Week 0 was the appetizer, and we’ve got the main course ahead. There will be no handicapping of Cal, Stanford, and SMU’s potential invite to the ACC (but if there was, things are looking optimistic). We’re covering five games and giving picks against the spread from a Week 1 that spreads its wings from Thursday to Monday night as the real football season takes flight.
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The long and cold NFL offseason, the seven-month grind that is the longest time between (real) games of any major professional sport, is finally over. But as the season approaches, a few vestiges of the offseason remain.
I have always referred to the offseason as “me time” in sports, when players are concerned about their situations, their contracts and what’s best for them. Come September, however, it is “we time,” when everything is about the team and what’s best for the collective.
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SGA is doing it all for Canada in the World Cup.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is coming off a career year in the NBA. Now he’s putting on a show on the international stage at the FIBA World Cup.
When he finished last season with an absurd 31.4 points per game for the Oklahoma City Thunder, SGA finished atop the All-NBA voting among guards, edging past four-time 1st-teamer Luka Doncic. The two guards joined Steph Curry (2021) as the only players since 2017 to make All-NBA First Team without also making the NBA Playoffs.
The quarterback carousel is never really dormant because upgrading at that position is the ultimate goal for NFL franchises. You may have just broken an epic, yearslong playoff drought with one player, for example, and yet you are hiring a private investigator to decide just how bad it would be to sign a better player who is under investigation for more than 20 separate accounts of harassment and assault. You know how it goes.
It is a cutthroat business out there, which is why it may surprise you to see some of the names on this list. But it shouldn’t.
Michigan leads a host of stacked contenders who are aiming to deny Georgia a historic three-peat.
What other teams start atop the sport this season? SI’s college football crew offers its preseason outlook.
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1. Georgia
Since the Associated Press began crowning national champions in 1936, no school has ever gone back to back to back.
The NFL likes to brag about yearly parity in the league, but inside the NFC West, there appears to be a sizable gap between the two teams that made the playoffs last year and two teams that didn’t.
The 49ers have advanced to three NFC championship games in the past four seasons, but this might be their best team yet, at least on paper. All that’s missing during this successful run for the 49ers is a Lombardi Trophy.
The race for the American League West title has become the tightest race in all of baseball with three teams – Mariners, Astros and Rangers – all fighting for the crown.
That means each game for each team is very important and they can’t afford to lose any of them if they want to win the division. That’s what makes what Aroldis Chapman has done for Texas over the past five games all the more painful for the Rangers and their fans.
The hard-throwing lefty has blown three saves in those five games, which isn’t great at all.
Keith Olbermann has lost all conviction in being very, very wrong.
On Wednesday, the disgraced ESPN analyst and internet basket case decided to go after OutKick’s Riley Gaines on X / Twitter. Olbermann was back to doing what he does best: trying to bash anyone who’s not a Leftist, only to fail miserably.
ATLANTA, GA – MARCH 18: University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas and Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines react after finishing tied for 5th in the 200 Freestyle finals at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on March 18th, 2022.
The Spanish Football Federation is holding an emergency meeting as the crisis surrounding its beleaguered president deepens
With the ultimate draft weekend fast approaching we reveal and react to the last Yahoo staff mock draft of the season. Chris Harris of Harris Football joins Matt Harmon on the pod for ‘Cram Week’ to provide his thoughts on the mock draft.