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How to keep up with NCAA basketball this season.

Atlanta becomes one of three MLS teams to force a deciding match in the first round of the playoffs, with three Game 2s still to go.

As the 2024 season hits its midpoint, the Cowboys stare down the Falcons — and a potential make-or-break moment for the campaign. Follow that game and more.

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The San Francisco 49ers rookie class might be one for the ages
The concept of a team’s “closing window” is more flexible and malleable than people might think.
The San Francisco 49ers are seen as one of those teams with a closing championship window right now. Kyle Shanahan’s team has lost two Super Bowls to the Kansas City Chiefs over the last five full seasons, and made it to the NFC Championship game in both 2021 and 2022. The 49ers stand at 4-4 with their bye upcoming, but that’s not why they’re seen as a team supposedly on the decline.

The return of Ezekiel Elliott to the Dallas Cowboys is not going well.
The former All-Pro running back did not make the trip to Atlanta with the team this weekend and will miss the game for disciplinary reasons. NFL Network’s Jane Slater reported that Elliott has been “distracted” this season — showing up late to practices and meetings. He’s also reportedly missed three team meetings, including one on Friday, which was “the final straw.

Kentucky quarterback Brock Vandagriff was yards, plural, out of bounds when he took a shove to the head by a Tennessee player on the sideline before hitting the turf, yet somehow didn’t draw a penalty flag from officials.
The highly criticized play occurred during the first half of Saturday’s game in Knoxville, Tenn. when Vandagriff went off on a scramble run toward the Volunteers’ sideline.

Joel Embiid yelled at then shoved a Philadelphia columnist who had referenced Embiid’s son and late brother while questioning the 76ers star’s professionalism in a recent story.

AJ Mass provides updated inactives and analysis based on the latest reports and official announcements leading up to kickoff.

Rio Takeda takes a selfie after winning the 2024 TOTO Japan Classic. | Photo by Yoshimasa Nakano/Getty Images
Rio Takeda prevailed in a playoff over Marina Alex, thus claiming her first career victory on the LPGA.
Rio Takeda of Japan won her first LPGA event in her native country, defeating American Marina Alex in a six-hole playoff at the Seta Golf Course outside of Kyoto.
The win caps an incredible run for Takeda, who has won seven times already on the LPGA of Japan Tour this season. But this victory means much more; she now earns status on the LPGA in 2025.

Shane Beamer had himself a Saturday. Not only did he coach his South Carolina Gamecocks to a blowout, upset victory over Texas A&M in front of a home crowd, but he also pulled off one of the coolest postgame celebrations you’ll ever see with his players and his wife.
Beamer, with a giant Gamecock necklace around his neck, huddled his players around in the taem’s locker room and called his wife into the middle of the circle.