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Multiple coaches have already been fired this year. Billy Napier was let go by Florida, while Penn State and LSU have also moved on from their head coaches. Meanwhile, other programs have declared their allegiances to their coaches, such as Maryland with Mike Locksley and Wisconsin with Luke Fickell. Still, multiple coaches find themselves on […]

The tight end position always finds a way to test the patience, instincts, and emotional stability of fantasy football managers. Of course, Week 11 was no exception. With the fewest total TE touchdowns we’ve seen in weeks and several big names failing to fire, the scoring landscape tightened just as playoff pressure began to mount. […]

A lot of college observers looked at Notre Dame and dismissed the Fighting Irish when they lost their first two games of the season to Miami and Texas A&M. The losses were problematic and painful to the team’s fans, but the last thing that head coach Marcus Freeman was going to do was give up […]

The 2025 fantasy football playoffs are almost here. Week 12 arrives with wide receiver once again emerging as the position that decides championships. Elite production at WR is driving matchup swings every Sunday. Week 11 reminded us how quickly the landscape can flip. As always, though, the real challenge is separating rest-of-season long-haulers from one-week […]

Week 12 of the 2025 NFL season arrives with the fantasy football playoffs looming. Running back has once again become the position where championships are won or lost. Week 11 delivered fireworks, led by Sean Tucker’s stunning eruption. That flipped matchups and waiver wires across the fantasy landscape. As always, though, the challenge now is […]

The 2025 fantasy football season has entered its final stretch. Week 12 arrives with a chaotic mix of injuries, bye weeks, and breakout potential. With the Chargers, Commanders, Broncos, and Dolphins all idle, fantasy football managers will need to get creative to fill quarterback slots. Key insights Michael Penix Jr may have suffered a season-ending […]

Every college football season has a loss so shocking, so cataclysmic, that it becomes part of a program’s identity. For South Carolina football in 2025, that loss came in Week 12. It was an epic 31–30 collapse against No. 3 Texas A&M after leading 30–3 at halftime. The Gamecocks lost a chance to salvage a […]

For much of this college football season, Alabama has been synonymous with discipline, dominance, and execution.. On Saturday night in Tuscaloosa, though, that standard slipped. The No. 4 Crimson Tide suffered a stunning 23–21 home loss to No. 10 Oklahoma. This defeat sent shockwaves through the SEC and all but shattered Alabama’s College Football Playoff […]

The Denver Broncos are back. After years of mediocrity and missed expectations, Denver has rediscovered the very formula that made them Super Bowl 50 champions. They have embodied defense, discipline, and dominance in the clutch. The names have changed, the playbook has evolved, and the quarterback is far younger. The identity, though, feels unmistakably familiar. […]

The Texas Longhorns likely saw their playoff hopes end on Saturday. It was a 35-10 loss to Georgia, as Georgia dominated the fourth quarter. A third loss of the season likely knocks Texas out of playoff contention, and there are a few spots to blame. Texas was in the game most of the way. They […]

With his UFC 322 win over Jack Della Maddelena, Islam Makhachev became just the 11th UFC fighter ever to hold championship belts in two different weight classes. The former Lightweight Champion is now the champion in the welterweight division. This comes just months after Ilia Topuria won his championship belt. Along the way of compiling […]

The SEC saw a massive upset this week, which has shifted things in the conference. They also saw a near-upset, which could have made more of a mess of the conference. Still, multiple teams have a chance at the College Football Playoff, even with the shifting in the Week 13 SEC Power Rankings. 1. Texas […]

Week 11 of the NFL and Fantasy Football season has almost concluded as fantasy managers continue to deal with crucial decisions regarding their lineups ahead of the playoffs. These last few weeks of the fantasy regular season will be pivotal and certain players will have to be dropped from rosters to make room for emerging […]

Exactly five months ago, on a warm June evening in Sunrise, the Florida Panthers captured their second consecutive NHL championship. It wasn’t quite as thrilling as the year before, when the Edmonton Oilers erased a 3-0 deficit before coming up just short in a one-goal Game 7 — but it was a terrific series nonetheless. […]

LeBron James has done it all in the NBA. It’s safe to say that he has lived up to the hype, proving that he is indeed the best basketball player in the world. While James did exercise his player option this year, there are plenty of rumors about his future. Although retirement is an option, […]

The NFL is still in Week 11 because of Monday Night Football. But it’s never too early to look ahead to Thursday Night Football. Buffalo and Houston will square off in an AFC showdown later this week that could have huge ramifications for both teams. Houston is attempting to turn around their season, improving to […]

The Kansas City Chiefs are 5-5. They currently sit in third place in the AFC West after their Week 11 heartbreaking loss to the Denver Broncos. Fans aren’t used to this much losing in Kansas City. In fact, the Chiefs have only lost more than five games during the entire season once in the Patrick […]

The Buffalo Bills continue to lean on fantasy football star Josh Allen while the Houston Texans try to stay in the playoff hunt. And here is the start ‘em, sit ‘em advice for their Week 12 Thursday Night Football contest. Buffalo (7-3) enters off the high of a tough 44-32 win over the Buccaneers, while […]

In the aftermath of the Philadelphia Eagles’ impressive win over the Lions and the Rams taking care of business, something has become clear. Forget the AFC, the NFC will claim the 2025 Super Bowl title. The Eagles improved to 8-2 on the season with a dog-fight 16-9 win on Sunday Night Football. Meanwhile, the Rams […]

Things could not have been much worse for the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday, losing Michael Penix Jr., and also seeing Drake London go down with an injury. And here is what those injuries mean for the nightmare Falcons’ season. Atlanta entered the year with high hopes, believing its two first-round picks would transform the defense […]

The Denver Broncos have won eight straight games on the back of an elite defense. The team finds success because they get after the quarterback often. Their 49 sacks are the most in the league, 15 more than the second-place team. At this rate, the team is on pace to break the single-season sack record […]

Injuries are always a constant in the NFL. Teams around the league are fighting for playoff position with one another, as the postseason is not too far away. That means a significant injury at this point in the season could almost certainly put any player out of commission for the rest of the year. Unfortunately, […]

Five HBCUs are making history this postseason at the Division II level. For the first time in history, five Historically Black Colleges and Universities have clinched a bid to the NCAA Division II Playoffs: Albany State University, Benedict College, Kentucky State, Johnson C. Smith, and Virginia Union. Each institution enters the postseason having delivered a […]

Once again, it seems like Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nikola Jokic will be the two players battling for the MVP award late in the 2025-26 NBA season. However, this year’s MVP race is much more open than in years past, especially with the hot starts we have seen from Giannis Antetokounmpo, Victor Wembanyama, and Luka Doncic. […]

Not too long ago, the Detroit Pistons lost 28 consecutive games and were sitting at the bottom of the NBA. This team didn’t find any success under Dwane Casey, and then they went just 14-68 during the 2023-24 season with Monty Williams, their worst record in franchise history. Then JB Bickerstaff took over for the […]

Week 11 was a low-scoring affair, as windy weather and tons of turnovers dominated this week of football. Of the games played during the early and late-afternoon slates, four winners failed to eclipse the 25-point mark, while only three teams scored 35 or more. Even so, ClutchPoints’ Week 12 NFL Power Rankings does have a […]

The Detroit Lions entered Sunday Night Football looking to strengthen their grip on the NFC playoff race. Instead, they walked out of Week 11 with one of their ugliest offensive showings of the season. In a 16-9 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, Detroit failed to convert on all five fourth-down attempts. They mustered just nine […]

Coming off their bye week, the Kansas City Chiefs were supposed to look refreshed, refined, and ready to reclaim control of the AFC West. Instead, they walked into Mile High and played like a team still stuck in neutral. The result was a crushing 22-19 road loss to the Denver Broncos. Wil Lutz sealed it […]

The Seattle Seahawks entered Week 11 riding high on a four-game winning streak. Their offense was clicking and their defense quietly emerging as one of the NFC’s most balanced units. On Sunday in Los Angeles, though, everything that had gone right for weeks unraveled. The Seahawks fell to the Rams, 21-19, in a game that […]

There are just two weeks left in the college football season. The top five-ranked conference champions get a guaranteed trip to the College Football Playoffs. After Week 12, few spots have been decided in conference title games, and it is time to break down all the scenarios for each conference in their title game. The […]

Week 12 of the College Football season has come to an end, with upsets and near-upsets. With just two weeks left in the regular season, some teams have cemented their status as contenders, while other teams fell from that class this week. This has caused some major shakeups in the College Football Top 25 Power […]

There are now just two weeks left in the college football regular season, and the College Football Playoff picture is starting to take shape. Saturday was an eventful one, especially in the SEC, and the results will have a massive ripple effect heading into the Week 13 CFP rankings reveal on Tuesday night. The biggest […]

The Commanders and Dolphins gave NFL fans in Madrid an incredible game to cap off this season’s international series. Washington lost 16-13 in overtime against Miami in a thrilling game for Spain’s NFL fans. The game was competitive from wire to wire, but the Commanders could not come away with what would have been an […]

More often than not, once an NBA player can no longer find a team in the league, the best route is to settle with is an offer overseas or to call it a career. However, the rise of 3-on-3 basketball has paved the way for the emergence of the Big3 Basketball League, a professional league […]

Basketball is a star-driven sport. A lot of the best players in the NBA have been doing their thing for quite some time now. LeBron James, for example, has been in the NBA for a record 23 seasons. Despite the presence of proven stars, talent emerges out of nowhere every season. During the early part […]

CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Cavaliers’ All-Star duo of Donovan Mitchell and Evan Mobley was peppered with questions in the locker room after the team’s come-from-behind 108-100 victory over a shorthanded, struggling Memphis Grizzlies bunch. So much has been written and said about the Cavs’ early-season struggles amid injuries, flat performances, and call-backs to last season, […]

With a few more injuries to now consider, the fantasy football running back crop has left many fantasy football managers in limbo ahead of Week 11 of the 2025 NFL season. But aside from the deepest available leagues, there are still a few serviceable options available late in the week. Week 11 will force Jonathan Taylor […]

The fantasy football quarterback scene has only gotten more complicated ahead of Week 11 of the 2025 NFL season. Although only two teams are on bye — the Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saints — several managers will be without their go-to options. The Colts being on bye removes Daniel Jones from fantasy football lineups, […]

Even in his 17th year in the NBA at the ripe old age of 37, the Stephen Curry show remains the greatest show in the league, and maybe in all of sports. The two-time MVP was electric in Golden State’s narrow but much-needed 109-108 win over the San Antonio Spurs to secure their first win […]