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Eagles beat Giants 19-17
Lawrence Tynes' kick sailed wide left and a sellout crowd broke into a wild celebration that quickly halted when they realized it didn't count.
Bryant field goal leads Falcons past Panther 30-28
Matt Ryan took an awful beating. Another win for the Atlanta Falcons will make the pain a lot easier to take. Shaking off a career-high seven sacks, ...
RG3 leads last-minute drive to beat Bucs 24-22
Down a point and needing a field goal to win, Robert Griffin III held his poise and kept making plays. Even when the headset in his helmet failed.
Late turnovers help Arizona beat Miami 24-21 in OT
The Arizona Cardinals didn't get a great game from their defense, just two great plays. The result was another wild win at home. Jay Feely kicked a ...
Manning leads Denver to 37-6 win over Oakland
After throwing yet another touchdown on a play that worked exactly as it was drawn up, Peyton Manning ran to the end zone and head-butted the lucky ...
Brady leads Pats to 52-28 rout of Bills
There's nothing wrong with Tom Brady and the New England Patriots that a game against their familiar AFC East patsies — the Buffalo Bills — can't fix.
Texans beat Titans 38-14, improve to 4-0
The Texans have always been known for their prolific offense under Gary Kubiak. Now, Houston has a defense capable of making just as many plays, and ...
49ers run all over Jets in 34-0 romp
The New York Jets were a delicious treat for the San Francisco 49ers. San Francisco used a solid running game, a smothering defense, a little bit of ...
Chargers use 6 turnovers to beat Chiefs 37-20
Norv Turner was asked Sunday whether he could remember facing a more generous opponent, and the Chargers coach sifted through more than three decades ...
Alabama unanimous No. 1 in AP Top 25
Alabama is a unanimous No. 1 and LSU slipped another spot in The Associated Press college football poll. The Crimson Tide received all 60 first-place ...
Oregon State outlasts Arizona 38-35
A momentum-swinging game hanging in the balance, Oregon State coach Mike Riley pulled out a play he had been saving all game. So what if he would have ...
No. 1 Alabama eases past Ole Miss, 33-14
No. 1 Alabama actually trailed for a change, a predicament that lasted a grand total of 15 seconds. Amari Cooper caught two touchdown passes from AJ ...
No. 3 LSU overcomes sloppiness, beats Towson 38-22
Zach Mettenberger's perfectly placed 53-yard scoring strike to Odell Beckham Jr. exemplified the type of play Les Miles wanted to see from LSU's ...
Bergeron's late TD lifts No. 12 Texas 41-36
The reasons to doubt David Ash continue to vanish as he keeps finding ways to lead No. 12 Texas to victory. Ash threw three touchdown passes to Jaxon ...
No. 14 Ohio St holds off No. 20 Michigan St 17-16
Urban Meyer's first Big Ten game as Ohio State coach turned out to be a classic welcome to the conference. His quarterback got shaken up twice, but ...
Smith, Morris, Florence have huge QB days
West Virginia's Geno Smith, Baylor's Nick Florence and Miami's Stephen Morris were quarterbacks-gone-wild Saturday. And each of them did something no ...
No. 5 Georgia holds off Tennessee, 51-44
Todd Gurley ran for three touchdowns and Keith Marshall added two as No. 5 Georgia recovered after blowing a 17-point lead to beat Tennessee 51-44 on ...
No. 9 West Virginia beats No. 25 Baylor 70-63
No. 9 West Virginia and the Big 12, perfect together. Geno Smith and the fast-moving, high-scoring Mountaineers proved they fit right in with their ...
NFL refs approve deal, ready for Sunday games
NFL referees are ready to go unnoticed again, just as they prefer. The refs approved a new eight-year contract with the league by a 112-5 vote ...
Festive mood among NFL's refs before contract vote
For the NFL's officials, the meetings to discuss their new contract looked like the first day of school. Dozens of officials, some of whom hadn't seen ...
Freshmen Hill, Williams lift BYU over Hawaii 47-0
Hawaii coach Norm Chow joked a few days ago that Provo would bring back some fond memories. Friday night instead was a nightmare, one the former BYU ...
Officials gather for contract ratification vote
NFL officials on the verge of approving a new contract say they are excited to get back to work. Officials arrived Friday at a Dallas-area hotel to ...
LA backs deal for downtown NFL stadium
Los Angeles took a major step Friday toward building a downtown stadium to lure an NFL team back to the nation's second most populous city, despite ...
Calif. kids' football team hit with bounty scandal
In a pee-wee version of the NFL's bounty scandal, the head coach and league president of an Orange County children's football team have been suspended ...
Ohio St just another rival now for Dantonio
For years, Mark Dantonio and Ohio State were on fairly cozy terms. Dantonio was a defensive coordinator there — a protege of coach Jim Tressel — ...