Emmett Johnson scored the tie-breaking touchdown on a 4-yard run with 2:44 left, and Nebraska ended Northwestern’s four-game winning streak with a 28-21 victory Saturday to become bowl eligible for the second straight season.
A game of inches: North Carolina, Bill Belichick denied upset of Virginia
Ole Miss looks like CFP slam dunk. Lane Kiffin can’t flee for Florida, right?
No. 16 Virginia edges North Carolina in overtime on J’Mari Taylor’s TD run
Aiden Fisher’s early interception, Mendoza brothers’ TD runs help No. 2 Indiana roll past UCLA 56-6
Ex-Eastern Michigan basketball players refused to cooperate with NCAA gambling investigation
Manchester United 4-2 Brighton: Premier League – as it happened
Bryan Mbeumo scored twice as United survived a spirited Brighton comeback to make it three wins in a row
35 secs: Mbeumo loops a cross in from the right. Fernandes wafts a header wide right. A bit more pace on either and United were off to a flyer.
Everyone takes a knee to send out the message that there’s No Room For Racism … then the hosts kick off. Brighton are kicking towards the Stretford End in this first half.
Continue reading...Championship roundup: Coventry sink Watford to claim sixth successive win
3-1 victory takes Coventry three points clear, as Boro held
Sheffield Wednesday lose to Oxford as fans enjoy Chansiri exit
Coventry, the leaders, recorded their sixth win in a row with a 3-1 victory over 10-man Watford, which proved enough to extend their lead at the top to three points.
Frank Lampard’s side got off to a flying start when Brandon Thomas-Asante and Jamie Allen scored within the first seven minutes. Tatsuhiro Sakamoto made it 3-0 on 42 minutes before James Abankwah was sent off for the visitors. Imran Louza’s second-half penalty proved nothing more than a consolation for Javi Gracia’s side.
Continue reading...Brentford 3-2 Liverpool: Premier League – as it happened
Mo Salah’s spectacular late goal couldn’t rescue Liverpool from a fourth consecutive league defeat
2 min Ajer stabs a long pass down the left towards Schade, forcing Mamardashvili to come out of his box to clear. That means the first long throw of the game…
1 min And they’re off!
Continue reading...European football: Bayern’s lucky 13 as Kimmich breaks down 10-man Gladbach
Kimmich, Guerreiro and Karl capitalise on Castrop red
De Bruyne off injured after scoring as Napoli beat Inter
Bayern Munich needed more than an hour before breaking the resistance of Borussia Mönchengladbach, to earn a 3-0 victory over opponents who spent more than 75% of the game with 10 men. It was the Bundesliga leaders’ 13th win in 13 matches across all competitions this season.
Joshua Kimmich slotted in after 64 minutes and the substitute Raphaël Guerreiro added another five minutes later before the teenager Lennart Karl, who had scored in their Champions League win over Club Brugge on Wednesday, made it 3-0 in the 81st. Bayern have a maximum 24 points from eight league matches, five ahead of RB Leipzig, 6-0 winners at Augsburg.
Continue reading...Cokanasiga on song to help Bath past Bristol in bruising West Country derby
Bath 40-15 Bristol
Bath keep up pressure on Saints at top
Bath do not lose often these days, never mind on successive league weekends. And with an injury-hit Bristol supposedly cast in the role of punchbags this fixture was widely viewed as a home banker. Sure enough the defending champions eventually pulled away but only at the final whistle could this feisty, incident-packed West Country derby be classed as wholly comfortable.
It was fractious and visceral enough at times to make next Saturday’s England game against Australia look like a quiet suburban church fete. The England management will be suitably relieved that Ellis Genge, Ollie Lawrence, Guy Pepper and others walked away largely intact but they will all report back to Bagshot feeling distinctly battered and bruised.
Continue reading...Bruno Guimarães strikes late to give Newcastle victory against Fulham
Newcastle’s new chief executive, David Hopkinson, is presiding over a “100-day review” of all areas of club operations. It is the sort of management exercise beloved of senior executives across assorted companies but the reality at St James’ Park is that almost every department is largely a hostage to first-team fortunes. In other words, if Eddie Howe’s team fail to qualify for the Champions League again next season everyone will suffer the consequences.
Given the odds are overwhelmingly against Newcastle lifting that trophy next spring, they desperately need to hit their Premier League stride and start clambering up the table.
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