Kevin Porter Jr. had 25 points and Alperen Sengun added 18 for the Rockets, who dropped their seventh in a row. HOUSTON — D’Angelo Russell scored 22 points and Anthony Edwards added 21 as the Minnesota Timberwolves overcame a big early deficit to beat the Houston Rockets 104-96 Sunday night for their fourth straight win. … Read more
Watt putt the final touches on a Hall-of-Fame career with two sacks in his last game. SANTA CLARA, Calif. — NFL great J.J. Watt played his final NFL game Sunday, ending a remarkable 12-year career that should land him a spot in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton. Though the Arizona Cardinals came … Read more
Dallas was largely lifeless in the final game of the regular season. GREATER LANDOVER, Md. — Dak Prescott completed just 14 of his 37 passes for 128 yards, threw another interception that was returned for a touchdown and the Dallas Cowboys laid an egg in their final regular-season game, losing 26-6 to the Washington Commanders … Read more
SAN ANTONIO – A man was rushed to an area hospital after he was shot on the city’s far Northeast Side, according to San Antonio police. The shooting happened around 5:20 p.m. Sunday in the 12600 block of Uhr Ln. It’s unclear what led to the shooting but when officers arrived, they found a man … Read more
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — NFL Insider Ian Rapoport is reporting Sunday morning, the Bills plan to honor Damar Hamlin’s full contract after Monday’s near-fatal injury in Cincinnati. Rapoport reports that Hamlin’s contract contains a standard split to pay him at a lower rate if he ends up on injured reserve. The Bills placed Hamlin on … Read more
Buffalo will now host their division rival Dolphins in the wild-card round next weekend. ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Nyheim Hines ignited an emotionally charged atmosphere celebrating injured Bills safety Damar Hamlin by returning two kickoffs for touchdowns, and Buffalo clinched the AFC’s second playoff seed with a 35-23 win over the New England Patriots on … Read more
NEW YORK – Russell Banks, an award-winning fiction writer who rooted such novels as “Affliction” and “The Sweet Hereafter” in the wintry, rural communities of his native Northeast and imagined the dreams and downfalls of everyone from modern blue-collar workers to the radical abolitionist John Brown in “Cloudsplitter,” has died. He was 82. Banks, a … Read more