Why do athletic directors need to be on CFP committee? Answer: They don’t. Alabama, Miami were fine playoff picks, but process became a farce. Pick the 12 best teams for CFP bracket. Period. Did the College Football Playoff committee get the bracket right? Well, that depends on your perspective and your rooting interests. The bubble got awfully crowded, so not ...
AI-assisted summary A viral image led to speculation that Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders was wearing a thong during a game. Shedeur Sanders clarified the image actually showed tape for a previous back injury. Shilo Sanders, who is out of football, is now pursuing music, acting, and brand deals. Shedeur and Shilo Sanders have gotten to the bottom of one of ...
There was a different energy when Victor Wembanyama entered the practice gym with a trio of injured San Antonio Spurs players earlier this week, coach Mitch Johnson told reporters before the team’s most recent win over the New Orleans Pelicans, and he made one promise regarding his 7-foot-5 center. ‘He’s going to be on that plane to LA, for sure. ...
Notre Dame’s exclusion from the College Football Playoff marked the end of the season for coach Marcus Freeman’s team, but the beginning of a war of words. On Monday, fewer than 24 hours after the Fighting Irish didn’t see their name revealed on the 12-team playoff bracket, Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua went on “The Dan Patrick Show” to ...
An international human rights group filed a complaint with the ethics committee of world soccer’s governing body to look into FIFA President Gianni Infantino, accusing him of a possible breach of political neutrality. FairSquare, based in London, which says its company promotes ‘systemic change and stops human rights abuses,’ filed an eight-page complaint with FIFA’s Ethics Committee over the organization’s ...
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky announced on Tuesday that he had introduced a measure to remove the U.S. from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, arguing that the decades-old alliance is obsolete, has been costly for American taxpayers and puts the nation at risk of engagement in foreign wars. ‘NATO is a Cold War relic. The United States should withdraw ...
On Friday, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear challenges to President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship. The Fourteenth Amendment automatically makes all babies born on American territory citizens. Trump’s effort to overturn the traditional reading of the constitutional text and history should not succeed. Ratified in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment provided a constitutional definition of ...
When the South Korean boy band/K-pop sensation BTS takes the stage in Seoul this June, ending a four-year touring hiatus, it will mark more than just a comeback — it will validate one of the shrewdest soft-power decisions in recent memory. In 2022, at the absolute apex of their global dominance, the group’s seven members chose to fulfill their mandatory ...
The Orlando Magic are headed to Las Vegas. The Magic clamped the Miami Heat in the fourth quarter Tuesday, Dec. 9 in a 117-108 victory to earn a trip to the NBA Cup East Semifinals. Orlando will play the winner of the New York Knicks-Toronto Raptors game, set to take place later Tuesday. After missing their first seven shots of ...
Major League Baseball’s winter meetings continued Tuesday as the game’s most powerful people convened in Orlando. The market for top free agent Kyle Tucker is still unclear and the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Ketel Marte is a player whose name has been hot in trade rumors. The Washington Nationals are drawing interest for All-Stars CJ Abrams and MacKenzie Gore, two of the ...