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Fans of Saturday Night Live have long been trained to tune into their local NBC station at 11:30 p.m. sharp to catch the show’s cold open. But this season, that hasn’t always been the case. Through the first five episodes of SNL‘s new season, four have been delayed by NBC’s Saturday night college football game, most recently…
Ohio State Buckeyes superstar wide receiver Jeremiah Smith let his frustration show during Ohio State’s 41-28 loss to Oregon on Saturday. And one longtime Buckeyes reporter was quick to offer some criticism. The Buckeyes entered Saturday’s game needing a win to keep their dwindling College Football Playoff hopes alive after an injury to star quarterback…
NBC Sports’ lead NFL play-by-play announcer Mike Tirico will not call Sunday’s game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Chicago Bears due to an undisclosed health issue, the network announced on Sunday afternoon. Instead, Noah Eagle will replace Tirico on Sunday Night Football this week, calling the game alongside Cris Collinsworth. https://t.co/eKyVRb8ZOn — NBC Sports PR…
Valparaiso stunned Purdue 83-80 in double overtime on Friday night at Mackey Arena. Justus McNair drilled a buzzer-beating three-pointer to give the Beacons the win over the Boilermakers as a heavy road underdog. “The Beacons have shut the lights out at Mackey Arena!” – BTN’s Chris Vosters on Valpo’s 2OT buzzer-beater to beat Purdue https://t.co/7oGYFzLed8…
The Miami (Ohio) RedHawks were the biggest story in men’s college basketball last March after taking a 31-1 record into the NCAA Tournament before beating SMU in the First Four. Former Xavier head coach Travis Steele has done a remarkable job of turning Miami into a high-quality basketball program. But on Saturday, Steele voiced his…
ESPN went off the board with its pick for next Saturday’s College GameDay location. The network will take its flagship college football pregame show to Boise, Idaho for a Pac-12 game between Oregon State and Boise State. The Broncos are currently in pole position to secure the automatic Group of Six spot in this year’s College…
The 2026 season’s initial College Football Playoff rankings were revealed on Tuesday, and they left the sports world perplexed. One of the many things people took issue with was the CFP selection committee placing unbeaten UCLA at No. 8 in the rankings. On Saturday, UCLA took down Minnesota 34-20 on the road to improve to…
The Miami Hurricanes thought they had completed an improbable comeback against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in South Bend on Saturday night, but the referees had other ideas. Late in the fourth quarter of Saturday’s game, Miami receiver Elija Lofton caught what appeared to be a game-tying touchdown. The wide out appeared to catch the…
NBA coverage focused so heavily on “load management” for so many years that, until recently, it failed to notice the real injury crisis facing the league’s star players. The problem became impossible to ignore early this NBA season, when several prominent stars were sidelined with similar lower-body injuries. Less than a month into the schedule,…
Sal Licata joined SNY in 2010 and has been a mainstay of the regional sports network since. That ended this week, as he was part of mass layoffs on Friday. SNY also canceled Baseball Night in New York and Sportsnite effective immediately. It’s a feeling Licata has unfortunately gotten used to recently, as he was pushed out at…
Very few people like Lane Kiffin these days, and even LSU fans aren’t happy with him after Saturday’s game vs. Alabama. No. 5 Alabama steamrolled No. 14 LSU on Saturday in Baton Rouge, 31-13. The Tigers — who were a four-point favorite — led 13-10 in the third quarter before being outscored 21-3 the rest…
All signs are pointing toward Dianna Russini returning to NFL media next week with a new weekly podcast. The question now is what form her content will take. Will Russini attempt to slide back into her role as an insider? Is her plan to continue to break news? And most importantly, will she address her…
A little over two weeks ago, Mike Locksley stood on the Maryland Terrapins’ sidelines as their head football coach. On Saturday, he sat in the Big Ten Network studio watching them snap a 13-game Big Ten losing streak against the Purdue Boilermakers. The Terps held on to defeat the Boilermakers 34-29 in West Lafayette, Indiana,…
The best thing anyone in the media could say about this week’s first College Football Playoff rankings was that they’d eventually sort themselves out. Amid one of the most chaotic regular seasons in the sport’s history and near-weekly losses for top-three teams, the selection committee may have defaulted to blue-blood pedigree and recent success. Plenty is…
UFC president Dana White has yet to directly respond to President Trump’s surprising request that he become the next White House press secretary. As of Saturday evening, White’s interest in the post depended on which outlet you read. At CNN, anchor Kaitlan Collins reported that White “declined the unorthodox idea.” On the other end of the…
The Missouri Tigers likely had their playoff hopes dashed on Saturday with a home loss to Texas. The evenly matched game saw Eli Drinkwitz’s squad go blow for blow with the blue blood from Austin, with a handful of key plays deciding the game. Unfortunately for the Tigers, despite playing so well at home, several…
Penn State legend and radio analyst Jack Ham suffered a medical emergency before the Nittany Lions’ game against Washington on Saturday. According to Penn State Athletics, the Penn State Sports Network analyst was transported to the University of Washington Medical Center near Husky Stadium in Seattle. “Penn State Sports Network analyst Jack Ham experienced a…
The results of last Tuesday’s midterm election sent a strong message to President Donald Trump, urging him to consider a more bipartisan, conciliatory approach to political leadership. By all accounts, he is not accepting that invitation. Since signaling on Wednesday that he would be willing to work with Democrats as they take control of the…
If there’s one person who knows about an acrimonious departure from ESPN in 2026, it’s Ryan Clark. The former Pittsburgh Steelers star was one of ESPN’s top NFL analysts. However, several controversies led the network to deem him expendable during another round of yearly budget cuts in the summer. It would be one thing if…
Tottenham Hotspur have filed a formal complaint with the Premier League against a UK correspondent for ESPN Brazil after he posted a video of himself leading anti-Spurs chants with Arsenal fans. João Castelo-Branco, who reports for ESPN Brazil and is the son of the channel’s co-founder José Trajano, often posts about his Arsenal fandom. However,…
The Pat McAfee field goal kicking contest has become the weekly highlight of College GameDay. But as fun as the competition is each week, it’ll take a long time to top the edition at Notre Dame. Is there a better visual in college football than setting up the goalposts on the Notre Dame campus, with the…
Somehow we have arrived at another College Football Playoff rankings cycle and another year with cries coming around the country about SEC bias. Despite the Big Ten winning the last three national championships and the SEC’s incredibly poor postseason performances in recent years, the story remains the same as it was for much of the…
NBC Sports is giving Saturday’s Miami-Notre Dame matchup the big-game treatment with one of the network’s famous pregame teases. Before the Hurricanes and Fighting Irish kick off from South Bend at 7:30 p.m. ET on NBC, the network will give viewers a brief history of the recently renewed rivalry in the trademark style NBC Sports…
The Los Angeles Lakers roster makeup for this season is somewhat unique in the NBA for one reason. There’s a whole lot of white guys. And even for Lakers teammates, it’s hard to tell them apart, as Austin Reaves found out on Friday night. The Lakers are off to a hot start in the 2026-2027…
