In what portends a season of uncertainty for college basketball, two of the sport’s highest-ranked programs are already scrambling to make scheduling adjustments in the wake of positive COVID-19 tests. No. 8 Duke postponed its men’s basketball team’s season-opener against Gardner-Webb Monday after a positive COVID-19 test from that school, […]
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Joe Burrow Carted Off Field After Injury, Season Dunzo for Heisman Winner
Football is a brutal game. One second, you’re on top of the world as the top rookie in the league and the next, you’re being carted off the field with a season-ending injury. The Cincinnati Bengals incurred another bad beat when they lost quarterback Joe Burrow to a gruesome knee […]
LOL Jets Sink 0-10, Backdoor Cover the LA Chargers
The New York Jets continued their winless ways with a 34-28 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers, who were unable to put away the LOL Jets and let them in the backdoor to cover the 10-point spread. Heading into Week 11, the Chargers were one of two losing teams on […]
Monday Night Football: LA Rams vs Tampa Bay Bucs in Defensive Showdown
Week 11’s Gotta Get Unstuck Game features the Los Angeles Rams (6-3) visiting the Tampa Bay Bucs (7-3) on Monday Night Football. These two defensive-minded NFC teams could potentially meet each other in the postseason. Sean McVay’s Rams are fresh off a 23-16 victory over the Seattle Seahawks last week […]
Weather, COVID-19 Puts an Early End to Woodbine’s Racing Season
Mere hours after announcing the premature end of its Thoroughbred meet due to provincial COVID-19 restrictions, Woodbine Racetrack abruptly ended its meet on Sunday due to inclement weather rolling through the Province of Ontario. Track officials canceled the last seven races after a storm front brought snow and mixed precipitation […]
Skilling Open: Carlsen, Nakamura Lead 16 Grandmasters in Champions Chess Tour Opener
The new online Champions Chess Tour gets underway on Sunday as a field of 16 grandmasters takes the stage for the Skilling Open. The Skilling Open begins with a full round-robin of rapid chess, after which, the top eight players will qualify for the knockout stage where they’ll play head-to-head […]
Potential Return of Seven Raiders on Defense Bumps Line vs. Chiefs Sunday
The Las Vegas Raiders reported no new positive COVID-19 tests on Saturday heading into a critical matchup vs. the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday night. This frees up a slew of key players who were previously ineligible due to NFL contact tracing rules. Continuing the trend of being the league’s […]
Santa Anita Park Raises Purses, Announces Robust Stakes Schedule
Officials at Santa Anita Park announced a 10% bump in daily purse totals for its 2020-21 Winter/Spring Meet, lifting the daily average purse money available to more than $533,000 at the Southern California track. This is significant for the iconic track. Unlike many other tracks, Santa Anita doesn’t have a […]
UFC 255 Live Results and Scoring: Figueiredo vs. Perez, Shevchenko vs. Maia
Both flyweight champion Deiveson Figueiredo and women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko will put their titles on the line at UFC 255 on Saturday night from the Apex facility in Las Vegas. The pay-per-view main card includes five fights in total, and begins at 10 pm Eastern. If you’re not planning […]
Premier League Sunday: Liverpool, Leicester Dodging Talk of Title Race Ahead of Key Match
Liverpool hosts Leicester City on Sunday in a match that could propel the winner into first place in the Premier League standings. But while the defending champions and the 2016 titlists are among the clubs in contention for the EPL title this season, the managers of both teams are playing […]
Clemson vs. Florida State Called Off Hours Before Kickoff
As No. 4 Clemson (7-1) and Florida State (2-6) made last-minute preparations to take the field at noon ET in Tallahassee, word came down from the conference that the game was a no-go. The ACC matchup is the18th college football game to be canceled or postponed this week. One of […]
Stanford vs. Washington State Canceled, 34 College Teams Won’t Take the Field in Week 12
As a result of COVID-19 cases leaving Washington State with a shortage of scholarship players, their Saturday game vs. Stanford has been canceled. The matchup is the 17th postponed or canceled game this week, which is the most this season, and a new benchmark for the sport. Cougars head coach […]
With Better Rivals Retired, Midcourt Ready to Hold Court in Native Diver
There is no Maximum Security or Improbable to trouble Midcourt this time. This time, being Saturday’s Native Diver Stakes at Del Mar, where Midcourt is the trouble. Midcourt is the one to beat in the $100,000 Grade 3 Native Diver Stakes. The 1-1/8-mile jaunt for older horses sends a condensed […]
2020 ATP Finals: Djokovic Battles Thiem, Nadal Faces Medvedev in Semifinals
The top four seeds took care of business in the group stage of the 2020 ATP Finals to set up two mouthwatering matchups in the semifinals singles draw at London’s O2 Arena. Dominic Thiem will meet up with Novak Djokovic in the first semifinal on Saturday, after which, Daniil Medvedev […]
Golden Gate Fields Extends Closure After COVID-19 Outbreak Worsens
Golden Gate Fields officials extended their closure at least another two weeks after another coronavirus outbreak ravaged the Northern California track’s backstretch workers. According to the Los Angeles Times, at least 100 workers were infected. That’s a four-fold increase from the 24 confirmed COVID-19 cases reported last week when the […]
MLS Cup Playoffs: New York Clubs Open as Road Underdogs in Saturday Matches
Both of Major League Soccer’s New York franchises will be in action on Saturday, but they’ll need to pull upsets if they want to advance out of the first round of the MLS Cup Playoffs. The New York Red Bulls will travel to Columbus to face the Crew as a […]
Nine College Football Teams are Perfect Against the Spread, but Will Their Streaks Survive?
The pandemic-infused college football season’s biggest surprises aren’t just the number of programs sidelined by COVID-19, the lack of mitigating efforts from the NCAA or the College Football Playoff, or even the sheer number of upsets. Instead, notably, it’s which programs are still standing with perfect records. In a Week […]
College Football DFS: Kyle Trask and Florida Should Roll
Saturday’s college football DFS slate features several games with projected team totals in the 20s, which is surprising given the amount of poor defense we’ve seen this season. But, burners still exist as teams like Florida, Alabama, Clemson, and Ohio State are all projected to score in the 40s. Winning […]
Week 11 Quickie Betting Rundown: Packers/Colts, Titans/Ravens, and Perfect Pittsburgh
The Green Bay Packers and Indianapolis Colts throw down in a marquee matchup for Week 11 with two grizzled NFL gunslingers, Aaron Rodgers and Philip Rivers calling the shots. Meanwhile, Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens host Derrick Henry and the Tennessee Titans in a battle of 6-3 teams. The […]
Churchill Downs Closes Turf Course For Remainder of Fall Meet
Citing an “abundance of caution,†Churchill Downs closed its turf course for the duration of its fall meet, scuttling two Grade 2 turf races. The move was in the offing, considering the track announced Nov. 14 it would move all turf races to the main track through Nov. 22. This […]