Author: Michael

Lots of college football fans were busy wasting their breath trying to explain with ridiculous logic why a three-loss SEC team belonged in the College Football Playoff over Indiana or SMU. I get it, the first two games weren’t riveting matchups, but the pro-SEC arguments are so tired.
Instead, those fans (and everyone else who loves the sport) could have been watching an epic FCS semifinal clash between North Dakota State and South Dakota State.
For those of you who may not know (which included me until this afternoon), the Bison and the Jackrabbits have a fierce rivalry.

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It’s been a while since we’ve heard from New York Rangers tough guy Matt Rempe, but he was back to his old tricks on Friday night, getting ejected in his first game back in the NHL after a stint in the minors.
Rempe has been down in the American Hockey League with the Hartford Wolf Pack and was called up to the Blueshirts for their Thursday night game against the Dallas Stars.
However, it didn’t take long for Rempe to get back to his old habits of playing a brand of hockey that tends to toe the line of legality…
…or, as in this case, overstep it by quite a bit.

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A “Save Girls Sports” group is alleging that a set of pro-transgender activists harassed them at a contentious school board meeting in Southern California.
Fox News reported on a school board meeting in Riverside, which attracted two large protests on opposite sides of the debate Thursday night. The “Save Girls Sports” side came equipped with t-shirts displaying that all-important message, with the other side displaying support for transgender athletes.

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Before Saturday’s game at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium, the NBC guy that rolls up his sleeves and figures out vote counts for elections, took on the assignment of figuring out the Kansas City Chiefs’ chances of claiming the top seed in the upcoming NFL playoffs.
And what Steve Kornacki came up with is the Chiefs would have an 89 percent chance of claiming a first-round bye and home field advantage throughout the playoffs if they beat the Houston Texans, but only a 51 percent chance if they lost.
Well, the 89 percent apparently sounded a lot better to the Chiefs.

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A while back, it was announced that Netflix was going all in on live sports by acquiring the rights to stream both Christmas Day NFL games this year.
That’s cool, but after the buffering fiasco, many either experienced or at least heard about during the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight last month, a lot of people are curious as to whether or not Netflix learned anything from its first major foray into live sports.
According to one executive, Netflix certainly has.

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