The Celtics escaped Brooklyn with a stunning victory Friday night thanks to Jaylen Brown, Payton Pritchard and clutch plays by a pair of 2025 draft picks. Rookie Hugo Gonzalez drilled a game-tying 3-pointer with 0.6 seconds remaining in overtime, and Boston pulled away in the second OT to defeat the Nets 130-126 at the Barclays Center. HE’S ONLY 19 pic.twitter.com/WxSL4GnBRK — Boston Celtics (@celtics) January 24, 2026 Brown played 46 minutes in the dramatic victory and registered a 27-point, 12-assist, 10-rebound triple-double. Pritchard scored a game-high 32 points on 13-of-24 shooting, with 25 of those coming in the second half…
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Drake Maye has a chance to accomplish something not even Tom Brady did with the Patriots.Maye is hoping to beat the Broncos in the AFC championship game in Denver on Sunday and lead New England to the Super Bowl for the first time since 2018. The Patriots have never won a playoff game in Denver — losing all four tries, with Brady going 0-3.“Just the AFC championship, the chance to go to the Super Bowl. That’d be huge,” Maye said. “Another road environment that’s had success in the past. … I know it would be a big-time win.”The…
Contrary to what you might think of a conference No. 1 seed, the Denver Broncos quietly had one of the worst rushing offenses of the league’s playoff teams. This is due in large part to the Week 10 injury of starting running back J.K. Dobbins. Dobbins led the team in rushing nine times in his abbreviated regular season, posting two triple-digit performances. The team averaged 128.6 rushing yards per game in those 10 weeks. This pace would have put them on par with the New England Patriots and inside of the league’s top-10 rushing attacks. In the eight games since…
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Hundreds of Patriots fans in Denver for Sunday’s AFC Championship will be rallying together Saturday night, with all funds raised supporting a cause in honor of a Massachusetts native killed in the line of duty a decade ago. Each time New England travels to Denver to take on the Broncos, the “Pikes Peak Pats” fan club hosts massive parties for fans who either live in or are traveling to Colorado for the game. Club president Anne Stone says that the rallies have raised nearly $70,000 over the past decade for the Pikes Peak Region Peace Officer Memorial Foundation, in Garrett…
FOXBORO — Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel has made it a tradition this season to name at least one “game captain” each week. Vrabel surprises his weekly choice by showing a high school highlight reel of that week’s captain in a meeting and having the team try to figure out who it is. It was hard for Patriots players to figure out that it was outside linebacker Anfernee Jennings this week, since one of the clips showed him under center as a wildcat quarterback. Eventually, they figured it out. But Vrabel thought that Jennings, who will take on a bigger…
If the Denver Broncos are to pull off an upset over the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship Game, most believe it’ll be because of their defense. NFL.com analyst Maurice Jones-Drew said on Friday, however, that Broncos backup quarterback Jarrett Stidham will not only lead Denver to victory, but he’ll torch the New England defense in the process. NFL.com’s six analysts provided bold predictions for the pair of Conference Championship games on Sunday, with Jones-Drew saying that Stidham will outplay Patriots signal-caller Drake Maye. “Stidham has not thrown a pass in a real game since Week 18 of the…
FOXBORO — Mike Vrabel motioned for Will Campbell to pick his chin up. Campbell’s frustrations were clear, after all. Not only as the Patriots left tackle walked off the field at Gillette Stadium following New England’s 28-16 victory in the AFC Divisional Round against the Houston Texans, but also in front of reporters who gathered around him in the locker room. “I hold myself to a higher standard than what I put out tonight,” Campbell said Sunday after he allowed four pressures and two sacks on quarterback Drake Maye. It was the second consecutive game in which Campbell came up short…
FOXBORO — The Patriots had nearly perfect practice attendance Friday in their final session before Sunday afternoon’s AFC Championship Game against the Broncos. Center Garrett Bradbury (illness) and linebacker Marte Mapu (hip) returned to practice. Cornerback Carlton Davis III (concussion protocol) shed his red non-contact jersey, meaning he should be good to go for Sunday’s conference title game. Wide receiver Mack Hollins (abdomen) and running back Terrell Jennings, both of whom are on injured reserve, continued their participation in practice, as well. The only player missing was outside linebacker Harold Landry, who was absent all three days of practice this…
This has ramifications for the Red Sox on a few fronts: First, the deal for Bellinger again verifies the price for free agent outfielders remains astronomically high. Second, the Yankees retained another piece of their 2025 outfield that hit a combined 112 home runs (it’s a good thing the Sox have a bunch of high ceiling lefty pitchers if they need to go in there next fall). And lastly, the Mets are becoming a less ideal trade candidate as they continue to clear out interesting young players and also traded for Luis Robert earlier in the week.So where do the…