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UConn has won 12 women's basketball national championships. Tennessee has won eight. Nobody else comes close.

The game couldn't have started much better for the Chicago Bears after getting a pick-6 on the first play.

Luka Doncic scored 34 points, LeBron James had 24, and the Los Angeles Lakers snapped their three-game losing streak with a 125-101 win over the Sacramento Kings on Sunday night.

What may have gotten lost in all the attention to a Christmas Day 30-23 loss to the Dallas Cowboys at Northwest Stadium was that it was the Washington Commanders Fan Appreciation Day.

Mikaela Shiffrin was fourth and more than half a second off the pace in the opening run of a women's World Cup slalom Sunday, putting the American's five-race winning streak in the discipline in danger.

Ethan Grunkemeyer threw for a career-high 262 yards and two TDs, including a 73-yard strike to Trebor Pena early in the fourth quarter, and Penn State beat Clemson 22-10 Saturday afternoon in the Pinstripe Bowl.

Arsenal resisted a late fightback from Brighton on Saturday to keep hold of first place in the Premier League, but Manchester City and Aston Villa are in hot pursuit.

Senegal has a new star.

Outfielder JJ Bleday and the Cincinnati Reds agreed Saturday to a one-year contract.

On the surface, it was just another loss in a season that mercifully will come to an end next weekend.