Football

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 — ...
No. 25 Baylor-No. 9 WVU average 98 points a game
West Virginia's festive arrival in the Big 12 even has Baylor pumped up. The 25th-ranked Bears (3-0) would like nothing more than to make it a shaky ...
Goodell: Fans 'deserve better' than distractions
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell tells fans "you deserve better" than games worked by replacement officials. In an open letter released by the league ...
Cheers as NFL refs return: 'It's good to be back'
The final pass of the game sailed out of the end zone, saving the regular refs from the same type of call that brought the replacements to the height ...
No more Luck: Huskies beat No. 8 Stanford 17-13
Since taking on the rebuilding of Washington's program, no loss seemed more disheartening to Steve Sarkisian than the beating provided by Stanford a ...
Ravens beat Browns 23-16 - but refs steal the show
A game that featured nearly 800 yards in offense, an interception return for a touchdown, helmet-loosening hits and a thrilling finish may best be ...
No more luck: No. 8 Stanford 17-13 by Huskies
All night, Steve Sarkisian felt if he could just get the ball past the first, stout wave of Stanford's defense, the opportunity was there for ...
Packers OL aims to keep Rodgers upright vs. Saints
For all the Green Bay Packers' complaints about a mistake by replacement officials that cost them a game Monday night, they probably wouldn't have ...
NFL kickers are off to their best start ever
The men in stripes have drawn so much attention this season that some interesting developments on the football field have gone largely unnoticed, like ...
To anxious Huskers fans, it's championship or bust
Eric Otte was killing time shelling corn in the back of his red pickup during a break from work on a warm afternoon this week when a buddy who owns ...
NFL picks officials for Browns-Ravens game
The NFL has selected veteran referee Gene Steratore to lead a seven-man crew of regular officials in calling Thursday night's game between the ...
Penn St. officials lose pretrial motion on perjury
Two weeks before former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is expected to be sentenced on child molestation charges, a county judge ...
NFL reaches tentative agreement with refs
So long, replacement refs. The NFL's regular crews will be back on the field starting Thursday night. After two days of marathon negotiations — and ...
With Goodell at table, NFL ref talks heat up
With Commissioner Roger Goodell at the table, the NFL and referees' union pressed toward a settlement Wednesday to end a three-month lockout that ...
West Virginia gears up for Big 12 scoring spree
West Virginia is ready to start a new era, with what is primed to be a classic Big 12 scoring spree, and Urban Meyer will coach a Big Ten game for ...