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The Sacramento Kings will have to hold off the Phoenix Suns on Wednesday night without one of their stars. DeMar DeRozan left the game due to lower back tightness and will not return, according to Sean Cunningham of FOX 40. The Kings will certainly miss DeRozan down the stretch of this one, as the former […]

Despite taking a tough upset loss against Georgia Tech, the Miami football team still has its sights set on reaching the College Football Playoff. The Hurricanes’ first loss of the season takes away their margin for error, but it doesn’t knock them out of pole position to reach the ACC Championship and play for an […]

One of the biggest remaining games of the college football regular season will take place on Saturday night when Tennessee takes on Georgia in Athens. Tennessee is currently in a great spot to make the College Football Playoff for the first time if it continues to win. The Volunteers are one of just two SEC […]

One of the NFL’s biggest rivalries will be renewed on Sunday when the Green Bay Packers take on the Chicago Bears in a matchup that feels incredibly different than it did a few weeks ago. On one hand, the Packers are seeking a reset after their bye week after getting smashed by the Detroit Lions […]

The Golden State Warriors took down the Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday night in a classic game that felt like so much more than just a regular season game. Between Klay Thompson’s return to the Bay Area and the start of the NBA Cup, there was a playoff atmosphere at the Chase Center. This game ended […]

One of the biggest matchups of this NFL season that nobody saw coming will happen in prime time on Thursday night when the Philadelphia Eagles take on the Washington Commanders. This NFC East clash has massive implications in both the race for the division title and the race for seeding in the NFC playoff picture. […]

Kentucky basketball got a huge win to jump start its season on Tuesday night. Mark Pope and the new-look Wildcats knocked off Cooper Flagg and Duke 77-72 at the State Farm Champions Classic in Atlanta to improve to 3-0 on the season. With the win, Kentucky snapped a nine-year drought without beating the Blue Devils. […]

The final game of Tuesday night’s NBA Cup slate did not disappoint. A game that started with Klay Thompson’s emotional return to Golden State ended like so many nights did when Thompson was sporting the Warriors blue and gold: with Stephen Curry turning the Bay Area into an inferno and leading the Warriors to victory. […]

One of the biggest matchups of the non-conference slate in college basketball lived up to the hype on Tuesday night. Kentucky took down Duke 77-72 at the State Farm Champions Classic in Atlanta, pulling off the upset to get to 3-0 in Mark Pope’s first season as head coach. Kentucky trailed by nine points at […]

Tennessee football has one of its biggest games of this season on Saturday, as it heads to Athens to take on the Georgia Bulldogs. This is a huge game for both teams as they jostle for position both in the SEC standings and the College Football Playoff rankings. Unfortunately for Josh Heupel and the Volunteers, […]

The Miami Heat were just one second away from stealing its NBA Cup opener against the Detroit Pistons on Tuesday night. After trailing for nearly the entire game, the Heat stormed back in the fourth quarter to force overtime. Near the end of the overtime, Tyler Herro banked in a tough jumper from just outside […]

The Golden State Warriors have been one of the pleasant surprises of the 2024-25 NBA season so far. Steve Kerr has the Warriors off to an 8-2 start, including an impressive road win over the Boston Celtics. On Tuesday night, the Warriors tip off their NBA Cup campaign with a home date against the Dallas […]

We are officially into the final month of the college football regular season, and plenty of teams still have everything to play for. Anywhere between 20 and 40 teams are still alive to reach the expanded 12-team playoff, and the College Football Playoff rankings tell the story of the sport each week. Week 11 was […]

The Los Angeles Rams had a lot of momentum coming into Monday Night Football in Week 10, but they fell flat on their face in an ugly 23-15 loss to the Miami Dolphins. In the loss, the Rams’ offense struggled all night and failed to find the end zone even one time after a few […]

The Baltimore Ravens have taken a massive step forward on offense in the second year of the Todd Monken-Lamar Jackson partnership, making them one of the more explosive teams in the league. However, the defense has sputtered after the departure of former defensive coordinator Mike Macdonald. The Ravens have especially struggled in pass defense, in […]

The New Orleans Pelicans have already been ravaged by injuries this season, and it has reached the point where their season is in danger of going off the rails. Multiple role players have missed time, leaving the Pelicans without a ton of depth to work with early in the season. Those injury problems got exponentially […]

It turns out all of the panic around the Denver Nuggets was a bit premature. After an 0-2 start where the Nuggets legitimately looked like one of the worst teams in the NBA, they have turned things around in a hurry. Michael Malone and company have won five games in a row and seven of […]

One of the most controversial results of this college football season came late on Saturday night when BYU mounted a big comeback on the road to beat Utah in the Holy War 22-21. The win kept BYU’s undefeated season going at 9-0 and will likely keep it in the top 10 when the next College […]

One of the most jarring sights of this NBA season so far has been seeing Klay Thompson in a different jersey other than his patented Golden State Warriors No. 11. Instead, Thompson is rocking the No. 31 in Dallas with the Mavericks as he chases another championship. Ideally, the Warriors would have kept their core […]

The Minnesota Timberwolves took a very tough loss at home on Monday night against the Miami heat. Despite taking the lead in the final seconds, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra designed a beautiful sideline out of bounds play to get an easy layup for Nikola Jovic. Jovic was fouled on the shot, and knocked down the […]

After a promising start to the season, Nebraska football is on a massive skid over the last few weeks. Bowl eligibility is now in question for the Cornhuskers after a three-game losing streak that includes ugly losses against Indiana and UCLA. The main reason for the team’s struggles has been the offense, which has severely […]

Georgia football had a rough weekend, but everyone around the team may not have been all that upset. Kirby Smart and the Bulldogs picked up their second loss of the season in emphatic fashion as they went into Oxford and were blown out by Ole Miss 28-10 in the rain on Saturday afternoon. This was […]

One of the most controversial moments of Week 11 in college football came during the last game of the night. Just as the clock hit midnight in Salt Lake City, the officiating crew extended BYU’s unbeaten season with a defensive holding call on fourth down where quarterback Jake Retzlaff was sacked. After its drive was […]

The Chicago Bears season has officially gone off the rails. After a pair of inexplicable loses, Chicago one-upped itself on Sunday with a disastrous performance, as the lowly New England Patriots embarrassed Matt Eberflus and the Bears 19-3 on Sunday in Chicago. The offense continued its bizarre downturn since looking like a competent unit at […]

The San Francisco 49ers squeaked out a narrow win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday as kicker Jake Moody knocked in a 44-yard field goal as time expired to win it 23-20. Moody’s game-winner turned around what was an otherwise brutal day for the kicker. After missing more than a month due to an […]

Eli Drinkwitz and Missouri football hung onto their two-loss record and top 25 ranking with a dramatic win against Oklahoma on Saturday night to improve to 7-2. After Oklahoma took a seven-point lead with just two minutes left, backup quarterback Drew Pyne led a touchdown drive to tie the game in under one minute, capping […]

It appeared certain that the Kansas City Chiefs were going to pick up their first loss of the season on Sunday. After the Chiefs took a late two-point lead against the Denver Broncos, Bo Nix drove his team all the way down into chip shot range. Sean Payton let the clock wind down and sent […]

A Chicago Bears season that looked extremely promising just a few weeks ago has quickly turned sour. After a heartbreaking loss to the Washington Commanders on a last-second Hail Mary, the Bears were blown out by the Arizona Cardinals in Week 9. The team hit rock bottom on defense when they allowed a 53-yard touchdown […]

The Boston Celtics are finally getting closer to full strength. After a four-game absence due to a left hip flexor strain, Celtics star Jaylen Brown is getting ready to make his return on Sunday against the Milwaukee Bucks. It seems like Brown won’t have to ease himself back into things at all. He will play […]

New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara has been one of the few bright spots this season on a Saints team that has quickly gone off the rails in recent weeks. The Saints have lost seven games in a row and fired head coach Dennis Allen after a disastrous loss to the Carolina Panthers in […]

Oregon football continued to roll through its schedule on Saturday, cruising past Maryland in a comfortable 39-18 win at Autzen Stadium. Quarterback Dillon Gabriel continued his stellar season and his push for the Heisman Trophy, scoring three touchdowns and playing a very clean game in the win. Gabriel also made some NCAA history in the […]

The New York Giants are trying to work their way back into the game against the Carolina Panthers on Sunday, and for a few short minutes it looked like they would have to do it without one of their best players. Star wide receiver Malik Nabers took a hard fall and hit his head on […]

Georgia football took a very disappointing loss on Saturday against Ole Miss in one of the marquee games of the weekend. Carson Beck and the offense couldn’t get much of anything going in this one, and the Rebels controlled the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball on their way to a season-changing […]

Missouri football pulled off an improbable victory in one of the most entertaining finishes of the season on Saturday against Oklahoma. After what was a slugfest for most of the game, the two teams combined for four touchdowns in the final 3:18. Missouri scored the final two touchdowns of the game after Drew Pyne led […]

Oklahoma football is trying to make the most of a season that got away from it a little bit during the month of October. Three consecutive uncompetitive losses — against Texas, South Carolina and Ole Miss — took Brent Venables and the Sooners out of SEC title contention and left them battling just to become […]

New York Giants edge rusher Brian Burns is getting ready to take on his old team, the Carolina Panthers, in Week 10 in Munich, Germany. Burns was traded to the Giants from the Panthers this offseason, and New York gave him a massive contract extension immediately after acquiring him. As Burns gets ready to take […]

Kansas basketball picked up a win in one of the marquee matchups of the non-conference schedule this college basketball season. Bill Self and the No. 1-ranked Jayhawks held off a furious rally from No. 9 North Carolina to get a 92-89 win in front of a raucous crowd at Allen Fieldhouse. With this win, Self […]

One of the NBA’s best rivalries of the last few years was renewed on Friday night when the Phoenix Suns took on the Dallas Mavericks. As it usually does when these two teams face off, this game came down to the final seconds as the two teams battled back-and-forth down the stretch. A Jusuf Nurkic […]

Detroit Pistons guard Cade Cunningham is taking the leap in 2024-25. During a tightly-contested battle between the Pistons and the Atlanta Hawks, Cunningham put the team on his back and decided that he wasn’t going to let his team lose. With the Pistons trailing 121-120, Cunningham drained a tough floater over Dyson Daniels and Jalen […]