ATLANTA -- Austin Riley's three-run homer capped a two-out rally in the eighth inning to lift the Atlanta Braves to a 5-3 win over the Philadelphia Phillies in a back-and-forth opening game of the best-of-three National League wild-card series Tuesday ...

Michigan is coming off a heartbreaking defeat.Minnesota is coming off an exhilarating victory.The upcoming matchup between the longtime Big Ten rivals could go a long way toward determining the trajectories of both teams' seasons.Michigan (3-1, 0-1) wi...

No. 6 Indiana has spent September enjoying the comforts of home.Ahead of the defending national champion's first road test on Saturday night against Rutgers in Piscataway, N.J., Hoosiers coach Curt Cignetti took a cue from a fictional counterpart."We'r...

There haven't been many notable games for Vanderbilt against Georgia since Kirby Smart took over as the Bulldogs' head coach before the 2016 season.Ahead of the visit by Vanderbilt to Athens, Ga., on Saturday afternoon to take on No. 2 Georgia, the qua...

If Iowa was looking for inspiration to spring an upset of No. 5 Ohio State in Iowa City on Saturday, the teams' 2017 matchup would have been the choice.That is, until the currently No. 14 Hawkeyes (4-0, 1-0 Big Ten) went on the road and stunned then-No...

After 14 attempts, Mississippi State snapped its 12-year drought without a ranked-vs.-ranked win when it beat then-No. 19 Missouri 31-24 last Saturday.The now-16th-ranked Bulldogs -- they were No. 24 last week -- will try to start a new such winning st...