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Notable Bets: The remaking of the Saints-Broncos point spread Around 4:30 p.m. ET on Saturday, sportsbooks began taking the line on the New Orleans Saints at Denver Broncos game off the board. The betting action was being halted 24 hours before kickoff. The Broncos had a quarterback situation. To be more specific, ...
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'This was never an easy path': Sarah Fuller and the winding road to two-sport immortality Soccer practice was dragging one morning last spring when Vanderbilt assistant coach Kelly Keelan tried something different to break up the monotony. While the rest of the team practiced on the football field in the indoor facility, she gathered goalkeepers ...
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Fantasy Football Believe It or Not: Bench your Bengals, start Wayne Gallman and Jarvis Landry With the way the week leading up to Week 12 went, we knew to expect a wild Sunday. And while Derrick Henry and Tyreek Hill delivered, there was plenty to be concerned about as well. Kyler Murray doesn't look the same since his shoulder injury and Alvin ...
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Every NBA team's most underrated offseason move, including trades, free agency and 2020 NBA draft Over the past week your phone has likely been blowing up with alerts announcing the next big NBA move, and it's honestly all a bit overwhelming. What's big news one minute gets pushed aside when something fresh comes in, making it hard to keep track of ...
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Reports: Royals signing LHP Minor to two-year deal The Kansas City Royals reportedly have agreed to a two-year deal with free agent left-hander Mike Minor, pending the results of a physical. Minor, who turns 33 on Dec. 26, split the 2020 season with the Texas Rangers and Oakland Athletics and went 1-6 ...
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MLB launches wood-bat league for draft-eligible prospects NEW YORK -- Major League Baseball is creating a minor league for top eligible prospects leading to the summer draft. The wood-bat MLB Draft League is launching with five teams and could add a sixth, MLB said Monday. Teams will play a 68-game regular ...
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After Further Review: Pats defense, special teams got offensive vs. Cardinals On a day when their offense had their lowest output of the season, the Patriots defense and special teams found a way against the Cardinals to make the complementary plays necessary to pull out a hard-fought win. In the process, New England derailed ...
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Aloha From Asheville: Maui Invitational in North Carolina Critical Challenge for Hoosiers ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Without any scrimmages or exhibition games because of the COIVD-19 pandemic, it's been difficult to determine how good this Indiana basketball team will be this season. But we're going to find out real quick this week. Indiana begins ...
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Forde-Yard Dash: Change Abound As College Football Lurches Into December Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football, where the Syracuse quarterback is at least has Tom Brady for company in losing track of what down it is on a last-ditch drive: ...
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What we learned from Week 12 of the NFL season With the coronavirus sweeping through the NFL at a greater extent than it had all season, Week 12 had an uneasy edge to it, with several teams having to cobble together solutions brought by player absences that resulted from positive tests and close ...
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Points of Emphasis: Louisville vs. Western Kentucky (Photo of Carlik Jones, JJ Traynor, Jae'Lyn Withers: Scott Utterback/Courier Journal via Imagn Content Services, LLC). (EDIT). LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Despite having yet another sloppy start to a game, the Louisville men's basketball program still was able to find ...
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Henry leads Titans' run to AFC South lead 45-26 over Colts INDIANAPOLIS -- — Derrick Henry carried the Tennessee Titans into the AFC South lead Sunday. Now the bruising back can focus on other daunting tasks, like clinching the division title and making another long playoff run. Henry battered the NFL's ...
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NFL announces Saturday triple-header for Week 16, featuring Bucs, Cardinals, Dolphins The day after Christmas is traditionally for returning gifts that you don't really want, but this year the NFL wants it to be about wall-to-wall football. On Monday the NFL announced a Week 16 triple-header that will feature three games with potential playoff ...
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Michigan State football stock watch: Shakur Brown, Angelo Grose making plays in secondary Here are the Michigan State football players who helped or hurt their stock in the Spartans' 29-20 win over No. 17 Northwestern on Saturday: 3 up. Michigan State cornerback Shakur Brown celebrities his interception against Northwestern during the second ...
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Brady Puts Up a Fight, but It's Mahomes and the Chiefs' Day Tom Brady floundered for most of Sunday's game against Kansas City's incandescent quarterback, Patrick Mahomes. If the game was seen by some as a chance for a passing of the torch from one quarterback to another, from an N.F.L. legend to his heir ...
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College basketball rankings: Michigan State, Richmond soar in first Power 36 of 2020 regular season The first week of the 2020-21 men's college basketball season produced upsets, rescheduling, cancelations and buzzer-beaters. The Power 36 will be a wild ride over the next 16 weeks. Here we go for Week 1, with my preseason ranking in parentheses next ...
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Inside the Raiders: Blowout loss to Falcons has fans worried — and rightly so It was so bad it's hard to know where to start. And it could have been worse. If the Raiders' defense hadn't kept forcing Younghoe Koo to kick field goals — five in all — how many points would the Atlanta Falcons have scored? As it is, 43-6 is a solar plexus ...
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Sink or swim: Do Eagles save their season vs. Seahawks or watch it go under on national TV? Eleven games into the season, the Eagles find themselves in an unexpected position. Expected to be contenders for the NFC East, the team finds itself in a must-win situation against the Seattle Seahawks. With a 3-6-1 record, the team may have to face some ...
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West Virginia Opens as Underdog to Iowa State The West Virginia Mountaineers (5-3, 4-3) will be hitting the road for the final time this Saturday when they travel to Ames, Iowa to take on the Iowa State Cyclones (7-2, 7-1). The Mountaineers are still in search of their first road win of the season and it won't ...
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Under Armour launches Stephen Curry-specific Curry Brand to compete with Nike's Jordan Brand Jordan Brand might have some competition in the form of Curry Brand — at least that's what Under Armour hopes. Under Armour announced Monday the launch of Curry Brand, a Stephen Curry-specific branding akin to what Nike has thrived with for decades ...
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Steelers' James Conner Tests Positive for COVID-19 PITTSBURGH -- The Pittsburgh Steelers are dealing with more positive COVID-19 cases. The team announced that running back James Conner and a coach tested positive on Saturday. The news comes in the midst of a chaotic, COVID-19 filled week for the ...
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Pistons Partner With FanDuel, DraftKings As Michigan's Mobile Betting Nears The Detroit Pistons have signed a pair of sports betting partnerships with FanDuel and DraftKings, capitalizing on Michigan's upcoming launch of mobile sports betting. The two sportsbooks, which together dominate the online U.S. market, will advertise within ...
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Michael Strahan among ex-Giants mourning the death of Cowboys coach Markus Paul Condolences continue to pour in for Dallas Cowboys strength and conditioning coach Markus Paul, who died last week at the age of 54. Before working for the Cowboys, Paul spent more than a decade with the New York Giants. Hall of Famer Michael Strahan ...
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NY Giants awaiting test results to determine severity of Daniel Jones' hamstring injury New York Giants quarterback Daniel Jones is undergoing an MRI and further testing Monday at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York to determine treatment and a recovery plan for the right hamstring injury he sustained Sunday afternoon. There likely ...
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5 things to watch: Michigan State heads to Duke to kick off three-game week EAST LANSING – We went from early March until late November with no college hoops – an eternity for aficionados of the sport. Now, though, we've got all we can handle. Michigan State will play three games in a span of six days this week: at Duke on ...
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Golden Nuggets: Shanahan is 'disappointed' by Santa Clara counties restrictions And just like that, the San Francisco 49ers are a game out of the final wild-card spot after a win and losses by the Cardinals and Bucs. What a turn of events. 49ers HC Kyle Shanahan 'disappointed' by Santa Clara COVID-19 restrictions. "It was a very ...
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Patriots Playoff Picture: New England's postseason odds are still long, but improving Obviously, beating the Cardinals was a must as they improved to 5-6. According to FiveThirtyEight.com, which uses data science to assess and predict sports and politics, if the Patriots win their last five games (with all other results unknown) their chances of ...
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Tank for Trevor: Which NFL teams are in the lead to draft Trevor Lawrence after Week 12? Week 12 is nearly over in the 2020 NFL season. Now we know who the bad teams are in the league, and there are some really, really, really bad teams. And that's why we do these rankings, as those bad teams look like they could be in the running for the No.
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Top-ranked South Carolina holds off Gonzaga SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — After a scoreless opening half, Destanni Henderson took over for No. 1 South Carolina to lift them to a comeback win over Gonzaga. Henderson scored a career-high 23 points and Zia Cooke added 16 for the Gamecocks in a 79-72 ...
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Punter Rigoberto Sanchez Shares Cancer Diagnosis Today, Colts punter Rigoberto Sanchez posted the following to his Instagram account (@rjsanchez):. "Like I said before, it's always God's plan and it will always be bigger than my plans. So grateful to be surrounded by doctors that helped me catch the ...
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Big Ten Football Players of the Week Following Big Ten football games on Nov. 27-28, the Offensive, Defensive and Co-Special Teams Players of the Week and Freshman of the Week in the Big Ten were announced this morning. Below are this week's honorees: Offensive Player of the Week
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Report: Liberty could be left out of a bowl game in 2020 According to a report from Stadium's Brett McMurphy, Liberty — which could finish 10-1 if it beats Coastal Carolina on Saturday — might not make a bowl since it doesn't have a guaranteed bowl tie-in and there are no requirements for teams to be bowl ...
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Jimenez has surgery for fractured skull after clash of heads Wolverhampton Wanderers striker Raul Jiménez had surgery to treat a fractured skull after a clash of heads with Arsenal defender David Luiz during a Premier League game, the club said Monday. Jiménez and Luiz collided while jumping for the ball at a ...
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Tom Brady loses battle against reigning Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes (CNN) The 'Comeback Kid' wasn't able to get it done this time. Despite scoring 14 unanswered points in the fourth quarter, Tom Brady and his Tampa Bay Buccaneers lost 27-24 to Patrick Mahomes' Kansas City Chiefs. The Raymond James Stadium in ...
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Evan Turner in the Ring? Former Sixer Thought About Avenging Nate Robinson's Loss to Jake Paul Evan Turner in the ring? Former Sixer thought about avenging Robinson's loss originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia. You don't "play" boxing. Eleven-year NBA veteran Nate Robinson found that out the hard way Saturday night in a bout against ...
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Lions flexed to national spotlight against Brady, Bucs The Lions were embarrassed by the Texans on Thanksgiving in what was supposed to be their only national TV appearance this season. They're getting another shot. The NFL announced Monday that Detroit's Week 16 home matchup with the Buccaneers is ...
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Instead of Media Day, due to the pandemic the Mavs begin Media Week on Tuesday Here's the press release that was issued Sunday by the Dallas Mavericks' public relations department in regards to the 2020-'21 training camp. In light of the ongoing pandemic, the Dallas Mavericks will not host a traditional Media Day at the start of training ...
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NC State opens as an 8-point favorite against Georgia Tech NC State has a chance this weekend to finish off an eight-win season, which is still something I occasionally struggle to wrap my head around, but here we are. The Wolfpack is an early eight-point favorite against Georgia Tech, though if the Pack continues to ...
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TCU holds off late Liberty comeback attempt to win championship game of Hall of Fame Classic KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — R.J. Nembhard scored 14 points and TCU held on for a 56-52 victory over Liberty in the championship game of the Hall of Fame Classic on Sunday. The Horned Frogs (3-0) had a nine-point lead with two minutes left but the Flames ...
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Cubs Will Reportedly Tender Kris Bryant a Contract – Nationals, Mets, Giants, Blue Jays Are Trade Fits Getting right into it on a Monday morning, I see. Jon Heyman updates the Kris Bryant status and fits a whole lot into a tweet, following a report on MLB Network. Here's the gist: Kris Bryant is a target of the Nats, but Nats are determined to keep young pitchers ...
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Hilliard powers Wisconsin past Western Illinois Madison, WI — The Wisconsin women's basketball team opened up their season with a 73-66 win over Western Illinois and the Badgers can thank Sydney Hilliard for that. The Wisconsin sophomore guard dropped a career-high 24 points on the Leathernecks ...
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Josh Jacobs suffers ankle sprain injury in Week 12, but should be fine The Las Vegas Raiders were thumped in Week 12, dropping an important game to the Atlanta Falcons and slipping the race for an AFC wild card berth. Additionally, they lost running back Josh Jacobs to an ankle injury after ten touches. Fortunately, it sounds ...
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Where Packers QB Aaron Rodgers fits in the 2020 NFL MVP race Even with five weeks to go, the winner of the coveted award will almost certainly be one of three players: Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers or Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson.
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