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Women's Top 25 roundup: No. 19 Tennessee overpowers NC Central
Samara Spencer finished with a career-high 33 points and added 10 assists and three steals, and five teammates also scored in double figures as No. 19 Tennessee humiliated North Carolina Central 139-59 on Saturday in Knoxville, Tenn.,Talaysia Cooper supplied 21 points, seven assists, six rebounds an...
G2, FaZe Clan advance in Shanghai Major playoffs
G2 Esports and FaZe Clan scored 2-1 wins Friday to advance to the semifinals of the Perfect World Shanghai Major in China.,G2 Esports knocked out HEROIC and FaZe Clan eliminated Team Vitality in the quarterfinals of the $1.25 million Counter-Strike 2 tournament.,After HEROIC opened with a 13-6 win o...
Michael Jordan’s team: NASCAR ‘blaming victims’ in antitrust squabble
The latest twists and turns in an antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR now include Michael Jordan accusing NASCAR of victim-blaming.,Jordan, as the co-owner of 23XI Racing, is once again seeking a temporary injunction against NASCAR to let them proceed in the 2025 season as chartered teams despite not s...
MOUZ, Spirit sweep into Shanghai Major semifinals
MOUZ and Team Spirit swept their way into the semifinals of the Perfect World Shanghai Major in China on Thursday.,MOUZ defeated The MongolZ and Team Spirit eliminated Team Liquid in the quarterfinals as the playoffs got underway for the $1.25 million Counter-Strike 2 tournament.,MOUZ won 16-14 on A...
Michigan CB Will Johnson enters 2025 NFL Draft
Michigan cornerback Will Johnson entered the 2025 NFL Draft, ending his college career with his sights set on being a first-round pick in April. ,Johnson, ranked as a top 10 player overall by Field Level Media in the 2025 draft rankings, is one of two Wolverines defenders to declare for the draft th...
Top 25 roundup: Arkansas' rally ends No. 14 Michigan's win streak
Boogie Fland recorded 20 points and seven assists and Arkansas overcame a 15-point first-half deficit to notch an 89-87 victory over No. 14 Michigan on Tuesday night in the Jimmy V Classic in New York.,D.J. Wagner scored 16 points and Trevon Brazile added 15 points, three steals and a key blocked sh...
Playoff Picture: Texans, Steelers can clinch spots Sunday
Two more AFC teams can clinch playoff spots on Sunday, but there's more math than meets the eye in the NFC. ,The pecking order in the AFC is not fully established but the AFC West champion Kansas City Chiefs (12-1) opened up a two-game advantage on AFC East champion Buffalo (10-3) with the Bills' lo...
Tennessee No. 1 while Kansas tumbles in Top 25 shakeup
Tennessee is No. 1 in the Top 25 for the first time in six seasons while Iowa State reached its highest ranking since the 1950s after a tumultuous week in the AP poll.,Kansas, which had been No. 1 since the preseason poll, dropped nine spots to No. 10 after suffering consecutive losses to Creighton ...
Women's Top 25 roundup: No. 1 UCLA holds on vs. Washington
Lauren Betts scored 23 points on 10-of-16 shooting and Kiki Rice added 18 points as No. 1 UCLA survived a third-quarter challenge from Washington to win the Big Ten Conference opener in Seattle on Sunday.,UCLA (9-0, 1-0 Big Ten) led 35-25 at halftime but had to rely on Betts and Rice, who combined t...
Women's Top 25 roundup: No. 23 Michigan fends off Northwestern
Olivia Olson scored 18 points, including eight straight to open the fourth quarter, as the No. 23 Michigan Wolverines survived a 60-54 scare from the Northwestern Wildcats in the Big Ten opener for each team in Ann Arbor, Mich., ,Northwestern (4-4, 0-1 Big Ten) led throughout the third quarter and t...
SMU in, Alabama left out of College Football Playoff
When this college football season began, who envisioned the first 12-team College Football Playoff featuring byes to Boise State and Arizona State while waving bye-bye to 18-time national champion Alabama?,Oregon, Georgia, Mountain West titlist Boise State and Big 12 champ Arizona State secured the ...
Oregon, Georgia, Boise State, Arizona State top CFP seeds
Oregon is the No. 1 seed in the first-ever 12-team College Football Playoff, as expected, followed by Georgia, Boise State and Arizona State.,The CFP selection committee unveiled the field of 12, with the first four spots assured of going to conference champions, on Sunday afternoon, with the discus...
Oregon, Georgia sit atop final Top 25 poll before CFP announcement
Oregon and Georgia, which won their conference championships on Saturday, finished 1-2 in the final Associated Press Top 25 poll of the regular season.,The poll was released just hours before the College Football Playoff selection committee was set to announce the field of 12 teams that will meet in...
MLS to go on hiatus during 2026 World Cup
Major League Soccer will go on break during the entirety of the 2026 World Cup.,That's according to commissioner Don Garber, who made the declaration Friday in Carson, Calif., the site of Saturday's MLS Cup final.,He said the league also will pause during part of the Club World Cup in 2025, which wi...
Five-star DL Justus Terry chooses Texas over Georgia
Five-star defensive lineman Justus Terry joined the top-ranked Texas 2025 recruiting class on Friday.,The 6-foot-5, 275-pound prospect from Manchester, Ga., chose the Longhorns over Georgia and Auburn.,Terry revealed his decision the day before No. 2 Texas meets No. 5 Georgia in the SEC title game i...
MongolZ, Vitality advance to Shanghai playoff stage
The MongolZ and Team Vitality advanced to the champions stage at the Perfect World Shanghai Major with victories Friday in China.,Both teams improved to 3-0 in the elimination stage, with The Mongolz defeating Heroic 2-1 and Vitality sweeping MIBR 2-0 in their Round 3 high matches.,The elimination s...
Colorado's Shedeur Sanders, Travis Hunter Big 12 POYs
Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders and cornerback Travis Hunter swept top honors in the Big 12 Conference on Thursday.,Sanders, a senior and son of Buffaloes coach Deion Sanders, was named the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year. He leads the conference in pass completions (337), yards (3,926) and...
HEROIC start strong in Shanghai elimination stage
HEROIC were one of four teams to start 2-0 as the Perfect World Shanghai Major's elimination stage began Thursday in China.,The MongolZ, MIBR and Team Vitality also started the 16-team Swiss System format with 2-0 records.,The elimination stage of the $1.25 million Counter-Strike 2 competition runs ...
Take 5: Contenders flex, Tennessee State makes mark, is Florida ... back?
College football's ecosystem has undergone radical transformations since returning from the COVID-19 pandemic, not the least of which are the changes to recruiting.,The February National Signing Day already lost some of its significance as a major tentpole of the college football calendar. The intro...
Reclassified 5-star DE Jahkeem Stewart signs with USC
Five-star defensive end Jahkeem Stewart committed and signed to play at Southern California on Wednesday, becoming the defensive headliner in the Trojans' 2025 class.,Stewart, from New Orleans, initially was the No. 1 prospect in the 2026 class. He reclassified to the 2025 class in October, and the ...