The past few weeks of national discussion in college football has centered on debate over the first round of the newly expanded playoff. Well, one conference has centered the discussion on that, anyway.
SEC fans went ballistic during the first round as Indiana and SMU lost their matchups in non-competitive games. Then went confusingly silent as Tennessee suffered the biggest blowout loss of the first round at Ohio State. Still, there remains a committed group of SEC fans and ESPN/SEC commentators who believe Alabama should have been included in the playoff. Even after a three-loss season.
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The sports world is in mourning following the news that long-time CBS sports broadcaster Greg Gumbel has died.
He was 78.
The news started making the rounds on Friday afternoon, and early Friday evening, the Gumbel family released a statement, which revealed that Gumbel had died following a battle with cancer.
“It is with profound sadness that we share the passing of our beloved husband and father, Greg Gumbel,” the statement from Gumbel’s family reads. “He passed away peacefully surrounded by much love after a courageous battle with cancer.
Scottie Scheffler, the reigning PGA Tour Player of the Year after winning seven times in 2024, suffered a puncture wound to the palm of his right hand from a broken glass while preparing Christmas dinner, and had surgery, the PGA Tour announced on Friday.
Greg Gumbel, a veteran of CBS Sports who spent more than 50 years in sports broadcasting, has died of cancer at the age of 78, his family said Friday.
The Kings, riding a five-game losing streak, fired coach Mike Brown on Friday, sources told ESPN.
The Detroit Red Wings made a big change on Thursday with news that Derek Lalonde was out, and Todd McLellan will be taking over behind the team’s bench.
On Friday, GM Steve Yzerman — the man tasked with bringing the Original 6 franchise back to the winning ways of the 1990s and 2000s — spoke to the media and he didn’t seem to like one reporter’s line of questioning about the current rebuild.
You can understand why people are starting to get a little impatient with the state of the Red Wings.
The Chicago Bears and Seattle Seahawks played an absolutely brutal game of classic NFL football on Thursday night, with a riveting 6-3 final score. Baseball is boring, after all.
But as frustrated as the millions of fans who tuned in due to fantasy football and sports betting were that they were forced to watch the game, even more frustrated were Bears fans at Soldier Field. “Sell the team” chants were audible throughout, with loud boos echoing around the stadium. And it’s hard to blame them, given another woeful performance and the Bears’ 10th straight loss.
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Seattle Storm co-stars Breanna Stewart and Jewell Loyd will link back up on the Mist, Oregon Duck standouts Sabrina Ionescu and Satou Sabally will join forces on the Phantom, and more.
Sabrina Ionescu joining Unrivaled made headlines across the WNBA last week. The New York Liberty guard — one of the league’s most visible stars — is fresh off of a career season that was punctuated by one of the biggest shots in WNBA history.
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Scottie Scheffler will miss the first event of the season in Maui because of an incident that occurred on Christmas.
Scottie Scheffler’s first Christmas as a father did not go so smoothly.
While preparing dinner for his family, Scheffler sustained a puncture wound in the palm of his right hand, per his agent, Blake Smith. Small pieces of broken glass injured his hand, with some of those fragments remaining in place. He consequently had to have surgery to remove those bits of glass.
Ohio State fans and administrators have been in a weird place with head coach Ryan Day over the last month. Day and the Buckeyes lost at home to a sub-par Michigan team in the final day of the regular season, which was their fourth straight loss to their rivals from up north. However, they still made the playoffs and dismantled Tennessee 42-17 in the first round of the College Football Playoff last Saturday in a game that wasn’t even as close as the score indicates.