Dec. 3—MORGANTOWN — The West Virginia Mountaineers will play North Carolina in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl in Charlotte, NC on Dec. 12. The game will be a rematch of the 2008 Meineke Car Care Bowl in which WVU defeated the Tar Heels 31-30. Former WVU quarterback Pat White was named MVP of the game after throwing for 332 yards and …

Eric Williams NFC West Writer Returning to the place where his magical rookie season ended with an elbow injury nearly a year ago, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy played nearly flawless football. Purdy finished 19-of-27 passing for 314 yards and four touchdowns with no interceptions and a 148.8 passer rating as the 49ers rolled the Philadelphia Eagles 42-19 on …

Another season, another 1,000 yards for Buccaneers’ Mike Evans. With his performance in Tampa Bay’s 21-18 win over the Panthers in Week 13, the veteran wideout recorded his 10th straight season with at least a 1,000 receiving yards.  Evans is now tied with Randy Moss for the second-most 1,000-yard seasons of all time and only trails Jerry Rice for the record. …

Greg Auman NFC South Reporter TAMPA, Fla. – The Buccaneers offense had ground to a halt, managing two first downs in its last five drives, and the slump was bad enough that Carolina — one-win Carolina, with the worst record in the NFL — had scored to take a 10-7 lead midway through the third quarter. On the very next …

Sunday afternoon it was announced that Notre Dame will play in the Sun Bowl against Oregon State. It’s the second trip to El Paso all-time for the Fighting Irish and it’ll be the third time they’ve ever taken on the Beavers. The way Notre Dame wound up in the Sun Bowl is certainly interesting and worth sharing more. However, there …

Chiefs running back Isiah Pacheco got his team into the end zone for the first time tonight. Pacheco’s 1-yard touchdown run with 9:39 left in the third quarter has pulled the Chiefs to within 14-12 of the Packers. It is Pacheco’s sixth rushing touchdown of this season, his third in two weeks. Pacheco was injured during the nine-play drive, leaving …

Week 13 saw plenty of drama in the NFL, with the 49ers thumping the Eagles in an NFC Championship rematch, the Chiefs visiting the Packers in prime time and … Joe Flacco (!) starting for the Browns (and playing pretty well in a loss). But Sunday also brought another wave of injuries, including a devastating one to the Houston Texans as rookie wide receiver Tank …

Sunday is College Football Selection Day for the 2023 bowl season, and Channel 9 is giving you what you need to know about local bowls and what bowl games local teams will play in. Here are the matchups for fans across the Sunshine State: The UCF Knights are playing in the Gasparilla Bowl in Tampa against the Georgia Tech Yellowjackets. …

Ralph Vacchiano NFC East Reporter The Philadelphia Eagles spent so much of this season looking like a powerhouse — the kind of team that could beat any opponent any time, anyway they wanted. They looked for a while like they might be unstoppable. They don’t look that way anymore. Little by little, over the last month, their flaws have been …

Getty Images Kenny Pickett is expected to miss two-to-four weeks, as he’s set to have a surgical procedure on his injured ankle on Monday, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Pickett suffered the injury during the Steelers’ 24-10 loss to the Cardinals. Pittsburgh’s next four games are against the Patriots on “Thursday Night Football,” at the Colts, home against the Bengals and at …

The 2023 college football regular season is in the books and as is tradition, the Sunday after conference championships is selection Sunday. The College Football Playoff committee has made its final decisions, and many of the bowls have also been written in stone. Now, whether you agree or disagree with the committee’s decisions, it doesn’t really matter for us Ohio …

Welcome to the Week 13 grades! We’ve had a wild day of games so far and we’re going to grade them all. In Detroit, we saw the Lions jump out to a 21-0 lead over the Saints, marking the first time since 1944 that they led a team by at least 21 points through one quarter.  In New England, the …

Tempers flared between the 49ers and Eagles before Sunday’s game got underway and players got riled up at various other points of the game, but the biggest conflagration came during the third quarter. The Eagles bench took issue with the way 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw slammed Eagles wideout DeVonta Smith to the turf at the end of a play and …

Nico Collins had the best game of his career, and the Texans’ defense came up huge to help Houston hand Denver its first loss since mid-October. Collins had a career-high 191 yards receiving and a fourth-quarter touchdown after fellow wideout Tank Dell left early with a season-ending broken leg, and Jimmie Ward intercepted Russell Wilson in the end zone with …

It was a sham. A charade. A travesty. It was pathetic. Pitiful. Heartbreaking. And un-American. Yes, you heard me. Un-American. Undefeated ACC champion Florida State being left out of the College Football Playoff on Sunday goes against everything sports is supposed to be about; it goes against everything our nation is supposed to be about. Whatever happened to honoring those …