Deion Sanders wants to shut down rumors of him leaving the University of Colorado the same way he shut down wide receivers during his Hall of Fame NFL career. The latest round of speculation – fueled by Sanders’ former teammate with the Dallas Cowboys, Michael Irvin – had the Buffaloes coach leaving Boulder to take over in Dallas. Sanders, however, ...
Los Angeles Lakers guard Dalton Knecht tied an NBA rookie record Tuesday night by connecting for nine 3-point field goals in a 124-118 home victory over the Utah Jazz. But the way he did it was even more impressive than the numbers might indicate. Over a five-minute span – most of it with stars LeBron James and Anthony Davis on ...
Notre Dame’s loss to Northern Illinois is the ugliest loss of any CFP contender, but Irish are positioned for an ideal playoff seed. Should Notre Dame be in the playoff? No argument. But, hosting a first-round game? C’mon, that’s the persuasive magic of the golden dome at work. Irish rank ahead of a glob of two-loss SEC teams in CFP ...
No. 2 Ohio State’s pursuit of a college football national championship will have to continue without one of its starting offensive linemen. As noted by the Columbus Dispatch, Buckeyes center Seth McLaughlin tore an Achilles tendon in practice on Tuesday, an injury that’s likely to sideline him for the remainder of the 2024 season. An Alabama transfer, McLaughlin has been ...
This would have been impossible to imagine two months ago and only slightly less improbable as recently as five weeks ago. But Colorado is in the USA TODAY Sports projected College Football Playoff bracket as the Big 12 champion after winning four games in a row to climb into a first-place tie in the standings with Brigham Young. Multiple Big ...
Voter fatigue will be tested in the NBA’s MVP race this season – as long as Denver Nuggets three-time MVP Nikola Jokic continues to play like he is right now. Jokic, who may have just recorded another 30-point triple-double as you read this, is putting himself in position to win the award for the fourth time in five seasons. If ...
Tensions are high and controversy is ramping up around the College Football Playoff rankings with less than three weeks left before the field is set on Selection Sunday. Part of this week’s debate centered on the status of Indiana, which has a schedule short on quality opponents but long on victories. The Hoosiers are unbeaten heading into its showdown with ...
To the College Football Playoff selection committee: time to take a look at your report card. Ever since the first set of rankings were released two weeks ago, there have been plenty of chaos in the sport to turn the rankings on its head and alter the course for the 12-team playoff. While some teams have deservingly moved up or ...
As the New York Jets finish leveling their latest and greatest rebuild, they might as well take this thing just about all the way down to the studs – and we’ll get to them later. But in the interim, naturally, interim general manager Phil Savage – he replaced exiled Joe Douglas on Tuesday – might bring an organization that’s long ...
And a big part of the Hoosiers’ success this season — including its first 10-0 start in program history, a top five ranking in the US LBM Coaches Poll and a projected top seven seeding in the latest CFP rankings — is Indiana starting quarterback Kurtis Rourke. Even so, ESPN college football analyst Joey Galloway suggested on Tuesday’s CFP rankings ...