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Georgia plummeted from No. 3 to No. 12 in the latest College Football Playoff rankings Tuesday following a 28-10 loss to Ole Miss, its second loss of the season, while previously undefeated Miami dropped from No. 4 to No. 9 after falling to Georgia Tech. If the season ended today, …

And here I thought the biggest takeaway from the most recent edition of “Fox NFL Sunday” was former New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski jumping out of an MH-60S Seahawk helicopter. Wrong! Turns out it’s Michael Strahan who’s topping the newsmaker charts, this after the former New York Giants …

ATLANTA — Jon Scheyer would do it again. And later this season, he almost certainly will. With 26.5 seconds left, Duke and Kentucky tied in another Champions Classic thriller, Scheyer took timeout to scheme up his best play — or really, his best player. Because, let’s face it: There was …

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Before dawn on a fall Friday, Steve Spagnuolo enters the Kansas City Chiefs facility with a large aluminum pan. The defensive coordinator finds a place for it in the defensive line meeting room, returns to his car and comes back with another pan, this one for …

SAN FRANCISCO — Klay Thompson didn’t want any of the pomp and circumstance. The warm welcome from 400 or so Warriors employees who met him at the Dallas Mavericks’ team bus Tuesday and cheered for him as he walked toward the visitors’ locker room inside this familiar Chase Center. The …

The annual race to the bottom of the NFL has several participants this season — 11 teams are at three wins or fewer heading into Week 11. Unlike last year, there is no consensus pot of gold at the other end of the failure rainbow. There are elite players in …

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Just a few weeks before South Carolina began its campaign to defend its national title, fifth-year senior Te-Hina Paopao laughed and joked with teammates on the sideline during practice as coach Dawn Staley stood nearby and rattled off feedback to players conducting a full-court drill. Staley either …

The New York Jets’ playoff hopes likely died in the Sonoran Desert. Owner Woody Johnson’s big swings — firing head coach Robert Saleh, replacing him with Jeff Ulbrich, trading for wide receiver Davante Adams — didn’t work. Johnson envisioned this season ending in the land of milk and honey. Instead, …

PHILADELPHIA — Not much changed in the ending. The Philadelphia 76ers walked off their home floor again, with a bevy of New York fans again chanting “Let’s Go Knicks,” after another road win by Tom Thibodeau and company in the City of Brotherly Love. This time, Karl-Anthony Towns got the …

The Week 11 NFL Power Rankings are checking in on the most important position in the game — quarterbacks. It’s been a weird year for the most high-profile position in the game. The best quarterback in the league has not been that impressive. A can’t-miss prospect is missing by a …