Another day, another coaching blunder keeps a lesser team from upsetting a member of the NFL elite. On Thursday, it was Bears coach Matt Eberflus who squandered a chance to force overtime against the one-loss Lions. On Friday, Raiders coach Antonio Pierce mismanaged a chance to upend the two-time defending (and also one-loss) Chiefs. The problems started for the Raiders …

The Bakersfield College Athletics Hall of Fame welcomed its fourth class with a ceremony at Luigi’s Warehouse on Oct. 16. Seven individuals and the 1976 Renegades football team were inducted, joining 25 honorees and the national-championship 1959 BC football squad. The individual inductees were Dr. William Baker (team physician/football player); Phil Dumatrait (baseball); Louis Wright (football); Ken Calvin (football player); …

Getty Images In what was somehow not the strangest ending to a Thanksgiving weekend NFL game, the Kansas City Chiefs survived a Black Friday scare against the division rival Las Vegas Raiders thanks to a combination of bizarre game management and a perhaps even more bizarre penalty ruling. With just 15 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter, the Raiders spiked …

USATSI Heading into Week 13, there had been zero playoff berths clinched so far in the NFL this year, but that changed on Friday.  Thanks to their wild 19-17 win over the Las Vegas Raiders, the Kansas City Chiefs (11-1) became the first team to clinch a playoff spot in 2024. Going into Week 13, the Chiefs had multiple scenarios …

Getty Images The No. 1 Oregon Ducks are one win away from capping off a perfect 12-0 regular season. That final win will have to come against former Pac-12 and current Big Ten foe Washington. The Ducks nearly lost their undefeated record last weekend when they survived a scare from Wisconsin in Madison. Oregon managed to pull out a 16-13 …

Sam Panayotovich FOX Sports Betting Analyst I hope you’re all enjoying your leftover Thanksgiving sandwiches. Last week’s picks went 3-2, and I’m still laughing at that 26-yard field goal by Northwestern (+10.5) to make a 10-3 game a 10-6 game in Ann Arbor.  Michigan marched right down the field to make it 17-6 at halftime and the Kitties didn’t score …

NFL playoffs: Teams who have clinched spot or been eliminated from contention originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia The Kansas City Chiefs will officially carry their three-peat bid into the postseason. The two-time defending Super Bowl champions on Friday became the first NFL team in the 2024 season to clinch a spot in the playoffs — and they did it …

Michigan high school football is a recruiting hotbed. There’s no better time to see some of the state’s top talent than to watch the 16 finalists in the 2024 MHSAA state finals at Ford Field in Detroit. From the talent-rich Division 1 battle between Detroit Cass Tech and Hudsonville to Orchard Lake St. Mary’s being led by three Michigan State …

America’s Team is no longer America’s Team. But a captive audience is a captive audience. Thursday’s Giants-Cowboys game racked up 38.5 million viewers, according to Fox. It’s the fourth highest audience for a Thanksgiving game ever. And it gave Fox a 14-percent bump over last year’s Packers-Lions game on Thanksgiving. The Dallas game still dropped from last year. Commanders-Cowboys on …

The No. 4 Penn State Nittany Lions will host the Maryland Terrapins in a Big Ten matchup on Saturday. Penn State is 10-1 overall and 5-1 at home, while Maryland is 4-7 overall and 1-3 on the road. Penn State is 43-3-1 all-time against Maryland, including winning three straight contests by an average of 27.7 points.  Kickoff is set for …

49ers QB Purdy will rely on ‘competitive nature’ in return vs. Bills originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area After missing Week 12 with a shoulder injury, 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy is ready to get back on to the field. The quarterback was a full participant in San Francisco’s final practice before traveling to Buffalo for its Week 13 showdown …

Nov. 29—HOWARD, S.D. — Disciplined, hard-nosed, hard-hitting football. That’s the Howard way, according to Luke Koepsell. As a freshman, Koepsell witnessed that pouring into the program often yields sustained success, as the Tigers won a state football title led by a standout crew of seniors. That experience left a lasting impression on Koepsell, who settled into a leadership role of …

The Kansas City Chiefs have been walking a tightrope all season, and on Black Friday, they pulled another rabbit out of the hat with a wild, wacky win over the division rival Las Vegas Raiders.  Kansas City needed not one, not two, but three missed field goals from Raiders kicker Daniel Carlson, plus yet another preposterous end-of-game sequence in order …

Georgia is No. 7 in the College Football Playoff rankings as it aims to finish the 2024 regular season with a seventh straight victory against its in-state rival when it plays host to Georgia Tech on Friday night in the 118th edition of Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate.  The Bulldogs have already clinched a spot in the SEC Championship Game with a 6-2 …

The Kansas City Chiefs recovered a botched snap while the Las Vegas Raiders were within range of a go-ahead field goal with 15 seconds remaining on Friday, preserving a 19-17 victory to give the franchise its 10th consecutive playoff berth. The Raiders (2-10) had taken over at their own 8-yard line with just under two minutes to go, and QB …