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Top gifts for sports fans: USA TODAY Sports photo booksNews Sports Outdoors Opinion Ozarks Life Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper LegalsShop USA TODAY’s exclusive sports books from Dodgers’ dynasty and OKC’s championship run to Lambeau legends and Cincinnati’s Big Red Machine.Updated Dec. 12, 2025, 8:29 a.m. CTSports-themed coffee-table books can be a unique gift for fans.USA TODAY has compiled a list of top-selling photo books that commemorate major sports moments.Featured books cover championship runs for teams like the Milwaukee Bucks, Alabama, and the Georgia Bulldogs.The books document historic seasons for college teams including the Memphis Tigers, Michigan State, and Iowa State.Sports fans…

CINCINNATI — If you’ve ever been to an awkward birthday party, then you definitely have a slight idea of how it felt during Joe Burrow’s weekly press conference this week. The Bengals franchise quarterback turned 29 on Wednesday, but he was in no mood to celebrate. Some people love when their birthday comes around, but for others, it’s just a 24-hour existential crisis where nothing could possibly go right and that seemed to be where Burrow was. Four years ago at this time, Burrow had just turned 25 and he was two months away from playing in the Super Bowl. Since…

Amid another lost season for the Falcons, Kirk Cousins delivered a night he and his team won’t soon forget. Atlanta rallied from 14 points down in the fourth quarter for a stunning 29-28 win over the Buccaneers. Zane Gonzalez nailed a 43-yard field goal as time expired to cap an incredible rally.How incredible? The Falcons hadn’t won a game they trailed 14+ in the fourth quarter since 1993.Tampa Bay appeared to be in control leading 28-14 in the fourth quarter, but Bijan Robinson scored a touchdown to cut Atlanta’s deficit to 28-20 (the two-point conversion attempt failed).Then Dee Alford picked…

OBSERVER File Photo Chautauqua Lake/Westfield/Brocton quarterback Brayden Gibbs was named a Class C South co-Offensive Player of the Year. The first year of the Southwestern/Frewsburg football merger was quite a success as the Trojans dominated Section VI Class C South action with an undefeated run to the league title. The driving force behind that was senior quarterback Trent Lewis, who went 60 of 104 for 883 yards and 13 touchdowns through the air while rushing 104 times for 906 yards and 16 scores. He also amassed 144 yards on punt returns with one more touchdown. Lewis earned the league’s Player…

Dec. 11, 2025, 8:13 p.m. CTThe Texas Tech football team’s first Big 12 championship and first appearance in the College Football Playoff are primarily attributable to a relentless defense.That unit got its due on the USA TODAY Sports All-America team released on Thursday, Dec. 11. Edge defender David Bailey and linebacker Jacob Rodriguez were named to the first team, and defensive tackle Lee Hunter made the second team.Bailey is second in the FBS and first among Power Four conference defenders with 13 1/2 sacks. Rodriguez has been credited with 117 tackles and has been a turnover machine with seven caused…

Top gifts for sports fans: USA TODAY Sports photo booksNews Sports Entertainment Lifestyle Opinion USA TODAY Obituaries eNewspaper LegalsShop USA TODAY’s exclusive sports books from Dodgers’ dynasty and OKC’s championship run to Lambeau legends and Cincinnati’s Big Red Machine.Updated Dec. 12, 2025, 9:29 a.m. ETSports-themed coffee-table books can be a unique gift for fans.USA TODAY has compiled a list of top-selling photo books that commemorate major sports moments.Featured books cover championship runs for teams like the Milwaukee Bucks, Alabama, and the Georgia Bulldogs.The books document historic seasons for college teams including the Memphis Tigers, Michigan State, and Iowa State.Sports fans…

The Buccaneers blew a chance to take control of the NFC South on Thursday. Kim Klement Neitzel / Getty ImagesWith a 29-28 loss to the Atlanta Falcons on “Thursday Night Football,” the Tampa Bay Buccaneers put their playoff hopes in jeopardy and made a path to the postseason a little clearer for a division rival.After starting 5-1, the Bucs have lost six of their last eight games. Their Week 14 loss to the New Orleans Saints cost them their solo lead in the NFC South, tying them with the Carolina Panthers at 7-6.Tampa Bay had a 70 percent chance of…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Details of the detention of former University of Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore surfaced Wednesday and included allegations of stalking and a possible mental health crisis. Audio of a 911 dispatch call obtained by Fox News Digital details allegations of an alleged “domestic” assault in which police said the victim claimed “there’s a male at the location and the house attacking her” and noted that the suspect had been “stalking her for months.” Head coach Sherrone Moore of the Michigan Wolverines looks on prior to the game against the Northwestern Wildcats at Wrigley…

Even as she racked up strong finishes, Lindsey Vonn spent much of her unlikely comeback season a year ago saying she still needed time to get used to her equipment and get back in shape for the grind of World Cup Alpine ski racing. There were better things ahead, she said.No one can doubt it now.The American Alpine legend, at 41, became the oldest woman to win a World Cup race, taking the top spot Friday in St. Moritz, Switzerland, in the first downhill race of a season that is building toward the 2026 Olympics.Starting 17th, Vonn opened slowly and…

Arne Slot will hold talks with Mohamed Salah today as the Liverpool head coach insisted: “I have no reasons for not wanting him to stay.”The Dutchman says the outcome of those discussions at Kirkby will determine whether the third-highest goalscorer in the club’s history returns to the squad for Saturday’s home Premier League clash with Brighton & Hove Albion.Salah’s future at Anfield was thrown into doubt after his incendiary comments following last weekend’s game at Leeds United and subsequent exclusion from the squad for the mid-week Champions League away win at Inter.“I will have a conversation with Mo this morning…