The premier multi-team event of Thanksgiving week is set to crown a champion on Wednesday, Nov. 26 in the Players Era Festival. A 18-team tournament has played two full days of hoops in Las Vegas, providing early season tests to March Madness hopefuls. While it appears like a tournament, it’s far from a traditional setup […]

AI-assisted summary Five matchups will take place between teams ranked in the US LBM Coaches Poll Top 25. Key rivalry games include Ohio State at Michigan and Texas A&M at Texas. Only one of the top 10 ranked teams, Oklahoma, will be playing at home. Fittingly for this holiday weekend, the college football schedule offers […]

Quarterback Joe Burrow will be back on the field for the first time since mid-September this week against AFC North rival Baltimore. The team confirmed as much today ahead of the Thanksgiving triple-header capped off by Ravens-Bengals. Burrow last played in Week 2 against the Jacksonville Jaguars. He suffered a Grade 3 turf toe injury […]

NFL games on Thanksgiving Day have been a tradition since the league’s inception in 1920. The Detroit Lions first started playing games on Thanksgiving Day in 1934. The Dallas Cowboys have played on every Thanksgiving Day – with the exception of 1975 and 1977 – since 1966. The NFL on Thanksgiving Day has featured some memorable moments, […]

Cade Cunningham and the Detroit Pistons have been one of the NBA’s biggest stories in the early going. But the Pistons’ winning streak finally came to an end Wednesday, the team falling just short of setting a new franchise record with 14 consecutive wins. The Boston Celtics held off the Pistons 117-114 in a back-and-forth […]

LSU football has officially closed the book on the Brian Kelly era in Baton Rouge… Again. According to multiple outlets, including ESPN’s Pete Thamel, LSU put in writing on Wednesday, Nov. 26 to Kelly that the university terminated his contract without cause, which means he’ll receive his full buyout pay of approximately $54 million as […]

A junior college men’s basketball player in Oklahoma died after suffering an injury during a game, school officials announced. Ethan Dietz, a sophomore forward at Connors State College in eastern Oklahoma, died Tuesday, Nov. 25 after he suffered an injury in the Cowboys’ game on Saturday, Nov. 22 against Grayson College. It is unclear how […]

It’s a Thanksgiving tradition: the Detroit Lions in action for the NFL’s holiday slate of games. The league leaned even more into tradition with its matchup choice, the Green Bay Packers. These teams have played each other 190 times – the third-most of any two-team matchup in the NFL. The only two matchups to see […]

AI-assisted summary Pro Football Hall of Famer Marshall Faulk is a candidate for the head football coach position at Southern University. Faulk is currently the running backs coach at Colorado under head coach Deion Sanders. If hired, Faulk would join a trend of former NFL stars with limited coaching experience leading HBCU football programs. Pro […]