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NCAA Football: Mensah opens 24-for-24 as Miami beat Wake Forest
Twenty-four completions, twenty-four straight Darian Mensah opened the game by completing his first 24 passes. No misses, no wobble. It was the second-best start to a single game in FBS history. The record belongs to Dominique Davis, who strung together 26 completions for East Carolina in 2011. Mensah got close, but not quite there. He…
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NFL: Ravens start fast, Saints start late, and they meet Sunday
506 yards, and Baltimore was barely trying by the fourth Some Week 1 performances are just noise. This one wasn’t. Baltimore put up 506 yards on the Colts at 7.9 yards a play, the league’s best figure in Week 1 per Opta. Four of the first five drives ended in points. By halftime the offense…
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NFL: Aaron Donald sets his return for Monday night
Donald has not played since January 2024. He expects that to change against the Giants, with Myles Garrett stuck on injured reserve for at least a month.
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NFL: Stephon Gilmore signs off as a Patriot
Fourteen years, and the helmet goes down in Foxborough Thirty-two interceptions. That is where Stephon Gilmore’s ledger closes. The former cornerback was back in Foxborough on Friday to sign a ceremonial contract and retire as a New England Patriot. He had announced he was done back in April, and he had not taken an NFL…
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NFL: Stephon Gilmore retires as a Patriot in Foxborough
The 2019 Defensive Player of the Year signed one last piece of paper in Foxborough this afternoon. Thirteen seasons, six teams, one ring, and only one club he wanted to finish with.
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NFL: Cooper Rush to start again as Falcons wait on Penix
Three quarterbacks, only one healthy enough to play Eight of Cooper Rush’s 12 completions last Sunday went to his running back. That is where Atlanta’s offense is right now, and Rush is taking the snaps again. He ran the first-team reps in Friday’s practice. NFL Network has him making a second straight start on Sunday…
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NFL: Josh Allen hangs five touchdowns on the Lions
Four drives, four touchdowns 5:51 on the clock. One yard to go. Josh Allen put his head down and scored the first touchdown in the history of the new Highmark Stadium. Everything after that looked rehearsed. Buffalo found the end zone on each of their opening four possessions against Detroit. A 43-yard throw to Josh…
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NFL: 49ers defense finds its teeth again in Week 1
Thirty-second out of thirty-two Thirty-second out of thirty-two. That was where the San Francisco 49ers defense ranked last season in success rate allowed, at 46.8%. Against the run, same story. Dead last at 49.0%. For a franchise that built a decade on that side of the ball, the drop was impossible to hide. You have…
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NFL: Emmitt Smith backs Derrick Henry to catch him
The man who holds the NFL rushing record thinks Derrick Henry can take it. Henry once broke Emmitt Smith’s Florida high school mark, and Smith has not forgotten.
