BATON ROUGE, La. – No. 5 LSU was counting on behemoth defensive tackle Maason Smith for the top college football opener of the 2023 season on Sept. 3 against No. 8 Florida State (7:30 p.m., ABC) in Orlando.
LSU-Florida State Is Only Top 10 Matchup Early This Season
The LSU-FSU winner will have cleared the first hurdle toward national championship contention in the last year of the four-team College Football Playoff. Florida State beat LSU, 24-23, last season in the Superdome in New Orleans. The Tigers rebounded to win the Southeastern Conference West and finish 10-4.
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Dallas Cowboys defensive end Sam Williams was arrested on Sunday on charges of possession of a controlled substance and unlawful carrying of a weapon. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones believes it’s a sign that Williams is maturing.
Seriously.
Speaking with reporters on Wednesday, Jones was asked about how he dealt with Williams being cited for reckless driving going 100 mph in a 55-mph speed zone in which he also totaled his own vehicle, and how it could play into any disciplinary measures following his arrest.
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The Aston Martin F1 driver will miss Thursday, but the team expects him to be ready for the weekend
Formula 1 drivers and fans alike are excited as the summer shutdown comes to an end, and the Dutch Grand Prix kicks off the second half of the season this weekend.
But for one driver, the return to the track will be delayed by at least a day.
Aston Martin driver Lance Stroll will miss Thursday at the Dutch Grand Prix, as the team announced that Stroll is battling an “infection.
ESPN surveyed a roster’s worth of NFL players about the league’s gambling policy, and here’s what we found out.
The Trey Lance experience with the San Francisco 49ers seems all but over.
The San Francisco 49ers are trying to trade Lance and move on from what has arguably been the organization’s biggest draft mistake, like, ever (even worse than Jim Druckenmiller in 1997).
It’s a situation that has been trending poorly for a couple of years now and got worse Wednesday when the 49ers awarded Sam Darnold the backup quarterback job behind Brock Purdy.
That left Lance in limbo.
One month can swing an entire season in the NFL. When one loss snowballs into two, three or even four in a row, it can be near impossible to make up for that rough stretch in the standings come January. The same goes for stringing together a few surprise wins, which can prove to be the difference between picking in the top 10 and playing on Wild Card Weekend.
The 2022 Lions are a perfect example of the power of that pendulum swing. They went 0–4 in October last season to fall to 1–6.
Shohei Ohtani is the coolest player in Major League Baseball, which makes what happened to him on Wednesday all the more heartbreaking – he suffered a torn ligament in his right elbow and will not pitch again for the rest of the season.
Ohtani, who will likely need Tommy John surgery to fix the torn UCL ligament, left his start in Wednesday’s game against the Reds in the second inning after throwing 26 pitches. It was just his second start on the mound in two weeks, and now we don’t know when he’ll ever pitch again.
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Haas announced ahead of the Dutch Grand Prix that their driver lineup would not change for 2024
Formula 1 roars back to life this week, with the grid returning to action for the Dutch Grand Prix. Following a rather quiet “silly season,” with only sporadic rumors surfacing on the driver lineup front, F1 got its first bit of news on the 2024 grid Thursday morning.
Haas announced that their lineup would remain the same next season, with both Kevin Magnussen and Nico Hülkenberg returning for the 2024 campaign.
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The Angels are floundering, and now they might be without their two-way star for a while
Shohei Ohtani had one heck of a first inning on Wednesday against Cincinnati Reds.
But it may have come at a cost for the Los Angeles Angels.
The Tour Championship format stinks, it’s really as simple as that. The vast majority of golf fans, media members, and the 30 players in the tournament field mostly agree that the staggered start doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Even Scottie Scheffler, the man starting this week’s playoff finale with a two-shot advantage isn’t a fan.
Given that the entire point of the FedEx Cup Playoffs is to identify the best golfer of the PGA Tour season, giving players strokes on the field feels amateurish, especially when the winner takes home a check for $18 million.