saturday night

Ricky Hatton faces Paulie Malignaggi on Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

The bad guy won Saturday night, and that's good news for the UFC.

LSU roared back from 28 points down to beat Troy, completing the biggest comeback in school history when Charles Scott scored with 4:50 left to put 19th-ranked LSU ahead for good in a 40-31 win Saturday night.

Troy went up 31-3 midway through the third, but LSU (7-3) answered with a touchdown late in the quarter and then ran off 30 points in the fourth to avoid an embarrassing loss.

Carl Edwards won the season-ending Ford 300 on Saturday night, but came up 21 points short in his attempt to overtake Clint Bowyer for the NASCAR Nationwide Series championship.

Sam Bradford threw for 311 yards and five touchdowns and No. 4 Oklahoma capitalized on three terrible Nebraska pass plays right in the opening minutes Saturday night to the beat the Huskers 62-28 with its biggest offensive output in the storied series.

It was the kind of start that would make Nebraska fans long for the power-running days of the past, and the stars of the Cornhuskers' "Game of the...

One's a phenom. The other a dues-paying vet. The Big 10 is in for a compelling QB battle Saturday night, Bruce Hooley says.

Sometime during the week, the top-ranked Texas Longhorns dug a hole in a secret spot and buried the game ball from their big win over Oklahoma.

Then, with the hype symbolically disposed of, the Longhorns went out and buried No. 11 Missouri. Using a stunning first half, Texas raced to a 35-point lead before cruising to a 56-31 victory Saturday night that left little doubt these Longhorns plan to be...

Like disco, Boston's comeback kings refuse to die. They turned Tampa into a Saturday night griever, setting the stage for Game 7.

TBS had technical difficulties that prevented it from showing the first 20 minutes of Game 6 of the American League championship series between Boston and Tampa Bay on Saturday night.

Shane Mosley stopped Ricardo Mayorga with one second left in the 12th round of their junior middleweight bout Saturday night to possibly put himself in line for a title shot.

Neither fighter appeared seriously hurt before Mosley floored Mayorga with about 15 seconds left in the final round.

Mayorga staggered to his feet and took the mandatory eight count before a short left put him down again.