After 21 years with no NFL teams, Los Angeles is likely to get a second club in a span of 12 months.
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New England is favored by up to 17 points in Saturday’s NFL divisional playoff game against Houston in what is one of the largest point spreads in playoff history.
The Buffalo Bills reached an agreement on Wednesday to hire Sean McDermott to be their next head coach.
A runner-up two years ago, Vance Joseph is John Elway’s pick this time around.
Bishop Gorman senior wide receiver Tyjon Lindsey decommitted from Ohio State late Tuesday and will reopen his recruitment less than a month from national signing day.
Mark Davis, owner of the NFL’s iconic silver-and-black Oakland Raiders, will have a golden opportunity Wednesday in New York to demonstrate to fellow owners that it’s in the best interests of the league to allow his team to move to Las Vegas.
Most Las Vegas sports books suffered heavy losses as the public pounded Clemson on the money line, which closed at plus-180. William Hill’s 108 books in Nevada lost more than $1 million on the game.
Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson led the drive of a lifetime to win a game of a career. The Tigers beat defending champion Alabama in the College Football Playoff National Championship.
In a sequel as thrilling as the original, Clemson has defeated Alabama 35-31 to win its first college football title since 1981.
The game college football fans wait for all year is here — it’s College Football Playoff National Championship day! The No. 1 Alabama Crimson Tide and No. 3 Clemson Tigers meet tonight for a rematch of last year’s game.
The Pittsburgh Steelers placed outside linebackers coach Joey Porter on leave Monday following his arrest outside a bar on Sunday night, hours after the team’s 30-12 AFC wild-card win over the Miami Dolphins.
Peyton Manning and his Southeastern Conference nemesis, former Florida coach Steve Spurrier, will go into the College Football Hall of Fame together.
Money continued to pour in on Clemson across Las Vegas on Monday morning as 6½-point underdogs and at plus-185 on the money line in the rematch of last year’s title game won by Alabama, 45-40.
Breaking down the College Football Playoff National Championship between No. 1 Alabama and No. 2 Clemson at 5:17 p.m. PST Monday at Raymond James Stadium.
For the second straight NFL Sunday, a Hail Mary touchdown pass helped bettors cash Packers-and-over parlay tickets at Las Vegas sports books to close out a wild-card playoff weekend that saw all four home favorites win and cover the spread.