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College Sports
Historic 11-Win Season At The Gator Bowl: How UVA Silenced the Doubters
Let’s be real for a second: nobody saw this coming. If you rewind to August, the so-called “experts” had Virginia finishing 14th in the…
Jerry Harkins
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NFL
The Great Collapse: How the 2025 Colts Went From 8-2 to Watching the Playoffs from the Couch
Sports are cruel. They build you up, whisper sweet nothings in your ear about home-field advantage and Super Bowl parades, and then push you…
College Sports
Fresno State Grinds Out a Win In the Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl: A Defensive Masterclass
You’ve heard the old saying: defense travels. And on a crisp December afternoon in Tucson, at the Arizona Bowl, the Fresno State Bulldogs proved…
College Sports
The Green Monster Eats the Huskies At Fenway Bowl: Army Grinds UConn to Dust
If you’ve ever wondered what it looks like when a college football team tries to play a game while actively shedding its skin like…
College Sports
East Carolina Sinks Pitt’s Battleship: A 2025 Military Bowl Shock to the System
You know that feeling when you schedule a dentist appointment thinking it’s just a cleaning, and you leave with a root canal? That was…
NBA
Celtics Flip the Script And The Scoreboard in Indy: A Rollercoaster 140-122 Win
If you turned off the TV in the first quarter of Friday night’s Celtics-Pacer’s game, nobody would blame you. Actually, scratch that we absolutely…
Combat Sports
SmackDown Recap: A Holiday Hangover, A New Champ, and One Very Angry Scotsman
If you were hoping WWE would coast into the New Year with a throwaway episode of SmackDown, Grand Rapids had other plans. The final…
Combat Sports
WWE SmackDown Preview (Dec. 26): It’s Joe Hendry’s World, We Just Live In It
If you thought Santa was the only one delivering gifts this week, you haven’t been paying attention to the blue brand. Tonight’s post-Christmas SmackDown is rolling…
NBA
The Joker’s Wild: Nikola Jokic Drops 56 in Instant NBA Christmas Classic Overtime Thriller Against Minnesota Timberwolves
If you decided to skip the late-night NBA Christmas Day slate to catch up on sleep or pretend to like your in-laws’ gifts, I…
College Sports
AP Top 25 Shake-Up: Duke Tumbles, Cats Stay Perfect, and the Madness Arrives Early
This week’s AP Top 25 poll is the perfect reminder that in this sport, “unbeatable” is just a temporary state of mind. We’ve got…