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Over the past three years, we’ve seen an average of 6.7 ~new teams~ make the playoffs each year. That’s fairly wild when you consider 14 teams make the playoffs each season. Last year I went out on a limb and predicted seven new teams who would make the postseason. Three of my picks made it, […]

The U.S. women’s national team will close out Olympic group play against Australia on Wednesday. The Stars and Stripes are coming off a massive 4-1 win over Germany and have already clinched a spot in the knockout rounds. Australia played to a wild 6-5 victory against Zambia, keeping their knockout hopes alive. Both teams are […]

USATSI Tempers flared Monday night following a physical Bluegrass State battle in The Basketball Tournament as a team comprised mostly of former Kentucky players downed a team consisting mostly of former Louisville players 70-61 in overtime.  Security personnel had to intervene in what devolved into a scrum of shoving and yelling between some of the […]

This year’s trade deadline wrapped up at 6 p.m. ET on Tuesday Jul 30, 2024 at 7:03 pm ET • 2 min read Getty Images Major League Baseball’s 2024 trade season is in the books. The trade market heated up in recent days before the 6 p.m. ET deadline on Tuesday. While there were plenty […]

The road to pound-for-pound respect and accreditation in combat sports is rarely ever a straight line.  Sometimes, fighters appear on the scene with a seemingly perfect skill set intact yet lack the requisite number of elite wins for inclusion (and often never get there thanks to injury, defeat and/or bad luck). Other fighters, like UFC […]

The United States saw both the men’s and women’s 3×3 basketball teams lose their opening games of the 2024 Paris Olympics on Tuesday. This doesn’t mean the journey to the podium is over, but it is important to point out that U.S. fans should perhaps manage their expectations differently when it comes to 3×3 teams […]

USATSI The NFL’s only three-person quarterback battle appears to be down to two. During Tuesday’s training camp practice, Jarrett Stidham took the reps with the first-team offense despite it being Zach Wilson’s turn in a rotation that also includes rookie Bo Nix, who received first-team work on Monday. While he said he had “no news to […]

Liverpool and Arsenal step up their preparations for the 2024-25 season on Wednesday as third and second from last term’s Premier League face off in Philadelphia. These two figure to be Manchester City’s nearest rivals too and have made a solid start to their time in the U.S., the Gunners beating Manchester United in Los […]

The biggest waves, it turns out, can start with the smallest ripples. On March 21, SMU fired Rob Lanier after just two seasons, a surprising move ahead of the Mustangs’ transition to the ACC. Just two and a half weeks later, thanks to a bevy of moves in between, John Calipari shockingly departed Kentucky for […]

The grudge match between Du Plessis and Adesanya headlines UFC’s return to Australia Jul 30, 2024 at 4:40 pm ET • 1 min read Getty Images Expect a lot of bad blood at UFC 305. UFC middleweight champion Dricus du Plessis and Israel Adesanya compete in a grudge match in Perth, Australia on Saturday, Aug. […]