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The Miami Dolphins shocked the NFL on Thursday by firing head coach Mike McDaniel. It is a surprising move in part because it happened days after most teams fire their coaches following the regular season. McDaniel was in hot water earlier this season, but turned it around and led the Dolphins to a 7-10 record. […]

Team Finland’s Olympic roster reveal didn’t have the same hype, considering their best player, Aleksander Barkov, will miss the tournament while recovering from a knee injury. The Finnish squads always show up at International tournaments, but depth is a concern. With their top center and likely captain missing, things get even more concerning for the […]

The Buffalo Bills are in the AFC playoffs for the seventh straight season, looking for the first Super Bowl in franchise history. And in a season with no Patrick Mahomes, no Lamar Jackson, and no Joe Burrow in the postseason, Josh Allen and company have as good a shot as ever at making the Big […]

It’s hard to justify what a “snub” is when it comes to Team Canada’s Olympic roster. The definition of a snub is when someone doesn’t see a player as an option in favor of a lesser talent. There is no shortage of talent in Canada’s player pool, and all 25 players on the team’s roster […]

When the topic of the best pitcher in today’s game is discussed, stars such as Tarik Skubal and Paul Skenes are mentioned on a frequent basis. While they are deserving of the recognition, San Francisco Giants star Logan Webb sometimes gets forgotten in the conversation. Is it a product of the Giants’ recent mediocrity? In […]

The NFL playoffs are finally here, as the best 14 teams will face off to crown a new Super Bowl champion. Entering the Wild Card Weekend, there are plenty of exciting matchups that should make for great games – see how the AFC and NFC playoff brackets shake out in ClutchPoints’ NFL Playoff Power Rankings. […]

The Houston Texans have made it to the postseason. That’s a sentence that most NFL fans wouldn’t have expected to say at the start of the year, yet here we are. Despite a dreadful start to the season, Houston managed to string together a mid-season winning streak to claw their way back into the playoffs. […]

NHL players are heading to the Olympics for the first time since 2014. After a rousing success at the 4 Nations Face-Off last year, the league is hoping to capitalize on an all-time Canada-USA rivalry. Team Canada has their roster for the Olympics and maintains Gold Medal expectations. Will they win it all for the […]

January football rarely comes with surprises. The NFC Wild Card Game between the San Francisco 49ers and Philadelphia Eagles, though, carries a familiar sense of unfinished business. These two heavyweights have crossed paths in high-stakes moments before. Sunday’s meeting promises another tense chapter. The reigning Super Bowl champs enter as the favorite, buoyed by home-field […]

Despite both coming off losses in Week 18, the Philadelphia Eagles (11-6) will host the San Francisco 49ers (12-5) in the final NFC Wild Card playoff game. The teams have not met since late in the 2023 regular season, roughly one year after the Eagles beat the 49ers in the previous NFC Championship Game. Although […]

There’s no telling how long star point guard Trae Young will play basketball in the nation’s capital, but he’s the Washington Wizards’ first “box-office” hooper since John Wall and Bradley Beal. That’s exciting for a city that hasn’t seen its NBA team reach the conference finals since 1979, when the squad was named the “Washington […]

We’re down to the final four in college football, and that means the College Football Playoff semifinals are on the horizon. So far, the CFP has been full of surprises, but the matchup in the second semifinal on Friday night isn’t one of them. Thursday night will feature the two teams who have sprung the […]

The line between NBA dynasty and draft-bust disaster is often drawn in the fragile ink of health reports and levels of realized potential. No two franchises have had to learn those hard lessons more than the Tyrese Haliburton’s Indiana Pacers and Zion Williamson’s New Orleans Pelicans. Both are flirting with last-place finishes to this season, […]

It certainly feels as though the Chicago Bulls are at a crossroads at the moment. They are in a pivotal situation in their rebuild, as they have plenty of expiring contracts on the books that they could try and package together to finally get their foundational star. The Bulls have been treading water so much […]

We are down to four teams left in the college football season, with a pair of blockbuster College Football Playoff semifinals on the docket. Miami and Ole Miss will get things underway on Thursday night at the Fiesta Bowl with a spot in the national title game on the line. This matchup is an unexpected […]

The stakes have never been higher around Beale Street or Bourbon Street-based basketball. EVP Zach Kleiman’s Memphis Grizzlies have started another new season poorly; Ja Morant and Jaren Jackson Jr. are failing to launch their respective redemption tours. The same goes for Zion Williamson’s New Orleans Pelicans. After a few years defined by suspensions, injury […]

It is the start of the NFL Playoffs on Saturday as the Los Angeles Rams visit the Carolina Panthers in the Wild Card Round. It is time to continue our NFL Odds Series with a Rams-Panthers prediction and pick. The Rams come into the game at 12-5. They opened up the year 2-0 before a […]

Indiana Pacers head coach Rick Carlisle and his team had a rocky beginning to last season, just as the Cleveland Cavaliers have faced their own battles in the first half of their 2025-26 campaign. When Cavs reporter Serena Winters posed a question about what signals a group could be better than its record indicates, Carlisle […]

The Memphis Grizzlies desperately needed a victory in the FedEx Forum, and Tuomas Iisalo made some news in an unconventional fashion. With more than half their regular rotation sidelined, Victor Wembanyama’s San Antonio Spurs still come up short in the FedEx Forum. Sure, the five combined blocks from Santi Aldama and Jaren Jackson Jr. deserve […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Washington Wizards took down another playoff-caliber squad on Tuesday night behind a 23-point, seven-rebound, and five-block performance by second-year center Alex Sarr, exemplifying how far the young core has come. The Wizards are now 5-2 in their last seven games and 7-5 in their last 12 after beating the Orlando Magic […]

The first week of January is always a reckoning point in women’s college basketball. Nonconference resumes collide with the realities of league play, reputations are stress-tested, and assumptions built in November either harden into truth or dissolve under pressure. In the first week of the new year, women’s college basketball finds itself in one of […]

For years, the Kansas City Chiefs were picking near the bottom of each round in the NFL Draft because they produced an elite record year in and year out. In fact, heading into the 2025 season, the Chiefs had played in five of the last six seasons, meaning they were solidified as a dynasty. It […]

What will happen with Trae Young leading up to the Feb. 5 NBA trade deadline? This has become the focal question around the league at the start of 2026, as Young and his camp have begun discussing the idea of a trade with the Atlanta Hawks. Not only has Young become the focus of this […]

Fourteen NFL teams have advanced to the playoffs. While postseason teams are the cream of the crop, none of them are perfect. That is especially true this season because there are a number of new and unheralded teams without much postseason experience in the field. The Denver Broncos are one such team. Last year was […]

The College Football Playoff Peach Bowl obviously has huge implications for college football. The winner of Oregon vs. Indiana will be playing in the national championship. Indiana is on a hunt to become the first team of the modern era, which dates back to 1932, to go 16-0 in a season. Oregon, meanwhile, is coming […]

The Los Angeles Rams’ season is still going, and we don’t know exactly where their own 2026 NFL Draft pick will land. However, we do now know that they will also select 16th overall as they own the Atlanta Falcons pick, thanks to a draft-day trade in 2025. So, let’s look at what the Rams […]

Somehow, the New England Patriots have returned. After years of missing the postseason and a small rebuild, New England is back on top of the AFC East. They’ve done so in style, finishing with a 14-3 record and only losing a tiebreaker to the Denver Broncos for the first seed in the conference. Now, the […]

The regular season is in the books, and now it’s playoff time! Before turning our attention to the postseason, it’s time to take a last look at a Week 18 slate that had a couple of consequential results mixed in with a lot of slop. On Saturday, the Panthers and Buccaneers played football (more on […]

Here’s a funny thing about loyalty. When it meets reality, even cornerstones become movable. Maxx Crosby has been everything the Las Vegas Raiders could ask for in a franchise cornerstone. He has been relentless, productive, accountable, and unapologetically loyal. He embodies toughness in an organization that has desperately needed stability. The NFL is ruthless, though, […]

With no Donovan Mitchell to save them, the Cleveland Cavaliers needed a heroic effort from somebody else as they trailed by nine points to the Indiana Pacers going into the fourth quarter on Tuesday. His fellow All-Star backcourt partner Darius Garland came to the rescue this time, scoring 14 points on a perfect 7-of-7 from […]

When the Baltimore Ravens take the field for Week 1 of the 2026 NFL season, they will have someone other than John Harbaugh leading the charge for the first time since 2008. That’s right, after 180 regular-season wins, numerous playoff appearances, and a Super Bowl win to boot, the Ravens decided to move on from […]

At first glance, Ja Morant and Trae Young appear to occupy similar territory in the NBA trade deadline discourse. Both are former franchise cornerstones that have seen their value complicated by on-court results and off-court considerations. Both also play for teams hovering in the middle of their respective conference races, but the similarities end there. […]

When stability cracks, anything becomes possible. That’s where the Baltimore Ravens are now. It still feels almost unthinkable to imagine their star QB Lamar Jackson wearing anything other than purple and black. He is, after all, the living embodiment of the Ravens’ current era. Jackson is also one of the most singular talents the NFL […]

There are moments in a franchise’s life when the safe choice is no longer an option. When credibility is gone, patience is thin, and the margin for error has evaporated. The Las Vegas Raiders are staring straight into one of those moments right now. With Tom Brady deeply embedded in the organization’s ownership structure and […]

The NBA Trade Deadline news cycle is churning with countless whispers, but the latest rumblings surrounding Zion Williamson’s New Orleans Pelicans are grounded in an unavoidable reality. A shrinking pool of teams can even consider a deal for the former first overall pick. Almost every contender is after Herb Jones or Trey Murphy III instead, […]

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers enter the 2026 offseason in an uncomfortable but familiar place. They are competitive enough to matter, yet flawed enough to miss January. The post–Tom Brady years were always going to test the organization’s patience and vision. 2025 reinforced that reality. Tampa Bay didn’t collapse, didn’t bottom out, and didn’t tank. It […]

For the New Orleans Saints, the 2026 NFL Draft isn’t just another annual exercise in roster building but a referendum on direction. Years of cap gymnastics, aging stars, and short-term fixes have finally given way to something resembling a reset. That’s even if the organization would never publicly label it as such. They have a […]

The Los Angeles Rams and New England Patriots are both gearing up for what they hope will be a prosperous playoff run after strong regular seasons. The Rams lived up to high expectations this year, finishing with a 12-5 record and comfortably reaching the postseason despite not winning the NFC West. Meanwhile, the Patriots soared […]

The Cincinnati Bengals enter the 2026 NFL Draft caught between the frustration of a lost season and the urgency of maximizing a championship window. A year derailed by injuries and inconsistency has forced Cincinnati to confront uncomfortable truths about its depth and long-term protection plan for its franchise quarterback. This draft isn’t about blowing things […]