj had a double-double and Georgia Tech upended No. 20 Georgia 55-54. After Hermosa’s free throws put the Yellow Jackets up 55-51, Sarah Ashlee Barker knocked down a 3-pointer at 4.5 seconds. Hermosa then missed two

By PAT EATON-ROBB AP Sports Writer STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Paige Bueckers scored 22 points but went down with an injury at the end of No. 2 UConn’s 73-54 win over No. 24 Notre Dame. Last season’s national player of the year, Bueckers was dribbling in the final minute of the game when she stumbled,

By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Cincinnati is the first outsider to make the College Football Playoff and Alabama is the standard bearer. They will meet in a semifinal game on New Year’s Eve in the Cotton Bowl. American Athletic Conference champion Cincinnati is the only undefeated team at 13-0. The

BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — Ezri Konsa has scored twice as Aston Villa rallied to beat Leicester 2-1 in the Premier League. Leicester went ahead through Harvey Barnes in the 14th. Konsa equalized in the 17th and grabbed the winner with a far-post header in the 54th. Villa has won three of Steven Gerrard’s four games

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Ralf Rangnick has started his tenure as Manchester United manager with a 1-0 win over Crystal Palace in the Premier League thanks to a rare goal from Fred at Old Trafford. Rangnick declared himself “positively surprised by the physical state and intensity” of United’s players after his first game

By ERIC OLSON AP College Football Writer No. 2 seed Michigan and No. 3 Georgia will meet in a College Football Playoff semifinal on New Year’s Eve in the Orange Bowl in Miami Gardens, Florida. The storied programs have met only twice and not since 1965. Georgia won that game 15-7. Michigan won 26-0 in

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Bills cornerback Dane Jackson draws on memories of four late childhood friends in preparing to take over Tre’Davious White’s starting job in the Buffalo’s secondary. The second-year player has the initials D, D, D, R tattooed on his left arm in honor of his

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer IRVING, Texas (AP) — The College Football Playoff is set and it is historic: Cincinnati will play Alabama in the Cotton Bowl and Michigan will face Georgia in the Orange Bowl on New Year’s Eve. Fourth-seeded Cincinnati becomes the first team to break through the CFP’s glass

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Formula One has united in tribute to Frank Williams after the much-loved and inspirational founder of the F1 team died last weekend. Shortly before the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, the drivers and team principals were joined by F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali and FIA president Jean Todt. Gathering to observe a

By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Russia’s 15-year wait for a Davis Cup title has ended after another clutch performance from Daniil Medvedev. Medvedev beat Marin Cilic 7-6 (7), 6-2 in the second singles match to give Russia an insurmountable 2-0 lead over Croatia in the final on Sunday. It is Russia’s

LILLE, France (AP) — American forward Timothy Weah is set to miss Lille’s crucial Champions League group match at Wolfsburg after picking up a thigh injury. Weah did not play in Lille’s 2-1 win against Troyes in the French league on Saturday because of the injury. Lille tops Group G in the Champions League and

LONDON (AP) — Chelsea won the Women’s FA Cup on Sunday to clinch a domestic treble for the first time. Australia striker Sam Kerr scored a second-half double as Chelsea cruised to a 3-0 victory over Arsenal in the delayed final of the competition at Wembley Stadium. Fran Kirby had given Chelsea a third-minute lead.

By CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer BERLIN (AP) — Freiburg produced a devastating first-half performance to rout Borussia Mönchengladbach 6-0 away for its biggest-ever win in the Bundesliga. There were six different scorers as everything worked in the first 45 minutes for Freiburg, which ended a three-game losing run in style to move back up

LEEDS, England (AP) — Patrick Bamford marked his first appearance in more than two months with an equalizer in the fifth minute of added time to earn Leeds a 2-2 draw at home to Brentford in the Premier League. The England striker came off the bench in the 68th minute and prodded in off his