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BALTIMORE — Lamar Jackson threw three touchdown passes and Marlon Humphrey scored on a fourth-quarter interception return to help the Baltimore Ravens pull even with Pittsburgh atop the AFC North with a 34-17 victory over the Steelers on Saturday.Pittsburgh (10-5) would have clinched the division with a victory, but now the teams are deadlocked after the Ravens (10-5) won for just the second time in the last 10 games in this series. Baltimore clinched a playoff berth. The Steelers had already done so.Russell Wilson threw two touchdown passes, the second of which tied the game at 17 with 5:14 left…

SACRAMENTO — In a two-game set like the Lakers wrapped up with a 103-99 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Saturday afternoon, especially after winning the first matchup on Thursday night, the little moments can shine through.But it was LeBron James’ offensive aggressiveness early that gave the Lakers an early edge.And then the little plays made by the Lakers’ late sealed their third consecutive victory and fourth in their last five games, putting them at 16-12.James (32 points, seven rebounds, six assists, four steals) attacked the rim early and often.He scored 23 first-half points and made his first eight shots…

AUSTIN, Texas — Jaydon Blue ran 146 yards and two touchdowns, the last a 77-yard burst in the fourth quarter, and Texas beat Clemson 38-24 on Saturday in the first round of the expanded College Football Playoff.Blue’s fourth-quarter touchdown came after Clemson rallied from down 31-10 to 31-24 on Cade Klubnik’s third touchdown pass.Texas (12-2) advanced to the Jan. 1 Peach Bowl to play Big 12 champion Arizona State.Blue also scored on 38-yard cut-and-dash burst in the second quarter. On his second, he dove into the line, shook a tackler, and then outraced three more to the end zone with…

NEW YORK — RJ Davis made the tying and go-ahead free throws with 13 seconds left, and North Carolina erased a 16-point deficit for a 76-74 victory over No. 18 UCLA on Saturday in the CBS Sports Classic at Madison Square Garden.Davis scored 17 points and gave the Tar Heels (7-5) their first lead since the opening minutes. Ian Jackson scored a career-high 24 points. Seth Trimble added 12 and forced a UCLA turnover that set up the free throws by Davis as North Carolina outscored UCLA 33-15 over the final 12-plus minutes and shot 46.8%.Tyler Bilodeau tied a career…

RAMS (8-6) at NEW YORK JETS (4-10) When: 10 a.m. PT Sunday Where: MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, N.J. TV/Radio: CBS Ch. 2/710 AM; 93.1 FM; 1330 AM (Spanish); Sirius 385, 230 Line: Rams by 3.5 Notable injury designations Rams: None. Jets: OUT: CB Michael Carter II (back); QUESTIONABLE: OL Alijah Vera-Tucker (ankle), DL Quinnen Williams (hamstring), RB Braelon Allen (back), DL Leki Fotu (knee). What’s at stake? The Jets are long out of the playoff race, but the Rams are in first place in the NFC West by virtue of a tiebreaker. They have the chance to move a game ahead in the standings should they…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Patrick Mahomes threw for 260 yards and a touchdown while running for a score on his ailing ankle, and the Kansas City Chiefs took a big step toward securing the No. 1 seed in the AFC playoffs with a 27-19 victory over the Houston Texans on Saturday.The AFC West champion Chiefs (14-1), who have won four straight against the AFC South champ Texans (9-6), can clinch the postseason bye if Buffalo loses to or ties New England on Sunday. If the Bills win, Kansas City can wrap it up by beating Pittsburgh on Christmas Day.Xavier Worthy…

Southern California will have a bright Christmas – mostly sunny skies and high surf beginning on Saturday, Dec. 21, forecasters say.In Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside counties, temperatures will remain in the low to mid-70s with partly cloudy skies this weekend, then drop into the high 60s starting on Monday. San Bernardino County should stay in the low 70s throughout the week until sharply descending to a high of 64 on Christmas Day, according to National Weather Service meteorologists.Los Angeles County has a 50% chance of rain on Christmas Eve after 10 a.m., but the chance of showers remains slight…

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Dominic DeLuca and Tony Rojas returned interceptions for touchdowns and Penn State toyed with mistake-prone SMU in a 38-10 victory on Saturday in the opening round of the College Football Playoff.The sixth-seeded Nittany Lions (12-2) advanced to face third-seeded Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl on New Year’s Eve by hounding Mustangs quarterback Kevin Jennings into three turnovers, including a pair of ill-thrown floaters in the first half DeLuca and Rojas converted into Pick-6s that sent the white-out crowd at wintry Beaver Stadium into a frenzy and SMU (11-3) into a funk from which it never…

LOS ANGELES — They had been beaten at the line of scrimmage for years. They were walled off too often by opposing linemen in 2024. So USC’s primary defensive focus in the transfer portal this winter, as defensive coordinator D’Anton Lynn made clear, was on the defensive line.And Lynn didn’t hesitate for a second Wednesday when asked exactly what they were looking for up front.“I would say size is the number one priority,” Lynn said.Check that off the list. After a tumultuous early transfer-portal period, USC is suddenly rolling, defensive line coach Eric Henderson and company landing two massive commitments…

Jonas Never didn’t set out to be a trendsetter.Originally, he set out to be a college pitcher, before his shoulder gave out on him at UC Riverside. But the old adage that if you love what you do for a living it’s not really work has turned out to be so true in his case, because he went from trying to paint the corners, in baseball terms, to painting walls, buildings and canvases with sports art.And his work – the most prominent of which, early on, might have been his depiction of Dodgers pitcher Joe Kelly’s pouty face, directed at…