As the Cornhuskers marched to their best start in program history with a 20-0 record, players told USA TODAY Sports in December ‘we’re not going to go undefeated.’ A loss would happen, it was just a matter of when. It finally happened Tuesday, Jan. 27 with Nebraska, in the top five of the USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll for the ...
After some serious hemming and hawing, Darian Mensah and Duke’s standoff ended Jan. 27, the same day the two sides settled their dispute. The quarterback will play his junior season with the Miami Hurricanes, per On3’s Pete Nakos and Hayes Fawcett, supplanting Carson Beck after Mario Cristobal’s team finished as national runner-up to Indiana. Mensah, who spent one year in ...
The NBA All-Star Game is just three weeks away. The best players in the world will gather together to play on the same court at the same time. However, only one of them can be the best in the world. With Nikola Jokic’s injury earlier this year, this season’s MVP award race became Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s to lose. However, there are ...
What’s next for the No. 1 team in the nation, the one that somehow appears even more dominant than its two previous record-setting versions? The Nittany Lions and coach Cael Sanderson, who are well on their way to their 13th national title in the past 15 years, seem to be only distancing themselves further from the rest of the country, ...
One of the wildest NFL coaching carousels in league history is finally showing signs of winding down. With 10 head-coaching vacancies popping up, the onset of the offseason was far more active than anyone could have anticipated. But after the Buffalo Bills hired Joe Brady on Tuesday, all but three openings have been filled, and the initial rush for the ...
A rookie tried to give Dillon Brooks a taste of his own medicine, and it ended up costing his team. Nets guard Egor Dёmin shoved Brooks late in Brooklyn’s 106-102 loss on Tuesday, Jan. 27, leading to a small dust-up that cleared assistant coaches off the bench. With the Suns up by two with 1:14 left to play, a loose ...
The Longhorns were rankings darlings before the 2025 season. They didn’t live up to the billing, but they finished the season with wins against Texas A&M and Michigan. Now, with Arch Manning returning, Texas once again is fueling up on big expectations. That includes the No. 1 spot in USA TODAY’s “too early” top 25 for the 2026 season. So, ...
The final day of the UEFA Champions League league phase has arrived. In a complete bonanza of action, all 36 teams will be in action simultaneously with 18 matches kicking off at 3 p.m. ET. There is plenty on the line Wednesday, with only two teams having clinched a spot in the last 16 and only four teams completely eliminated ...
The difference one defenseman can make for an NHL team is often quite large. If a squad has a weak link, it can be exposed because even the bottom pair generally plays around 15 minutes a night. In the NHL draft, defensemen are often the most interesting case studies. Since 2003, a defenseman has been drafted in the top five ...
Well, these two won’t want to see each other any time soon. Chippy, physical play between Oklahoma City Thunder guard Luguentz Dort and New Orleans Pelicans rookie guard Jeremiah Fears bubbled throughout Oklahoma City’s 104-95 victory on Tuesday, Jan. 27 before a shoving match erupted after regulation. As the Pelicans were trying to score a late basket in garbage time, ...