Unseeded Washington completes epic run to first NCAA soccer championship

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🏈 Arch to return: Arch Manning will return to Texas for his junior 12 months somewhat than declare for the NFL draft. After a tough begin to the season, he ended up main the Longhorns to a 9-3 document that almost acquired them into the College Football Playoff.

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🏀 Flagg makes historical past: Cooper Flagg scored a career-high 42 points within the Mavericks’ time beyond regulation loss to the Jazz, breaking LeBron James’ document for probably the most factors ever scored in a sport by an 18-year-old. He turns 19 this Sunday.

⛳️ Scottie named POY once more: Scottie Scheffler was named the PGA Tour’s Player of the Year once more, becoming a member of Tiger Woods as the one golfers to win the award in 4 consecutive seasons.

⛳️ AP polls: Arizona (men) and UConn (women) stay atop their respective AP Top 25 polls, which featured little change after per week devoid of notable upsets.

⚽️ Red Bulls rent Bradley: Former USMNT captain Michael Bradley has been named head coach of the New York Red Bulls, taking up a job his father, Bob, held twenty years in the past. Bradley led the membership’s MLS Next Pro squad to a title final month.

⚽️ Huskies full epic run to title

Washington was unseeded getting into the NCAA males’s soccer match. Four weeks later, they’re national champs.

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Cinderella run: The Huskies beat NC State, 3-2, in Monday’s title sport to win their first nationwide championship and turn out to be the first crew to win six matches away from house within the match — taking down 5 seeded groups alongside the best way.

• First Round: Washington 3, Oregon State 2 (OT)

• Second Round: Washington 1, SMU 0

• Sweet Sixteen: Washington 1, Stanford 0

• Elite Eight: Washington 3, Maryland 1

• Semifinal: Washington 3, Furman 1

• Final: Washington 3, NC State 2 (OT)

Golden objective: Washington blew a two-goal lead within the second half, however Harrison Bertos scored 1:54 into time beyond regulation for the walk-off championship victory.

What they’re saying: “That was a heck of a game and all 10,000 people in attendance got to witness a spectacle,” stated Huskies head coach Jamie Clark. “And it was a spectacle because NC State didn’t hang their head down 2-0 and they pushed us right to the limit.”

💯 Big numbers

🏈 twenty third straight win

The Steelers beat the Dolphins, 28-15, final night time to win their twenty third consecutive house sport on Monday Night Football, the longest such streak since MNF started in 1970.

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Speaking of streaks: This was Miami’s 14th straight loss (together with playoffs) in video games colder than 40 levels.

🏀 7 undefeated groups

No. 1 Arizona (9-0) is one in all seven undefeated groups remaining in males’s DI hoops, together with No. 2 Michigan (10-0), No. 3 Duke (10-0), No. 4 Iowa State (10-0), No. 13 Vanderbilt (10-0), No. 15 Nebraska (11-0) and Miami-Ohio (10-0).

Historic begin: The top-ranked Wildcats are the first crew within the historical past of the AP ballot (since 1948) with 5 wins over ranked opponents of their first 9 video games. They’ve earned their undefeated begin.

⚽️ 277 objective involvements

Mohamed Salah was concerned in his 277th objective for Liverpool on Saturday, breaking the record for most goal involvements (targets and assists) for a single membership in Premier League historical past.

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Whose document did he break? The Egyptian has 188 targets and 89 assists for Liverpool in England’s high flight, overtaking Wayne Rooney’s tally of 276 objective involvements (183 targets, 93 assists) for Manchester United.

🏈 27 years

With the Chiefs eradicated from playoff competition, the upcoming NFL postseason would be the first in 27 years (since 1998) with out both Peyton Manning, Tom Brady or Patrick Mahomes.

Who had been the QBs in 1998? John Elway (Broncos), Brett Favre (Packers), Steve Young (49ers), Dan Marino (Dolphins), Drew Bledsoe (Patriots), Randall Cunningham (Vikings), Elvis Grbac (Chiefs), Kordell Stewart (Steelers), Mark Brunell (Jaguars), Trent Dilfer (Buccaneers), Danny Kanell (Giants), Scott Mitchell (Lions).

🏈 2025 AP All-Americans

Indiana’s Heisman-winning QB Fernando Mendoza headlined the AP All-America first crew, which was released on Monday alongside the second and third groups.

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Notes:

• By convention: The Big Ten (10) had by far probably the most gamers on the 27-man first crew, adopted by the SEC (6), Big 12 (3), C-USA (2), ACC (1), American (1) and MWC (1), plus three independents.

• By college: Ohio State led the best way with 4 first-team gamers, together with three from their FBS-best defensive unit. Notre Dame, USC, Iowa, Texas A&M and Texas Tech had been the one different colleges with a number of first-team gamers.

• By class: Seniors (14) and juniors (10) comprised virtually the complete first crew, with simply three underclassmen making the lower: sophomores Jeremiah Smith, Ahmad Hardy and Leonard Moore.

Sign of the instances: Nearly half of the first-team gamers (12 of 27) did not start their careers at their present colleges, which has turn out to be the norm within the switch portal period.

100 years later… This 12 months marked the a hundredth anniversary of the inaugural AP All-America crew chosen again in 1925. To have fun, the AP named its all-time All-Americans again in August, with guys like Tim Tebow, Barry Sanders and Dick Butkus main the 25-player first crew and Archie Griffin, Lawrence Taylor and Champ Bailey main the second.

🏈 The perils of an 18-game NFL season

From Yahoo Sports’ Jay Busbee:

If soccer is nice, extra soccer is healthier, proper? If NFL Sundays are the best of Sundays, why not create one other one?

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More soccer means extra income for the league and broadcast companions, extra alternative for fantasy and playing for followers, extra of all the pieces that makes soccer nice. Who would not need the NFL season to add an 18th sport?

“I’m not a big fan of it,” one NFL participant stated again in July when requested about the potential for the NFL season transferring to 18 video games. “You’ve seen the amount of injuries that have kind of piled up there at the end of seasons, and you want to have the best players playing in the biggest games.”

That participant was Patrick Mahomes, who’s now misplaced for the season thanks to a Week 15 ACL tear. Also gone for 2025: Green Bay’s Micah Parsons, who tore his ACL across the similar time Mahomes did.

Every play within the NFL is a roulette-wheel spin that carries with it the potential for a catastrophic damage. And each further sport means one other 40 or 50 spins of that wheel.

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For Mahomes and Parsons, the wheel got here up double-zeroes on Sunday. Asking who’s subsequent — questioning whose season is about to be derailed by damage — is a grim endeavor, however a crucial one if we’re speaking about including one more sport.

Keep reading.

📺 Watchlist: Tuesday, Dec. 16

🏀 NBA Cup Final

The Spurs and Knicks face off tonight in Las Vegas (8:30pm ET, Prime), the place a champion will probably be topped within the third annual in-season match.

Prize cash: Each participant on the profitable crew will earn $530,933, whereas every participant on the runner-up will take house $212,373. That could also be a drop within the bucket for the NBA’s greatest stars, but it surely’s a considerable prize for these on league-minimum deals.

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🏒 NHL on TNT

Sidney Crosby and the Penguins host Connor McDavid and the Oilers within the first leg of the doubleheader (7:30pm), whereas the Kraken host the league-leading Avalanche within the nightcap (10pm).

Alone on the high: Colorado (23-2-7) does not simply have the best record in the NHL, their +54 objective differential is greater than twice as excessive as the following greatest mark (Stars, +25).

More to watch:

• 🏀 NCAAM: No. 11 Louisville at No. 20 Tennessee (7pm, ESPN); DePaul at No. 22 St. John’s (7pm, Peacock); Butler at No. 5 UConn (8:30pm, Peacock)

• 🏈 NCAAF: Troy vs. Jacksonville State (9pm, ESPN) … The Salute to Veterans Bowl in Montgomery, Alabama.

Today’s full slate.

🏈 NFL trivia

52 years in the past at present, O.J. Simpson turned the first of 9 gamers in NFL historical past to rush for two,000 yards in a season.

Question: How lots of the different eight are you able to title?

Answer on the backside.

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🇨🇭 Davos, Switzerland — Italy’s Davide Graz competes in a cross-country World Cup occasion. What a shot.

Trivia reply: Eric Dickerson (2,105 yards in 1984); Adrian Peterson (2,097 yards in 2012); Jamal Lewis (2,066 yards in 2003); Barry Sanders (2,053 yards in 1997); Derrick Henry (2,027 yards in 2020); Terrell Davis (2,008 yards in 1998); Chris Johnson (2,006 yards in 2009); Saquon Barkley (2,005 yards in 2024)

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