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By TERESA M. WALKER AP Pro Football Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans have a great knack for finishing games. Moving the ball after the opening kickoff is their big problem. The Titans have scored only 20 points in the first quarter all season and have been shut out in two games. Worse,

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Tensions are high in NASCAR as the season races toward next month’s championship finales. Drivers are pushing hard and and tempers are rising. Chase Briscoe and Denny Hamlin had a terse exchange on social media this week over the race in Texas. It brings

By The Associated Press No. 24 UTSA is nationally ranked for the first time as well as 7-0 for the first time and on its first winning streak as long as seven games as the Roadrunners visit Louisiana Tech. The Bulldogs have dropped three non-conference tilts by a touchdown or less. But Tech is nonetheless

By The Associated Press No. 23 Pittsburgh has a chance to prove it is a legitimate contender for the ACC title when the Panthers host Clemson. Pitt is off to a 5-1 start behind quarterback Kenny Pickett. The fifth-year senior leads the ACC with 21 touchdown passes against just one interception. The Tigers are 4-2

MOSCOW (AP) — Maria Sakkari clinched a spot at the WTA Finals for the first time by reaching the quarterfinals at the Kremlin Cup when Anna Kalinskaya retired with an illness in the second set. The third-seeded Sakkari, who was leading 6-2, 1-0 when Kalinskaya retired, became the first Greek woman to qualify for the

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Major college football is setting into a strange period of frayed allegiances that could last for at least another season. The American Athletic Conference became the latest to get into realignment by adding UAB, UTSA, Rice, North Texas, Charlotte and Florida Atlantic from Conference USA. They will

By The Associated Press The San Diego State-Air Force matchup pits the Aztecs’ nation-best run defense against the Falcons’ ground game that is the best in the nation. No. 22 San Diego State has won eight consecutive games in the series since 2009 and that includes three wins at Falcon Stadium. The Aztecs have one

By The Associated Press For 18th-ranked North Carolina State, Saturday’s game at Miami is a chance to extend the program’s best start in four seasons. The last time the Wolfpack opened a season 6-1 overall and 3-0 in ACC play was 2017. And a win would keep them in the AP Top 25 for a

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Devils center Jack Hughes has a dislocated left shoulder and will be sidelined indefinitely. The Devils placed the No. 1 pick in the 2019 NHL draft on injured reserve Thursday. They said he won’t need surgery at this time and he has started physical therapy. Hughes will be re-evaluated

By The Associated Press Texas A&M looks to extend its overall winning streak to three games and improve to 8-0 all-time against the Gamecocks. A win by South Carolina would match their win total in conference play from last season after a win over Vanderbilt last week.

By ERIC WILLEMSEN Associated Press SÖLDEN, Austria (AP) — Alpine skiing star Petra Vlhova plans to skip some World Cup races this season, abandoning the strategy that helped her win the overall title last year. Vlhova was the only skier who started in all 31 events of the women’s World Cup in 2020-21 but she

By The Associated Press No. 16 Wake Forest steps outside the ACC to travel to West Point on Saturday for a matchup against Army. The Demon Deacons are one of 11 unbeatens remaining in FBS and in the driver’s seat in the Atlantic Division of the ACC. Army has lost two straight and there’s no

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Jared Goff was the Rams’ first draft pick after their return to Los Angeles a half-decade ago. He made three playoff appearances and two Pro Bowls during his time with LA, and he was blindsided when coach Sean McVay and the Rams traded him to

By TOM CANAVAN AP Sports Writer EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The game between the Carolina Panthers and New York Giants on Sunday matches two struggling NFL teams. There’s so much more to the story, starting with the coaches. Matt Rhule of the Panthers (3-3) and Joe Judge of the Giants (1-5) are forever going

By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The entire Arizona Cardinals team will have plenty of motivation on Sunday, trying to improve to 7-0 for the first time since 1974 by beating the Houston Texans. J.J. Watt and DeAndre Hopkins have a little added incentive. The two stars are playing for the

By The Associated Press Kansas will try to beat Oklahoma this weekend for the first time since 1997.  Quarterback Jason Bean has struggled in Big 12 games so far, throwing for just one touchdown and only 75 yards per game. If he has time to throw against the third-ranked Sooners, the Oklahoma secondary is missing

By The Associated Press No. 13 Notre Dame is 5-1 despite question marks on both sides of the line of scrimmage, and USC is playing for an interim coach. The winner gets possession of the jeweled shillelagh, which has been in Notre Dame’s possession since a 49-14 victory in South Bend during the 2017 season.

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press Jose Mourinho’s Roma has been routed 6-1 by Norwegian team Bodø/Glimt in the Europa Conference League. It is the first time the Portuguese manager has seen one of his team’s concede six goals in a game. Roma is one of the big favorites to win UEFA’s new third-tier competition but

By The Associated Press No. 12 Mississippi is set to face an LSU team coming off a big win and an even bigger announcement. LSU’s Ed Orgeron, a former Rebels coach, is out at the end of the season. More pertinent to this game, Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin has indicated he wasn’t sure if

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Chinese broadcaster and NBA partner Tencent has deleted all references to the Boston Celtics from its platforms, in apparent response to comments Celtics center Enes Kanter made to advocate Tibetan independence. Kanter, as part of a series of social media posts, also called Chinese President Xi Jinping a “dictator.”