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For the first time this season, the Baltimore Ravens will find themselves standing opposite a fellow AFC North team. The Ravens and Cincinnati Bengals clash in a pivotal divisional contest between bitter rivals. The Ravens swept the matchup last season with 27-24 and 34-20 wins over Cincinnati. Both teams enter Sunday’s matchup with some momentum. The Bengals (1-3) earned their first win of the season in Week 4 with a 34-24 victory over the Carolina Panthers, while Baltimore (2-2) has won two in a row, including a dominant 35-10 win over the previously undefeated Buffalo Bills. Here are three things…
The Jets (2-3) nipped at the Vikings’ (5-0) heels for most of the second half but couldn’t overcome a 17-point first-half deficit and lost 23-17. Playing a “home” game in London in front of 61,139 fans, the Vikings found their comfort zone early while grabbing a 17-0 advantage. But the Jets, outgained 155 to 99 in the first half, grabbed some hope heading into intermission and nearly pulled off a comeback that ended on the Minnesota 9-yard line. Aaron Rodgers, who finished the game 29-of-54 for 244 yards and 2 touchdowns, was picked off three times, including on the Jets’…
Shohei Ohtani made his long-awaited postseason debut on Saturday. He did not disappoint crushing a 3-run home run in the bottom of the second inning to spark the Los Angeles Dodgers to a come from behind 7-5 victory over the San Diego Padres in Game 1 of their divisional round series. The Dodgers collected 10 hits in all as they overcame a poor playoff debut from Yoshinobu Yamamoto and won a playoff game for the first time in two years. They were swept in the NLDS last year by the Arizona Diamondbacks.It took Ohtani 875 games to make his playoff…
Canyon-SRAM has confirmed one-year contract extensions for Ricarda Bauernfeind and Antonia Niedermaier, with both continuing with the Women’s WorldTour squad through 2025. The German duo began their careers together in 2022 on the Canyon-SRAM Generation development team.Both riders scored their first Grand Tour victories in 2023 and followed through this season with more contributions to the team to showcase their growing individual talents. The 21-year-old Niedermaier, who won stage 5 of the Giro d’Italia Donne in 2023 with a 24-kilometre solo attack, followed with sixth overall and second in the youth classification at this year’s event. She also took sixth overall at the…
The Baltimore Orioles have four players on the All-MLB ballot, with fan voting set to conclude on Oct. 11. Those four players are starting pitcher Corbin Burnes, shortstop Gunnar Henderson, catcher Adley Rutschman and outfielder Anthony Santander.The Orioles have had just three All-MLB players in the short history of the award, all of which were last year. Rutschman and reliever Félix Bautista made the first team while starting pitcher Kyle Bradish made the second team. Bautista missed the entire season due to Tommy John surgery, which he had in 2023. Bradish missed most of the season with an elbow injury…
LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers grabbed an early lead in the National League Division Series by winning Game 1 at home on Saturday night. Now, the Padres will hand the ball to Yu Darvish on Sunday evening, looking to secure a split at Dodger Stadium. The setting is more or less the same one that these two teams faced in 2022. The Padres are even sending the same starting pitcher to the mound. And the stakes couldn’t be clearer. The Padres won that Game 2 — perhaps courtesy of a Rally Goose? — and went on to win the NLDS…
Milton was a Category 1 hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday afternoon Eastern time, the National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory.The hurricane had sustained wind speeds of 85 miles per hour. All times on the map are Eastern. By The New York Times Where will it rain? Flash flooding can occur well inland and away from the storm’s center. Even weaker storms can produce excessive rainfall that can flood low-lying areas. Source: National Weather Service By The New York Times What does the storm look like from above? Satellite imagery can help determine the strength, size and…
J.J. Post, ESPNOct 5, 2024, 08:34 PM ETThere’s nothing like college football.Editor’s PicksJust one week after emerging victorious in one of the most thrilling college football games in recent memory, top-ranked Alabama followed up its win over then-No. 2 Georgia with a loss … to Vanderbilt, which entered the matchup with just two SEC wins to its name since the end of the 2019 season.The result shocked the college football world and the general sports scene alike. Here are some of the most remarkable numbers behind the unbelievable upset:1:In addition to No. 1 being Alabama’s ranking, Saturday’s win represented several…
An American climber was rescued after she and another alpinist from the U.K. were stranded for two days at more than 20,000 feet in the Himalayan mountains.Michelle Dvorak, 31, and Fay Manners, 37, went missing on Thursday after their equipment and food tumbled down a ravine while trekking up India’s Chaukhamba mountain, CBS News partner BBC reported.The pair sent an emergency message but search and rescue teams were unable to find them. Rescued British and U.S. climbers pose for a photo with rescuers in Joshimath, Uttarakhand, India on October 6, 2024. INDIAN AIR FORCE/Handout via REUTERS Manners told the BBC…
Simon Yates has revealed that he took a pay cut to join Visma-Lease a Bike from Jayco-AlUla, with the Brit not wanting to miss the opportunity to join one of cycling’s ‘super teams’ as he enters the twilight years of his career.For Yates, 32, it was a chance he couldn’t resist, having rarely been offered as attractive a move during his 11 years on the Australian Greenedge outfit, which is now operating as Jayco-AlUla. “When the announcement was made that I was making a switch, I saw a lot of comments saying that there should be budget limits [salary caps],” Yates…