LaDainian Tomlinson wanted to eliminate all the risks of trying a field goal in overtime. So he took the ball, cut to his left and outran everyone on a 16-yard touchdown run with 7:29 left in overtime, finishing off the Chargers’ rally from a 14-point fourth-quarter deficit to beat the Tennessee Titans 23-17 on Sunday.
LaDainian Tomlinson wanted to eliminate all the risks of trying a field goal in overtime. So he took the ball, cut to his left and outran everyone on a 16-yard touchdown run with 7:29 left in overtime, finishing off the Chargers’ rally from a 14-point fourth-quarter deficit to beat the Tennessee Titans 23-17 on Sunday.
Fred Taylor started left, cut back right, then outran everyone. Instead of turning his head to check for defenders, he tried something new: He looked up at the huge video screen in the end zone. Even Taylor was impressed. “It was sweet,” he said. Taylor’s 80-yard touchdown run, a franchise record in the regular season,…
The Green Bay Packers are going back to the playoffs. And maybe they’re bringing a running game with them. Green Bay didn’t need Brett Favre to throw the ball all over the field to clinch the NFC North on Sunday, relying on the rushing of Ryan Grant and a pair of special teams touchdowns from…
A dejected David Akers buried his head in his hands while the New York Giants celebrated all around him. It was the other way around the last time these teams met here. Eli Manning threw a 20-yard touchdown pass to Plaxico Burress, Lawrence Tynes made three short field goals and the Giants moved closer toward…
Washington State hit 65 percent of its shots from the floor, 72 percent in the first half, yet barely hung on to beat unheralded Portland State on Sunday night. That fact had coach Tony Bennett shaking his head after Portland State stayed close virtually the entire game. WSU pulled away in the final minutes for…
Tyrese Rice scored 19 points to lead Boston College to a 81-78 win over Maryland on Sunday. Rice’s final two points came on a pair of free throws with four seconds to play that clinched the win for the Eagles (7-1, 1-0 Atlantic Coast Conference). John Oates also hit a free throw with one second…
Villanova coach Jay Wright grew up on a steady diet of Big 5 games and considers himself both a modern-day guardian and historian of the famed city series. So Wright talks from experience when he tells his Wildcats only the wild and unpredictable happen in Big 5 games. “Expect anything,” he said. Well, anything but…
The points kept coming, and so did the assists. David N. Arseneault shattered the NCAA assists record when he had 34 in Grinnell College’s 151-112 win over North Central University of Minnesota in a Division III game Saturday. The previous record of 26 was set in 1989 by Robert James of Division III Kean University.
It’s hard to imagine Georgetown coach John Thompson III, whose words are usually measured and hype-free, using the phrase “scary good” when talking about his team. But the fifth-ranked Hoyas are so versatile this season that few will argue with him. Not only are they capable of a deliberate game focused on big center Roy…
Wright State stopped Butler by stopping A.J. Graves. Scottie Wilson and Todd Brown both scored 10 points to lead Wright State to a 43-42 upset over No. 13 Butler on Saturday night, the Bulldogs’ first loss of the season. Butler (8-1, 1-1 Horizon League) had a last chance at the win, but Graves missed a…
Jordan Crawford’s three-game suspension made him hungrier Saturday. He wanted to beat Kentucky, outdo his brother, Joe, and show his Indiana teammates what they had been missing since late November. With Indiana’s starting guards sitting out and his parents watching from behind the Indiana bench, Crawford delivered a masterpiece.
DeJuan Butler shook his arms at the screaming Washington student section trying to quiet them down. Pittsburgh coach Jamie Dixon looked at the scorer’s table for any sign that the 12th-ranked Panthers would remain unbeaten. On the opposite side, Justin Dentmon was being mobbed by his Washington teammates for apparently hitting a needed game-winning shot.