Titans RB claims Jags punter threatened to kill him

Tennessee Titans running back Julius Chestnut claims Jacksonville Jaguars punter Logan Cooke threatened to kill him during Sunday's game in Nashville.

Early in the fourth quarter of the Jaguars' 25-3 win, Chestnut delivered a block to Cooke during a punt return. Cooke was shaken up on the play and evaluated for a concussion before returning to the game.

Things became heated as the two players squared off again following another punt return with 11:49 remaining.

"He said he would kill me," Chestnut said of his interaction with Cooke. "That's what he said. He came up to me and said he'd kill me. Never heard that one before. That was strange. Especially a punter, you know. It was strange."

Cooke was not asked about his alleged remarks after the game.

Cooke, 30, is in his eighth season with the Jaguars, who drafted him in the seventh round in 2018. He made his first Pro Bowl last season.

Chestnut, 25, is in his fourth season with the Titans after going undrafted in 2022. He has rushed for 39 yards on 10 carries in 12 games (no starts) this season.

—Field Level Media

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Cal Foote, one of the players acquitted in Hockey Canada sexual assault case, signs in the AHL

CHICAGO (AP) — Cal Foote has signed an American Hockey League contract with the Chicago Wolves, making him the fourth of five playersacquitted of sexual assaultin thehigh-profile trialof members of Canada's 2018 world junior hockey team to continue his career.

The team announced the deal with the soon-to-be 27-year-old defenseman on Monday. GoaltenderCarter Hart signed with the NHL's Vegas Golden Knightsin mid-October just after thewindow opened for the playersto be eligible for new contracts.

Forward Michael McLeod, who was also found not guilty of an additional count of being party to the offense of sexual assault,signed a three-year dealwith Avangard Omsk of the KHL in October. McLeod played for the club last season, as well, after originally signing in the Russia-based league with Barys Astana in Kazakhstan.

Alex Formenton has played for HC Ambri-Piotta in the Swiss Hockey League since 2022 after the Ottawa Senators opted not to re-sign him.

Dillon Dube spent 2024-25 with the KHL's Dinamo Minsk in Belarus, but the 27-year-old winger has not played this season.

All of the players except Formenton were in the NHL when they were charged in early 2024 in connection to an incident in London, Ontario, in 2018. Foote and McLeod were with New Jersey, Hart with Philadelphia and Dube with Calgary.

Those teams did not extend qualifying offers to the players that summer, and they became free agents. The league announced in September they'd be eligible to sign Oct. 15 and play Dec. 1, and Hart could make his Vegas debut as soon as Tuesday.

This story has been corrected to show that McLeod was found not guilty.

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Men's basketball AP poll: Michigan jumps to No. 3 following dominant week in Las Vegas as Purdue holds No. 1

Feast Week is over, and one team came out of Vegas easily ahead of the rest.

Here's everything you missed in the fourth week of the regular season, and the latest Associated Press poll.

It's time to talk about Michigan

Michigan was the big winner in Las Vegas this past week.

The Wolverines, who entered the Players Era Festival undefeated with several solid wins, absolutely dominated. They rolled to a 40-point win over San Diego State in their first game, and then turned around and blew out then-No. 21 Auburn by 30 points the next night.

While theformat of the event has been (perhaps rightfully) called into questionby fans, the Wolverines made the championship game, and absolutely nothing changed. They cruised to a 40-point win over Gonzaga toclaim the expanded event's title and the $1 million NIL prizethat came with it. That two-game stretch made Michigan just the second school in history to mount back-to-back 30-point wins over ranked opponents in the Associated Press' poll,according to ESPN. Kentucky is the only other team in history that's pulled that off, first in 1951 and again in 1996.

While the Players Era Festival field was easily the best among the Thanksgiving week tournaments, nobody else stood a chance.

As a result, Michigan jumped four spots in this week's poll to No. 3. Auburn, which bounced back with a win over St. John's after losing to Michigan, moved up to No. 20. Gonzaga, which had looked very solid up until this point, also moved up a single spot to No. 11.

Purdue is still a perfect 7-0, and held onto its top spot in the rankings. Arizona is undefeated still, too, and remained at No. 2.

Duke, which beat Arkansas behind a 35-point night from Cameron Boozer on Thanksgiving, remained at No. 4 and UConn rounded out the top five. Houston dropped its first game of the season in Las Vegas in a battle with Tennessee, which launched it up to No. 13 in this week's poll. The Cougars now sit at No. 8.

Michigan, clearly, is making itself known as a very real threat to Purdue in the Big Ten. The Wolverines' non-conference schedule is basically over, with just a marquee matchup remaining against Villanova among a few other easier games. Duke awaits in late February, but that's a topic for a few months from now.

While it's early, the matchup between the Wolverines and the Boilermakers on Feb. 17 is looking better and better.

Games to watch this week

All times ET | * denotes neutral site

Tuesday, Dec. 2

No. 15 Florida at No. 4 Duke | 7:30 p.m. | ESPNNo. 5 UConn at No. 21 Kansas | 9 p.m. | ESPN 2No. 16 North Carolina at No. 18 Kentucky | 9:30 p.m. | ESPN

Wednesday, Dec. 3

No. 6 Louisville at No. 25 Arkansas | 7:15 p.m. | ESPN

Friday, Dec. 5

No. 11 Gonzaga at No. 18 Kentucky | 7 p.m. | ESPN2

Saturday, Dec. 6

No. 20 Iowa State at No. 1 Purdue | 12 p.m. | CBSNo. 4 Duke at No. 7 Michigan State | 12 p.m. | FoxNo. 6 Louisville at No. 22 Indiana | 2 p.m. | CBSNo. 14 Illinois at No. 13 Tennessee | 8 p.m. | ESPN *

AP Top 25

The full Associated Press men's basketball poll from December 1, 2025.

1. Purdue (7-0)2. Arizona (7-0)3. Michigan (7-0)4. Duke (8-0)5. UConn (6-1)6. Louisville (7-0)7. Michigan State (7-0)8. Houston (7-1)9. BYU (6-1)10. Iowa State (7-0)11. Gonzaga (7-1)12. Alabama (5-2)13. Tennessee (7-1)14. Illinois (6-2)15. Florida (5-2)16. North Carolina (6-1)17. Vanderbilt (8-0)18. Kentucky (5-2)19. Texas Tech (6-2)20. Auburn (6-2)21. Kansas (6-2)22. Indiana (7-0)23. St. John's (4-3)24. USC (7-0)25. Arkansas (5-2)

Others receiving votes: Iowa 100, UCLA 59, Nebraska 53, TCU 36, Missouri 28, Utah State 16, Saint Mary's 15, Baylor 13, Oklahoma State 12, SMU 12, Clemson 11, LSU 7, Seton Hall 6, Wisconsin 6, NC State 5, Wake Forest 3, California 2, Colorado 1, George Mason 1, Buffalo 1

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Lane Kiffin's disastrous exit from Ole Miss is a stain on college football

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🚨 Headlines

🏈Coaching carousel:Lane Kiffinleft Ole Miss for LSU(more below), Kentuckyfired Mark Stoopsafter 13 seasons, Floridahired Jon Sumrall(Tulane), Arkansashired Ryan Silverfield(Memphis), Auburnhired Alex Golesh(USF), Michigan Statehired Pat Fitzgerald(ex-Northwestern), andmore.

🏎️Down to the wire:Red Bull's Max Verstappenwon Sunday's Qatar Grand Prixto set up a season-ending three-way race for the title. McLaren's Lando Norris leads Verstappen by 12 points and teammate Oscar Piastri by 16 points entering the finale in Abu Dhabi.

🏀NBA Cup knockouts:Group play is complete and theknockout stage is setfor the in-season tournament, with the Magic, Raptors, Knicks and Heat advancing in the East and the Thunder, Lakers, Spurs and Suns advancing in the West.

⚽️Iran boycotts draw:Iran isboycotting this week's World Cup drawin Washington, D.C., after members of its delegation were denied visas to enter the United States. Barring further action, Iran still plans to compete in next summer's World Cup.

🏀Deadline extended again:The WNBA and players associationhave agreed to extend their CBA for a second timeas negotiations continue, this time through January 9. The first extension was set to run out on Sunday night.

🏈 Kiffin's disastrous exit from Ole Miss

After weeks of public scrutiny and private consternation, Lane Kiffinfinally made his decisionon Sunday, ditching Ole Miss on the eve of the College Football Playoff to take the job at LSU.

Behind the scenes:In his statement announcing his departure, Kiffin said he wanted to coach the Rebels in the postseason but the school wouldn't allow it. Hard to disagree with them on that one.

From Yahoo Sports' Dan Wolken:

Kiffin leaving the No. 7 team in the country to take a job with another SEC program before the sport's marquee event is bad for the product, and no other well-run sports league would tolerate it.

While it's easy to blame "the system" or "the calendar," as you might have heard on ESPN over the weekend, this is a story of individual choices and responsibilities.

It's Kiffin's choice to leave a trail of sleaze on his way out of town. And it's the choice of SEC commissioner Greg Sankey and other college sports leaders to do nothing about it, to shrug their shoulders and to rail against professionalization of college sports when making it a priority would be the best path for their business.

Instead, lack of action is a strategic choice, and it's one that needs to be called for what it is: A dereliction of duty in protecting the best interests of college football.

Don't you think, during all those years of the Patriots winning championships, that other NFL franchises would have liked to break up the dynasty by putting a huge pile of cash in front of Bill Belichick right before a Super Bowl run?

Loyalty wasn't the reason it never happened. It's not possible because the NFL understands how bad it would be for its product and has made rules that govern when and under what circumstances coaches can change jobs when they're under contract.

Without collective bargaining, college sports has often run into legal trouble when trying to regulate anything regarding compensation or movement of personnel.

And yet, every time people like Sankey end up on Capitol Hill begging for some type of NCAA protection legislation, it's amazing how the focus is always on the chaos of NIL and the transfer portal while the coaching carousel never gets mentioned as a source of harm for the product and schools that pour hundreds of millions of dollars into their programs.

A coach leaving is, by definition, traumatic and overwhelming. Players start thinking about their own futures and options. Routines get broken up. It would truly defy the odds if Ole Miss was as good of a team under these circumstances as it has been for the past three months.

That's Kiffin's fault, and his reputation will pay a price across generations. The circus of the last few weeks will go down in SEC infamy, a forever stain on his already pock-marked record.

But this is also the product of an ecosystem where players changing jobs on a whim or for a paycheck is a crisis that needs to be dealt with immediately and regulated through a literal act of Congress, while coaches getting paid $10 million a year wrecking their own teams gets met with a shoulder shrug.

This might be the first time it's happened in college football. But in the 12-team playoff era, you can bet it won't be the last.

If the leaders of college sports aren't willing to make this as much of a priority as opt-outs and portal windows while it turns their national playoff into a punch line, they've lost all sense of perspective on what's good or bad for the game.

Read the full story.

🏀 OKC is unstoppable

The 2024-25 Thunder put together a historic campaign en route to a championship. So far this season, the defending champs look even better.

Historic start:OKC beat Portland on Sunday to win their 12th straight game and become just the fourth team in NBA history to start a season 20-1 or better.

• The 1969-70 Knicks started 20-1 and went on to win the championship.

• The 1993-94 Rockets started 20-1 and went on to win the championship.

• The 2015-16 Warriors started 21-0 and went on to lose in the NBA Finals.

• The 2025-26 Thunder started 20-1 and [TBD].

The straw that stirs the drink:Reigning MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is putting up 33-5-7 on 67.3% true shooting, which is pretty incredible for a guy who rarely even plays in the fourth quarter and has been without his wingman, Jalen Williams, for all but two games.

• If not for Nikola Jokić, who is casually averaging a near 30-point triple-double, SGA would be the runaway favorite to win back-to-back MVPs.

• He scored 20+ points for the 93rd consecutive game on Sunday, which is the longest streak by any player not named Wilt Chamberlain (126 straight).

Just how good are these guys?Well, let's see: Last year's Thunder team outscored opponents by 12.9 points per game, which broke the previous NBA record that had stood for more than half a century (12.3 by the 1971-72 Lakers). This year's Thunder squad? They're outscoring opponents by15.5 points per game.More nights than not, they're cruising to victory.

Looking ahead:What if I told you the NBA's best team could soon be adding the NBA's best prospect? The Thunder own the Clippers' 2026 first-round pick, and L.A.'s putrid 5-15 start means OKC currently has a 10% chance of landing the No. 1 pick (and a 40% chance of landing a top-four pick) in next year's draft. Something to keep an eye on as L.A.'s season spirals dangerously out of control.

🏈 Does anybody want to win the Super Bowl?

The Rams, Eagles, Chiefs, Seahawks and Colts entered Week 13 as the five betting favorites to win the Super Bowl. Four of those teams (all but Seattle) promptly lost and got exposed in various ways.

The big picture:The final month of the regular season is upon us, and it'shard to find any reliable contenders.

• In the NFC, the defending champion Eagles (8-4) are flailing and the rock solid-seeming Rams (9-3) just showed they, too, are prone to a bad loss. The Bears (9-3) are the No. 1 seed, but can they really be trusted?

• The Seahawks (9-3), 49ers (9-4), Packers (8-3-1) and Buccaneers (7-5) are the other teams in playoff position, while the Lions (7-5), Cowboys (6-5-1) and Panthers (7-6) are all in the hunt.

• Meanwhile, in the AFC: The Colts (8-4) have gone from "best team in the league" to ceding control of their own division to the Jaguars (8-4). They now find themselves in the messy middle alongside the Bills (8-4), Chargers (8-4), Texans (7-5), Chiefs (6-6), Ravens (6-6) and Steelers (6-6).

• The Broncos (10-2) have won nine straight games to leapfrog the Patriots (10-2) for first place, but they continue to fly under the radar. Perhaps that's because they barely eked out most of those wins, with seven of the nine being decided by four or fewer points.

Week 13 Scoreboard:

• Cowboys 31, Chiefs 28 (Thanksgiving)

• Packers 31, Lions 24 (Thanksgiving)

• Bengals 32, Ravens 14 (Thanksgiving)

• Bears 24, Eagles 15 (Black Friday)

• Texans 20, Colts 16

• Panthers 31, Rams 28

• Seahawks 26, Vikings 0

• Broncos 27, Commanders 26 (OT)

• Bills 26, Steelers 7

• Buccaneers 20, Cardinals 17

• Jets 27, Falcons 24

• Jaguars 25, Titans 3

• 49ers 26, Browns 8

• Chargers 31, Raiders 14

• Dolphins 21, Saints 17

Fantasy Focus:Underdog in your league? Week 13 showed there is always hope for an upset

🇺🇸 Photos across America

Fort Lauderdale, Florida —Inter Miami crushed NYC FC,5-1, on Saturday to reach the MLS Cup Final for the first time in franchise history. Breakout star Tadeo Allende netted a hat trick, giving him eight goals across Miami's five playoff games.

Meanwhile, out West: Vancouver ended top-seeded San Diego's dream debut seasonwith a 3-1 victory, sending the Whitecaps to their first MLS Cup Final.

Seattle —The Seattle Torrent drew 16,014 fans to Climate Pledge Arena on Friday for their inaugural home game,breaking the attendance recordfor a professional women's hockey game in the U.S.

On the ice: Seattle lost, 3-0, to two-time defending champion Minnesota, leaving the expansion Torrent as theonly PWHL team without a winthrough two weeks of action.

Las Vegas —No. 7 Michigandominated the Players Era Festivalwith blowout victories over No. 21 Auburn (102-72) and No. 12 Gonzaga (101-61), making the Wolverines the first team in AP poll history (since 1948) to post consecutive 30-point wins against ranked opponents.

On the women's side: No. 4 Texaswon the Players Era Festivalafter beating No. 3 UCLA and No. 2 South Carolina on consecutive days.

Copper Mountain, Colorado —Death, taxes, and Mikaela Shiffrin winning the slalom. Sunday's victory, which came in front ofan adoring crowd on her home snow, marked the Olympian's fourth straight win in her best discipline and her record-extending 104th career World Cup win.

A league of her own: How dominant was Shiffrin? The 1.57-second gap between her and the runner-up was the same as the gap between the runner-up and 11th place.

📺 Watchlist: Monday, Dec. 1

🏈 Giants at Patriots

New England hosts New York(8:15pm ET, ABC/ESPN)in just theirfourth meetingsince Super Bowl XLVI nearly 14 years ago. Can the last-place Giants (2-10, six straight losses) pull off another stunner against the first-place Pats (10-2, nine straight wins)?

⚽️ USWNT vs. Italy

The Americans close out the year in Fort Lauderdale with another friendly against the Italians(7pm, TBS/HBO Max)just three days after beating them,3-0, in Orlando.

More to watch:

• 🏀 NBA: Bulls at Magic (7:30pm, Peacock); Suns at Lakers (10pm, Peacock) … The Lakers (15-4) have won seven straight games to take over second place in the West.

• 🏒 NHL: Penguins at Flyers (7pm, NHL) … Philly hosts the season's second Battle of Pennsylvania. The Flyers took round one in a shootout.

Today's full slate.

🏈 NFL trivia

Josh Allen recorded his 76th career rushing touchdown on Sunday, passing Cam Newton for themost by a QB in NFL history.

Question:Who ranks third on that list with 63 rushing TDs?

Hint:Unlike Allen and Newton, he was not a first-round pick.

Answer at the bottom.

🍿 Top plays of the weekend

This weekend featured some of the best catches you'll ever see on the football field. Four of them top our list, and five made the cut overall.

1. 🏈 Treylon Burks!!!

2. 🏈 KJ Duff!!!

3. 🏈 Puka Nacua!!!

4. 🏈 Brock Bowers!!!

5. 🏀 Pitt at the buzzer

6. 🏀 Stanford at the buzzer

7. ⚽️ Tyler Adams from way out

8. 🏈 CJ Daniels!!!

9. 🏒 Assist while injured

10. 🏒 Ridiculous finish

11. 🥍 No-look goal

12. 🏈 Hardy to the house

13. 🏀 Block → Dunk

Watch all 13.

Trivia answer:Jalen Hurts

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'Fire Tomlin': Steelers fans losing patience with Pittsburgh’s long run of mid football

The year that Mike Tomlin took over the head coaching duties of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Tom Brady and the Patriots went undefeated in the regular season and lost the Super Bowl to Eli Manning and David Tyree's Helmet Catch. Adrian Peterson was the NFL's Offensive Rookie of the Year, and Randy Moss, Brett Favre and Peyton Manning were in the primes of their careers. George W. Bush was still president, and there was no such thing as a Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Mike Tomlin took charge of the Steelers a long time ago, is what we're saying. But now, judging from the "Fire Tomlin" chants that resounded throughout Pittsburgh on Sunday afternoon, that union might just be reaching its end.

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By any measure, Tomlin has had a spectacular head-coaching career. A Super Bowl champion, his next win will move him into a tie with Dan Reeves for 10th place on the NFL's career coaching wins list at 190. His famous, and justly celebrated, streak of never finishing a season below .500 remains intact; the Steelers are 6-6 even after Sunday's miserable loss to Buffalo.

That woeful 26-7 defeat brought fans' long-simmering frustrations to a full boil.Chants of "Fire Tomlin" resonated throughout Acrisure Stadium. And these weren't just a few isolated cranks hopped up on cheap beer. No, these chants wereloud:

Fire Tomlin chants loud and clear at Steelers game. The city has finally had enoughpic.twitter.com/GNkLkUDLJt

— Simon Ince (@SirSimon43)December 1, 2025

"I share their frustration tonight," Tomlin said, when asked about the chants. "We didn't do enough."

That's a fair assessment of Sunday, where the Steelers gained just 166 yards of total offense — 108 in the air, 58 on the ground — and managed to convert only three of nine third-down opportunities. Meanwhile, the Bills set a stadium rushing record of 249 yards over, around and through the Pittsburgh defense.

But "we didn't do enough" applies to the season as a whole, too … maybe to the entire decade of the 2020s for Pittsburgh. Although Aaron Rodgers' name isn't exactly synonymous with Pittsburgh, it was impossible to look at photographs of him aftersuffering a cut to his nose on Sunday— weary, bleeding, bandaged, gray in his beard and a resigned look in his eyes — and not think of the larger picture, that the best on-field days of both Rodgers and the Steelers are, for now, behind them.

"I totally understand the frustration," Rodgerssaid after the game. "That was a boo-worthy performance."

The Steelers of the 2020s lurk in the NFL's murky middle — enough name recognition to earn a few nationally televised games, but not enough talent to seize control of the division or the conference. Enough wins to make the playoffs on a regular basis, but too many to get anywhere near a position to draft a reliable quarterback.

Since the retirement of Ben Roethlisberger — whose arrival in Pittsburgh predated even Tomlin's — the Steelers have cycled through a procession of rent-a-QBs whose performances have ranged from decent to disastrous, with a whole lot more lows and mids than highs. Kenny Pickett, Mitch Trubisky, Russell Wilson, Mason Rudolph, Justin Fields and now Rodgers — all quarterbacks whose best days, whether college or pro, came long before they arrived in Pittsburgh.

One column on one spreadsheet tells the Steelers' tale. In the "Notes" section of Tomlin'sPro Football Reference career chartare his full-season accolades — a Super Bowl championship in his second season, an AFC title game in his fourth, and then … nothing since then. A long stretch of emptiness. The Steelers have reached the playoffs four of the past five years, but haven't won a playoff game since the 2016 season and have only three playoff wins since their Super Bowl run in 2010 when they lost to a 27-year-old QB named Aaron Rodgers.

A coaching change in Pittsburgh would be a seismic civic event akin to tearing down one of the city's signature bridges. The Steelers have only had three head coaches — Chuck Noll, Bill Cowher and Tomlin — since1969. Between them, they've won six Super Bowl titles, so that's the baseline for any new hire. Tomlin was just 35 years old when he took over from Cowher, and managed to nab his Lombardi quickly. Could any replacement do the same with this roster?

Tomlin, still just 53, remains under contract through 2027. Should he and/or Pittsburgh decide a fresh start is in order, he'd have a line of suitors waiting at his front door before he got home from his farewell press conference. A whole lot of teams in the NFL would love to have the "problem" of never finishing below .500.

But that's a hypothetical. The reality is that Pittsburgh has five games remaining — Baltimore twice, Miami, and at Detroit and Cleveland. Pittsburgh remains tied with the Ravens for first place in the AFC North, although on the outside of the playoff bracket due to tiebreakers. (The AFC North's overall stench means that merely mediocre is enough to lead the division.)

Even if Pittsburgh makes the playoffs, though — by any definition a good season — how long would the Steelers last against, say, the Colts, Chargers or these same Bills? Steelers fans have decided that "good" isn't good enough. And if the front office feels the same way, some fascinating days are ahead in Pittsburgh.

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