The Tide finished perfect during a season that could not have been further from it as COVID-19 forced teams into quarantines and endless testing and uncertainty every single week with games played in mostly empty stadiums.
With Heisman Trophy finalists DeVonta Smith and Mac Jones, the top-ranked Crimson Tide rolled into its fifth CFP championship game in six seasons.
The assistant coach took over the San Antonio Spurs in the second quarter after coach Gregg Popovich was ejected in a 121-107 loss to LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers.
The Houston Rockets were left without the league-mandated eight players available to start a game Wednesday against Oklahoma City.
It’s the most severe penalties on Russia since allegations of state-backed doping and coverups emerged after the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
The seven Negro Leagues operated from 1920 to 1948 while the sport was segregated.
The move away from Indians follows a similar decision earlier this year by the NFL’s Washington Football Team, which was previously known as the Redskins.
Los Angeles edges Tampa Bay 3-1 to take series in six games.
For the first time since Kobe Bryant’s fifth and final title a decade ago, the Lakers are NBA champions.
Around 80 Division I college sports programs have been cut because of the financial strain of the novel coronavirus pandemic on athletic departments.
Hall of Famer Bob Gibson, the dominating St. Louis Cardinals pitcher who won a record seven consecutive World Series starts and set a modern standard for excellence when he finished the 1968 season with a 1.12 ERA, died Friday.
Filly Swiss Skydiver added another memorable moment to cap off a topsy-turvy Triple Crown season.
The NFL said on Saturday that the game will be played on Monday or Tuesday, a move that would be possible only if there is no wider spread of the disease on the rosters.
Only one new positive test result came back Wednesday, a day after the Titans had three players and five team personnel test positive for COVID-19. More daily test results are upcoming.
Brayden Point scored his playoff-best 14th goal and the Lightning beat the Dallas Stars 2-0 on Monday night to win the Stanley Cup and finish off the most unusual NHL postseason in history, staged nearly entirely in quarantine because of the pandemic.
More coaches and clubs can expect similar punishments as a memo last week from Troy Vincent, who oversees the league’s football operations, was largely ignored throughout the weekend.
Less than five weeks after pushing football and other fall sports to spring in the name of player safety during the pandemic, the conference changed course Wednesday and said it plans to begin its season the weekend of Oct. 23-24.
The once-reluctant league brought racial injustice to the forefront on the NFL’s first full slate of games.
Seaver, the galvanizing force who steered the New York Mets from the National League cellar to a stunning World Series title in 1969, died Monday from complications of Lewy body dementia and COVID-19.
At a time of racial reckoning, the longtime coach says, “No more being quiet, no more being afraid to talk the topics, no more ‘I’m a little bit uncomfortable, I might lose my job.’”
