LISBON Tanton Mattson dreamt often about this season. The Lisbon High School senior linebacker and offensive lineman envisioned an undefeated, dominating season for his Greyhounds, ending with a State Class D championship. But, as happens so often with dreams, a nightmare soon follows. Lisbon lost its Campbell Conference opener back on Sept. 3 to Winthrop/Monmouth, […]

WASHINGTON Otto Porter didn’t think much of “Otto Porter” chants in the final minutes of the Washington Wizards’ 118-93 rout of the Boston Celtics. But they sure were familiar. Back in the same building he called home when he starred at Georgetown, Porter scored a career-high 34 points and had 14 rebounds Wednesday night. Porter […]

The Cleveland Browns are winless, 0-9 for the first time in this version of the franchise’s history. They are ranked dead last at No. 32 in the AP Pro32. And now they must play on a short week at their hated rival, the Ravens — who used to be the Browns before fleeing to Baltimore […]

BRUNSWICK It is regional final time in high school football, and two area teams are in the mix. On Friday night in Brunswick, the top-seeded and undefeated Dragons (9-0) play host to No. 2 Brewer (8-1) at 7 p.m. This is a rematch of an Oct. 7 matchup, also in Brunswick. The Dragons routed the […]

RENTON, Wash. Just as the Seattle Seahawks are evolving offensively and appearing to find success, they have another problem emerging. In the last few weeks, Seattle can’t get off the field on defense. And it’s not the best time to be struggling on that side of the ball about to go on the road, on […]

FRISCO, Texas Tony Romo stretched alongside Jason Witten early in practice for the Dallas Cowboys, just as they’ve done for most of the past 10 years. Then the 36-year-old quarterback went off to run the scout team, and his trusty tight end joined the first-teamers along with rookie Dak Prescott, who has a seven-game winning […]

OKLAHOMA CITY DeMar DeRozan scored 37 points to help the Toronto Raptors beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 112-102 on Wednesday night. DeRozan, the NBA’s leading scorer, made 13 of 22 field goals and 11 of 15 free throws. Kyle Lowry added 19 points, 13 assists and nine rebounds and Patrick Patterson had 13 points for […]

SAN DIEGO Voters have called the San Diego Chargers’ bluff, leaving the NFL team to decide whether to try one more time to get a new stadium built here or pack the moving vans for the trip up Interstate 5 to Los Angeles. Measure C, which would have raised $1.15 billion from increased hotel occupancy […]

ST. LOUIS Artemi Panarin scored 25 seconds into overtime and Corey Crawford made 27 saves, leading the Chicago Blackhawks over the St. Louis Blues 2-1 on Wednesday night for their seventh straight win. Crawford won his sixth consecutive game and improved to 15-5-5 against the Blues. Chicago has earned a point in nine straight games. […]