Commanders coach Ron Rivera will take over defensive play-calling on Sunday after firing Jack Del Rio last week. Rivera was asked if he likes calling the plays. “When it works,” he joked. Welcome to the big leagues, Coach. His first task will be to tame one of the NFL’s most potent offenses in the Dolphins.
The Major League Baseball winter meetings start Sunday in Music City, U.S.A., and Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo better be shopping for more than Garth Brooks T-shirts. There are players to buy, and hopefully, Rizzo will be shopping with a bigger pocketbook than last year.
Shohei Ohtani was voted the majors' best designated hitter on Thursday and joined David Ortiz as the only players to win the award three years in a row.
Texas slugger Adolis Garcia won the Babe Ruth award as postseason MVP in a vote by the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
Former Team USA CEO and skipper Jimmy Spithill will take the wheel of Team Australia's "Flying Roo" foiling catamaran in SailGP's Dubai regatta on Dec. 9-10 while friend and countryman Tom Slingsby is on paternity leave.
December was the cruelest month to the Miami Dolphins a year ago.
Nineteen-year-old Priscila scored a last-minute goal in her women's national team debut Thursday to give Brazil a 4-3 win over Japan in a friendly.
Charleston Southern men's basketball coach Barclay Radebaugh is stepping down in his 19th season after his team got off a 2-5 start.
Megan Janikowski of the Cal Poly Humboldt soccer team and Jamel Pink of the Reedley College football team have earned the CalHOPE Courage Award for November for overcoming personal adversity.
The Southeastern Conference championship game will remain at Mercedes-Benz Stadium through at least 2031 under a contract extension announced Thursday.
Albania hopes to keep coach Sylvinho at the helm in a bid to reach the World Cup for the first time after the Brazilian ushered the team into next summer's European Championship.
Former PGA champion Jason Dufner, Kevin Chappell and Kyle Stanley are among 73 players who signed up for the LIV Golf Promotions qualifier next week in Abu Dhabi, where three spots are up for grabs to be part of the 2024 rosters.
There could be yet another delay in the doping case of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, with a ruling now potentially coming more than two years since her positive test rocked the Beijing Winter Olympics.
The Arizona Cardinals released veteran tight end Zach Ertz on Thursday, clearing the way for the rapidly-improving Trey McBride to assume the starting role.
One NASCAR championship down and Ryan Blaney already has his eyes on another prize.
