College footballSouth Florida wins Hawaii Bowl in 5OT
HONOLULU -- Bryce Archie found Keshaun Singleton over the middle to give South Florida the lead in the fifth overtime and Mac Harris batted down a pass in the end zone to give the Bulls a 41-39 victory over San Jose State on Tuesday night in the Hawaii Bowl.
It was the longest FBS bowl/postseason game since overtime was established in 1996. Previously four games had gone three overtimes.
Trailing 27-24, South Florida started its final drive of regulation at midfield with 43 seconds left. Archie had two completions for first downs to set up John Cannon's 41-yard field goal to tie it.
South Florida began overtime with a 23-yard catch by Payten Singletary and Ta'Ron Keith followed with his second touchdown of the game. Walker Eget sparked SJSU's 11-play drive with a 12-yard sneak on third-and-12 and Matthew Coleman scored on fourth-and-goal from the 4.
SJSU elected to kick a field goal on fourth-and-1 from the 2-yard line in the second overtime and Kyler Halvorsen made the short field goal for a 37-34 lead. South Florida was not able to pick up a first down and Cannon made a 36-yard field goal to tie it.
South Florida scored first in the third overtime on Archie's shovel pass to Payten Singletary. SJSU appeared to tie it at 39-all on Eget's sneak but it was called back for a holding call. Then South Florida was whistled for pass interference in the end zone to give SJSU the ball at the 2. Eget found Coleman wide open in the corner of the end zone to tie it again.
Neither team scored in the fourth overtime.
Pro footballHall of Fame to honor longtime assistants
Longtime assistant coaches Dick Hoak, Elijah Pitts and Jim McNally will be honored with the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Awards of Excellence for the 2025 class.
The three assistants were announced Tuesday as the fourth class of assistant coaches to receiver the award given to coordinators or position coaches.
Hoak played 10 years for Pittsburgh before joining Chuck Noll's staff in 1972 as running backs coach. He held that job for 35 straight seasons and helped tutor Hall of Famers Franco Harris and Jerome Bettis. Hoak was part of five Super Bowl champions and the Steelers led the NFL in rushing during his time as an assistant.
Pitts won five NFL championships and two Super Bowls as a running back in Green Bay in the 1960s before starting a long coaching career that include time with Hall of Famers Earl Campbell and Thurman Thomas. Pitts helped the Rams make the playoffs in four straight seasons with a strong rushing attack in the 1970s before following head coach Chuck Knox to Buffalo.
He spent three seasons with the Bills, three years with Houston and one year in the CFL before returning to Buffalo in 1985. He helped the Bills make four straight Super Bowl trips before retiring after the 1997 season.
McNally spent 43 seasons in the NFL with as an offensive line coach and consultant beginning in Cincinnati in 1980. He coached Hall of Famer Anthony Munoz for his entire 13-year career with the Bengals and helped the team reach two Super Bowls.
He also coached for Carolina, the Giants and Buffalo before serving as a consultant for New Orleans, the Jets and the Bengals following his retirement from coaching. He retired for good in 2023.
The three coaches will be honored at a ceremony in June.
Dolphins' Chubb will not play this season: Miami Dolphins pass rusher Bradley Chubb will not play in 2024 as he continues to work back from a serious knee injury suffered at the end of last season.
Chubb spent this season on the physically unable to perform list after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament, meniscus and patellar tendon in his right knee on New Year's Eve last year.
GolfMasters gets nine more players from Top 50
Lucas Glover held down the 50th spot in the final world ranking of the year, making him one of nine players who will be added to the invitation list to play in the Masters.
The field has eight more players than it did at this time a year ago.
The Masters takes the top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking at the end of the calendar year, and it will take the top 50 not already invited from the world ranking published a week before the tournament is held April 10-13.
The addition of the nine players brings the field to 85 players who are eligible and expected to play. The Masters has the smallest field of the four majors, and Augusta National prefers that it stays below 100 to give players an experience unlike any other.
Tom Kim at No. 21 was the highest-ranked player who had not already qualified. The others to get in through the world ranking are Nick Dunlap, Max Greyserman, Rasmus Hojgaard, Jason Day, Corey Conners, Denny McCarthy and Min Woo Lee.
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Baseball: The Red Sox acquired Jovani Morán from the Twins for Mickey Gasper.
Basketball: Heat guard Dru Smith suffered another season-ending injury, this one a torn Achilles in his left leg.
Court: Former Eagles running back Wendell Smallwood Jr. pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges after he was accused of submitting fraudulent tax returns and applications for hundreds of thousands of dollars in COVID-19 pandemic aid programs.
Obituary: Sophie Hediger, a member of Switzerland's snowboard cross team at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, has died following an avalanche at a mountain resort. The incident occurred on Monday at the Arosa resort in Switzerland. She was 26.