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Through three-and-a-half quarters on Saturday night, the Green Bay Packers appeared to be cruising toward a season sweep of the Chicago Bears and first place in the NFC North. Just minutes of game time later, the Bears pulled off an improbable comeback to get a 22-16 win in overtime and relegate the Packers to wild […]

The Chicago Bears made a major statement in Week 16 on Saturday night, taking firm control of the NFC North race with a dramatic 22-16 win in overtime over the Green Bay Packers. Chicago trailed by 10 points with under three minutes remaining, but came all the way back with 16 unanswered points to pick […]

One of the marquee matchups of Week 16 of the NFL season pits the Jacksonville Jaguars against the Denver Broncos. This battle of AFC contenders would have been a bit surprising earlier in the season, but the Jags and Broncos are now two of the hottest teams in football as the playoffs approach. The Jaguars […]

2025 was a disastrous season for Penn State football. The Nittany Lions came into the year with massive expectations, with fans expecting a run to the College Football Playoff. After all, Penn State returned a large part of a core that went all the way to the semifinals in 2024, coming within a few plays […]

The Buffalo Bills are starting to heat up at the right time and are playing some of their best football heading into Week 16. On Sunday, Buffalo got its biggest win yet, coming back from down 21-0 to beat the New England Patriots 35-31 and stay alive in a very close AFC East race. Things […]

The first round of the College Football Playoff will take place on Friday and Saturday as the rest of the quarterfinals will be filled out. On Friday, Oklahoma and Alabama will get things going before Miami and Texas A&M do battle on Saturday afternoon. This battle between the Hurricanes and the Aggies is the most […]

The College Football Playoff is here, and the first round presents a pair of blockbuster matchups with quarterfinal spots on the line. Alabama and Oklahoma will get the second 12-team CFP underway on Friday night in Norman, with the winner advancing to play Indiana in the Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day. The two SEC […]

Week 15 of the NFL season was a banger, with close, high-profile matchups across the board. The Atlanta Falcons got things started on Thursday night with an incredible comeback to beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and shake up the NFC South race. On Sunday, the Bills staged an epic comeback to beat the Patriots while […]

The biggest game of Week 16 on the NFL slate is a rematch of what was one of the games of the year back in November. The Los Angeles Rams are heading to Seattle to take on the Seahawks with the NFC West lead and the No. 1 seed in the conference on the line. […]

It’s very rare that you get a battle of top-three MVP candidates in December, but that’s exactly what we got on Sunday when Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills played Drake Maye and the New England Patriots. Maye looked like he was poised to get his hands on the award and the AFC East crown […]

The Minnesota Vikings have had a very disappointing season so far in 2025, but they got a bit of a reprieve with a 34-26 win over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday Night Football in Week 15. However, even the wins this year for the Vikings have come with caveats. On Sunday night, it was the […]

What a time to be a Nebraska basketball fan, huh? After an impressive 9-0 start to non-conference play, Fred Hoiberg and company had to put their feet to the fire at the start of Big Ten play. The Cornhuskers passed with flying colors, routing Wisconsin at home and upsetting Illinois on the road to get […]

Following a disappointing 4-8 season, massive chances are coming at Florida. The Gators already fired head coach Billy Napier midseason and replaced him with Tulane’s Jon Sumrall, and now they will be looking for a new quarterback as well. On Monday morning, star quarterback DJ Lagway announced his intentions to enter the transfer portal, according […]

2025 was a relatively weak year for the Heisman Trophy, as there weren’t any real statistical standouts on the level of both Travis Hunter and Ashton Jeanty in 2024. In the end, Fernando Mendoza took home college football’s biggest individual honor after leading Indiana to a 13-0 record, the Big Ten Championship and the No. […]

It has been a bit of an odd start to the season for Kansas basketball, but Bill Self and company have steadied the ship and are firmly in the top 25 hading into the final stretch of non-conference play. On Saturday, Self’s squad got another very impressive win in a hostile environment. The Jayhawks survived […]

The college basketball season is still young, but Arizona has emerged from the pack as arguably the best team in the nation. Tommy Lloyd and the Wildcats have rolled through a challenging non-conference slate and are currently the No. 1-ranked team in the country as a result. That continued on Saturday night, when the Wildcats […]

The Arizona Diamondbacks nearly made a late push to the postseason in 2025, and now they are gearing up to get back to playing October baseball once again next season. On Sunday, the Diamondbacks agreed to a two-year, $40 million contract with starting pitcher Merrill Kelly, according to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. It will […]

The Green Bay Packers have been one of the more inconsistent teams in the NFL so far this season, but they have finally steadied the ship and are clear contenders in a stacked NFC. Green Bay comes into Week 15 on a four-game winning streak and are coming off of back-to-back wins over playoff contenders […]

The Chicago Bears have been one of the surprises of the NFL so far this season, but they couldn’t quite conquer the Green Bay Packers in Week 14. The second half of this NFC North battle was a doozy, but Green Bay came out with a 28-21 win to reclaim the lead in the division. […]

Over the last couple of years, Billy Napier has seen his reputation as a college football coach sink as his tenure at Florida fizzled out, leading to him being fired during a brutal 2025 season. Now, Napier is looking to rebuild his reputation at James Madison after the Dukes hired him as his next head […]

A wild ACC race ended with Duke taking home the conference championship this season, emerging from a crowded pack of contenders in a conference that cannibalized itself all season long. One of the teams in that pack was Louisville. The Cardinals were right in the thick of the ACC title race after pulling a stunning […]

For a couple of weeks, Lane Kiffin was the biggest domino in a wild coaching carousel in college football. Fans would have been hard-pressed to find a more stunning move than Kiffin’s decision to bail on Ole Miss to become the next head coach at LSU, but he may have been surpassed on Wednesday. Michigan […]

The Chicago Bears no longer have the lead in the NFC North after losing a 28-21 classic against the Green Bay Packers in Week 14, but reinforcements are on their way for Ben Johnson and company for the final four weeks of their playoff push. Wide receiver Rome Odunze, who missed the game against the […]

After a down year in 2024-25 following back-to-back national championships, Dan Hurley has UConn basketball right back at the top of college basketball. The Huskies came into Tuesday night’s Jimmy V Classic against Florida ranked No. 5 in the country at 8-1. UConn backed up its ranking, collecting a hard-fought 77-73 win over No. 18 […]

The Toronto Raptors have been one of the biggest surprises in the NBA so far this season, but they ran into an issue of class on Tuesday night. Despite running the table in group play and earning a home game in the NBA Cup quarterfinals, the Raptors were blown out by the New York Knicks […]

The New York Knicks have been one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference all season long, and they proved it once again on Tuesday night. Going on the road was no problem for the Knicks in the NBA Cup quarterfinals, as they went up north and comfortably beat the Toronto Raptors 117-101 to […]

Can you believe it’s already Week 15? Neither can I. Each week in the NFL brings massive playoff implications and marquee matchups in a year where it seems like anybody can win any given game, and that was no different this week. Most notably, the Texans put the Chiefs even further behind in the AFC […]

In one of the best games of the young college basketball season so far, BYU basketball came back from a 21-point halftime deficit to shock Clemson 67-64 at Madison Square Garden in the Jimmy V Classic. BYU came back to take a five-point lead late before Clemson stormed back to tie the game at 64 […]

Just four weeks remain in the NFL regular season, and the MVP race has started to look more and more like a two-horse race as the year has gone on. Matthew Stafford and Drake Maye have been leading two of the best teams in the NFL while playing some great football, but Josh Allen and […]

The second 12-team College Football Playoff bracket is final, and this year is more controversial than the last. In 2024, a couple of shoddy three-loss SEC resumes were left out of the field for SMU, which lost its conference championship on a last-second field goal. It would have been hard to find anybody with a […]

The College Football Playoff field is official and the controversy of Selection Sunday is behind us. Alabama and Miami are in and Notre Dame is out — surely everyone is completely content with this, right? Indiana is the top seed after taking down Ohio State in the Big Ten title game, while the Buckeyes are […]

With the regular season behind us, Tulane football has officially become one of the stories of this college football season with its run to the American Championship and the College Football Playoff. As many successful Group of Five teams have learned in the past, attrition is inevitable. When the season comes to an end, Green […]

The Indianapolis Colts have been in a bit of a rut recently, but things quickly went from bad to worse on Sunday against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Early in the game, quarterback Daniel Jones went down with a non-contact Achilles injury and left the game. Jones limped to the locker room and later returned with a […]

Selection Sunday is here! Championship weekend threw a couple of wrenches into the College Football Playoff selection, making this one of the toughest years the committee has had (though nothing will top 2023). BYU was soundly eliminated on Saturday morning by getting blown out by Texas Tech for the second time, this time a 34-7 […]

The Kansas City Chiefs have been through a lot of struggles during the 2025 season, but now they are of out of room for error. Coming into Week 14, the Chiefs are sitting at 6-6 and are currently on the outside of the playoff picture in the AFC. The Chiefs have seemed to be turning […]

Just one Saturday is left to pass before Selection Sunday in college football, when the 12-team College Football Playoff field is officially finalized. Only the conference championship games still have to be played, but the biggest debate of this CFP season is between two teams that will be on the couch of the final weekend […]

The Dallas Cowboys came into Week 14 as one of the hottest teams in the NFL, but the Detroit Lions and their explosive offense put that out in a blink on Thursday night. The Lions gained even more ground in the NFC playoff race with a very impressive 44-30 win over the Cowboys. The Dallas […]

The Orlando Magic have been treading water in the Eastern Conference playoff picture while star forward Paolo Banchero has been sidelined, but now the face of their franchise is coming back. After missing 10 games with a left groin strain, Banchero is set to make his return on Friday night against the Miami Heat, the […]

The Los Angeles Lakers have been a pleasant surprise so far this season, racing out into playoff contention in the Western Conference with a hot start in 2025-26. They have been able to do that despite some injuries and other situations that have caused both LeBron James and Luka Doncic to miss games. On Thursday […]