College football's Week 1 winners and losers and other top stories.

• College football's Week 1 winners and losers

  Houston Cougars quarterback Greg Ward Jr. (1) hugs head coach Tom Herman after defeating the Oklahoma Sooners in the second half at NRG Stadium.(Photo: Thomas Shea, USA TODAY Sports)The day belongs to Houston, which lived up to its lofty preseason expectations by defeating Oklahoma 33-23.Topping the Sooners puts Houston in line to challenge not just for another access-bowl invitation to a New Year’s Six bowl but also the four-team College Football Playoff field. At worst, the wins justifies the ..

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• Winners and losers of Sam Bradford trade

  

  For better or worse, no general manager runs his squad more like a fantasy team than the Eagles' Howie Roseman. On Saturday, it was for the better. Philadelphia's deal of Sam Bradford to the Minnesota Vikings in exchange for a 2017 first-round pick and a 2018 fourth-round pick makes two NFC teams more compelling this year. It gives the Vikings a fighting chance of a playoff run in their new stadium and gives Eagles fans a chance to watch No. 2 overall pick Carson Wentz play all season. It is..

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• 10 Yankees things to know for Sunday: Why Mark Teixeira prayed for Jeffrey Maier

  

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• Hip Injury Forces Kyrgios to Withdraw; Journeyman Challenges Murray

  

  Photo The No. 14-seeded Kyrgios was trailing, 6-4, 4-6, 1-6, before he retired from his third-round match against Illya Marchenko. Credit Geoff Burke/USA Today Sports, via Reuters Nick Kyrgios could not jump and could not move forward, and the hip injury he had struggled with through his first two matches at the United States Open had finally caught up with him.“I guess it’s just a matter of time,” Kyrgios, of Australia, said after retiring from his third-round match Sa..

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• Dabo Swinney damn near lost Clemson a sure win

  

  Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Clemson's coach made an inexplicably bad call, and he's lucky he didn't pay for it. Clemson beat Auburn on Saturday, 19-13. The game wasn't especially close for most of the second half, but it was really close for a few moments at the very end. And that's because Clemson did some mind-numbingly dumb things. The purpose of this isn't to get a shot in at Clemson coach Dabo Swinney, who knows more about football than me and is one of the best in the world at what..

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