New Orleans

No. 3 Clemson is the underdog once more heading into the College Football Playoff championship. Top-ranked LSU is a four-and-a-half-point favorite over Clemson, but that's something like a comfort zone for Clemson. The Tigers began the year No. 1, slipped to No. 5 in the first CFP rankings after...

NEW YORK (AP) — Zion Williamson plays with force and ferocity, a Hulk in hightops who looks as though he’d never show a soft side. Draft night proved otherwise. Williamson was the No. 1 pick of the New Orleans Pelicans — a surprise to nobody who watched basketball this past season. But afterward he...