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Good morning, I'm Dan Gartland. Here is a friendly reminder to double-check your lineups for fantasy football championship week. (I started an injured Tony Pollard, because I decided to see a movie instead of watching Thursday Night Football.) We'll be back in your inbox on Tuesday, Jan. 3. In today's SI:AM: If you're reading this on SI.com, you…

Good morning, I'm Dan Gartland. Here is a friendly reminder to double-check your lineups for fantasy football championship week. (I started an injured Tony Pollard, because I decided to see a movie instead of watching Thursday Night Football.) We'll be back in your inbox on Tuesday, Jan. 3. In today's SI:AM: If you're reading this on SI.com, you…

All the action, as it happened, at Prestbury Park Another fantastic week of racing at the Greatest Show on Turf. And the Cheltenham Gold Cup certainly lived up to the hype amid a titanic tussle between Native River and Might Bite. Relive that, and the rest of Friday's coverage, below... 1:30pm JCB Triumph Hurdle 1. Farclas 9/1 2. Mr Adjudicator…

We'll be providing you with live updates and the latest news on the race as it unfolds. King George Chase is one of the most prestigious National Hunt races, held annually at Kempton Park Racecourse in Surrey, England. Today's race is sure to be a thrilling event, with a competitive field of some of the best steeplechasers in the country vying for…

The crowds are about to descend on Aintree - the Grand National is finally upon us. Bookies will hold their collective breaths at 4.15pm, hoping for one of the outsiders to storm to the front and be first past the post. All of the best jockeys have a horse. The departing AP McCoy is on the favourite, Shutthefrontdoor, while Ruby Walsh will be…

The Sky Sports News presenter will be providing us with her fancies throughout each week Alex Hammond provides us with her daily double from today's racing and she is hoping that both Harry Fry and Richard Johnson enjoy an upturn in fortunes after the former saw stable stars Neon Wolf and Unowhatimeanharry hit the frame at the Cheltenham…

Ascot stages the final major race meeting before Christmas and the card on Saturday afternoon is headlined by the Grade 1 Long Walk Hurdle. This race has been won by the very best staying hurdlers of this century - Baracouda (four times), Big Buck's (three) and Reve De Sivola (three) among them. Paisley Park has won two of the last three but Emma…

He was on track for victory in the world's most famous steeplechase. Across The Bay was leading the field in the 167th Grand National yesterday with two miles to go. But then calamity struck. Spectators gasped as the ten-year-old gelding was knocked off course by a stray runner. Leighton Aspell celebrates on Pineau De Re after winning the 2014…

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish improved its record to 8-3 after destroying the Boston College Eagles last week and set up a really big rivalry game against the USC Trojans for the Jeweled Shillelagh. Despite the Notre Dame pressbox favorite bowl selection being in San Diego, a majority of national outlets have the Irish headed to Jacksonville.…

The bowl picture amongst middling SEC teams is far from clear entering the final week of the regular season, Kentucky included. Sitting at 6-5, the Wildcats will welcome the Louisville Cardinals to Kroger Field for the Governor's Cup this Saturday, a game that will likely have major implications on where UK lands for its postseason matchup in late…

Ahead of the highly-anticipated WellChild Cheltenham Gold Cup on Friday, we cast our eye over each runner including hat-trick chasing Al Boum Photo and Santini Al Boum Photo, the Willie Mullins-trained chaser bidding to join Cottage Rake, Arkle and Best Mate as a three-time winner of the Gold Cup, heads the dozen runners declared for Friday's…

To say Texas A&M threw a wrench into LSU's postseason plans with Saturday's 38-23 victory over the Tigers would be a gross understatement. Throwing a whole tool set into the Tigers' plans is more like it. The loss sent LSU tumbling out of College Football Playoff contention, from No. 5 in last week's rankings to No. 14 Tuesday. That also reduced…

Penn State is now less than a week away from learning where it will go in the postseason. The Lions finished the regular season at 10-2, cashing their season long win total number for bettors who backed their over of 8.5 while also seemingly securing a spot in a New Year's Six bowl matchup. "I'm really proud," James Franklin said last Saturday…

Constitution Hill: big step up on his first run outside novice company Constitution Hill's stunning win in the Fighting Fifth Hurdle at Newcastle had many calling him the best-ever two-mile hurdler and propelled him into the ranks of the greatest based on Racing Post Ratings, which started in 1988. Here is the kind of company he's keeping…

HUGE new whip rules will be introduced just over a month before the Cheltenham Festival. From February 6, jumps jockeys will only be allowed to use the padded whip in the backhand position. The limit on number of times a jockey can use the whip remains at eight per race. But serious breaches of the rules could now lead to disqualification - though…

The final week of the regular season is here. Before we know it, bowl season will be upon us. For the first time since 2019 and just the second time in the last five seasons, the Florida State football team will be playing in a bowl. And there's a chance that it could be an even more prestigious bowl than many of us thought. The chaos that was Week…

Today's Penn State football news headlines feature a look at the latest bowl forecasts following the Lions' win over Rutgers, plus an early point spread for Saturday's season finale against the Michigan State Spartans. Signs are beginning to point toward Penn State slipping just outside the New Year's Six bowl picture and perhaps toward Florida for…

Liberty's three-point loss at UConn didn't hurt the Flames' odds of going to a bowl game for the fourth straight season. It did significantly hamper potentially being in a marquee post-Christmas bowl. All 15 national outlets that project the bowl games have the Flames in a bowl game, with 10 of those projecting Liberty to play in a pre-Christmas…

TCU puts its perfect record on the line at Texas, while Oregon and Ole Miss host ranked foes. Tennessee, Alabama and Clemson all lose and shake up the Playoff race -the stakes remain high in Week 11. The nation is down to four undefeated FBS teams, with one of them getting a major road test on Saturday. No. 4 TCU will travel to No. 18 Texas (7:30…

TCU puts its perfect record on the line at Texas, while Oregon and Ole Miss host ranked foes. Tennessee, Alabama and Clemson all lose and shake up the Playoff race -the stakes remain high in Week 11. The nation is down to four undefeated FBS teams, with one of them getting a major road test on Saturday. No. 4 TCU will travel to No. 18 Texas (7:30…

From Clemson-Syracuse to Oregon-UCLA, our experts predict this weekend's games. As college football comes down from the peaks of its loaded Week 7 -which, of course, included Tennessee taking down Alabama -the attention turns to Week 8. Saturday will bring five matchups pitting top-25 teams against one another, with half of those 10 teams bringing…

Ohio State-Penn State, Kentucky-Tennessee, Georgia-Florida and Michigan-Michigan State all headline the weekend. As October comes to a close, the stakes in this college football season continue to get higher. This is the last weekend before the first College Football Playoff top-25 rankings are released by the selection committee, which will…

Who will win six ranked clashes and more of this weekend's matchups? One of the best weekends of the 2022 college football season is here. Week 7 features a doozy of a slate, including six matchups that pit top-25 teams. Furthermore, two of those games are between top-10 foes, placing some extremely high stakes on the marquee billings. It all…

Japan Racing Association (JRA) has been confirmed as the first international supporting partner of National Racehorse Week. In its second year, British Racing's nationwide celebration of the racehorse will see more than 180 operations up and down the country open their doors to over 11000 members of the public between September 10-18. Run by Great…

Alabama is a third of the way through the 2022 college football season and sits at No. 2 in the nation with a perfect 4-0 record. Though there are a couple of months before attention shifts to the College Football Playoff, it's never too early to look ahead. It's noteworthy that the Crimson Tide only missed the College Football Playoff once, which…

There are certain horse races that all jockeys dream of winning, and the Gold Cup at the Cheltenham Festival is undoubtedly one of them. Run over a distance of three miles, two furlongs and 70 yards, the Gold Cup is a major test of the credentials of both horse and jockey. For most riders, winning the Gold Cup just once represents something of a…