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NBA Cup Breakdown: How Each Team Can Still Advance
NBA Cup 2025 preview and predictions: early storylines, dream matchups, and how teams like the Raptors, Bulls, and Thunder can reach Vegas....
College Football Picks: Week 11 Predictions and Best Bets
Week 11 college football picks and predictions include our betting breakdowns for BYU vs. Texas Tech, Missouri vs. Texas A&M, Oregon vs. Iowa, and Notre Dam vs. Navy....
NBA Cup Friday Best Betting Picks: Expert Predictions and Odds for November 7 Slate
Expert NBA picks for Friday, Nov. 7 including Raptors vs Hawks total, Spurs vs Rockets spread, and Timberwolves vs Jazz best bets....
Daniel Jones Must Bounce Back For Indianapolis Colts in Week 10
Daniel Jones’ five turnovers doomed the Colts in a 27-20 loss to the Steelers, cooling off Indy’s hot start to the 2025 season....
No. 5 St. John's, No. 15 Alabama begin tough nonleague slates
After guiding St. John's to its best season in four decades, coach Rick Pitino sought a tougher nonconference schedule to better prepare his players for the rigors of conference and postseason games.,One of those games arrives Saturday afternoon when the fifth-ranked Red Storm send out their revampe...
Islanders, Wild try to get past come-from ahead losses
The New York Islanders had nearly three full days to ponder what could have been after squandering a trio of one-goal leads against the Boston Bruins on Tuesday.,The Minnesota Wild won't have to wait nearly as long to get back on to the ice after a similar experience on Thursday.,The Islanders and W...
Matchup with UAB presents 'different opportunity' for NC State
All the adoration around the new-look North Carolina State team was nice leading up to the season.,Now there's some serious business for the Wolfpack at the end of the season's first week.,UAB visits NC State for a Friday night game in Raleigh, N.C.,The Wolfpack (1-0) rolled to a 114-66 win over vis...
DePaul, trying to avoid overconfidence, faces Stonehill
Early-season runaways can offer lots to like, but "what you don't want to do is create bad habits," DePaul coach Chris Holtmann cautions.,After rolling past Chicago State on Monday behind what Holtmann called some terrific sequences, the Blue Demons will host Stonehill on Friday with an eye on stayi...
Ole Miss plots to dominate boards against UL Monroe
Ole Miss' season opener went the way one might expect for a team featuring eight transfers.,The Rebels got off to a slow start and looked like a group still learning about each other, but things got better as the game went along.,Ole Miss defeated visiting Southeastern Louisiana 88-58 on Monday nigh...
After stellar opener, Seton Hall's Najai Hines squares off with Wagner
Seton Hall is aiming for a bounce-back season after a disappointing 2024-25 campaign in which it finished 7-25. A 2-0 start would be a strong step for coach Shaheen Holloway and the Pirates, who host Wagner on Friday in South Orange, N.J.,Seton Hall is coming off a 77-50 neutral-site victory vs. Sai...
Georgia Tech looks to lock in against Bryant after OT scare
After escaping with an overtime win over Maryland-Eastern Shore, Georgia Tech hopes to see a more complete effort Friday against visiting Bryant in Atlanta.,Georgia Tech (1-0) needed Peyton Marshall's game-tying free throw with 1.7 seconds left to send its season opener to overtime, where the Yellow...
Wake Forest sees room for improvement against visiting Morehead State
Wake Forest will need to avoid becoming greedy early in the season.,The Demon Deacons will try to pounce on another opponent when Morehead State visits for Friday night's game at Winston-Salem, N.C.,But coach Steve Forbes is directing his team to pay attention to the details.,Coming off an 88-74 sea...
New-look Virginia seeks more success vs. North Carolina Central
Led by a 22-year-old freshman forward and the shortest player on the roster, Virginia made a statement in its first game under head coach Ryan Odom: This isn't Tony Bennett's program anymore., ,Belgian import Thijs De Ridder delivered a double-double and 5-foot-10 Chance Mallory sparked a second-hal...
Lightning erase early deficit, double up Golden Knights
Nikita Kucherov and Brandon Hagel each scored two goals and had an assist as the Tampa Bay Lightning rallied from an early two-goal deficit to defeat the Vegas Golden Knights 6-3 on Thursday in Las Vegas.,Dominic James scored his first NHL goal and also had two assists, Oliver Bjorkstrand added two ...
Dai Dai Ames puts up 23 as Cal gets past Wright State
Dai Dai Ames poured in a game-high 23 points and Cal kept Wright State at arm's length most of the way en route to a 77-67 nonconference men's basketball victory on Thursday in Berkeley, Calif.,John Camden, the leading scorer in Cal's opening win over Cal State Bakersfield with 22 points, finished w...
Jalen Green makes impressive season debut, leads Suns past Clippers
Jalen Green scored 29 points and sank six 3-pointers in his season debut as the host Phoenix Suns beat the short-handed Los Angeles Clippers 115-102 on Thursday.,Devin Booker added 24 points, Grayson Allen produced 18 points and four 3-pointers and Royce O'Neale had 17 points and five threes for the...
Blue Jays SS Bo Bichette among 13 to receive qualifying offer
Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Bo Bichette was among 13 major league players who received qualifying offers from their teams on Thursday.,Any of the players could accept a one-year contract for $22,025,000 million rather than becoming free agents.,The others who got the offers from their teams were:,--...
Second-period surge sends Flyers to win over Predators
Matvei Michkov and Noah Cates scored second-period goals, leading the Philadelphia Flyers to a 3-1 win over the host Nashville Predators on Thursday night.,The Flyers have won back-to-back road games after starting the season 0-2-1 away from home. They own a 5-2-0 mark across their past seven contes...
No. 3 Florida dominates North Florida after unfurling champ banner
Florida's Alex Condon scored a game-high 25 points and did a little bit of everything Thursday night as the No. 3 Gators rebounded from a season-opening setback, grounding visiting North Florida 104-64 in Gainesville, Fla.,The Gators (1-1), who went 15-1 at home last season, dominated the ASUN schoo...
Penguins avoid another blown lead, break away from Capitals
Sidney Crosby scored two goals and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the visiting Washington Capitals 5-3 on Thursday night despite surrendering a three-goal second-period lead., ,Bryan Rust had the go-ahead goal midway through the third period and had two assists for the Penguins, who had lost two strai...