The Baseball Hall of Fame will officially have six more members via its committee voting, even as one of its best candidates missed the honor by the narrowest of margins. For a second time. Here are the names, with a quick resume, announced by Hall of Fame president Josh Rawitch on Sunday via MLB Network: Minnie Miñoso: A nine-time MLB All-Star and former Negro Leagues All-Star who became known as Mr. White Sox for his years with the team. Gil Hodges: A longtime Dodgers (first Brooklyn then… Source link

The Detroit Lions hadn’t won a game in nearly a year (364 days to be exact). Dan Campbell, their rookie head coach, had never been victorious in Detroit. His quarterback, Jared Goff, also new to the team, was oh-fer as a Lion. Same for a bunch of teammates. Detroit is the worst team in the NFL, the butt of jokes and frustration. When the Lions blew a lead to Minnesota on Sunday afternoon, it looked like more of the same. They were staring down a humiliating, winless season until Goff… Source link

Welcome to bowl season! It’s the most glorious time of the year. And from the Bahamas Bowl on Dec. 17 to the College Football Playoff national championship on Jan. 10, there will be 43 postseason games played. Not including the national title game, Yahoo Sports’ Sam Cooper and Nick Bromberg have ranked all 42 bowl games from best to worst. Beyond the CFP bowls, there are many intriguing matchups to look forward to in the coming weeks.  (Full 2021 bowl game schedule with dates, times and TV… Source link

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The Detroit Lions will not post the second winless season in modern franchise history. After tallying 10 losses and a tie in their first 11 games, the Lions joined the rest of the NFL in the win column on Sunday with a thrilling 29-27 upset of the Minnesota Vikings. The win marks the first for rookie head coach Dan Campbell and fends off the ignominy of becoming the first NFL franchise with two winless seasons since 1945. The 0-16 2008 Lions are one of five NFL teams to post winless records… Source link

The returns of Kyler Murray and DeAndre Hopkins were worth the wait. And now that they’re back, the Cardinals rightfully can be called Super Bowl contenders once more. The Arizona Cardinals moved to 10-2 — their first season with 10 or more wins since 2015 — with a 33-22 victory over the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field on Sunday, as Murray and Hopkins took the field for the first time since Week 8.  And they didn’t take long to hook up. Murray found Hopkins on a 21-yard touchdown pass less… Source link

It has been a part-plucky, mostly comical, rarely sincere slogan of every college football upstart of the past dozen or so years, written on signs designed to create smiles or chanted through contained laughter from student sections across the land. “We Want Bama.” Well, Cincinnati, you big-dreaming, gate-crashing, perfect regular season after perfect regular season Group of 5 underdog, congratulations on doing the seemingly impossible and actually making the College Football Playoff. Now… Source link

This week, investors are set to focus on updates on the Omicron variant and inflation. Concerns around both of these factors had stirred up volatility across markets last week. The two are intertwined. Many have feared that an additional wave of the coronavirus could spur another slowdown in consumer mobility and spending that hits economic activity and corporate earnings. Vaccine-makers and other researchers have yet to determine the extent of Omicron’s transmissibility and severity of… Source link

The Carolina Panthers didn’t spend their bye week quietly.  As teams around the league got the early slate of games underway, the Panthers announced they have fired offensive coordinator Joe Brady. Head coach Matt Rhule made the call. “I met with Joe this morning and informed him that I have decided to make a change,” Rhule said, per a team statement. “I’m very grateful to him for his time and effort in helping us get established over this past year and a half.” Senior offensive assistant Jeff… Source link

At its I/O confab, Google announced a new way for you to scrub your recent search history. Sarah Tew/CNET … Source link