Pitt upsets sloppy No. 14 Louisville, 38-21
C’Bo Flemister rushed for two touchdowns Saturday night and host Pittsburgh’s defense shut out No. 14 Louisville in the second half to earn a 38-21 Atlantic Coast Conference win. Pitt scored 24 unanswered points in the second half. Flemister’s 3-yard scoring run with 3:39 left in the third quarter polished off a 61-yard scoring drive […]
Auburn proves no match for No. 22 LSU, losing 48-18
Jayden Daniels passed for 325 yards and three touchdowns and No. 22 LSU blew out Auburn 48-18 in an SEC game Saturday night in Baton Rouge, La. Daniels completed 20 of 27 passes and added 93 rushing yards. He led LSU (5-2, 4-1 SEC) to a 17-0 lead at the end of the first quarter, […]
Avery Johnson (5 TDs) leads K-State past Texas Tech
Avery Johnson set an FBS freshman record with five rushing touchdowns as visiting Kansas State defeated Texas Tech 38-21 Saturday night in Lubbock, Texas. Kansas State (4-2, 2-1 Big 12) defeated the Red Raiders for the eighth straight time. The last time Tech defeated Kansas State was in 2015, when Patrick Mahomes led the Red […]
James van Riemsdyk scores twice, leads Bruins past Predators
James van Riemsdyk’s two-goal game lifted the Boston Bruins to a 3-2 win over the visiting Nashville Predators on Saturday night. van Riemsdyk was stationed at the net front on the power play on each of his first two goals with Boston, including when he tipped home Charlie McAvoy’s blast from the point as it […]
Casey Cizikas scores winner as Islanders defeat Sabres
Casey Cizikas scored the tiebreaking goal late in the third period Saturday night for the host New York Islanders, who edged the Buffalo Sabres 3-2 in Elmont, N.Y. Both teams traded near-misses for several minutes before Cizikas redirected Adam Pelech’s shot from the blue line with 6:20 left. Brock Nelson and Kyle Palmieri scored in […]
Leafs ride Auston Matthews’ 2nd straight hat trick to beat Wild
Auston Matthews scored three goals for the second straight game and the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the visiting Minnesota Wild 7-4 on Saturday night. William Nylander added two goals and an assist for the Maple Leafs, who have won their first two games of the season. Calle Jarnkrok had a goal and an assist and […]
Pens ambush Flames with five 3rd period goals in win
Bryan Rust had two goals Saturday for the Pittsburgh Penguins, who scored five times in the third to down the visiting Calgary Flames 5-2. Jake Guentzel had a goal and two assists, Evgeni Malkin and Reilly Smith each added a goal and an assist, and Kris Letang posted two assists for the Penguins, who have […]
Blues F Pavel Buchnevich leaves game after hit
St. Louis Blues forward Pavel Buchnevich left Saturday night’s game with an upper-body injury after taking a big hit from Seattle defenseman Jamie Oleksiak in the first period. The club announced he would not return to the game. Buchnevich, 28, logged just seven shifts and 5:27 of ice time before leaving. Oleksiak was not penalized […]
Report: Deshaun Watson (shoulder) could return next week
Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson (shoulder) could be ready to return next week against the Indianapolis Colts, ESPN reported Saturday. Watson, who is dealing with a deep contusion in his rotator cuff, was ruled out for Sunday’s game against the San Francisco 49ers. It will mark his second straight game missed. The ESPN report runs […]
Trio share lead at Shriners Open
Tom Kim of South Korea and Adam Hadwin of Canada posted monster rounds Saturday to vault into a three-way tie with Lanto Griffin atop the leaderboard of the Shriners Children’s Open in Las Vegas. Kim fired a 9-under-par 62, one better than Hadwin’s 63, as both sit at 15 under after 54 holes. Kim jumped […]
