MADISON, Wis. — Even though he was nearly 2,000 miles from where he'd grown up, Ryan Hopkins felt right at home as a quarterback prospect visiting Wisconsin. "I felt the energy from the city," said Hopkins, a former three-star recruit from Mater Dei in Santa Ana, California. "I felt the ...
LONDON — Matt Cullen's streak of attending NFL games in London is nearing an end. The Englishman's run started at London's first regular-season game in 2007, when he shrugged off steady rain to watch the New York Giants beat the Miami Dolphins at Wembley Stadium. But Cullen can't bring ...
DARLINGTON, S.C. — Christopher Bell is finally second-to-none this season. Bell's crazy, frustrating season of seven second-place finishes without a victory at last came to an end with a win at the Southern 500 on Sunday night. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver passed defending NASCAR champion Kyle Larson with 18 laps left at Darlington Raceway and held on to win the Chase-opening race and break a winless stretch of 33 races dating to Bristol last September. "Darlington is the epitome of NASCAR," Bell said. "This is better than a dream come true." It was his first win in 15 career ...
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman knows Wisconsin coach Luke Fickell well enough to realize the Fighting Irish would face a bigger season-opening challenge than the recent results of these two teams suggested. Freeman's team eventually responded. CJ Carr threw two touchdown passes, Aneyas Williams ran for 90 yards and two more scores and No. 4 Notre Dame pulled away in the second half to beat Wisconsin 41-13 on Sunday night at Lambeau Field. Notre Dame led just 13-10 at halftime before dominating the final two periods. "Human nature is maybe you look at somebody ...
The Pac-12, the self-dubbed "Conference of Champions" with athletic excellence going back more than a century, turned into the conference of ashes. A mass exodus of 10 schools in 15 months left the Pac-12 in tatters, dimming the future of a conference that was once the proud home of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Cheryl Miller, Tiger Woods, Jackie Robinson, Lisa Leslie, Jackie Joyner-Kersey and many more. League brass and the two remaining schools worked behind the scenes to pull the conference out of a death spiral and now, more than four years since the first two schools left, the Pac-12 is ...
After a 10-game winning streak to end the regular season couldn't get Notre Dame into last year's College Football Playoff, the fourth-ranked Fighting Irish have vowed to leave no doubt about their worthiness this time. That mission starts with avoiding the early stumbles that dull Marcus Freeman's otherwise glittering coaching resume. Notre Dame has gone a combined 13-6 in pre-October games and 30-5 afterward over the last four seasons. Notre Dame's two straight losses to open the 2025 season ended up costing the Fighting Irish a playoff bid. They begin this season against Wisconsin ...
