We get to watch — count ’em — seven matchups between top-25 teams. They are, as follow: No. 4 Notre Dame at No. 13 Stanford, No. 5 Oklahoma vs. No. 9 Oklahoma State, No. 7 Baylor at No. 15 TCU, No. 8 Ohio State at No. 12 Michigan, No. 10 Florida vs. No. 14 Florida State, No. 16 Navy at No. 21 Houston and No. 19 Ole Miss at No....
BENDER: Oregon plants Pac-12’s flag into national discussion Yet it’s obvious what the early-season weak spot is for the Buckeyes. For the second straight week, the defense was exposed. Day was asked about an in-game confrontation with defensive coordinator Kerry Coombs during the game. There was no denying that happened. “When you’re in the heat of the battle, we have to get things addressed and fixed,” Day said in his postgame press conference....
Will Week 2 go smoother for the best teams in the country? The matchups aren’t as great as historic Week 1, but keep your eyes on the Virginia Tech-Tennessee game that will set the attendance record. MORE: Best images from Week 1 | Week 2 AP poll Here’s all the info — dates, times, TV channels — for how to watch the Top 25 teams in Week 2. Friday, September 9 No....
The teams atop the polls struggled Saturday, most notably with No. 2 Alabama falling at home to No. 15 Ole Miss 43-37. HAYES: Tide continue fall from grace | MORE: 10 questions from Week 1 | Top 25 fared Crimson Tide QB Jake Coker did his best to rally his team off the bench, but it just wasn’t in the stars for Nick Saban’s bunch. Exhibit A: No. 1 Ohio State seemed out of sorts in a 20-13 win over Northern Illinois that rekindled the QB controversy in Columbus and No....
Those were impressive wins, but perhaps no team had a more impressive victory than Wisconsin, which moved into the New Year’s Day Six discussion after a dominant 35-14 win over Michigan. Oregon and Boise State also made the moves up as well. MORE: Week 5 Playoff picture The 2019 college postseason schedule features 40 bowl games between FBS teams, with the finale at the national title game on Jan. 13 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome....
Here are two money-line picks for this week’s college football card: Bowling Green Falcons at Massachusetts Minutemen, 3 p.m. ET, ESPN3 Following their 48-7 loss against Penn State, the Minutemen of Massachusetts head into Week 5 staring at a potential 0-5 start to the season. Bowling Green opened at The Wynn Las Vegas as a 13-point favorite, a spread that moved to -5. At William Hill, Bowling Green is listed as a -190 favorite on the money-line, implying about a 65....
TV: The Selection Show will be broadcast live on ESPNU. Selection process: Thirty conference champions qualify automatically; the remaining 34 teams are selected at-large by the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee. Format The tournament begins with 16 four-team regionals hosted by the highest seeded teams. One winner advances from each double-elimination regional to the super regionals. The super regionals are hosted by the eight national seeds if those teams advance....
Here’s how the teams compare: Record this year Virginia Cavaliers (ACC): 52-14 Vanderbilt Commodores (SEC): 49-20 How they got here Virginia: At-large bid (No. 3 national seed); won Charlottesville Regional with 3-0 record; won Charlottesville Super Regional with 2-1 record over Maryland; beat Mississipi twice and TCU once in Omaha to advance to finals. Vanderbilt: At-large bid; won Nashville Regional with 3-0 record; won Nashville Super Regional with 2-1 record over Stanford; went 3-1 (wins over Louisville, UC Irvine and Texas and loss to Texas) in Omaha to advance to finals....
With 3.0 seconds left, Booker took an inbounds pass, then raced the ball upcourt, lofting a shot up that found the bottom of the net. The crowd at the Coors Event Center erupted. Take a peek. Here's the reaction from the Colorado bench. Priceless. The ending didn't come without a little controversy. Jayhawks coach Bill Self thought Booker traveled. "I thought he traveled, but it may have been that Euro big two-step deal," Self said, according to Kansas City Star reporter Rustin Dodd....
But on Saturday, it looked like Ralphie’s handlers lost control of the spry buffalo. MORE: Live mascots | Week 4 scoreboard | Ponder’s strong words for FSU | Tulane’s awful snap Despite looking like she (Yes, Ralphie is a female buffalo) ran free of her restraints, the situation was actuall yunder control. According to school officials, it is more than common for a handler to fall over on a run....
New Colorful Motherboard Delivers Intel 11th Gen Support The new CVN Z590M GAMING Pro motherboard brings Intel 11th Gen support to one of Colorful’s most popular motherboard models. Intel’s latest CPU generation picks up where the previous left off, with exceptionally powerful chips pushing to compete with AMD’s ongoing resurgence in both quality and popularity. Colorful’s CVN Z590M also uses Intel’s latest Z590 chipset. The upgraded Z590M chipset brings greater support for PCIe 4....
The 39-year-old quarterback had one final season left in him after a 16-year stint with the Chargers, leading Indianapolis to an 11-5 record and berth in the AFC playoffs. It’s certainly possible that the team retains backup Jacoby Brissett and gives him a shot at the starting role again after he led the team to a 7-9 record in 2019, but owner Jim Irsay isn’t opposed to adding another name to the mix, should that person show interest....
Not so fast. Even though the Colts will be away from home again when they lace up against the Giants on Monday night, Eli Manning shouldn’t be considered a sure bet to deliver a monster performance. Eli is on the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook’s props board for 250.5 gross passing yards, but he’s only gone over that number twice this season. It will be very easy to overreact to what happened last week and side with the OVER here, but even after allowing 522 yards to Roethlisberger the Colts are “only” allowing 252....
On the heels of Harvard canceling its men’s soccer season over lewd “scouting reports,” Columbia University has suspended its wrestling team while the the school investigates vile text messages sent by members of the team. MORE: Sex scandals and sports Columbia student paper Bwog received a numerous group chat messages shared between members of the wrestling team dating back from 2014 to the beginning of this month. The school described the messages as “appalling, at odds with the core values of the university, and violate team guidelines....
One was his annual list of goals that he writes every Jan. 1 during quiet time on the beach, some of them golf specific, some of them about life. He tacks the list in the middle of his closet so he can’t miss it when he’s getting dressed, packing for a trip or getting his watch and wallet. “I’m definitely ahead of schedule on certain things,” Koepka said Tuesday....
The race was not the best in NASCAR history, nor was it unwatchable. It was, if nothing else, better than last year’s race at Atlanta and that is a win for NASCAR right now. Series officials finally conceded last season that the on-track product was failing to attract new fans and needed an overhaul. The result was a package that reduced horsepower and increased downforce, efforts to bring the cars closer together and present more passing opportunities....
Ross tells Newsweek his humor is a “survival technique to get through life.” After his parents passed away during his teenage years, Ross relied on the therapeutic nature of dark comedy to help cope with his pain and loss. He soon realized that he was gifted at making people laugh and pursued it as a career. “I grew up in Newark, New Jersey and everybody likes to bust chops there,” he says....
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Across the country female moviegoers no longer dream of being saved by Jean-Claude Van Damme, but of kicking and chopping the bad guys till they cry for mercy. Since the release of “Charlie’s Angels” in October, martial-arts schools from New York to Missouri to L.A. have seen attendance by female students jump as much as 50 percent; their phones, they say, are ringing off the hook. “These movies are giving positive role models to women–you’re not the damsel in distress anymore, you’re the hero,” says Master Paul Koh, who runs the Bo Law Kung Fu Association in New York City....
So, if you’re a fan of the current Command and Conquer style of gameplay, brace yourself for further discontent. In an interview with Gamasutra, EA’s Jon Van Caneghem announced he would like to take the series in a completely new, social-gaming, direction: While the above may not sound so bad, it’s this part that made me twitch: The blogosphere reaction to Van Caneghem’s words has been severely mixed, with a lot of Command and Conquer fans disliking the notion of a highly social, Facebook-MMO-esque, version of the game....
