Author: Michael

The TSSAA football playoffs will enter the second round of the 2025 Tennessee high school football postseason on Nov. 14.
Here is a look at the TSSAA football playoffs second-round pairings after Thursday, Nov. 6 games.
Note: More than 30 games were held on Nov. 6 because of bad weather coming through the Nashville area on Nov. 7
TSSAA football playoffs: Here are the second-round pairings
Class 1A
Rockwood-Hampton winner vs. Robertson Innovation-Sale Creek winner
Jo Byrns (6-5) at Coalfield (9-2)
Red Boiling Springs-South Pittsburg winner vs.

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Beating Arkansas Pine-Bluff and Denver isn’t going to turn any heads, but the 2-0 Washington Huskies look the part of a team that can make noise this season. 
The first of those victories came Monday against UAPB when the Huskies blasted their southern foe 94-50. The Golden Lions had zero answers on either side of the floor and faced a 41-18 halftime deficit because of it. Washington’s defense was stifling, forcing UAPB to shoot 17-of-67 (25%) from the field. 
Monday’s victory also saw a dazzling debut by true freshman Hannes Steinbach.

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Dak Prescott; Marshawn Kneeland
NEED TO KNOW

Dak Prescott is grieving the death of his Dallas Cowboys teammate Marshawn Kneeland
The 24-year-old died Wednesday, Nov. 5, of an apparent “self-inflicted gunshot wound” after his girlfriend and family members expressed concerns about his mental health, according to police
“To anyone struggling please hold on to that light,” another one of Kneeland’s teammates said

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott is mourning the loss of his teammate Marshawn Kneeland.

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Remember when Thursday night games were awful?
Now you do.
The Las Vegas Raiders and Denver Broncos turned back the clock and proceeded to put together one of, if not, the worst NFL games of the season in a game that rudely reminded us of the early days of Thursday night slates.
The Broncos are the better team, thus they were able to overcome their major mistakes as the beat the floundering Raiders 10-7 on Thursday night.
The Raiders are now 2-7 and have lost nine straight AFC West games.

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The uniforms were pretty. The game was not.
In Thursday night’s Week 10 opener, the Raiders and Broncos had more penalties than first downs.
Each team had 11 penalties. Each team had 10 first downs.
Via Bill Smith of NextGenStats, that’s only the second time it has happened since 1950. The other such outcome occurred when the Buccaneers played the Seahawks in 1976, the year both teams were expansion franchises.
On Thursday night, both teams also had more penalties than points. Denver won, 10-7.
The win moves the Broncos to 8-2. The loss drops the Raiders to 2-7.

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BOONE, N.C. (AP) — JC French IV threw a season-high 352 yards and Georgia Southern held off Appalachian State 25-23 on Thursday night.
Appalachian State trailed 22-3 midway through the third quarter before AJ Swan threw a short-yardage TD pass, and then Jaquari Lewis broke loose on a 27-yard touchdown run early in the fourth that made it 22-16.
Swan’s 16-yard touchdown pass to Jaden Barnes capped an 11-play, 66-yard drive that ended the scoring with 1:56 remaining. The Eagles later converted on second-and-6 to help run out the clock.

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The Virginia Tech Hokies opened the 2025-26 college basketball season on Monday with a 98-67 win over the Charleston Southern Buccaneers at Cassell Coliseum. Forwards Tobi Lawal (20 points, 12 rebounds) and Amani Hansberry (19 points, 13 rebounds) each had double-doubles to lead the Hokies.
Freshman sensation Neoklis Avdalas scored eight points and dished out nine assists in his college debut. The 6-foot-9 guard struggled from the field (3 of 13), but he did an excellent job of leading Virginia Tech’s offense, turning the ball over only once, and playing terrific defense.

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