11+ mon, 2+ week ago (445+ words) The Weekend's Premier League Action Inside Ashworth's Man Utd Exit Gerrard's Most Important Goal Texas lost to Georgia in overtime in the SEC Championship Game, but only fell to No. 5 in the College Football Playoff seeding. As a result, the Longhorns get ACC champion Clemson in the first round and are the biggest favorite of the round, opening at -10.5 points. On paper, it makes sense the 5-12 matchup would be the widest spread of the bunch. This is the matchup that causes a ton of upsets in the college basketball tournament, but will that apply in college football as well? Clemson is coming off its best win of the season though. The Tigers didn't have a top-25 win before taking down SMU in the ACC title game, a contest the Tigers needed help to even reach. Funny enough, that means Clemson…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago (812+ words) Victor Wembanyama could be in for a big year after a blood clot shortened his season in 2024-25. Carmen Mandato / Getty Images The San Antonio Spurs are one of a handful of teams looking to take a big step forward in 2025-26. Victor Wembanyama is entering his third season as a pro and with a strong supporting cast around him, the Spurs are generating some hype. It starts with Wembanyama, who averaged career-high marks in points (24.3), rebounds (11) and blocks (3.8) over 46 games before a blood clot diagnosis ended his campaign in February. He's back after a rigorous offseason spent restoring his mind and body, and he's one of the early favorites in the MVP race. There's also plenty of untapped potential in his pairing with All-Star guard De'Aaron Fox. The two appeared in just five games together last season before Wembanyama was sidelined....

9+ mon, 3+ week ago (371+ words) The last meeting between the San Antonio Spurs and Atlanta Hawks was a high-scoring overtime thriller. This game carries the splendor of NBA trade season. The Hawks and Spurs will open Wednesday's national TV slate with attention fixed on the latter's newly acquired playmaker and potential franchise cornerstone De'Aaron Fox. We adhere to a common refrain around these parts: If Victor Wembanyama is on the screen and we don't have an outstanding commitment, we will be watching. Fox is going to instantly lift the Fightin' Wembys on offense. He is great in the pick-and-roll and ranks fourth in scoring off drives this season. The spacing will be ample: Fox is one of the league's best backcourt players at getting to the rim, and Wembanyama is the league's only 7-foot-3 savant with Steph Curry range. All together now " as long as…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago (366+ words) Notre Dame vs. Penn State Ohio State entered the season with arguably the best roster on paper. For the last two games, when it has mattered most, it has finally looked like that. Texas" defense has been better than Oregon"s throughout the season, but Ohio State also sliced through Tennessee"s elite defense. Plus, the Longhorns just got outgained 510-375 by ASU. Texas hadn"t allowed even 400 yards to an opponent before that game. It"s hard not to talk about Ohio State"s offense after what it has done in the last two games. Jeremiah Smith has looked like an NFL receiver playing against college players (and you"re probably sick of hearing that he"s still only a freshman). That said, these were the two best-scoring defenses in the country before the quarterfinals. That"s why the point…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago (482+ words) Quarterback Marcel Reed (10) and the Aggies are 8-0 and ranked No. 3 by the College Football Playoff committee. Troy Taormina / Imagn Images Hypothetical football was the SEC's friend a year ago, though not an especially helpful one: Alabama, Ole Miss and South Carolina surely would have thumped the cutesy Indiana Hoosiers at any point on any field in 2024, but one loss to the only formidable team on a soft IU schedule was enough to make the College Football Playoff field over those three-loss survivors of bona fide gauntlets. (And then SMU stayed ahead of those three after losing the ACC title game to Clemson, and an offseason full of SEC whining " the league sets the college football standard for that as well " was assured.) Indiana is playing like a dominant team and has arguably the best win of the season to its…...

11+ mon, 4+ week ago (1655+ words) Liverpool vs. Man City Live Biggest Leads Overturned in a PL Title Race Dissecting Liverpool & Man City's Rivalry COLLEGE STATION, Texas " As Aggies silently filed out of Kyle Field, Texas fans in burnt orange filling the southeast corner of The House That Johnny Built rubbed salt in their wounds with three letters. "S-E-C! S-E-C!" they chanted. Traditionally, the chant has been reserved for programs expressing their superiority to teams that don"t get to wear the patch on their jerseys. Both Texas and Texas A&M wear it now. And Texas capped its maiden voyage through an SEC schedule with a 17-7 win over A&M for the right to do something A&M has never done: Play for the SEC title. "Let"s take this s" to Atlanta!" a member of Texas" equipment staff yelled as they packed up gear…...

6+ mon, 4+ day ago (957+ words) No. 12 Texas Tech swept No. 5 Florida State in the Tallahassee super regionals behind star ace NiJaree Canady. 'The Beast' Draft Guide MLB Draft Top 100 NBA Draft Entry Tracker Live Fantasy Analysis of the 2025 NFL Draft Last summer, Texas Tech made a dazzling million-dollar move in hopes of making it to its first-ever Women's College World Series. On Friday, No. 12 Texas Tech swept No. 5 Florida State in the Tallahassee super regionals behind star ace NiJaree Canady, who threw every pitch for the Red Raiders in the historic back-to-back wins. Florida State's hitters went 5-of-49 (.102) in the series. Canady " the 6-foot junior transfer from Stanford who accepted a $1,050,024 name, image and likeness offer to transform the Red Raiders' program " will now compete in her third straight WCWS after leading Stanford there in 2023 and 2024, and Texas Tech's first. The Red Raiders were the…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago (793+ words) To call Notre Dame-Texas A&M a rivalry probably overstates what's coming on Saturday night, but the connections between the two programs feel like they go deeper than a home-and-home series. Notre Dame won 23-13 in College Station to open last season in a watershed victory for the program, spoiling Mike Elko's debut as the Aggies' head coach. The Irish beat Elko the year before, too, as ESPN's "College GameDay" visited Duke for the first time and the Irish got an advance scouting report on quarterback Riley Leonard, who transferred to Notre Dame three months later. There's also the Elko-Notre Dame connection: He spent the 2017 season as Brian Kelly's defensive coordinator, the opening act of a rebuild that ultimately led to Marcus Freeman's hire as defensive coordinator and then his promotion to head coach. It's not a stretch to say that…...

6+ mon, 4+ week ago (316+ words) The ruling, which is limited to the Southern District of Texas, prohibited the administration from using the wartime law because the president's claims about a Venezuelan gang do not add up to an "invasion." The ruling, which is limited to the Southern District of Texas, prohibited the administration from using the wartime law because the president's claims about a Venezuelan gang do not add up to an "invasion." By Alan FeuerMattathias Schwartz and Charlie Savage A federal judge on Thursday permanently barred the Trump administration from invoking the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century wartime law, to deport Venezuelans it has deemed to be criminals from the Southern District of Texas, saying that the White House's use of the statute was illegal. The decision by the judge, Fernando Rodriguez Jr., was the most expansive ruling yet by any of the numerous…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago (1947+ words) The Sooners' upset win against Alabama propels them into the projected CFP field. Kevin C. Cox / Getty Images And now, 20 Final Thoughts from Week 12, when I started to realize this year's College Football Playoff field is not going to resolve itself cleanly. (Not that it ever will.) 1. If, like me, you spend 14 hours every Saturday watching college football, you'll hear about 237 references to something called the Allstate Playoff Predictor. ABC/ESPN's announcers treat it with the same reverence they would the Nielsen ratings " or Disney's stock price. But I prefer to cite the Mandel Best Guess. After a wild day in the SEC that saw No. 11 Oklahoma take down No. 4 Alabama, No. 3 Texas A&M pull off a 27-point comeback against South Carolina and No. 7 Ole Miss survive an upset bid by Florida, my Best Guess is the SEC is going…...