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The 2024 season didn’t go as planned for Wisconsin football as Luke Fickell and company finished just 5-7 in the expanded Big Ten. As a result, Wisconsin’s 22-year streak of bowl eligibility came to an end as the Badgers were done playing before December. Now, as Fickell heads into 2025 looking for massive improvements, he […]

With the conference season officially over in college football, it’s officially transfer portal season. With the portal officially opening on Monday, a plethora of starts have announced their intentions to seek a different destination for next season. One of those players is Texas State star running back Ismail Mahdi, who is now in the portal […]

The Washington Commanders have been one of the biggest surprises in the NFL this season and currently have the inside track to earn one of the NFC’s three wild card spots. The Commanders have fallen out of the race in the NFC East after a rough stretch coupled with a huge winning streak by the […]

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have made a miraculous comeback in the NFC South over the last month, in part because of a couple of very gritty wins and partly because a complete collapse by the Atlanta Falcons. Now, with just four games to play, the Buccaneers have the inside track to the division title and […]

After a promising season that resulted in a big contract extension for head coach Brent Key, Georgia Tech football will have to survive the rigors of the transfer portal. Key and his staff will surely be able to lure in their fair share of recruits, but they will have a lot of production to replace […]

As the MLB winter meetings start to heat up, dominoes all across the league are beginning to fall. The biggest one of them all toppled on Sunday night when Juan Soto agreed to a record-setting 15-year contract to sign with the New York Mets. The other most highly-anticipated free agent sweepstakes can now commence after […]

The regular season is now officially over in college football and many teams have already started to prepare for their bowl games. While that happens, players all over the country have decisions to make about their futures. That holds true at Texas A&M, where the Aggies have multiple potential draft picks that are likely going […]

The New York Giants suffered yet another disheartening loss on Sunday, this time a narrow 14-11 defeat at the hands of the New Orleans Saints. The Giants had a chance to tie or win the game at the very end, but a few shots to the end zone from Drew Lock fell incomplete before Graham […]

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 […]