Bills’ style of bad far better than Lions’ disastrous take

Like all sports fans ever, Buffalo Bills backers can take solace in not getting gut-punched every single week last season like Detroit Lions adherents. Except maybe they can’t: At least Detroit never teased its followers with playoff dreams or an undefeated September. Lions fans were stuck in a rotten relationship, but their partner never pretended it was anything other than dysfunctional. ...

N.C.A.A. Places Alabama Football Program on Probation

The NCAA also stripped the Crimson Tide of 21 football wins over a three-year period, and put 15 of the school’s other teams on three years’ probation.