Burton just completed his final full-time season, and while he hasn't been great the last few years, he's got 21 career victories and has remained competitive. He is knowledgeable about issues in the sport and he can explain things so they are easy to understand. What’s not to like? But he will be a rookie in the broadcast booth when NBC takes over the second half of the Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series schedules in 2015....

Thus far this season, the sailing has been much smoother. AEK coasted to a 12-2 record in Group C, losing games only to fellow postseason qualifiers Hapoel Jerusalem and Brose Baskets Bamberg, and even then only by a combined eight points. In the round of 16, they beat their fellow countrymen PAOK Thessaloniki by the same margin, and now face Bamberg once again the quarter finals. The series promises to be a match-up of contrasting styles....

A video of the area posted online by news station KATU shows floodwaters covering roads, parts of homes and even a vehicle. During one section of the more than 20-minute video, a boat crew can be seen rescuing two people standing on a pickup truck that’s almost completely submerged. The rains led to the closure of a 20-mile stretch of Interstate 5 south of Chehalis, according to The Seattle Times....

AEW Full Gear will be in Baltimore for the event on Saturday, Nov. 9 inside the Royal Farms Arena. Join DAZN and watch more than 100 fight nights a year The event is almost here so keep checking back here as the card continues to fill up. Plus, Sporting News will have plenty of AEW Full Gear coverage on the day of the event. AEW Full Gear live stream TV channel: B/R Live (PPV) Live stream: live....

While New England and Atlanta are the respective favorites for the conference title games, the trend for the 2016-17 NFL playoffs might have shifted to the underdogs during the divisional weekend. Favorites won the first six games this postseason, but underdogs, Green Bay and Pittsburgh, won the last two. The bad news for the Steelers, though, is the Patriots are 13-3-1 against the spread this season, per Pregame.com. A Falcons or Packers Super Bowl win would be the most shocking for different reasons....

Here is the schedule for Sunday, January 19, 2020: AFC Championship Tennessee Titans at Kansas City Chiefs, 3:05 p.m. ET, CBS NFC Championship Green Bay Packers at San Francisco 49ers, 6:40 p.m., FOX The winners will meet February 2 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, at Super Bowl LIV. How it Got Here On Saturday, the top-seeded 49ers in the NFC beat the No. 6-seeded Minnesota Vikings to advance to the NFC Championship....

It is indeed remarkable that the 25-year-old attacking midfielder leads the tournament charts for goals and assists. More often than not, the best way to stop Al Ain is to shackle the 2016 Asian Player of the Year, which Iran’s Esteghlal did effectively in the first leg of their Round of 16 game which they won 1-0 at home. With the advantage in hand, Esteghlal had hoped to pull off a surprise win by holding on to it in the second leg in UAE....

Persepolis were expected to roll over in the second leg as well but thanks to their Nigerian striker Godwin Mensha, they managed to hold Al Hilal to a 2-2 draw. By no means was it enough to overturn the deficit but it was a respectable reslt nevertheless. Mensha was the star for the Iranians with two goals on Tuesday. The striker from Lagos had 56 touches, made 32 successful passes and scored his brace from just five shots on goal, three of which were on target....

Defenders: Rahul Bheke, Subhasish Bose, Zohmingliana Ralte, Collin Abranches, Joyner Lourenco, Juanan Gonzalez, Nishu Kumar, Prashanth Kalinga; Midfielders: Erik Paartalu, Dimas Delgado, Antonio Dovale, Boithang Haokip, Lenny Rodrigues, Alwyn George, Harmanjot Khabra, Malsawmzuala, Robinson Singh; Strikers: Sunil Chhetri, Udanta Singh, Daniel Lalhlimpuia, Thongkhosiem Haokip, Leon Augustine.

CENTRAL ZONE (GROUP D) Altyn Asyr (TKM) v FC Alay (KGZ): Turkmenistan’s Altyn Asyr face a crucial Group D encounter against Kyrgyz Republic’s FC Alay on Wednesday, as they battle it out with FC Istiqlol for the top spot in the group. Altyn Asyr and Istiglol are locked on 10 points each with two games remaining while FC Alay are already eliminated and have nothing to play for. Altyn Asyr are expected to cruise through this game since Alay are yet to pick up a single point so far....

In the first leg of the tie that ended without goals, Albert Roca decided to rotate his squad and give an opportunity to the fringe players to prove their mettle. Despite the goalless draw in the first leg, the head coach defended his decision to rotate. “I cannot blame my players as they are good strikers. But they have to play more and be in the rhythm. Unfortunately, they are not playing much, as there are players who are playing in the (Indian) Super League instead of them....

GROUP F : Home United 6-0 Boeung Ket FC (Ishak 37’ Ui-young 44’ Hameed 55’ Kumar 72’, 83’ Shafiq 87') Home United inflicted a 6-0 defeat on Cambodia’s Boeung Ket FC on Wednesday to eliminate them from the AFC Cup. The home team were on top right from the outset and took the lead in the 37th minute when Shahril Ishak headed home Izzdin Shafiq’s free-kick. Just before half-time, Ishak sent a cross in for Song Ui-young who diverted it past the keeper to make it 2-0....

The Indian side lead the table with the nine points and the Maldivian champions have six points in their kitty and are a place below as they enter the second half of the group stage. Two weeks ago, it was Nishu Kumar’s injury-time goal that rescued out a narrow 1-0 win in Bengaluru, thus ending New Radiant’s unbeaten run of 22 games in all official competitions. Revenge will be on their mind as a loss for the Maldivian Blues will signal the end of their continental participation....

Opposite the Steelers vs. Broncos on the AFC divisional round schedule will be the red-hot Chiefs traveling the Foxborough to meet the New England Patriots, who enter the postseason on a two-game losing streak. The Kansas City Chiefs annihilated the Houston Texans, 30-0, to stretch their winning streak to 11 games. MORE: SN’s playoff predictions | NFC playoff schedule | AFC wild card duels in photos The Chiefs have a major concern heading into the game....

Pittsburgh began the 2022 season 2-6. Franchise quarterback Ben Roethlisberger had retired. Offseason acquisition Mitch Trubisky had been replaced by rookie Kenny Pickett, who was struggling. The team had scored more than 20 points just once all season, and that game included a pick-six. Fast-forward to Sunday night, Jan. 1, 2023, and the Steelers are back in the mix for the playoffs. They took down AFC North rival Baltimore on the road under the lights of prime time in a 16-13 victory, capped off by a late go-ahead touchdown from Pickett to running back Najee Harris....

The new interim Cabinet does not appear to include women or non-Taliban members, despite the group’s promise to create an “inclusive” government to forge relationships with previous enemies and seek to create “security and prosperity” in Afghanistan. The new acting interior minister, Sirajuddin Haqqani, is wanted by the FBI in connection with a January 2008 attack on a hotel in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, that killed six people, including one American....

NEWSWEEK: What triggered the rebel attack in Chad? Should we have expected it? Reed Brody: This has been brewing for a long time. I think the question was never if, but when. The governments of Sudan and Chad have been at each other’s throats for several years now, with each supporting each other’s rebels. The government of Sudan really wants to control the border and to shut down the international community’s only window onto what it is doing in Darfur....

Richard Bernard Moore, 57, is set to be the first man to be executed in the state since 2011, and the first to choose his method of death after a law went into effect last year making electrocution the default. If it goes as scheduled, Moore will be executed on April 29. Moore has spent more than two decades on death row after being convicted of killing a convenience store clerk in 1999 in Spartanburg, South Carolina....