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4:38 PM on Saturday, August 30

Josh Johnson threw for two touchdowns, one to Cade Harris, and Harris ran for two and the Air Force Academy rolled to a 49-13 win over Bucknell, the Falcons’ 19th-straight season-opening victory

4:30 PM on Saturday, August 30

Liberty scored 21 points in the fourth quarter to beat Maine 28-7 on Saturday night in a season opener for both teams

4:26 PM on Saturday, August 30

Ahmad Miller rushed for 172 yards on just 10 carries and his two fourth-quarter touchdowns over a span of 92 seconds helped Jackson State beat Hampton 28-14 and the Tigers extended the longest win streak in Division I to 11 games

4:19 PM on Saturday, August 30

Oneil Cruz homered, Bryan Reynolds drove in two runs and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Boston Red Sox 10-3

4:09 PM on Saturday, August 30

Dev’ion Reynolds returned a fourth-quarter kickoff for a 96-yard touchdown and Northern Illinois defeated Holy Cross 19-17 on Saturday in a season opener for both teams

3:54 PM on Saturday, August 30

Evan Simon set a career high with six touchdown passes and Temple snapped an FBS-worst 20-game road losing streak in a 42-10 season-opening win over UMass on Saturday

3:52 PM on Saturday, August 30

Vinícius Júnior and Arda Güler scored back-to-back goals to help Real Madrid rally for a 2-1 win over Mallorca and make it three wins in as many games in the Spanish league

3:44 PM on Saturday, August 30

Josh Lowe homered twice and drove in all four of Tampa Bay's runs as the Rays beat the Washington Nationals 4-1

3:41 PM on Saturday, August 30

The Oregon Duck lost his head in the run up to the team’s opener against Montana State on Saturday

3:34 PM on Saturday, August 30

Arch Manning struggled under the weight of heady expectations for three quarters against Ohio State

3:20 PM on Saturday, August 30

Fernando Mendoza scored on a 5-yard run in his debut as Indiana’s quarterback, Jonathan Brady returned a punt 91 yards for a score, and the 20th-ranked Hoosiers wore down Old Dominion in a season-opening 27-14 victory

3:05 PM on Saturday, August 30

San Francisco Giants All-Star reliever Randy Rodriguez will have season-ending Tommy John surgery, the team said Saturday

2:54 PM on Saturday, August 30

Michael Mansaray took his first touch of the season 49 yards for a touchdown, finishing with 134 yards and two scores as Valparaiso cruised to a season-opening 67-10 rout of Virginia University of Lynchburg on Saturday

2:51 PM on Saturday, August 30

Taylen Blaylock opened the scoring with a 43-yard interception return and then sealed the season-opener with two more big defensive plays in leading Furman to a 23-21 win over William & Mary

2:48 PM on Saturday, August 30

Jackson Chourio and Christian Yelich hit back-to-back homers in the ninth inning, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 4-1

2:36 PM on Saturday, August 30

Jelena Ostapenko has apologized on social media for telling Taylor Townsend she had “no education” after losing to her at the U.S. Open earlier in the week

2:21 PM on Saturday, August 30

Dylan Lonergan threw for four touchdowns in his first game for Boston College, leading the Eagles past Fordham 66-10 in the schools’ season openers

1:28 PM on Saturday, August 30

Joey Aguilar passed for 247 yards and three touchdowns, and No. 24 Tennessee held off Syracuse for a 45-26 win

12:36 PM on Saturday, August 30

Julian Sayin had a 40-yard touchdown pass to Carnell Tate early in the fourth quarter, Ohio State got a couple of key stops in the red zone and the third-ranked Buckeyes opened the defense of their national championship with a 14-7 victory over top-ranked Texas

6:36 AM on Saturday, August 30

Two episodes at this year's U.S. Open have shown that not every postmatch handshake in tennis goes well