The race is on for a top-four finish and a bye through the opening round of this year’s College Football Playoff. Based on the third playoff rankings of the year, at least half of the top four will be come from the Big Ten and SEC. The Big Ten has the top two in No. 1 Ohio State and No. ...
Georgia wouldn’t be in the SEC Championship game if the season ended today. Third place is a great spot for Kirby Smart’s team. Kirby Smart: ‘I want to win every game.’ Of course he didn’t try to lose, but there are upsides to a weekend of recovery before CFP. SEC Championship took a toll on Georgia last season, and Bulldogs ...
It was the return of the King. LeBron James made his anticipated return to the floor, helping the Los Angeles Lakers score a season-high for points in a 140-126 win over the Utah Jazz at Crypto.com Arena on Tuesday, Nov. 18. James missed the Lakers’ first 14 games of the season while dealing with a sciatica nerve issue that dated ...
New College Football Playoff committee chair Hunter Yurachek went straight into the firing line after Tuesday’s new CFP rankings were released. He fielded a variety of questions, with Notre Dame and Miami’s comparisons being a hot topic, considering the Hurricanes’ head-to-head win over the Irish. He was also asked why Tulane gets the Group of Five nod over James Madison, ...
If the Big 12 becomes a two-bid conference for the CFP bracket, then it might be adios for Alabama. Yes, really. Alabama must win out to be guaranteed a playoff spot. Even making SEC Championship might not be enough. BYU is perhaps biggest threat to Alabama’s playoff spot. Go figure. Alabama fell out of favor with the College Football Playoff ...
Week 11 didn’t disrupt the NFL hierarchy. Many of the favored teams or those with better records than their opponents finished the week with another victory. A narrow defeat, thanks to a last-minute field goal, kept the Tennessee Titans from fighting for win No. 2 on the season. Tennessee remains the lone one-win team left in the NFL and on ...
‘I would try to find a little scab that you have, something that bothers you, something that you don’t like to admit, or something that … you have a humongous reaction to it,’ Auriemma recently told the ‘Welcome to the Party’ podcast. ‘I like to find what that is, and then I’m all over that for the next four years. ...
NEW YORK — Cameron Boozer scored a team-high 18 points and No. 4 Duke beat No. 23 Kansas 78-66 in the Champions Classic at Madison Square Garden in the first real test for the Blue Devils’ reworked and freshman-heavy roster. ‘I thought that especially down the stretch, we just showed great poise,’ said Duke coach Jon Scheyer. ‘That’s what it’s all ...
The Los Angeles Angels and Baltimore Orioles swung a trade late on Tuesday, Nov. 18, exchanging a pair of former first round picks. Baltimore is acquiring Taylor Ward from the Angels in exchange for pitcher Grayson Rodriguez, the teams announced. Ward, 31, appeared in a career-high 157 games this past season and launched a career-high 36 home runs. The outfielder ...
NEW YORK — At a time of the calendar year when college football typically commands sports fans’ attention, the men’s college basketball world won the night at Madison Square Garden with the Champions Classic. The annual doubleheader clash between four of the sport’s biggest blue bloods — Duke, Kansas, Kentucky and Michigan State — once again served as the unofficial ...