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Notre Dame has surprised some people on its way to the College Football Playoff National Championship Game, where it will take on Ohio State. Marcus Freeman and the Fighting Irish have knocked off Indiana, Georgia and Penn State during this 12-team CFP quest, and now 60 minutes stand between them and the mountaintop. Unfortunately for […]

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers get their playoff run underway on Sunday night against the Washington Commanders in a matchup between two somewhat surprising playoff teams. The Commanders were supposed to be rebuilding this season while the Buccaneers had to fight injuries and defensive regression to come back and steal the NFC South. Now, the two […]

The New England Patriots made the first official hire of this coaching cycle on Sunday morning when they hired former Tennessee Titans head coach Mike Vrabel as the next man to lead the franchise on the field. This move was widely expected due to Vrabel’s longtime ties to the franchise, and now it’s official. However, […]

The Houston Texans came into Wild Card Weekend with no momentum, even after coming off of a win. The Texans had been playing their worst football lately, leading many to pick the Los Angeles Chargers to beat them in the opening game of the playoffs. That didn’t play out on the field, however, as the […]

The Ohio State football team has been through a ton this season, and in a past year it wouldn’t even get a chance to compete for a national title after two regular season stumbles. Now, however, the Buckeyes have gotten hot at the right time and rolled through the 12-team College Football Playoff all the […]

The College Football Playoff semifinals at the Cotton Bowl came down to the final minutes between two of the sport’s heavyweights. Texas and Ohio State battled tooth and nail all night long, and the Longhorns found themselves with the ball on the one-yard line and trailing by seven, with four chances to even the score […]

A College Football Playoff that was scrutinized for the amount of blowouts early on delivered two great semifinals to determine the matchup in the National Championship Game. Just a day after Notre Dame stunned Penn State in the Orange Bowl, Ohio State came up clutch in the fourth quarter against Texas to move on to […]

The New York Knicks have been one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference this season and it looks like the decision to trade Julius Randle for Karl-Anthony Towns was a good one. However, they struggled mightily in a blockbuster matchup against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Friday night. The matchup between the Knicks […]

The Texas offense has really struggled to get going in the first half against Ohio State, as they trail 14-7 at halftime of the College Football Playoff semifinals at the Cotton Bowl. The Longhorns have struggled to do just about anything offensively, whether it be running, passing, catching or blocking. During the first half, right […]

One of the biggest disappointments of this NFL season was the Indianapolis Colts. 2024 was supposed to be the year where these young Colts took a step forward, but that didn’t happen. Anthony Richardson struggled mightily for a large part of the season, head coach Shane Steichen benched him at one point, and the team […]

The second College Football Playoff semifinal, this one at the Cotton Bowl, is underway and ESPN was in the building to get fans ready before the game with College GameDay. One of the most enjoyable parts of watching the nation’s most famous college football pregame show has been the addition of former Alabama head coach […]

The Texas football team is getting ready for its biggest game of the season in the College Football Playoff semifinals at the Cotton Bowl. Steve Sarkisian and the Longhorns have a hefty task in front of them as they rake on the red-hot Ohio State Buckeyes. Despite the high stakes and immense pressure of the […]

The Toronto Blue Jays have been one of the most disappointing teams in MLB over the last few years, and now there is a lot of buzz about what the team will look like heading into the 2025 season. The Blue Jays recently answered the biggest of those questions when they agreed to a deal […]

The Denver Nuggets faced one of their biggest challenges of the season this week, as they had to take on a difficult back-to-back slate without their star big man Nikola Jokic. Jokic isn’t dealing with any sort of injury, but he got sick on Monday and was forced to miss Tuesday’s game against the Boston […]

As the NFL playoffs get underway this weekend, pundits around the nation are firing off their takes about who is going to come out on top in Super Bowl 59 in New Orleans. As you would expect, most people are going with the Kansas City Chiefs or the Detroit Lions, the top seeds in their […]

The Milwaukee Bucks have finally found their best basketball this season, and Giannis Antetokounmpo is a big part of it. Antetokounmpo is making a push for another MVP award by playing some of his best ball on both ends, putting up double-doubles on a seemingly nightly basis. That was no different on Wednesday night when […]

The Philadelphia Eagles are getting ready for their Wild Card playoff game against the Green Bay Packers on Sunday. The Eagles and their fans are hoping to have their quarterback back for this one as Jalen Hurts missed the last two games with a concussion. Hurts is still recovering, but he did practice in a […]

The Oklahoma City Thunder and the Cleveland Cavaliers went head to head on Wednesday night in a historic regular season matchup. The Thunder came into the game on a 15-game win streak (excluding their NBA Cup final loss to the Milwaukee Bucks, which doesn’t count as a real game) and the Cavaliers came into the […]

The New York Giants need a quarterback arguably more than any other team in the NFL does this offseason, and they are in good position to get one. It is widely assumed that the Giants will select either Miami quarterback Cam Ward or Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders with the No. 3 overall pick in the […]

The New York Jets have officially entered the next phase of their rebuild. As the offseason gets underway, the Jets have begun their search for their next head coach and their next general manager. The old general manager, Joe Douglas, was somewhat surprisingly fired in the middle of the season, just a few weeks after […]

The Green Bay Packers seemed to have a full head of steam heading into the 2024 NFL playoffs, but they have cooled off in a big way in recent weeks. After a difficult 27-25 loss to the Minnesota Vikings in Week 17, the Packers took a stunning 24-22 loss to the Chicago Bears in Week […]

The NFL playoffs get underway on Saturday when the Houston Texans take on the Los Angeles Chargers in the first game of the wild card round. The Texans have been limping into the playoffs and playing some of their worst football lately, while the Chargers have improved drastically in their first season under Jim Harbaugh. […]

The Golden State Warriors are one of the hardest teams to judge this NBA season. The Warriors started off the season surprisingly well, quickly rising toward the top of the Western Conference with a hot start to the year. Since then, however, they have come crashing back to Earth and are now trying to find […]

The Los Angeles Lakers came into Tuesday night’s game against the Dallas Mavericks on a bit of a hot streak. JJ Redick’s squad has been inconsistent this season, but it seemed to be finding its best basketball and had climbed into the top six spots in the Western Conference. Tuesday night seemingly provided the Lakers […]

The Atlanta Hawks were locked in a tight battle with the Utah Jazz on Tuesday night, with the game hanging in the balance with just seconds to go. Then, the team’s star shotmakers took over. With the Hawks holding onto a three-point lead, Jazz guard Collin Sexton knocked down a tough 3-pointer to tie the […]

The Los Angeles Lakers have been one of the most inconsistent teams in the NBA this season, but it looked like JJ Redick and company had figured some things out during their recent hot streak. Coming into Tuesday night’s matchup with the Dallas Mavericks, the Lakers had won six of their previous nine games. Los […]

Tuesday night marks the debut of Tiger Woods’ new virtual golf league, TGL or Tomorrow’s Golf League, which will take place from January through March as the PGA Tour season starts to kick up. On Tuesday night, The Bay Golf Club and New York Golf Club are squaring off as the league’s inaugural season gets […]

One of the biggest matchups of the Tuesday night NBA slate pits the Denver Nuggets against the Boston Celtics in a battle of two of the best teams in the NBA so far this season. Unfortunately, the game’s biggest star will not be available. Nuggets big man Nikola Jokic is a late scratch and will […]

When watching Georgia football this season, it wasn’t hard to find its glaring weakness. Despite still being an elite team and winning the SEC Championship, the Bulldogs didn’t have the talent at wide receiver to compete with the best of the best in college football. That weakness was a big part of an inept offensive […]

One of the biggest surprises in college football this season as the success of South Carolina. The Gamecocks started the season just 3-3, but finished the regular season with six consecutive wins to move right up to the brink of the College Football Playoff. Even though Shane Beamer and company missed out on the 12-team […]

The free agency period in Major League Baseball is raging on as teams make big moves left and right to improve their rosters. On Tuesday, one of the biggest names on the market found his next home as legendary starting pitcher Justin Verlander agreed to a one-year deal with the San Francisco Giants, according to […]

The 2024 season didn’t end how Oregon football and its fans expected as the Ducks were crushed by Ohio State 41-21 in the College Football Playoff quarterfinals at the Rose Bowl. Oregon came into the game as the only unbeaten team in the country, but Dan Lanning and company have wasted no time turning the […]

After Georgia football lost to Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff quarterfinals at the Sugar Bowl, the usual attrition of an offseason at an elite program immediately began. There is also a large amount of roster turnover at a school like Georgia, which has a lot of NFL talent in the starting lineup and […]

The NBA trade market is heating up earlier than usual this season. Some teams are adding role players as they look to establish themselves as contenders while other teams are shopping some of their veterans as their struggles compound into the new year. One of those teams that has not been playing their best basketball […]

One of the hottest names on the MLB trade market this offseason is Nolan Arenado. Arenado has had some bad luck with winning during his career, as he was stuck with the hapless Colorado Rockies for a large part of his time in the Major Leagues right before joining the St. Louis Cardinals as they […]

The Lincoln Riley era at USC hasn’t gone according to plan so far, as the Trojans have continued to get worse and worse since Riley has been there. In 2024, a disappointing season ended with a 7-6 record and fans are starting to look at the former Oklahoma head coach a little bit sideways. It’s […]

The Milwaukee Bucks have landed on their feet after a disastrous start to the 2024-25 season, and now they’re busy working their way back up the Eastern Conference standings. On Monday night, the Bucks’ task got a bit tougher as they look to snap a two-game losing streak. Forward Khris Middleton will miss the game […]

The New England Patriots are the story of the NFL on Monday after stunningly firing head coach Jerod Mayo shortly after their regular season finale. Getting a win on the final Sunday of the regular season wasn’t enough to save Mayo’s job, as he was out as head coach very shortly after the Patriots knocked […]

The Miami Dolphins’ season ended with a thud on Monday when they lost to the New York Jets 32-20 in Week 18. The Dolphins entered the day with a slim chance to make the playoffs, but those hopes quickly went out the window as the Denver Broncos crushed the Kansas City Chiefs’ backups 38-0 in […]