Carolina (7-0) earned its 11th consecutive regular-season win and opened a two-game lead over the Atlanta Falcons in the NFC South. Gano, who missed an extra point in the fourth quarter, came through when the Panthers needed him the most. After Adam Vinatieri kicked a 50-yard field goal for Indianapolis in OT, Gano was good from 42 yards and then again from 52 after Roman Harper deflected an Andrew Luck
Quarterback Colin Kaepernick has been told he won’t start Sunday for the San Francisco 49ers and is being replaced by backup Blaine Gabbert, a person with knowledge of the decision said Monday night. The team had not made a formal announcement, though coach Jim Tomsula offered a pretty good hint earlier in the day ”we’re evaluating everyone,” on the heels of a 27-6 loss at St. Louis and a second
Geno Auriemma and the UConn Huskies are starting this season where they left off, atop the poll.
North Carolina, which returns four starters and nine of its 10 top scorers from the team that reached the round of 16 in the NCAA Tournament, is No. 1 in The Associated Press’ preseason Top 25 for a record ninth time.
Ken Whisenhunt was fired as coach of the Tennessee Titans after a 1-6 start to the season, the NFL club announced Tuesday, naming assistant coach Mike Mularkey as interim coach. Whisenhunt went 3-20 as coach of the Titans, the second-worst showing by an NFL coach over his first 23 games with a team after John McKay’s 0-23 run from 1976-78 with Tampa Bay.
The Tennessee Titans have fired head coach Ken Whisenhunt after 23 games in charge, the NFL team said on Tuesday. The Titans lost 20-6 to the Houston Texans on Sunday, their sixth successive defeat. “After thoughtful consideration, the decision has been made to relieve Ken Whisenhunt of his head coaching duties,” Titans controlling owner Amy Adams Strunk said in a statement on the team website.
Double major-winner Jordan Spieth said Tuesday that it was too early to talk of a new era in the game despite a year when he led the charge of the young guns. The 22-year-old won the season’s first two majors, the US Masters and the US Open, and had a series of titanic battles against 28-year-old Jason Day of Australia, who finally turned the tables on Spieth to lift the
American football will extend its reach into the overseas market when the NFL stages games at Twickenham, the hallowed home of English rugby union, over the next three years. The NFL and Rugby Football Union on Tuesday unveiled a partnership deal that will see the Twickenham host at least three regular-season games over a three-year period. The agreement also gives the NFL the option to stage two extra games over
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY(Reuters) – Vatican financial investigators suspect a department of the Holy See which oversees real estate and investments was used in the past for possible money laundering, insider trading and market manipulation, according to a report seen by Reuters. The information in the confidential document, which covers the period from 2000 to 2011, has been passed on to Italian and Swiss investigators for their checks because
[Accesswire] – TORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / November 3, 2015 / Silver Dragon Resources Inc. (OTCQB: SDRG) (the “Company”) reports that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Shengda Mining Co., Ltd. …
