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The vast majority of the 71,112 fans in attendance at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, New York left the stadium on Sunday afternoon overjoyed. In their eighth meeting in the last five years, the Buffalo Bills earned a 30-21 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs, ending KC’s quest for a perfect season and inching closer […]

In a high-profile matchup between the two of the top quarterbacks from the 2020 NFL Draft class, the Los Angeles Chargers outlasted the Cincinnati Bengals despite nearly blowing a 21-point 2nd half lead. For practically this entire century, this was the type of game that the Chargers would have lost in tragic fashion, but with […]

For the fourth time in their respective coaching careers, Rick Pitino and Richard Pitino faced off as opponents on Sunday afternoon when son (Richard) brought his unbeaten New Mexico Lobos to Madison Square Garden to face father (Rick) and the also unbeaten St. John’s Red Storm. And for the third time in these four meetings, it was […]

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before… the Chicago Bears lost in gut-wrenching fashion on Sunday afternoon, in large part due to a crucial miscalculation by head coach Matt Eberflus, who has just as many heart-breaking, logic-defying losses on his resume than he does wins. Even less surprisingly, after the game, Eberflus is unwilling […]

Though the idea of a “positionless” player is admittedly more of a basketball concept, New Orleans Saints’ Swiss Army Knife Taysom Hill brings this notion to the gridiron. Though he’s listed as a tight end on Pro Football Reference, Hill has done the majority of his damage this season on the ground, and famously, he spelled […]

Coming into the 2024 college football season, there were no shortage of games on the Big Ten schedule that one could’ve envisioned as top-5 matchups. Ohio State’s visits to Oregon in early October and then Penn State in early November delivered, but matchups between Michigan and USC, USC and Penn State, and as has been […]

Sunday’s matchup between the Detroit Lions and Jacksonville Jaguars was competitive for about as long as you would’ve expected. Though the Jags jumped out to a 3-0 lead against the favored Lions, that three-point lead disappeared faster than Urban Meyer did in 2021. The Lions scored four consecutive touchdowns to take a 28-3 lead, which […]

If you’re an avid consumer of the NFL, then you’ve likely seen six-time Super Bowl winning head coach Bill Belichick all over your television screen this season. Despite the fact that Belichick and the New England Patriots parted ways last January, the 72-year-old has remained a fixture of this current NFL season, popping up on […]

On Friday night, Sacramento Kings guard De’Aaron Fox set a career-high and franchise record with a 60-point outburst in an overtime loss against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Only about 24 hours later, Sacramento would take the floor once again, this time without three of his five top scorers — DeMar DeRozan, Malik Monk and Domantas Sabonis […]

As the Oregon Ducks entered the fourth quarter of their matchup with the Wisconsin Badgers on Saturday night, they faced a 4th-and-9 and trailed by seven points. It looked, for at least a brief moment, like the top-ranked team in the country was on the verge of being toppled. However, just four plays later, Oregon […]

The Los Angeles Lakers are 9-4 and at least for the time being, the league’s marquee franchise has the look of a team that knows who they are and knows that they can compete against any team in the NBA. After multiple years of stalled offenses under Frank Vogel and Darvin Ham, the Lakers currently […]

It’s wild what one play can do to the trajectory of a season. Think about it… with just seconds to play against the Washington Commanders, it looked like the Chicago Bears were on the verge of improving to 5-2 on the season with what looked to be very winnable games against the Arizona Cardinals and […]

Since 2002, the Houston Texans and Dallas Cowboys have battled for the Governor’s Cup six times, with America’s Team having a 4-2 edge over their in-state counterparts. But with injuries having taken it’s toll on the Cowboys, the Texans will enter Monday night’s matchup in Dallas as significant favorites, despite the fact that the AFC […]

While fans of the Chicago Bears have undoubtedly turned on their own team over the past few weeks, when the Green Bay Packers come to Soldier Field on Sunday afternoon, the boo-birds will shift their focus to the players in Green and Yellow… at least out of the gate. That means banged-up Packers quarterback Jordan […]

To make it in the National Football League, you can’t just show up on gameday. It requires work all week long for months on end, and sometimes that means you need to put friendships on the back-burner. Cincinnati Bengals wideout and the league’s leading receiver Ja’Marr Chase knows this all too well, because as it […]

On Friday night, Los Angeles Clippers guard James Harden made NBA history when he hit his third three-pointer of the game against his former team, the Houston Rockets. With that triple, Harden tied NBA Hall of Famer Ray Allen on the NBA’s all-time three-point shooting list. When Harden takes the court next, Sunday night against […]

One of just two matchups between top 25 ranked teams this Saturday will be played at Williams-Brice Stadium, as the 23rd-ranked Missouri Tigers will head to Columbia to take on the 21st-ranked South Carolina Gamecocks. The winner of the matchup will maintain a sliver of hope for a College Football Playoff berth, while the loser […]

It hasn’t even been a full calendar year since Curt Cignetti departed James Madison University to become the head coach at Indiana, and already the 63-year-old coaching veteran has transformed the Hoosiers football program. Once a walkover in the Big Ten, Indiana is now 10-0 and in position to play themselves into the Big Ten […]

One of the biggest remaining games on the SEC slate will be played this Saturday night when the Tennessee Volunteers make the trip to Athens to take on the Georgia Bulldogs. A game of this magnitude, which has major College Football Playoff implications, requires college football’s preeminent pre-game show to make a visit. College GameDay […]

The Florida basketball program is off to a 3-0 start this season despite an ongoing investigation into head coach Todd Golden, which is proof that these Gators, while playing an admittedly soft schedule out of the gate, may be resilient enough to find success in a crowded SEC this season. Though the Florida State Seminoles […]

Since taking over as the head coach of the Houston Cougars back in 2014, longtime coaching veteran Kelvin Sampson has transformed Houston into one of the preeminent basketball programs in the country. In that ten year span, Houston has won 77 percent of their games, gone dancing in the NCAA Tournament six consecutive times, and […]

The Pittsburgh Panthers got off to their first 7-0 start since 1982, and perhaps the biggest reason for a flawless opening two months was the presence of redshirt freshman quarterback Eli Holstein. The Alabama transfer burst onto the scene and immediately looked the part of a former 4-star recruit finding his form as a starter. In […]

With nearly half of the month of November gone, it’s officially the time of the year where the coaching carousel is running at full speed, and one of the teams whose potential participation will be discussed at length is the Dallas Cowboys. Though the Cowboys have yet to make any move that indicates they’ll be […]

During a Wednesday press conference, Indianapolis Colts head coach Shane Steichen shared that after just two weeks, the team would be benching Joe Flacco and turning back to second-year QB Anthony Richardson for the rest of the season. Steichen noted that the Colts’ coaching staff has stressed to Richardson the importance of taking command of […]

Earlier in the season, calls for highly-touted freshman quarterback DJ Lagway to see the field were mostly out of curiosity. The Florida Gators had a returning veteran starter in Graham Mertz, but the promise of Lagway couldn’t be ignored. Not long after Mertz was sidelined with a season-ending knee injury and Lagway had begun to […]

There are plenty of things bigger than basketball, and as a 22-year veteran who has seen it all, LeBron James knows this all too well. The Los Angeles Lakers forward is the league’s elder statesman and his voice carries a ton of weight. And while one could argue it’s up to LeBron to play hype […]

As if a season-ending injury to All-Pro quarterback Dak Prescott wasn’t enough to unofficially mark the end of the Dallas Cowboys’ 2024 season, a 34-6 loss at the hands of the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday afternoon likely did the trick. The Cowboys are now four games back in the loss column of Philly, have a […]

With a stunning victory over the Denver Broncos on Sunday afternoon, the Kansas City Chiefs escaped with their eighth come-from-behind win this season, and their ninth straight victory to start the 2024 campaign. And now that half of the regular season is in the books, it’s officially time to start wondering aloud whether we’re on […]

The Georgia Bulldogs’ hopes of a third national title in four seasons took a hit on Saturday afternoon following a 28-10 loss in Oxford to the Ole Miss Rebels. At the center of this loss is quarterback Carson Beck, who opted against a jump to the NFL to return for one more season in Athens. […]

Through two games as a member of the Duke Blue Devils, Cooper Flagg is averaging 15.5 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists, 2.5 steals and 1.5 blocks per game. These are not spectacular numbers by any means, but this is the kind of well-rounded stat-line you’d expect from a dominant young player whose singular motivation on […]

It’s fitting that on an “Overreaction Monday” episode of the Pat McAfee Show, NFL insider Adam Schefter would come on and drop one of the hottest overreaction takes of the first half of the season. Of course, with the Chicago Bears offense, nothing is off the table when it comes to ineptitude, even if it […]

After finishing the 2023 season as one of the league’s best defenses by just about any statistical measure, the 2024 season hasn’t been nearly as kind to the Baltimore Ravens defense. As the end of Week 10 nears, the Ravens D is 25th in scoring and 27th in yards allowed. It’s a bit perplexing, given […]

The Chicago Bears have now gone eight consecutive quarters without scoring a touchdown. Even in the darkest days of Bears football, this isn’t common. Then again, these might be some of the darkest days that fans in Chicago have had to suffer through. Over the last two weeks, the Bears have accumulated just 383 yards […]

The San Francisco 49ers have had an up-and-down start to the 2024 NFL season, but when you’re as decimated by injuries as the defending NFC champions have been, that’s to be expected. Brandon Aiyuk, Deebo Samuel, Jordan Mason and countless offensive contributors have been sidelined at various times throughout the season, but no injury was […]

After the opening 30 minutes of football on Sunday night, it looked like the Houston Texans were well on their way toward cruising to one of the biggest statement wins of the 2024 NFL season. Despite Kansas City’s undefeated status, the general consensus seemed to be that it was the Detroit Lions who were playing […]

The Army Black Knights are off to their first 8-0 start since 1996, and are one of just five remaining unbeaten teams across the entire NCAA. The catalyst of this remarkable start has been senior quarterback Bryson Daily. However, not all of the credit can go to Daily for this 8-0 start, because he hasn’t been under […]

The Memphis Grizzlies are off to a 6-4 start, their third start of 6-4 or better in the last four years. The primary reason for this competitive start is a roster loaded with players worthy of a role within an NBA rotation. Consider, eight different Griz players are currently averaging at least 10 points per […]

The old saying goes that weather is the great equalizer, but Saturday afternoon’s matchup between the Georgia Bulldogs and Ole Miss Rebels already feels pretty even. The 2nd-ranked Bulldogs are a 2.5-point favorite in Oxford, but a recent struggle against the Florida Gators has led some prognosticators to believe that the desperate Rebels could have […]

As the calendar page turns to November and the weather around the country begins to cool, it’s officially the time of the year where the seats of many head coaches around the nation begin to get hotter. It was widely assumed, really since the beginning of the 2024 season, that Florida Gators head coach Billy […]