Category: Sports

Kyle Wright won his major league-leading 19th game, Austin Riley and Eddie Rosario homered and the Atlanta Braves beat the Washington Nationals 5-2 on Monday night. The defending World Series champions won their ninth straight home game to improve to 92-55. Atlanta remained one game behind the first-place Mets in the NL East after New York won 7-2 at Milwaukee […]

 If the Buffalo Bills are making some sort of loud statement by opening their season with consecutive routs, quarterback Josh Allen isn’t about to raise his voice.  As he did following a 31-10 win over the defending Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams, Allen dismissed questions about the message the Bills sent by throttling the Tennessee Titans 41-7 in Buffalo’s […]

No. 1 Clemson Tigers pushed past Presbyterian College (5-1-0) under the lights at Historic Riggs thanks to an electric performance by freshman Marco Garcia. The Tigers advanced to 7-1-0 in 4-0 fashion as Garcia recorded his first career goal and hat trick, becoming the first freshman Tiger to score a hat trick since Eric Quill in 1996.  Up next, the […]

Braves rookie and former Clemson Tiger Spencer Strider took a no-hit bid into the sixth inning and struck out 10 in the Atlanta Braves’ 5-2 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday.  Strider also made history Sunday by becoming just the third rookie in Braves’ franchise history to reach 200 strikeouts in a season. He now has 202 strikeouts this […]

Graham Gano kicked a 56-yard field goal with 3:34 to play and the New York Giants beat the Carolina Panthers 19-16. New York is 2-0 for the first time since 2016. The Panthers lost their ninth straight, the longest active streak in the NFL.  With the Falcons driving for a potential go-ahead touchdown, Jalen Ramsey picked off Marcus Mariota‘s pass […]

Clemson held on to its top-5 Associated Press poll standing, but a familiar name is charging for the spot.  Clemson was again No. 5 in the AP Poll this week, trailing Georgia (59 first votes), Alabama (3), Ohio State (1) and Michigan.  Oklahoma is only 11 vote points off from the Tigers with Brent Venables and the Sooners at No. […]

The Kansas City Chiefs’ Jaylen Watson picked off Los Angeles Chargers quarterback JustinHerbert at the goal line early in the fourth quarter Thursday night, headed the other way and was never touched on a 99-yard go-ahead touchdown that propelled Kansas City to a 27-24 victory over the Los Angeles Chargers.

 The No. 24 Clemson women’s soccer team (5-1-2) impressed in the ACC opener against formerly undefeated No. 6 Notre Dame (7-1) on Thursday night at Historic Riggs Field and registered their highest ranked home win since Sept. 20, 2018 when the Tigers took down the Virginia Cavaliers, 1-0. This marked the second straight win over the Fighting Irish after beating […]

Tennis player Roger Federer is retiring from professional tennis at age 41 after a series of knee operations, closing a career in which he won 20 Grand Slam titles, finished five seasons ranked No. 1 and helped create a golden era of men’s tennis with rivals Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.

 Carlos Rodón struck out eight in five dominant innings before leaving with a blister and the San Francisco Giants slowed down the Atlanta Braves 4-1 Wednesday to win the series.  Atlanta lost two of three to the sub-.500 Giants. The Braves began the day a half-game behind the NL East-leading New York Mets.  UP NEXT for Atlanta Braves: LHP Max […]