The Ravens have taken a lead into the locker room and get the ball to start the second half. Baltimore leads 10-3 at halftime, and the Chargers are lucky it’s not more. The Chargers turned the ball over on three of their final six snaps of the first half. Keenan Allen and Austin Ekeler lost fumbles, with the Ravens getting …

A snowy afternoon greeted Michigan State football’s new head coach. But before he arrived at Lansing’s Capital City Airport, Jonathan Smith delivered his first message to Spartan fans from the private jet carrying him to his new home. Prepare for winter. For now. And believe that better days are coming soon. “I’m not gonna sugar-coat, there’s some work to do,” …

Bills coach Sean McDermott is facing plenty of criticism for the decisions he made late in the fourth quarter of the Bills’ overtime loss to the Eagles on Sunday. The most questionable decision was to play for overtime and have Josh Allen kneel down and run out the clock when the Bills got the ball at the 25-yard line with …

The USC Trojans football team entered the season with College Football Playoff and Pac-12 title hopes. At season’s end, they are 7-5 and look to be on the outside looking in from any significant bowl games. Caleb Williams likely won’t play as he prepares for the 2024 NFL draft, and the bowl projections for Lincoln Riley’s team vary quite a …

The Bills fell to the Eagles 37-34 in overtime on Sunday to head into their Week 13 bye at 6-6. That puts Buffalo at No. 10 in the AFC — behind No. 7 Indianapolis, No. 8 Houston, and No. 9 Denver for the conference’s final postseason slot. Buffalo has certainly played better on offense since the team fired offensive coordinator …

The firings across college football kicked up rapidly on Sunday, just after the regular season came to a finish. Indiana Hoosiers head coach Tom Allen was fired after another disappointing year even with his $20 million buyout, which was negotiated down to $15.5 million. Of course, the USC Trojans are in the market for a defensive coordinator after they finally …

Brandon Staley does not think the 4-7 Chargers are out of the AFC playoff race. But he does think his team faces a must-win game against the Patriots on Sunday. Staley said after Sunday’s game that his team is focused only on the next game, against a Patriots team that has the worst record in the AFC. “Our focus is …

BLISSFIELD — Ron Estes, who has spent the five years as the interim head football coach at Blissfield, is retiring for a second time. “I’ve stayed so long because I’ve loved it,” he said. “I never thought it would be for five years. That wasn’t what I had in mind. When Ryan (Love) stepped down and I had just come …

Week 12 of the NFL season saw the contenders separate themselves with impressive wins while the tank race ramped up with the calendar flipping to December. In Las Vegas, the Kansas City Chiefs bounced back from their Week 11 loss by continuing their ownership of the Raiders. In Los Angeles, the Baltimore Ravens put together an impressive performance against Justin …

PISCATAWAY – Greg Schiano had plenty of planning to do. The Rutgers football head coach was ready to turn the page from the Scarlet Knights’ 42-24 loss to Maryland in the regular-season finale and begin charting what the next several weeks would look like for his team leading up to its bowl appearance. Whichever bowl and whichever opponent Rutgers will …

The Ravens couldn’t do what they did the past five games, scoring more than 30 points. Points, in fact, were at a premium on Sunday Night Football. Despite messing around, failing to put the Chargers around, the Ravens didn’t have to find out. The Ravens pulled out a 20-10 win over the Chargers despite not being at their best. Baltimore …

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Sherrone Moore is going to be a head coach. This isn’t some hokey conclusion based on Saturday’s result in the hatefest that is The Game. That was a random proclamation from ultimate Michigan Man turned Missing Man himself, Jim Harbaugh. It was in the middle of summer when the Wolverines coach mentioned that Moore, his offensive …

This most disjointed of Chargers seasons continued Sunday when the defense found itself but the offense lost the ball. Over and over and over and over. After dominating the takeaway battle for much of the year, the Chargers had all four of the game’s turnovers in a 20-10 loss to Baltimore at SoFi Stadium. Against the top team in the …

GAYLORD ― For the past 21 years in Gaylord, 2002 was the standard. No football team that had come through the GHS program had matched what the 2002 squad did; going 9-0 in the regular season, winning a conference title and winning its first district title in program history. Now, 21 years later, the 2023 has reset the standard. This …

Photograph: Dave Shopland/Shutterstock Mac Jones and the New England Patriots have had a classic relationship arc. When Bill Belichick broke his historic bond with Tom Brady after the 2019 season, he was adrift. He had unproductive flings with Cam Newton and Jarrett Stidham in 2020’s pandemic-disrupted season. But in 2021, Belichick decided to settle down again; he drafted Jones, who …