Back in the mid-1950s, there was no such thing as “Selection Sunday” when it came time for the NCAA to reveal that season’s men’s basketball tournament participants. Or at least no one called it that. The games weren’t on national television, and publications weren’t allocating huge swaths of space to print the tournament bracket and […]
Liverpool injury list: Latest injuries, comeback dates for players as Salah bids to be fit for Man City
Liverpool are bidding to win four trophies in 2023/24 and send off manager Jurgen Klopp in incredible style. The German manager is leaving his role at the end of the season, meaning the Reds will have extra motivation to go all the way in the Premier League,FA Cup and UEFA Europa League between now and […]
College Football Playoff expansion: Proposed 14-team bracket riddled with problems, from automatic bids to seeding
The ‘Alliance’, the ill-fated gentleman’s agreement between the ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12, set the standard for stupidity among the leadership of college football. It meant nothing and accomplished nothing – except kicking over the first disastrous domino to undermine what finally looked like a promising college football postseason. The refusal to vote for the […]
Have Bayer Leverkusen ever won the Bundesliga? Record in German league as Xabi Alonso bids for glory
Xabi Alonso has Bayer Leverkusen flying at the top of the Bundesliga and has set records along the way, but can he lead them over the line with Bayern Munich hunting them down? The Bundesliga is a league that has been dominated by the Bavarians in the past decade: they have won 11 league titles […]
Nick Saban retirement speech: College football legend bids farewell to Alabama in interview with ESPN's Rece Davis
Nick Saban’s decision to hang up his headset took the college football world by surprise. It wasn’t one he took lightly, either. The former Alabama coach discussed his decision to step away from the game he loved in an interview with ESPN’s Rece Davis that aired on Sportscenter on Thursday. In the one-on-one, Saban detailed […]