Rory McIlroy has survived a bizarre encounter with a banana peel lodged in a tree to shoot a 3-under 68 at the Australian Open.

Climate change is affecting winter sports worldwide, with shorter winters and less snow.

Dodgers two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani worked two scoreless innings against the Houston Astros in his fourth mound start of the season.

Reds rookie Chase Burns became the first starting pitcher in the expansion era to strike out the first five batters he faced in his major league debut.

Growing up, Chase Burns dreamed of playing for the New York Yankees.

When Cam Smith made his MLB debut on opening day for the Houston Astros it was the third-fastest that someone had gone from the draft to the majors.

Framber Valdez pitched seven scoreless innings and Josh Hader struck out Juan Soto with two on to save the Houston Astros' 3-1 win over the New York Mets.

The Chicago Cubs have acquired All-Star outfielder Kyle Tucker in a trade with the Houston Astros, paying a big price for one of baseball’s best hitters.

Jordan Love threw two touchdown passes to Jayden Reed and the Green Bay Packers capitalized on a fast start to beat Miami 30-17 and snap the Dolphins’ three-game winning streak.

Tickets for next week’s Florida and Florida State baseball game in Jacksonville are sold out.

Miami Dolphins wide receiver Jaylen Waddle and running back Raheem Mostert were active for the wild-card playoff game against the Kansas City Chiefs at frozen Arrowhead Stadium.

Cameron Smith has won his second LIV Golf title of the year.

Phil Mickelson was in the hunt at LIV Golf.

With less than two weeks to go until the start of the NFL Draft, there are still loads of questions about who the Jaguars will select with the 24th pick of the first round. One of the biggest questions is who will be there when the Jaguars are on the clock?

The work began on this year’s Players Championship before Cam Smith lifted the trophy last year.

No one should expect Notre Dame and South Carolina to look — or probably play — like they did late in the regular season.

Among the playoff games on Friday, Baldwin hosts Baker County in the 2S regional semi-final. The meeting is a rematch of a game won by the Indians 30-7 earlier in the season. That game was part of a historic season for Baldwin, who had not beaten Baker County since 1968 and had never won a district championship in football. They accomplished both feats this season.

Each Thursday during the season, News4JAX sports editor Justin Barney will reveal his picks for the week.

Baker County closed the Border Classic with an unforgettable finish.

The Border Classic presented by Baker’s Sports puts high school football in the spotlight this week, with seven games over three days.

The 2022 U.S. Open most certainly has not been supersized.

The high school football state semifinals are Friday night. A glance at the area teams still playing.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – It’s Week 7 of the high school football season and games are stretched across three days this week — Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Baker County has punished its opposition this season (Bradford, Orange Park, White, Westside and Parker) by a massive margin (206-26). QB Carson Crawford (408 rushing yards, 456 passing yards, 25 receiving yards, 12 total TDs) is creeping up on a 1,000 total yards season. He’s rushed for a team-best 352 yards (2 TDs) and has passed for 560 yards (7 TDs). GEORGIAFriday, Oct. 16Bradwell Institute (0-2-1) at Glynn Academy (2-3), 7:30*Brunswick (3-2) at South Effingham (0-4), 7:30 p.m.*Camden County (4-2) at Warner Robins, 7:30 p.m.Turner County (4-1) at Charlton County (3-2), 7:30 p.m.*Off: Pierce County, Ware County.

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. From the antimicrobial mist the Denver Broncos strolled through on their way to the practice fields to the hand-held whistles for masked-up coaches, NFL training camps have a very different look and feel this year. What it does is it really creates less of an opportunity for those guys to make our football team. Were going to have to find guys with the expanded practice squad, which we have spots for four veterans. Were going to have to find the right guys to be able to expand the practice squad with, Elway said. We have to appeal to their intelligence, their pride, their responsibility that, hey, this is different, Fangio said.