Mikel Arteta said that Arsenal are ready to push Man City to the final day of the season but warned his players not to get carried away by Sunday’s win at Spurs.
The post Arteta: Arsenal ready to take title race to the wire appeared first on Buy It At A Bargain – Deals And Reviews.
From four to two. Here’s how UConn and Purdue booked their spots for what will be a national championship game between two giants of this season.
The post How the title game was built: No. 1 UConn outlasted Alabama, will face No. 1 Purdue appeared first on Buy It At A Bargain – Deals And Reviews.
The post How the title game was built: No. 1 UConn outlasted Alabama, will face No. 1 Purdue appeared first on BUSINESS DEMO WEBSITES.
The post How the title game was built: No. 1 UConn outlasted Alabama, will face No. 1 Purdue appeared first on Buy It At A Bargain – Deals And Reviews.
Former Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa said on Monday he had filed a lawsuit in a London court against auto racing’s governing body FIA, series owner Formula One Management (FOM) and Bernie Ecclestone amid his attempt to claim the 2008 title.
The post Massa sues FIA, FOM, Ecclestone over 2008 title appeared first on Buy It At A Bargain – Deals And Reviews.
The SEC Women’s Basketball Championship was already going to be a heated contest between the rivals South Carolina Gamecocks and LSU Tigers, but things went overboard during the game Sunday.
Gamecocks center Kamilla Cardoso and Tigers guard Flau’jae Johnson got into a skirmish in the fourth quarter after MiLaysia Fulwiley stole the ball from Johnson, who was later called for a foul.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM
With the clock stopped, Johnson pushed away South Carolina’s Ashlyn Watkins after the sophomore forward began to celebrate in her face.
Cardoso came over and shoved Johnson to the floor, which sparked pushing and shoving between players as coaches began to break them up. At least one person came over the scorers’ table and onto the court to get into the brouhaha before getting whisked away by security.
The incident caused a 19-minute delay in the game with the undefeated Gamecocks leading 73-66.
LSU’S LAST-TEAR POA STRETCHERED OFF COURT AFTER SCARY INJURY, SET TO MISS SEC TITLE GAME
Cardoso, who was the hero of the semifinal game for South Carolina, was ejected from the game. Both benches were ejected from the game as well. The game ended with 5-on-5 basketball.
Cardoso will likely have to miss South Carolina’s first game of the NCAA tournament because she was ejected for fighting.
South Carolina coach Dawn Staley apologized to the basketball community.
“You know, when you’re playing in championship games like this in our league, things get heated,” she told ESPN after the game. “No bad intentions. Their emotions got so far ahead of them that, sometimes these things happen. I want to apologize for us playing a part in that.”
South Carolina won the game, 79-72. It’s the eighth SEC Tournament Championship win for the Gamecocks in the last 10 seasons. Fulwiley led the team with 24 points.
Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
The Baltimore Colts stunned the New York Giants 23-17 in “sudden death” at the NFL championship game at Yankee Stadium before a mesmerized nationwide television audience on this day in history, Dec. 28, 1958.
The event has gone down in American sports lore as “the greatest game ever played.”
The dramatic title tilt helped popularize pro football at a time when it ranked behind baseball and college football — even boxing and horse racing — in the national sporting consciousness.
“The game captured the collective attention of the nation and as a result, pro football exploded across the country in the following years,” writes the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
“By the mid-1960s, professional football became the nation’s favorite sport to watch and has remained on top ever since.”
The nationally televised spectacle was highlighted by two dramatic late scoring drives engineered by an unheralded 25-year-old Colts quarterback named Johnny Unitas.
The sports thriller capped a long Christmas weekend for millions of Americans who were tuning into pro football for the first time.
They witnessed the first overtime game in pro football history; one of the first NFL games broadcast nationally; and an incredible galaxy of football legends on the field and on the sidelines.
Among them: New York Giants stars Frank Gifford, Sam Huff and Pat Summerall; and Colts icons Raymond Berry, Art Donovan and Lenny Moore.
A total of 17 future Hall of Famers participated in the game as players, coaches or executives.
The Giants coaching staff included assistants Tom Landry and Vince Lombardi.
No star shined brighter than that of Unitas, who emerged from the game an American legend.
A sandlot gunslinger playing for $7 a week just three years earlier, he marched the Colts from their own 14-yard line in the final two minutes to set up a game-tying 20-yard field goal with seven seconds left to play in regulation.
“It was one of the most dramatic two minutes in the history of any sport,” former NFL executive, broadcaster and football historian Upton Bell told Fox News Digital.
TIM TEBOW REVEALS HIS AFTER-CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE TO ALL, ‘EVEN IF IT FEELS SCARY’
“People in those days knew you couldn’t put together a scoring drive in two minutes.”
Bell’s father, the late Bert Bell, was the NFL commissioner at the time.
The senior Bell had convinced team owners just a few years earlier to adopt a “sudden death” format in the event of a tie in the league championship game.
In “sudden death,” the first team to score wins.
Without it, the 1958 NFL championship game would have ended in a 17-17 tie.
“I don’t think a lot of people realized historically at the time what sudden death meant,” said Bell, who was in the stands for the game.
“Many players on the field didn’t understand. People around me were ready to go home, thinking the game ended as a tie.”
MEET THE AMERICAN WHO WAS THE FIRST PAID PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL PLAYER: PUDGE HEFFELFINGER
The Giants failed to score on the opening drive of overtime.
Unitas then led the Colts 80 yards on 13 plays for the game-winning score.
An estimated 45 million Americans gathered around the television for the final minutes of unprecedented sports drama.
They watched as Colts running back Alan “The Horse” Ameche crashed over the goal line from one yard out for the winning score.
The massive viewership shattered all known television audiences for football that had come before.
Mayhem ensued on the field, as a sense of witnessing history rushed over the 64,000 fans in attendance.
Unitas completed 26 of 40 passes for 349 yards — startling numbers in that era. His teammate Berry caught 12 passes for 178 yards.
Berry’s 12 receptions stood as an NFL championship game/Super Bowl record for 55 years.
The previously unknown sports term “sudden death” entered the American vernacular that day, said Bell.
It’s still commonly used in all sports to describe a contest that ends on the next score by either team.
Commissioner Bell, a pro football pioneer, broke down and cried after the game, realizing he had witnessed a landmark moment for a league that often struggled to survive since its 1920 founding.
The game benefited from low ambient lighting and the sharply different white jerseys of the Colts and dark blue jerseys of the Giants.
It gave the game a stark, thrilling palette that popped on black-and-white television.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER
“Many of the viewers just beginning to tune in were not regular watchers of pro football and they were seeing something starkly different than the traditional college games played on sunny autumn afternoons,” author Mark Bowden wrote in his 2008 book, “The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL.”
He added, “This was more like mortal combat from some dark underworld. A master cinematographer could not have lit the scene more dramatically.”
The massive interest in the game fueled the creation of the rival American Football League the following year.
Eight AFL teams took the field for the first time in 1960.
The two leagues merged in 1966 with the creation of the first AFL-NFL championship game, an event now known around the world as the Super Bowl.
A behemoth of American sports culture, the Super Bowl was made possible by the drama of the 1958 NFL title game.
A 2019 poll of dozens of football experts confirmed the status of the 1958 NFL championship contest as “the greatest game ever played.”
The second greatest game on the list: the improbable 34-28 comeback win by Tom Brady and the New England Patriots over the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl LI.
It was the only other NFL championship game that went into overtime.
For more Lifestyle articles, visit www.foxnews.com/lifestyle.
For the first time in two years, the Georgia Bulldogs lost a football game Saturday.
The top-ranked, two-time defending national champions were upset in the SEC title game by No. 8 Alabama, creating chaos for the College Football Playoff committee.
Georgia was riding a 29-game winning streak entering Saturday afternoon, and its last loss came Dec. 4, 2021 in the SEC championship against Alabama.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM
But that loss didn’t keep the Bulldogs out of the 2021 College Football Playoff. And Georgia got its revenge by beating Alabama in that season’s national championship.
Georgia coach Kirby Smart says Saturday’s loss shouldn’t keep his Bulldogs out this year either.
“[Committee executive director] Bill Hancock said it’s not the most deserving,” Smart said after the game. “Simply, it’s the best four teams. You’re gonna tell me somebody’s sitting in that committee room and doesn’t think that Georgia team is not one of the best four teams? I don’t know if you’re in the right profession.
“It’s a really good football team. It’s a really talented football team. It’s a really balanced football team. They have to make that decision, but it’s the best four teams.”
Georgia scored a touchdown on its first possession of the game, but the Crimson Tide earned its seventh conference title in the last decade.
It’s rare a team has made the CFP without winning its conference. But it happened with Ohio State in 2016, Alabama in 2017 and the 2021 Georgia team.
No. 7 Texas remains in the mix with its Big 12 title. At the time of publication, No. 4 Florida State looks like it will finish 13-0 with an ACC title, which still might not even be enough. And who knows what happens if No. 2 Michigan is upset by No. 19 Iowa in the Big Ten championship?
The Bulldogs will find out their fate Sunday afternoon.
Max Verstappen wrapped up his third Formula One championship on Saturday in Qatar’s sprint race with six races to spare.
The post Verstappen wins third F1 world title in Qatar appeared first on Buy It At A Bargain – Deals And Reviews.
Myles Rowe, who became the first Black driver to win an open-wheel championship in a North American series when he clinched the USF Pro 2000 title, will join HMD Motorsports in the Indy NXT series in 2024. The post Rowe, off USF Pro 2000 title, heads to Indy NXT appeared first on Buy It At … Continue reading Rowe, off USF Pro 2000 title, heads to Indy NXT
Lawyers for former Ferrari driver Felipe Massa have started legal action against Formula One bosses and the governing FIA seeking substantial damages resulting from an alleged ‘conspiracy’ that denied him the 2008 championship. The post Massa seeks compensation for lost 2008 F1 title appeared first on Buy It At A Bargain – Deals And Reviews.
To celebrate NASCAR’s 75th anniversary, Ryan McGee presents a top-5 list every week for the rest of 2023. This week: the best title fights. The post 75 things for NASCAR's 75th anniversary: Best title fights appeared first on Buy It At A Bargain – Deals And Reviews.