Ohio State had an up-and-down performance on offense to open the 2023 season.
Author: Michael
Deion Sanders was tired of hearing Colorado wasn’t going to be good, and he let his haters have it after a wild win over No. 17 TCU to start his FBS tenure. “I’m here and I ain’t going nowhere.
Texas Rangers pitcher Max Scherzer has long been known as one of baseball’s most durable starting pitchers.
But the 39-year-old starter is being a lot more cautious about his health this season.
Scherzer started Friday night’s home game against the Minnesota Twins in Arlington, with the Rangers needing every win in a tight AL West division race. Scherzer was dominant through six scoreless innings, and with just 88 pitches, seemed set to return for the seventh.
The former interim heavyweight champion rebounded from a disappointing loss to Jon Jones in a heavyweight title fight in March by pummeling Serghei Spivac on Saturday in the main event of UFC Paris.
In an exchange with a reporter postgame, Deion Sanders asked a question after his Colorado Buffaloes stunned college football and upset TCU, 45–42:
“Do you believe?”
Three simple words that can be complicated to unpack.
There’s a verse from the Bible that explains Colorado’s offseason. 2 Corinthians 5:7: “For we walk by faith, not by sight.” This Buffs team was one of the great unknowns in the history of the sport.
Most college football teams, at one point or another, have one of those days—when nothing seems to be going right, when the opponent has too much talent, when bowl eligibility seems completely out of reach.
Arkansas State had one such day Saturday afternoon, losing 73–0 to a No. 20 Oklahoma team looking to put a rough 2022 behind it. The Red Wolves, outmatched from the outset, were outgained 642–208 by their far superior Big 12 opposition.
The loss appeared to visibly frustrate Arkansas State coach Butch Jones, who dropped to 5–20 since taking the reins in Jonesboro in 2021.
Saturday’s stunning win over TCU gave Deion Sanders and his family plenty of reason to celebrate following headline-grabbing days for the coach and his son, Colorado quarterback Shedeur. But, lost in the midst of the excitement was the story of the standout efforts of another player with very close ties to both men.
Safety Shilo Sanders, Deion’s second-oldest son, showed up and showed out alongside his father and little brother to help lead the Buffaloes defense in a wild 45–42 season-opening victory.
Canadian popstar Justin Bieber and his wife, Hailey — the daughter of one of the lesser Baldwins (so not Alec, but Billy or Stephen or Harpo or whatever their names are) — were on hand to watch Coco Gauff compete at the US Open on Friday night.
That’s not a huge surprise. The 19-year-old is one of the sports rising stars, and as such, the stars of stage and screen — and whatever it is Hailey Bieber does — descended upon the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, like Kardashians to an NBA game.
Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson is leaving no stone unturned in the search for success in 2023, as Detroit enters the season as the odds-on favorite to win the NFC North.
In fact, Johnson detailed his plans to use a play that was suggested by an official during joint practices with the Jaguars earlier in training camp.
“I think we were practicing against Jacksonville a couple weeks ago, and it’s a special teams period,” Johnson said, via Pride of Detroit. “And one of the officials walked up to me, and I still have the diagram in my office. It’s a piece [of paper].
If college football fans can identify one characteristic of Washington’s Husky Stadium, it’s the picturesque scenery surrounding it. The 103-year-old venue is flanked by 33.8-square mile Lake Washington, and attracts a flotilla of seaborne spectators in good times and bad.
In the name of quality television, the seascape is often an establishing-shot magnet for networks carrying the Huskies’ games. However, during No. 10 Washington’s opener against Boise State Saturday afternoon, color commentator Robert Griffin III took this to an extreme.