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Perhaps the schedule makers thought we would need a breather after Georgia–Alabama last week? There’s only one ranked matchup across the entire slate and nothing that jumps out on paper. That said, there are some intriguing matchups that could yield potentially telling results. No judgment if you opt for the …

Underdog (uhn-der-dawg): noun 1. A predicted loser in a struggle or contest2. A victim of injustice of persecution CLEVELAND — When Will Vest went home for the birth of his second child in late August, the Detroit Tigers’ playoff odds were 2.9 percent. While he was away on the paternity …

LAS VEGAS — Becky Hammon has said all season that she has been waiting for the game when all of her Las Vegas guards click on all cylinders. In 2023, the three-headed monster of Chelsea Gray, Jackie Young and Kelsey Plum was an unstoppable unit most nights, culminating in a …

Something happened in Luxembourg on Friday that will either bring an end to football’s transfer system as we know it, make the stars even richer, jeopardise player development and ruin hundreds of clubs across Europe, or it will make FIFA rewrite a couple of sentences in its rulebook. As Sliding …

Consider it a high-stakes game of telephone. You may have noticed the uptick of college football quarterbacks cupping their helmets to muffle the sounds of the loudest stadiums in the country. That’s because coach-to-player helmet communication arrived this season for all 134 Football Bowl Subdivision programs. Thirty years after the …

The handwriting is on the wall. NFL owners want to eventually expand the regular season from 17 games to 18. The owners usually get what they want, so it seems like a matter of when, and not if, we see an expansion. The current collective bargaining agreement runs through 2030, …

It is only October, so the 2025 NFL Draft’s first-round picture is still very much in flux as scouts make campus visits all over the country. Aside from some of the quarterbacks, most of the players on my initial top-50 board have played up to expectations and will be in …

There was a lot of good baseball this week. Elite pitching performances. One-run contests. Stars getting big hits in big moments. Thursday night’s Game 3 — New York Mets 4, Milwaukee Brewers 2 — was a true postseason epic. Back-to-back Brewers homers in the seventh inning. Pete Alonso going deep in …

ATLANTA — KhaDarel Hodge’s left thigh pad has the silhouette of a guitar on it. His right thigh pad reads “Rock Out” in script letters. They are the remnants of a touchdown celebration he developed when he played in Cleveland, one of many stops in a long and mostly anonymous …

If Aaron Judge is the New York Yankees’ Superman, the Kansas City Royals may believe that they have his kryptonite in Michael Wacha, their Game 1 starter in the American League Division Series. Judge has just one hit (a single) in 18 career at-bats (.056) vs. Wacha, a righty veteran. …