The preseason tiers for the 2026-27 men's college basketball season begin with the national championship favorites: a small, three-team group with an incredibly high ceiling and a proven floor. They ...

Even with an expanded NCAA tournament for the 2026-27 women's college basketball season, winning a conference is still important. That is especially true for the nonpower leagues, where an automatic ...

Virginia’s Kymora Johnson remembers anxiously sitting through the unveiling of last season’s NCAA women’s tournament, unsure ...

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Tough spot for the Patriots as their road gauntlet to start 2026 continues with a road trip to Buffalo. Maye and the offense find a bit of a spark but it's not enough to contain Josh Allen and the ...

The Wild Card Round saw three of the four series wrap up in two games, putting a ton of spotlight on the Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia Phillies, who played a winner-take-all Game 3 on Thursday.

Jim Coventry won last week at 11-5 to improve to a Staff Picks-best 26-21-1. Jeff Erickson and Scott Pianowski nailed their best bets. The group went 1-2 on unanimous picks and 9-7 on majority picks.

It's playoff time in Major League Baseball. Twelve teams remain in the hunt for a World Series title, with a month's worth of postseason action on the way to determine who'll reign supreme. There are ...

Ready or not, the MLB postseason will begin Tuesday with the NLWCS and ALWCS. Given the labor uncertainty in the sport, it's important to savor this final month of baseball. With that in mind, let's ...

The 2026 MLB playoff field is set and by Halloween, we'll have a new World Series champion. The Wild Card Series begin on Tuesday afternoon with four best-of-three matchups. From there, those four ...

Up until the final seconds of the final game on the final day of the regular season, two playoff seeds and two of the four first-round matchups hung in the balance. For a long stretch late on Thursday ...