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The Atlanta Falcons have slowly seen their season start to slip away over the last few weeks. After holding a commanding lead over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFC South for much of this season, the Falcons have lost four consecutive games and now trail the Buccaneers by one game. A big part of […]

The New Orleans Saints are trying to keep their season on track as the calendar flips to December, but it isn’t easy. Coming into Sunday, the Saints had lost eight of their last 10 games and recently fired head coach Dennis Allen. The Saints got things together on Sunday as they knocked off the New […]

It was a long 12 hours or so of waiting for SMU football, but it finally got the good news it had been waiting to hear. On Sunday morning, SMU got the news that it was still selected to be in the College Football Playoff in favor of Alabama even after losing 34-31 to Clemson […]

After an injury-riddled start to his career, Carolina Panthers running back Jonathon Brooks has unfortunately gone down once again. During the first half of the Panthers’ game against the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, Brooks went down with a non-contact injury while trying to bounce a run outside. Panthers RB Jonathon Brooks went down on a […]

The transfer portal has become one of the most wild and dramatic parts of each and eery college football season and this one is no different. Quality players all over the country are jumping in the portal in search of a change of scenery. The latest name in that group is Utah quarterback Isaac Wilson, […]

Our conference champions are set for this college football season are set and the final College Football Playoff picture has come into full focus. On Sunday morning, the CFP selection committee unveiled its final rankings and set the official 12-team bracket in stone. Boise State locked in its automatic bid with a convincing win over […]

With a chance to secure the No. 1 seed in the College Football Playoff on the line, Oregon football showed out and all of its elite weapons were on display. Dan Lanning and the Ducks beat No. 3 Penn State in a shootout 45-37 to win the Big Ten Championship Game in their first season […]

On Friday night, Army football put a bow on one of its best seasons of all time. The Black Knights dominated Tulane in the American Athletic Conference Championship game, bringing home a 35-14 victory in front of the home fans to secure the title at the end of an 11-1 season. Army doesn’t usually find […]

In a packed college football season with as much parity as ever in the new NIL and transfer portal era, nobody knows who is going to win the first-ever 12-team College Football Playoff. Oregon, Texas, Georgia and Ohio State feel like the most popular picks, but other teams like Penn State and Notre Dame are […]

The race for the College Football Playoff is heating up and the discourse around some of the bubble teams is at an all-time high. Oregon is sitting pretty s the only undefeated team in the FBS and is looking to cement its spot as the No. 1 seed in the 12-team bracket with a win […]

The Los Angeles Lakers are reeling, and Atlanta Hawks star Trae Young isn’t helping matters. Young handed the Lakers their third consecutive loss with an ice cold game-winning 3-pointer to take the Lakers down 134-132 in overtime. TRAE YOUNG GAME WINNING THREE VS THE LAKERS 🥶 pic.twitter.com/qpXaCdK0BK — ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) December 7, 2024 This is […]

As the race for the Heisman Trophy heats up down the stretch of the college football season, Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty is playing some of his best football. The superstar running back added to his historic season with 132 rushing yards and a touchdown on 14 carries in the first half of the […]

2024 was a relatively disappointing season for Kansas football. After a 2023 where the Jayhawks emerged as a rising power in the Big 12, expectations were through the roof for Lance Leipold and company heading into the season. With many of their starters returning, Kansas was expected to compete for a Big 12 title. The […]

Th regular season in college football has come to a close which means that the transfer portal madness has begun. The offseason in college football has become just as important as drastic as the season with quality players switching from team to team. Utah football will be one of the teams looking to rebuild its roster […]

The Los Angeles Lakers have been a mess over the last two games, and head coach JJ Redick needs to make a change quickly before things spiral out of control. On Monday, the Lakers were outclassed by the Minnesota Timberwolves in a 109-80 loss. On Wednesday, things got even worse in a 134-93 drubbing at […]

The Golden State Valkyries are selecting their team for their inaugural season in 2025 on Friday and a couple of selections have already been revealed. The Valkyries are going to add former Las Vegas Aces guard Kate Martin and former New York Liberty forward Kayla Thornton to the team next season, according to Sabreena Merchant […]

In his first (and probably only) season of college basketball, Duke star Cooper Flagg has had no shortage of national exposure early in the season. Duke basketball has played an absolutely loaded non-conference schedule that has exposed Flagg to the best of the best around the college basketball landscape. His early results have been mixed. […]

On Wednesday night, an extremely chaotic college basketball season got even wilder. A Creighton basketball team that had been struggling mightily this season and was not meant expectations finale showed what it is capable of, demolishing No. 1 Kansas 76-63 in a stunning upset in Omaha. Kansas came into this game with a perfect 7-0 […]

The Los Angeles Lakers have been one of the most inconsistent teams in the NBA this season. Their first season with JJ Redick as head coach has been a roller coaster, but they hit rock bottom this week. After a lifeless performance in a 109-80 loss to the Minnesota  Timberwolves, the Lakers followed that up […]

The Seattle Storm fell short of its goals in 2024, but all signs were pointing up for next season. This was the first season of the new super team experiment after the Storm added Nneka Ogwumike and Skylar Diggins-Smith in free agency to join Jewell Loyd and Eli Magbegor. That core now looks like it […]

While some teams are still getting ready to battle for conference championships and bigger things at the end of this season, the chase for next year has already begun. Wednesday is Early Signing Day in college football, and the flips and commitments are as wild as ever. Even Kirby Smart and Georgia aren’t immune to […]

In one of the marquee games of the week, Baylor basketball was looking to pick up a huge non-conference road win on Wednesday night against No. 25 UConn. Both teams came into the game shorthanded, with Baylor missing star freshman V.J. Edgecombe and UConn missing veteran wing Alex Karaban due to injuries. During the second […]

The NFL has upheld Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair’s three-game suspension after his nasty hit on Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence on Sunday, according to Tom Pelissero of NFL Media. The hit came in the second quarter of the Texans’ 23-20 win over the Jaguars on Sunday. Lawrence was knocked out of the game with […]

The San Antonio Spurs are exceeding expectations so far this season, as they currently sit at 11-10 and are holding onto the No. 10 seed in the Western Conference. Of course, there is still plenty of time left in the season, but the early returns are very positive for the Spurs in their second season […]

It wasn’t always pretty for the Denver Nuggets on Tuesday night, but they came from behind in the fourth quarter to pick up a massive 119-115 win over the Golden State Warriors in NBA Cup play. This game didn’t have any impact on the group standings in the NBA Cup — the Warriors had already […]

USC women’s basketball superstar JuJu Watkins has had an up-and-down start to her highly-anticipated sophomore season, but Tuesday may have been her best performance yet. With USC taking on California Baptist in Los Angeles, Watkins dropped a smooth 40 points to lead the Trojans to a 94-52 win. Watkins’ efficiency was the most staggering part […]

CFPEverybody is buzzing about the new College Football Playoff rankings as we get closer and closer to a solid, finalized 12-team field for the first edition of the expanded postseason. Tuesday night’s CFP rankings had massive implications, especially for teams in the ACC and the Big 12. In the ACC, Miami fell out of the […]

One of the biggest losers of Tuesday’s College Football Playoff rankings reveal was Miami. The Hurricanes dropped six spots to No. 12 in the new rankings after blowing a 21-0 lead on Saturday against Syracuse and suffering their second loss of the season in a 42-38 barnburner. Miami currently sits as the first team out […]

The fallout from the final College Football Playoff rankings of the regular season has been massive. Now, just a few conference championship games remain between now and the final reveal of the first 12-team College Football Playoff. One of the biggest games of the weekend is the ACC Championship between SMU and Clemson. For the […]

The Los Angeles Lakers have been one of the most inconsistent teams in the NBA this season. After winning their first four games with JJ Redick as the head coach, the Lakers lost their next four games before ripping off of a six-game winning streak to get to 10-4. Now, the Lakers sit at 12-9 […]

The Cleveland Cavaliers are still rolling at the start of the 2024-25 season as they knocked off the Washington Wizards 118-87 on Tuesday night. While the Cavaliers won’t make it out of their NBA Cup group after suffering a pair of losses in tournament play, they are still locked into the top spot in the […]

The end of the season means the start of a lot of changes for Oklahoma football. After a very disappointing 6-6 season in its first year in the SEC, the Sooners are making a lot of changes heading into year two in college football’s best conference. On Monday, Oklahoma brought in Ben Arbuckle to be […]

The penultimate College Football Playoff rankings are out and we are less than one week away from the reveal of the very first 12-team CFP bracket. On Friday and Saturday, some teams will battle for a conference championship and an automatic bid into the field while others wait at home and hope the dominoes fall […]

In a surprising turn of events, the Penn State football team has made it into the Big Ten Championship Game on Saturday to take on No. 1 Oregon. James Franklin and company benefitted from Ohio State’s shocking loss against Michigan to backdoor their way into Indianapolis. Of course, beating the Ducks will be no easy […]

After a hard-fought win over Texas A&M, Texas football has advanced to the SEC Championship Game where it will get a chance for revenge against Georgia. The Longhorns have played very good football for most of the season even while dealing with multiple injuries to quarterback Quinn Ewers. Ewers’ latest injury is an ankle sprain, […]

It was a frustrating first season in the SEC for Oklahoma football. The Sooners struggled mightily on offense for most of the season and could never settle on a quarterback between former five-star recruit Jackson Arnold and true freshman Michael Hawkins Jr. Oklahoma fired its former offensive coordinator, Seth Littrell, after seven games this season […]

One of the biggest surprises of the college football season has been the success of Arizona State football in its second year under Kenny Dillingham. After a 10-2 regular season, Arizona State will compete for a Big 12 Championship and a berth in the College Football Playoff on Saturday against Iowa State. Unfortunately for Dillingham […]

Arkansas football had a roller coater of a season, with a few very high highs and some extremely low lows. In the end, the Razorbacks finished 6-6 and will be heading to a bowl game of some sort later in December. However, some of those lows led fans to grow tired of had coach Sam […]

There was plenty of reason to panic for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday when Baker Mayfield left the game with an apparent leg injury. Kyle Trask came into the game for Mayfield, but the Buccaneers starter quickly returned to the game and threw an interception on his first snap back in the game before […]