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Michigan Overcomes Alabama—and Recent History—to Reach National Title Game

2Jan

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Michigan Overcomes Alabama—and Recent History—to Reach National Title Game

Updated Jan. 1, 2024 9:45 pm ETPASADENA, Calif.—Michigan arrived at the Rose Bowl with plenty of baggage. There was the coach, Jim Harbaugh, once again dogged by rumors that he will imminently depart for the National Football League, and with a dismal bowl game record of one win in seven tries. There was its recent history—two previous trips to the College Football Playoff that both ended in losses. There were the twin scandals, yet to be resolved by the NCAA.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

PGA Tour, Saudi Deadline Passes With No Deal—but Talks Will Continue

1Jan

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PGA Tour, Saudi Deadline Passes With No Deal—but Talks Will Continue

The stunning agreement last June between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf’s Saudi backers came with a deadline to hammer out a deal: the end of 2023. As New Year’s Eve came and went without a pact, the sides now say they are poised to continue negotiations into 2024. In a memo to players Sunday, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan wrote that the goal remains to strike a finalized agreement—but it hasn’t happened yet. Instead, he said, there are “active and productive conversations” with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and they are “working to extend our negotiations into next year based on the progress we have made to date.”Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

31Dec

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It’s the Same Old Nick Saban. It’s a Brand New Alabama.

For the better part of two decades, Nick Saban and his Alabama football team have been college football’s model of consistency.Through an era of unprecedented change, when the sport has been rocked by conference realignment and the whole notion of amateurism has begun to unravel, Alabama has remained stubbornly the same. The Crimson Tide recruit the best players, they win the biggest games, they roll into the playoffs pretty much every year as favorites to win the championship.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

27Dec

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How Liverpool Won Christmas – WSJ

Updated Dec. 27, 2023 11:44 am ETWhen Liverpool won the English Premier League in 2020, ending a 30-year dry spell for the club, something about the title still felt hollow. The relief didn’t wash over the city quite the way anyone expected it to. That’s because it was the season of the pandemic—there could be no public celebration. The best team in the country lifted the trophy inside an empty Anfield stadium. The players never got their open-top bus parade. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Anti-money laundering talks collapse amid rifts on football, super-rich

13Dec

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Anti-money laundering talks collapse amid rifts on football, super-rich

Legislators have agreed on the shape of a new money laundering agency — but not its location, nor the rulebook it will follow ADVERTISEMENTTalks on a new EU anti-money laundering regulation collapsed late last night with negotiators still at odds over how to treat football and the super-rich, two sources briefed on the talks have told Euronews.Lawmakers and governments are aligned on the outlines of a new EU authority to supervise 40-odd major banks, a deal hailed as a game-changer for the bloc, which has been keen to draw a line after a series of dirty-money scandals.But there's still no agreement on where to put the new agency, nor the exact rulebook it'll enforce. Delay could mean the new regulation won't take effect until late next year.One area of contention concerns r...

9Dec

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How Great Was Bill Belichick, Really?

It was over before it was over. Last Sunday, in a game against the Los Angeles Chargers, the New England Patriots trailed 6–0 with just over two minutes remaining. The Patriots’ quarterback Bailey Zappe hurled a desperate pass to a double-covered receiver. It bounced off the crowd of bodies and to the ground—a turnover on downs. On the sideline, the team’s head coach, Bill Belichick, pulled back his headset and wiped his nose with his hand. The rain was cold and steady. The sodden pompom on his beanie had sunk into the folds of his wet cap.It had been a day of unrelenting futility. And the two previous Sundays had been much the same: the Patriots had not scored in nine of their past twelve quarters. This time, playing at home, the team’s offense had not even made it so far as the twenty-y...

Alabama Plunges College Football Into Chaos

3Dec

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Alabama Plunges College Football Into Chaos

Updated Dec. 3, 2023 12:11 am ETATLANTA—Heading into this week’s conference championship matchups, the College Football Playoff Selection Committee looked like it could take the weekend off. The top four teams in the nation—Georgia, Michigan, Washington and Florida State—were all Power 5 schools with perfect records. Win one more game, and the final four would pick itself.Then Nick Saban’s Alabama marched into Atlanta and plunged the entire sport into chaos.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Ohio State Can Still Reach the College Football Playoff—With a Lot of Help

26Nov

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Ohio State Can Still Reach the College Football Playoff—With a Lot of Help

Asked to describe how it felt to lose to Michigan by throwing an interception in the final seconds, Ohio State quarterback Kyle McCord only needed one word. “Hurts. That’s the only word for it,” he said.What comes next for the Buckeyes will be no less nerve-racking: waiting for everyone else to determine whether they still stand a chance of making the 2023 College Football Playoff.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Michigan Holds Off Ohio State to Win Again Without Jim Harbaugh

25Nov

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Michigan Holds Off Ohio State to Win Again Without Jim Harbaugh

ANN ARBOR, Mich—Defending itself against scandal a few weeks ago, Michigan’s top brass was ready to argue in a court of law that it would be impossible for the Wolverines to win their biggest games without head coach Jim Harbaugh. It especially needed him on the sidelines for the annual shootout against Ohio State. The panic levels were apocalyptic, the predictions dire.In the end, however, Michigan stared down the biggest game of a title-chasing season by doing what it had already done five times this year: win without its head coach. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Mourners honor teen NJ football star stabbed to death in Lower Manhattan after pre-Thankgiving night out turned lethal

25Nov

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Mourners honor teen NJ football star stabbed to death in Lower Manhattan after pre-Thankgiving night out turned lethal

The New Jersey football player fatally stabbed by a stranger in a late-night Manhattan street dispute was a perpetually upbeat teen with a personality to match. Victim Rocco Rodden, 17, “was a great kid who lit up a room whenever he came in,” said Dan Marangi, his head coach at St. Joseph’s Regional High School in Montvale, N.J. “He was always welcoming and always up for a good laugh and a good time and cheering guys up. You couldn’t say a bad word about him.” Rodden, who was in the city with his older brother, suffered a fatal six-inch deep wound when stabbed at 1:49 a.m. on Thanksgiving after leaving a private party at the Live Ax NYC restaurant, with authorities saying the suspect and his friends were also inside before the fight erupted on the street outside. Suspect Gianluca Bordone,...