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Even though it took far longer than most expected it would, Jimmy Butler was indeed moved at the NBA Trade Deadline, departing the Atlantic Coast for the Pacific Coast, leaving behind ‘Heat Culture’ for arguably the greatest culture-setter in the history of the NBA, Golden State Warriors superstar Stephen Curry. Butler and Curry have only […]

Ever since Deebo Samuel requested a trade ahead of the 2022 NFL season, it’s seemed as if San Francisco 49ers general manager John Lynch could decide to make the call at any point in time. The 49ers reportedly explored moving Samuel ahead of and during the 2024 NFL Draft, and the selections of wide receivers […]

Back in November when the NFL announced the 25 modern-era semifinalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, here’s what I wrote about legendary New England Patriots/Indianapolis Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri, who I picked as one of my six selections for the Hall of Fame Class of 2025: Sure, only two players who have played […]

Tom Izzo’s status as one of the best college basketball coaches ever has been secure for a very long time. He made three consecutive Final Fours between 1999 and 2001, and has made five more since then. He coached the Michigan State Spartans to their first National Championship in 21 years back in 2000. He’s […]

In four seasons as the starting quarterback of the Los Angeles Rams, Matthew Stafford has accumulated a 34-23 record while leading the Rams to a Super Bowl title in 2022. For his career he’s 191 yards shy of 60,000 passing yards only 23 touchdowns away from becoming the 9th quarterback in league history with 400 passing […]

Although the postseason wasn’t too kind to any of the three teams from the NFC North who qualified for the Playoffs, it wasn’t that long ago that most around the NFL believed that the league’s ‘Black and Blue Division’ was the best in all of football. The Detroit Lions, Minnesota Vikings and Green Bay Packers […]

Storrs, Connecticut may be the basketball capital of the world and home of the two-time defending National Champion UConn Huskies, but on Friday night, it was the St. John’s Red Storm who proved that for at least this season, the best team in the Big East likely resides in New York City. Despite trailing by 14 […]

If you thought that the NBA trade deadline fireworks show was bound to die down after the blockbuster deal that sent Luka Doncic to the Lakers and Anthony Davis to the Mavericks, don’t be so sure just yet. Not only did a three-teamer involving De’Aaron Fox and Zach LaVine come not even 24 hours later, […]

There seems to be a general understanding that Miami’s Cam Ward and Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders will be the first two quarterbacks off the board in the 2025 NFL Draft, but beyond that, there’s hardly a consensus of where the remaining signal-callers will fall, and in what order. Some scouts love Jaxson Dart, others are drawn […]

Despite just 90 pass attempts during the 2024 season, Texas Longhorns redshirt sophomore quarterback Arch Manning is currently the betting favorite to win the 2025 Heisman Trophy Award. There are a couple of factors in play here… first, the last name, which we can’t just ignore since it’s steeped in college football history. Second, and […]

In the two weeks since the Chicago Bears agreed to terms with Ben Johnson to become the franchise’s next head coach, the hiring has been met with near unanimous approval, both in Chicago and around the NFL. There are very few people whose opinions are worth listening to who don’t believe that Johnson will wind […]

Since the Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks made the trade that flipped the NBA upside down, predictably, the majority of the attention has been on Luka Doncic, the 25-year-old with megastar potential who is suddenly joining one of the most storied franchises and iconic brands in all of professional sports. But don’t forget that […]

It’s been over 48 hours since the Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks came together to produce arguably the most stunning trade in NBA history — a deal that sent five-time All-NBA superstar Luka Doncic to Los Angeles, and NBA 75th Anniversary Team member Anthony Davis to Dallas — and it still doesn’t feel totally […]

After eight successful seasons with the Los Angeles Rams, it looks as if veteran wide receiver Cooper Kupp will soon be on his way out of LA. On Monday night, Kupp took to social media to announce that the team had informed him of their plans to trade him, likely to a destination where he […]

Hello friends, and welcome to the first February edition of Bracketology at ClutchPoints! To kick things off today — pun intended — I’d like to talk about the Kansas City Chiefs, who are one game away from their third consecutive Super Bowl championship, and the UConn Huskies, who are ranked 19th in the country and were […]

It’s been nearly a decade since Chip Kelly coached in the NFL, but as of Sunday afternoon, that’s all changing. The Ohio State Buckeyes offensive coordinator has parlayed his success with the reigning National Champions into a return to the National Football League, where he’ll be joining forces with Pete Carroll in Las Vegas to […]

It’s fair to say that in the immediate aftermath of Saturday night’s blockbuster deal that sent Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers in exchange for Anthony Davis, Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison may be the most unpopular man in Dallas since J.R. Ewing — Yes, that’s a Dallas joke, and yes, that show is well […]

Lost in the shuffle of a day of hoops that included Duke vs. North Carolina, a LeBron triple-double at MSG, a flurry of upsets in college basketball, and oh yeah, an Anthony Davis for Luka Doncic trade that has turned the NBA upside down and inside out, coaching legend John Calipari was victorious in a […]

It was never more clear than on Saturday night that the Duke Blue Devils and North Carolina Tar Heels are a pair of programs heading into drastically different directions. An 87-70 win for the 2nd-ranked Blue Devils over their in-state rival wasn’t nearly as close as the final score indicated, but regardless, it did further […]

How exactly do you contextualize a trade that has no historical precedent? It’s nearly impossible, let me tell you, and I say because that’s exactly what myself and many others have been attempting to do for the last 12 or so hours, ever since the Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks agreed to a deal […]

Late in the evening on the first night of February, the Dallas Mavericks and Los Angeles Lakers put the finishing touches on a trade that will continue to send shockwaves throughout the NBA for the foreseeable future. For the first time in league history, a trade involving a pair of reigning All-NBA performers — Luka […]

Let’s just start here… I definitely was not prepared to process a trade of this magnitude the moment I woke up this morning. Luka Doncic for Anthony Davis is a trade that you ideally want to take in once you’re properly caffeinated and have washed away all eye boogers from your face, but I didn’t […]

On paper, Dillon Gabriel’s resume reads like one that any NFL team would be intrigued by. The Oregon Ducks quarterback played in more games than any other QB in college football history, and he won 73 percent of his starts. He’s second all-time in NCAA history in passing yards and first in career touchdowns. He’s […]

In just eight days, the Kansas City Chiefs will take the field in New Orleans, Louisiana with the chance to make unprecedented NFL history. In the Super Bowl era, no team has won three consecutive championships, nor has a team ever found themselves in the position to do so. That’s just one of the many […]

Notre Dame quarterback Riley Leonard is one of six QBs taking part in the Senior Bowl, joining Jalen Milroe (Alabama), Jaxson Dart (Ole Miss), Dillon Gabriel (Oregon), Seth Henigan (Memphis) and Tyler Shough (Louisville) as the seasoned signal-callers who are now preparing for the NFL Draft. Riley Leonard is considered a day three prospect, someone […]

The Tennessee Titans possess the 1st overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, and that means that even the most seasoned draft experts don’t really have a feel for how this year’s Draft will play out, because the Titans have yet to indicate that they know who they’ll be selecting with that top overall pick. […]

The Denver Broncos better get a plumber in the building sometime soon, because there are some toilets that may need to be reinforced if Darren Rizzi is coming to town. The former special teams coordinator and interim head coach of the New Orleans Saints had been holding out hope that he’d be able to lose […]

Love him or hate him, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce will undoubtedly be one of the main characters of Super Bowl 59, and that’s regardless of how he performs on the field. Starting with media day until after all of the confetti has been cleared off the field on Super Bowl Sunday, all […]

It’s officially Super Bowl season, and that means for the next week and a half, analysts on every network will be looking for every possible angle to cover this momentous event from. That includes diving into the history of the game, talking with the players who have been there before, and reflecting on what the […]

After a second consecutive elimination in the College Football Playoff semifinal, the Texas Longhorns will be undergoing something of a transition during the 2025 season. But in place to ensure that this process goes smoothly is third-year sophomore quarterback Arch Manning, who played sparingly throughout the 2024 season in a handful of packages and in […]

The last time Rutgers was without star freshman and likely top five pick in the 2025 NBA Draft Dylan Harper, the Scarlet Knights had to turn to their other star freshman and likely top five pick Ace Bailey to do the heavy lifting. Bailey scored 39 points in a January 2nd loss to the Indiana Hoosiers, but […]

The North Carolina Tar Heels entered the season ranked 9th in the preseason AP Poll, and now, just a little over two months later, those very same Tar Heels have already suffered their 9th loss of the season. At 13-9, North Carolina’s path to the NCAA Tournament is getting murkier by the game, but even […]

A career-best night for MVP front-runner Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, who scored a career-high 52 points on Wednesday night, was spoiled by the Golden State Warriors, who upset the West-leading Thunder 116-109. Andrew Wiggins led the way for the Dubs with 27 points, it was two-time MVP Stephen Curry who scored 17 of his 21 points to […]

After the Dallas Cowboys hired Brian Schottenheimer to be their next head coach on January 24th, that left the New Orleans Saints as the only team remaining in the league without a head coach. Coincidentally, New Orleans was also the first team to have an opening, having fired new Chicago Bears defensive coordinator Dennis Allen after a […]

The New York Jets offseason has been one of major change, as Aaron Glenn (head coach) and Darren Mougey (general manager) have taken over and are now tasked with the difficult challenge of transforming one of the most dysfunctional franchises in pro sports into a winner that the largest media market in America can be […]

Behind a ground attack that simply cannot be stopped, the Philadelphia Eagles are on their way to a second Super Bowl appearance in the last three seasons, and leading the way for the Birds is Saquon Barkley. Barkley may only be in his first year in Philadelphia, but he hasn’t wasted any time etching his […]

Hello friends, and welcome to the final January edition of Bracketology here at ClutchPoints! Today, I’d like to shift the focus away from the Power 5 conferences and instead hold a magnifying glass up to some of the many mid-majors who may end up making some noise come March. And before you scoff at my […]

The honeymoon period is officially over for Mark Pope at his alma mater, the University of Kentucky. The 1996 NCAA champion got off to a hot start to begin his coaching tenure at Kentucky, storming out to a 12-2 start which included wins over Duke, Gonzaga, Louisville and Florida, but since, the Wildcats have dropped […]

You won’t find many college basketball fans or analysts who are willing to put up an argument against Duke’s Cooper Flagg as the best freshman in the country. However, if they do, it’s likely that the player they’ll name as opposition to Flagg plays for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey combine […]