Game Day: So much on the line
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PITTSBURGH - Banged up and perhaps emotionally drained, the Steelers (11-1) can set records and clinch a division title today by beating the New York Jets (9-3) in a 4 o&#39;clock game at Heinz Field.
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HEMPSTEAD, NY -- Any other week there would have been 12 video cameras lined up along the back of the press room in Weeb Ewbank Hall yesterday in preparation for a game of this magnitude.
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The Florida Panthers and Buffalo Sabres are both in need of wins as they chase playoff spots in the Eastern Conference. So there was a lot at stake going into Sunday night's game.
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The final wild-card spot in the N.F.C. will probably come down to a battle among three 6-8 teams.
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With only four games, and not the usual complement of 16, on tap this weekend, one might wonder how the networks will keep their 937 analysts, studio hosts, and former coaches busy. After all, it's not like they'll cut down on the pre-pregame, pregame, in-game, postgame, and post-postgame shows. To the contrary, the networks are beefing up their pre-pregame, pregame, ...
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Georgia vs. Southern California, it might have been a heck of game.
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Key stat | Eagles trying to become seventh team to win first six games by 10 points. Players to watch | Eagles&#39; Terrell Owens has 30 receptions, 6 for TDs.
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There was some great basketball played last Friday night. From preps to pros, many remarkable things happened that are worth talking about.
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Duke had one big half from the field, another from the line -- and a big game from DeMarcus Nelson.
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There are dozens of other games going on as this story is filed at 7:28 Eastern time on a crazy Saturday, but Notre Dame&#39;s win over Michigan might be the craziest in the bunch.
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Funny thing about pro sports. One team&#39;s mess is another team&#39;s messiah. In Toronto last week, the Vince Carter era came to a close, and not a minute too soon.
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The tough part of the schedule is upon the Redskins as they prepare to face the Eagles twice, the Steelers and the Giants.
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As great as a conference championship game can be, and there are five being played in the next three days, deciding a league champ the old-fashioned way can be fun.
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Argonauts wide receivers R. Jay Soward and Andre Talbot and Tiger-Cats cornerback Wayne Shaw were ejected for fighting midway through the first quarter...Toronto is 2-3-1 on the road and 2-3-1 against the East this season...Hamilton is also 2-3-1 at home
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Like two teams before a big game, supporters and detractors of a plan to bring baseball to the District are preparing their lineups for tomorrow&#39;s showdown before the DC Council.
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FOXBOROUGH -- Forget the individual performances, the blocked field goal by Richard Seymour that would have put the Bears on the board first, and the 15 tackles between Vince Wilfork (8) and Ty Warren (7), because in the trenches, this game was about the defensive line as a whole. It was about the Patriots stopping the run when it counted, ...
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Tom Coughlin and his staff drilled it into the players last week not to give up if the ball was not caught. The way the play develops, it could be a lateral and a live ball.