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Despite Zlatan Ibrahimovic not being available, Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho once again chose to bench captain Wayne Rooney for the club’s clash against Arsenal on Saturday, and he has explained why.

Well, because the victor of this mega-showdown could end up playing in the College Football Playoff. The victor of this contest certainly has a case.

The Ottawa Redblacks are the 104th Grey Cup champions after defeating the Calgary Stampeders Sunday night at BMO Field 39-33.

Herman takes over a program that most see as loaded with talent that just hasn’t been able to win.

After convincingly losing the opening two Tests against South Africa, Australia sought renewal and underwent a transformation highlighted by three batting debutants playing in the team’s seven-wicket victory in the third Test in Adelaide.

The Patriots managed to vanquish the Jets, 22-17, sealing the win with a late touchdown pass from Tom Brady to Malcolm Mitchell and a strip sack of Harvard’s Ryan Fitzpatrick by Chris Long. The Jets had two timeouts left, and the Patriots still had to get a first down.

Unfortunately, George was not able to lead by example, as he told Taylor that his ankle was still hampering him (he was noticeably limited physically versus Atlanta), and he was also experiencing lower-back soreness. Johnson is averaging 3.0 points and 3.7 rebounds in 13.8...

Indian captain Virat Kohli has made huge strides in the International Cricket Council Test ranking for batsmen following his man of the match performance in the second Test against England in Visakhapatnam.

The Brazilian worldwide suffered the knock after a strong challenge from Sunderland man Didier Ndong, and was stretchered off at Anfield visibly in real pain.

Real Madrid beat Sporting Gijon in a biblical storm at the Bernabeu and the goals went in two by two for Cristiano Ronaldo whose scoring double left him as La Liga’s top scorer.

In one of the wildest National Football League games in memory, Kansas City ricocheted its way to a 30-27 overtime victory Sunday night, handing the Denver Broncos a devastating loss before a packed house at Sports Authority Field.

Beckham, who earlier in the game became the fastest receiver to reach 3,500 yards, doing so in 36 games, beat Bengals cornerback Adam Jones for the score that put his team back in the lead. The 24-year-old All Pro had twice as many catches as anyone else on the team as the Giants...

Yahoo Sports’ Pat Forde says Kelly, whose Fighting Irish had their worst season since he took over as head coach, has reached out through his representatives to test other options.

The Ravens (5-5) need a victory to remain in first place in the lackluster AFC North. (Giving up two points doesn’t matter with so little time left.) It figured Koch would try to kill as much time as possible, take a safety and, if there was still time on the clock as there...

Striker Kane is on “only” £60,000-a-week, behind Tottenham’s highest earners and far adrift of Premier League stars of a similar stature at other clubs, despite being an England global and last season’s Golden Boot victor.