As part of its 2023–24 men’s basketball preseason coverage, Sports Illustrated is rolling out previews for each of the six high-major conferences. Next up is the Big East.
There may not be a more exciting conference on paper than the Big East, thanks to a recent influx of coaching talent that will produce headline-generating matchups all season long. From Rick Pitino at St. John’s to Ed Cooley stabilizing Georgetown and other recent hires like Shaka Smart at Marquette and Sean Miller at Xavier, no league boasts a deeper coaching roster than this one.
Author: Michael
Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images
These are the teams we’re watching down the stretch.
It’s too early to say we’ve got “contenders” and “pretenders” in the NFL quite yet. We’ve just hit the one-third point of the season and there’s so much drama left to happen between now and the playoffs.
That said, we’re settling into the midpoint of the year and even this early there are some teams that leap off the screen as being much better (or worse) that their records have shown thus far.
Typically, you don’t see NFL coaches blatantly show the world their team’s play sheet, but the Dallas Cowboys aren’t your typical team.
During the Cowboys’ eventual 20-17 win over the Los Angeles Chargers on Monday night, Dallas head coach Mike McCarthy held up the team’s play sheet exposing every single play on one side of the laminated, very colorful, piece of paper.
#Cowboys HC Mike McCarthy’s play sheet in full view. pic.twitter.
The Los Angeles Chargers lost at home to the Dallas Cowboys, 20-17, on Monday night to fall to 2-3 on the season.
During the game one of the Chargers fans at Sofi Stadium went viral when ESPN cameras showed her absolutely fired up reaction to Los Angeles’ game-tying touchdown in the fourth quarter.
Look at how pumped up this fan was after Justin Herbert hit tight end Gerald Everett for a one-yard score to even things up at 17-17. She really went through all the emotions on this big play for her favorite team.
This Chargers fan was going through it 
#DALvsLAC pic.twitter.
We went a solid 9-5 last weekend to run our season record to 43-39. You guys all know I’m not the kind of guy to brag, but we also went 5-1 in the NFL Outkick Six Pack, meaning we had a stellar 14-6 weekend in college football and NFL combined.
This weekend I’ll be back on Big Noon Kickoff on Fox, this time interviewing Luke Bryan.
But before all of that happens, I’ll be taping “The Fade” with Kelly in Vegas on Tuesday. We’ll discuss all our college and NFL picks and get you ready for the gambling weekend to come.
Tiger Woods has not played a competitive round of golf since withdrawing from the Masters in April, but in looking at the field of players set to tee it up in his annual Hero World Challenge, it appears there may be a chance he could tee it up in the November event.
A total of 19 players, including eight of the Top 10 in the world, have committed to playing in the Bahamas tournament with one tournament exemption spot left to be announced.
Some are speculating that Woods may be holding onto that final spot for himself.
Halloween is still two weeks away and there is no inarguable “best team” in the NFL. Every contender has a bad loss or an ugly win, and there are no unbeaten teams left.
We’re now one-third of the way through the NFL season.
For rookies, their campaigns are taking shape. In Houston, C.J. Stroud is commanding a feisty Texans squad that is only one game out of first place in the AFC South. In Carolina, the Panthers are the league’s only winless team at 0–6, left to wonder whether Bryce Young will emerge better for his early struggles.
Then there are the receivers, who have largely done the job in their first years.
A woman in a Justin Herbert jersey embodied the joy and agony of being a sports fan during Monday Night Football.
As the Los Angeles Chargers and Dallas Cowboys were capping off Week 6 on Monday Night Football with a back-and-forth affair, television cameras kept panning to same Chargers fan in the crowd who was, um, wearing her emotions on her sleeve.
The woman, who was wearing a Justin Herbert jersey, experienced every emotion a sports fan can have in one night. She just didn’t get the ending she was looking for.
Travis Hunter has no problem with Deion Sanders questioning if Colorado players actually love football.
Sanders was visibly frustrated and heated following the Buffaloes blowing a 29-point lead against Stanford last Friday to lose in double OT.
It was one of the worst collapses in the history of college football, and it happened in primetime in front of the country.
Following the game, Sanders torched his team in the locker room and publicly told the media he wondered if guys on his roster loved the game or simply liked it.