(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
New Orleans 126, San Antonio 117
Utah 120, Washington 112
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Toronto 4, Philadelphia 3
Boston 3, Winnipeg 2
NY Rangers 5, NY Islanders 3
Washington 3, Ottawa 2 (OT)
Carolina 4, Pittsburgh 3 (OT)
Vancouver 6, Seattle 5 (SO)
Calgary 3, Los Angeles 3 (OT)
San Jose 5, Minnesota 2
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Jacksonville 19, NY Jets 3
TOP 25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
(4)Kansas 68, Harvard 54
(5)Arizona 93, Morgan St. 68
Missouri 93, (16)Illinois 71
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Philadelphia 113, Detroit 93
Cleveland 114, Milwaukee 106
Brooklyn 143, Golden State 113
Indiana 117, Boston 112
Chicago 110, Atlanta 108
Toronto 113, New York 106
Dallas 104, Minnesota 99
Orlando 116, Houston 110
Oklahoma City 101, Portland 98
Sacramento 134, LA Lakers 120
LA Clippers 126, Charlotte 105
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
New Jersey 4, Florida 2
Detroit 7, Tampa Bay 4
Colorado 2, Montreal 1 (OT)
Nashville 4, Chicago 2
Edmonton 6, Dallas 3
Vegas 5, Arizona 2
Minnesota 4, Anaheim 1
TOP 25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
(1)Purdue 74, New Orleans 53
(3)Houston 83, McNeese St. 44
(7)Texas 100, Louisiana-Lafayette 72
(8)Tennessee 86, Austin Peay 44
(10)Arkansas 85, UNC-Asheville 51
(13)UCLA 81, UC Davis 54
(19)Kentucky 88, Florida A&M 68
(20)TCU 75, Utah 71
Boston College 70, (21)Virginia Tech 65
(23)Auburn 84, Washington 61
San Francisco 97, (25)Arizona St. 60
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Utah 126, Detroit 111
Chicago 113, Miami 103
New York 132, Golden State 94
Washington 113, Phoenix 110
Denver 105, Memphis 91
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Philadelphia 5, Columbus 3
Toronto 4, Tampa Bay 1
Carolina 4, New Jersey 1
Pittsburgh 3, NY Rangers 2
Winnipeg 5, Ottawa 1
Seattle 5, St. Louis 2
Los Angeles 4, Anaheim 1
Calgary 7, San Jose 3
TOP 25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
(2)UConn 84, Georgetown 73
(5)Arizona 85, Montana St. 64
(22)Miami 66, (6)Virginia 64
(9)Alabama 84, Jackson St. 64
(11)Gonzaga 85, Montana 75
(12)Baylor 58, Northwestern St. 48
Wake Forest 81, (14)Duke 70
Drake 58, (15)Mississippi St. 52
(18)Indiana 96, Elon 72
Providence 103, (24)Marquette 98
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Cleveland 122, Utah 99
Philadelphia 104, Toronto 101 (OT)
Atlanta 126, Orlando 125
San Antonio 124, Houston 105
Minnesota 116, Dallas 106
Oklahoma City 123, Portland 121
Milwaukee 128, New Orleans 119
Phoenix 130, LA Lakers 104
Charlotte 125, Sacramento 119
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Dallas 2, Columbus 1
Boston 7, Florida 3
Washington 4, Detroit 3 (OT)
Nashville 4, Edmonton 3 (OT)
Colorado 1, NY Islanders 0 (SO)
Buffalo 3, Vegas 2
Montreal 3, Arizona 2
St. Louis 5, Vancouver 1
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Orlando 95, Boston 92
New York 109, Indiana 106
Brooklyn 124, Detroit 121
Golden State 126, Toronto 110
Minnesota 150, Chicago 126
Denver 119, Charlotte 115
LA Lakers 119, Washington 117
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Minnesota 4, Ottawa 2
Carolina 3, Pittsburgh 2
NY Rangers 7, Chicago 1
Seattle 3, Winnipeg 2
Calgary 5, San Jose 2
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Detroit 20, NY Jets 17
Jacksonville 40, Dallas 34 (OT)
Kansas City 30, Houston 24 (OT)
New Orleans 21, Atlanta 18
Philadelphia 25, Chicago 20
Pittsburgh 24, Carolina 16
Denver 24, Arizona 15
Las Vegas 30, New England 24
Cincinnati 34, Tampa Bay 23
LA. Chargers 17, Tennessee 14
NY Giants 20, Washington 12
TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Texas 72, Stanford 62
Baylor 65, Washington St. 59
Southern Cal 74, Auburn 71
TCU 88, MVSU 43
(DOHA, Qatar) — Argentina defeated France in an epic World Cup final on Sunday that ended after a penalty shootout.
All eyes were on France’s Kylian Mbappé and Argentina’s Lionel Messi, two of soccer’s best-known stars, who have played together for two seasons on Paris Saint-Germain Football Club, and both did not disappoint. Mbappé scored three goals and Messi two. Both stars also were successful in penalty kicks.
After extra time, the score was 3-3. Argentina won the shootout 4-2.
Mbappé, 23, played on Sunday for the French national team, the reigning World Cup champions, which won the tournament in Russia in 2018.
Messi, 35, who has played in Europe for most of his long career, took the field for the South American challenger. It’s Messi’s fifth World Cup. He’s considered by many to be the best player currently playing — and perhaps the greatest of all time — but he has never won the World Cup.
“Final day for our two Parisians,” Paris Saint-Germain said on Twitter on Sunday. “We are proud of you.”
The French team on Sunday morning said the match will amount to a “face-to-face” competition between the four best strikers and top goal scorers in this year’s World Cup.
A win for France on Sunday would place the team in the rarified category of having won consecutive World Cups, a feat not accomplished since Brazil’s back-to-back wins in 1958 and 1962. Mbappé was on the winning team four years ago.
Argentina hasn’t taken home the World Cup trophy since 1986, when it toppled West Germany in Mexico. The team reached the finals in Brazil with Messi in 2014, but was beaten by Germany.
Messi said in October that the tournament in Qatar would be his last World Cup.
(NEW YORK)– The New York Giants pulled off what some call the biggest upset in NFL history in 2008 by beating the undefeated New England Patriots 17-14 in Super Bowl XLII.
Former coach Tom Coughlin has written a book, A Giant Win, about that game and how he, quarterback Eli Manning and the rest of the team overcame the odds.
Coughlin and Manning sat down with ABC News Live’s Trevor Ault to reflect on the game and their time in the NFL.
TREVOR AULT:I got to admit, this is the only interview where I’ve been tempted to be 5 minutes late just to see what would happen.
ELI MANNING:That would have been a bad decision by you. [laughs]
AULT: Your book is full of a ton of good stories. I know you said to Michael Strahan earlier that you believed that this was the best Super Bowl of all time.
TOM COUGHLIN:I do.
AULT: Why do you believe that?
COUGHLIN: Because it’s against an opponent that was the greatest scoring machine in the history of the National Football League. All the statistics, and no one pointed to the fact they were fourth in many categories on the defensive side of the ball. They had great personnel. They had played well together. We had played them in Week 17, [and] we go out, [and] they beat us 38-35. But we led the game and we were in the fourth quarter with the lead. But when we walked off the field that night, we knew we could play with them.
AULT: It’s funny how you started that answer verbatim with something that I wrote down from the book, which is, “We knew they were the greatest scoring machine in NFL history, just like we knew Tom Brady was the best quarterback to ever play the game.” [To Manning:] Does that hurt your feelings?
MANNING: No. The guy’s got 7 Super Bowls, he’s got five or six MVPs; he’s 44, still playing at [an] elite level.
And so, it does not hurt my feelings; and I was just fortunate to be on two great teams… including that 2007 team. I’ve gotten to know Tom over the years and I never say anything to him and I never talk about that game, but he brings it up. That game bothers him badly, because they would go down as the greatest team in the history of the NFL probably, and they can’t say that because we beat them and it hurts them and it bothers them. So I kind of like having that on him.
AULT: You know, 15 years down the line, what makes this Super Bowl and this story worth telling so?
COUGHLIN:Well, to me the greatest, certainly the greatest upset in the history of the Super Bowl. But it’s also the timing. We’ve been through COVID. We’re into a recession.
Anybody that’s down on their luck or had a bad day or whatever can relate to this because it’s about hope and inspiration.
First of all, they wanted to fire the coach. The coach was gone after the [2006] season, and had to battle to get really, quite frankly, to get his job back.
The second half of the season wasn’t easy. And yet we just hung in there and hung in there and made things happen and got ourselves in position.
Between hope, between inspiration and between someone telling you can’t do something, the reality of that you can’t underestimate.
AULT: You talk about in your forward how the two of you rebounded not just from your successes, but also you know what it’s like to have New York want to run you out of town. I would imagine it makes the success all the more sweeter.
MANNING:No doubt. And that year, 2007, we were both on the hot seat.
We started 0-2, but we never got down. We never started making excuses or panicking.
It wasn’t easy, but we hung together. We stuck together as a close team, and it was special. There was something special about the group.
COUGHLIN:It’s hard to describe that feeling.
I mean, I said to John Mara, “John, you know, I’m not big on parades. I don’t know.” He said, “You’re not going to wanna miss this one.” And my God, thank God.
Just two million people hanging out of the buildings and throwing stuff.
AULT: I’m curious because when that happened, it was the story. It was an unbelievable upset. Everyone knew what a huge moment that was 15 years down the line. Do you feel any differently about it? Do you have any new thoughts about it?
COUGHLIN:Not at all. Matter of fact, I was really invigorated by thinking about the game again.
You match up the greatest quarterback in the history of the game; the probably the greatest big game quarterback in the history of the game.
I’m looking down at the field and that third [down], and seven [yards] and three guys have got Eli in their grasp.
He wiggles his way out somehow. And we’ve got David Tyree going to the post.
Next thing I know, he’s launching a ball down the middle of the field. I’m going, “Oh, no, no, don’t overthrow. Don’t overthrow that ball in the middle of the field.”
This kid goes up in the air. He catches the ball in two hands. He’s got a safety, Rodney Harrison, who’s 20 pounds at least heavier than him.
He has the wherewithal to pin the ball to his helmet for the side of his head….[and] he hangs on to the ball on the ground.
AULT:You make the point in your forward about the similarities between the two of you about the importance of attention to detail and the fundamentals. Another similarity that I’ve heard about both of you is that you’re both secretly very funny.
COUGHLIN: Not me. [Eli] is obviously.
MANNING:He is, in the right situation.
Coach has an in-season personality and an off-season personality. And in season, you got to stay away from [when] you see him down the hall. People are ducking in the room, [and] in the bathrooms, and he’s on a mission. Then off season, you see the lighter side. You see his passion for his charity, you see his passion for family and understanding the importance of getting players home to their families and being around your kids.
AULT: But was there ever a moment where it slipped a little bit when you were being the tough coach, but then something was just too funny?
MANNING:I remember at a Saturday practice. So this is a walk through before, you know, before a game and Chris Snee, who was coach’s son-in-law, all of a sudden he’s kind of over there and you see him, he’s like, ‘Hey, Chris, come over here.’ And he looks like he’s kind of yelling at him. He’s got the script and he’s kind of hitting it like he’s yelling out.
I was kind of close enough where I could hear and he says, “Hey, are the grandkids coming over today? What time are they coming?”
He wanted it to look like you’re serious and yelling at him, but you saw the lighter side and knew there was more to this man than just football, football, football.
AULT: When you’re in that year, when you’re in that year coaching, you’ve got Eli, you’ve got my now coworker, Michael Strahan, were you looking at the roster thinking this team has an incredible future in broadcasting?
COUGHLIN:What I was really thinking is these two have a really great sense of humor. They’ll be really good after they get done, after they hang it up.
AULT: Once you’re done with them, then they’ll be good on TV.
COUGHLIN:Yeah, they’ll be able to really exert their personalities once they get away from me.
AULT: Any tough love feedback to improve the Manning cast?
COUGHLIN: No, I couldn’t even advise. Those guys are way, way beyond me.
MANNING:He said, “Just keep making fun of Peyton.”
AULT:I wanted to ask you, coach, before you wrote this book, you wrote an incredible op-ed in The New York Times about being a caretaker for your wife, and it was very powerful. Is there a message that you would just like to give people beyond football?
COUGHLIN:The message was that the role of the caretaker is an all-consuming job. Everything you do, your schedule, your life is around the loved one that you’re taking care of. The message really was, is, too, for people to give themselves a break.
I know for myself, if Judy was having a good day, I was having a good day. If she was having a bad day, I was a failure — What am I doing here?
For 18 months. Judy couldn’t walk, she couldn’t talk, she couldn’t do anything.
It’s something to behold in terms of what people go through and they need support. They need the support of family, they need supportive friends. And I’m in a position where I could, I hired caregivers, too, because it took two of us. One couldn’t do it. Well, there are people out there that can’t afford that.
And believe me, the burden, the physical and mental burden is extremely difficult to deal with. And that’s why I wrote the article, because I wanted people to pay attention to caregivers and realize what they were going through. And even a pat on the back, [or] drop off a dinner on Saturday night, don’t forget about that.
AULT:Before I let you both go, how do we feel about the Giants this season? Eli?
MANNING:You know, they’re still in control of their own destiny right now.
They’re playing close games and that’s good. Early in the year they’re finding ways to win them; now, late in the year it’s gonna be the same thing: Can they win tight games? Those are the teams that make the playoffs.
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Memphis 142, Milwaukee 101
Miami 111, Houston 108
Utah 132 New Orleans 129 (OT)
Phoenix 111 LA Clippers 95
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Carolina 3, Seattle 2
NY Rangers 3, Toronto 1
Tampa Bay 4, Columbus 1
Philadelphia 2, New Jersey 1
Anaheim 5, Montreal 2
Dallas 2, Washington 1
Pittsburgh 4, Florida 2
Los Angeles 3 Boston 2 (SO)
Final OT Winnipeg 2 Nashville 1
Vegas 4, Chicago 1
St. Louis 4, Edmonton 3 (SO)
Buffalo 4, Colorado 2
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
San Francisco 21, Seattle 13
(NEW YORK) — American soccer writer Grant Wahl died of an undetected ascending aortic aneurysm with hemopericardium while attending the Netherlands-Argentina match last week, according to his wife, Dr. Celine Gounder.
Gounder said an autopsy had been performed by the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office.
“Grant died from the rupture of a slowly growing, undetected ascending aortic aneurysm with hemopericardium,” she wrote in a post on her Substack. “The chest pressure he experienced shortly before his death may have represented the initial symptoms. No amount of CPR or shocks would have saved him. His death was unrelated to COVID. His death was unrelated to vaccination status. There was nothing nefarious about his death.”
Wahl, a well-known and loved journalist in the U.S. soccer community, collapsed in the media room during the match on Dec. 9 and could not be revived.
The 49-year-old said on his podcast, “Fútbol with Grant Wahl,” that he had bronchitis and went to the medical clinic twice two days before he collapsed. He had said on the podcast that he wasn’t back to “100%,” but was feeling better.
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Philadelphia 123, Sacramento 103
Milwaukee 128, Golden State 111
Houston 111, Phoenix 97
Utah 121, New Orleans 100
Boston 122, LA Lakers 118 (OT)
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Florida 4, Columbus 0
Dallas 4, New Jersey 1
Buffalo 6, Los Angeles 0
Toronto 7, Anaheim 0
Carolina 1, Detroit 0
Tampa Bay 6, Seattle 2
Boston 4, NY Islanders 3 (SO)
Edmonton 6, Nashville 3
Vegas 6, Winnipeg 5
Washington 7, Chicago 3
Colorado 3, Philadelphia 2
San Jose 3, Arizona 2
