The Champions League knockout stage will be brilliant fun for everyone!
The Champions League draws are in! Everyone is happy about it and no one will be disappointed.* (*Manchester United excepted).Hello, and welcome back to Tactically Naive, SB Nation’s weekly column...
View ArticlePredicting where 8 top uncommitted 2019 football recruits will sign
Where will the big Early Signing Period decisions land?We’ve reached the point where the majority of the country’s top 2019 prospects are already verbally committed to some school or another. Most of...
View ArticleHow Zia Cooke became the most famous high school girls basketball player alive
Chance the Rapper and Dwyane Wade helped make Cooke a viral sensation.Zia Cooke was already one of the most accomplished high school players in women’s basketball well before she became an overnight...
View ArticleThe Early Signing Period’s biggest news, updated all throughout
Commits, flips, and more, updated throughout December’s precursor to February’s National Signing Day.College football’s Early Signing Period runs from Dec. 19 through 21, with almost all of the action...
View ArticleFiring Jose Mourinho won’t fix Manchester United, but it’s a good start
Firing Jose Mourinho gives Manchester United a chance to chase its lofty ambitions again, but there’s A LOT of work left to do. As with everything that happens at Manchester United these days, we must...
View ArticleMike Tomlin is the king of the postgame press conference
The Steelers’ head coach will say anything. Whether or not he’s saying something when he speaks is another thing entirely.Press conferences in most major sports are boring. Coaches don’t say what they...
View ArticleA brief history of calls to EXPAND THE PLAYOFF
Six! Eight! Ten! Sixty-four! A pre-Playoff playoff!There’s nothing more college football than arguing about the postseason. That doesn’t just mean squabbling over the real national champion or getting...
View Article5 dudes’ quest to see 18 bowls in 24 days, explained by the guy organizing it
Some previously disappointed USC fans are trying to make bowl attendance history, and they’re making up lots of it as they go.It’s the afternoon on Dec. 16, a Sunday, one day after bowl season started....
View ArticleIt’s time to talk about the NFL’s dumb fumble touchback rule ... again
Tommylee Lewis’s fumble didn’t cost the Saints, but it did ruin the Raiders one year ago.The worst rule in the NFL nearly broke the Saints’ road to home field advantage through the playoffs in Week 15....
View ArticleUGA could’ve handled Fields better, but 5-star QBs transfer all the time
Fields will make it 11 of the last 19 five-star QBs to transfer if he ends up leaving Georgia. Georgia freshman QB Justin Fields is reportedly exploring transfer options after just one season with the...
View ArticleThe 6 funniest things about James Harden’s double-step-back travel that...
Harden stepped back and then uhh did it again. That’s not allowed.Two things can be true about James Harden: He’s one of the best offensive players in NBA history, AND he gets away with a...
View ArticleNew UNC football signee is named STORM DUCK
STORM DUCK. Three-star cornerback Storm Duck signed his National Letter of Intent to play college football at North Carolina on Wednesday. He’s the No. 119 corner in the country, per the 247Sports...
View ArticleThe NBA Earned Edition jerseys are out, and here’s where you can find them
Looking for that new Miami Heat “Vice” jersey? They’re not Christmas jerseys, but still. When Nike debuted as the NBA’s official uniform distributor last season, the company vowed to step up its game...
View ArticleDo the Suns look like a team on the verge of breaking through?
Sorry, Phoenix. The rebuild isn’t over yet. Rebuilding teams always seem to think they can decide when the rebuild is over and the rise begins. They set ambitious preseason targets, sometimes hire new...
View ArticleAsa Martin signs with Miami after Auburn botched his redshirt count
In 2018, he played more games than Auburn claimed he had at one point. Former Auburn running back Asa Martin will be continuing his college career with the Miami Hurricanes, the school announced on...
View Article4-star RB recruit Noah Cain says yes to Penn State
Cain’s parents visited Penn State over the summerNoah Cain made it official on the first day of the Early Signing Period: he’s headed to Penn State. Cain is one of the top backs in the nation. The...
View ArticleThe Early Signing Day’s biggest news, updated all throughout
Commits, flips, updated rankings and more, added throughout December’s precursor to February’s National Signing Day.College football’s Early Signing Period runs from Dec. 19 through 21, with almost all...
View ArticlePAPN: We want one last glimpse of Vengeful Paul Johnson
Say something catty, P.J. Fleck, just this once.It’s a TIME WARP edition of PAPN ... we’re coming to you from the past ... or is it the future...TASTING MENU:We miss Tropicana Field :(Mid-major bowl...
View ArticleLeBron James gave the perfect advice to his son Bryce after a bad shooting game
Bryce’s team won, but he got down on himself after a bad shooting game. LeBron was there with advice that quickly flipped his son’s mood.As it turns out, on top of being one of the best basketball...
View ArticleHave Generation Z college football recruits killed fax machines?
A Signing Day institution has crumbled.The fax machine used to be the MVP of college football’s National Signing Day. Colleges would mail National Letters of Intent out to high school players, and...
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