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Power 36 Top 7 unchanged Ole Miss takes biggest jump in Andy Katzs college basketball rankings

Conference seasons are in full swing, but it's not a reach to declare the ACC and Big Ten have two title contenders each already in Duke, Virginia, Michigan and Michigan State. The Big 12 (Kansas), SEC (Tennessee), WCC (Gonzaga) and maybe the Mountain West (Nevada) all have one for sure. There will

Louisville a virtual lock for NCAA Tournament after North Carolina win

Louisville handed UNC its worst home loss in 16 seasons. Now the Cardinals put themselves in a great position to make the NCAA Tournament Louisville basketball stunned No. 12 North Carolina 83-62 at the Dean E. Smith Center Saturday. That's not a typo. That 21-point victory gave Roy Williams and

NFL Playoff Picture 2019 AFC NFC Championship Odds and Super Bowl Scenarios

The NFL doesn't refer to it as the "Final Four," but the Kansas City Chiefs, New Orleans Saints, New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams are right where NFL fans thought they would be at the midway point of the season. All four of the teams left playing have a decidedly offensive bent

TOP 25 REWIND Teams in 2nd half of AP poll have rough week

The teams leading the AP Top 25 spent the week piling up victories or surviving close calls, most notably when top-ranked Duke posted a last-second win at No. 13 Florida State . Things didn't go nearly so well for teams in the second half of the poll. In the latest sign of what could be another unpredictable

Blake Griffin is allowed to be mad at the Clippers

Blake Griffin's first game against the Clippers in L.A. happened on Saturday. Griffin still seems upset over how the Clippers treated him last year. You may remember that when Griffin was an unrestricted free agent in July 2017, the Clips (who had just traded Chris Paul to the rival Rockets as he

Underwood urges Frazier to tune out the noise

CHAMPAIGN — Brad Underwood is in his 13th week off Twitter. The Illinois men's basketball coach said so himself after Thursday night's 79-69 home loss to No. 2 Michigan. That highlights, apparently, that someone else is handling the @CoachUnderwood account given the half dozen tweets or retweets

Battles of the Ages Tom Brady vs Patrick Mahomes Drew Brees vs Jared Goff

The AFC and NFC Championship Games will represent either the triumph of experience over youth, or a changing of the guard in the NFL. That’s because Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes will have the biggest age gap ever between two postseason starting quarterbacks. And

Trusting his teammates takes Anthony Cowan Jrs game to another level during Marylands 5-game winning streak

While many Maryland fans left Xfinity Center after Friday night's 78-75 victory over No. 22 Indiana marveling over the performance by Bruno Fernando, Hoosiers second-year coach Archie Miller was thinking more about Anthony Cowan Jr. Both players had carried the Terps back from a horrendous start,

Cardinal notch first Pac-12 win over Arizona State

Coming off a close, disappointing loss to the Arizona Wildcats at home last Wednesday, the Stanford men's basketball team (8-8, 1-3 Pac-12) had its back against the wall, staring down the barrel of losing four straight in the Pac-12. In a must-win contest, the Cardinal took on the Arizona State Sun

10 Big Ten football storylines to get you ready for 2019

Urban Meyer out. Ryan Day in. You probably already knew that 2019 Big Ten storyline. But there are many more. Read on: 1. For Jim Harbaugh, it's now or never. Michigan entered the 'Shoe-in November on a 10-game winning streak with the nation's top-rated defense. Ohio State had just given

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