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This season, the Los Angeles Lakers (19-23) have four wins against teams with a winning record. During their current stretch where they find themselves inching their way back into the play-in tournament conversation, they are collecting wins primarily against teams with high lottery odds this season. They take on the Philadelphia 76ers (26-16)…

One of the best parts of college football is making the already fascinating games a tad more high stakes. The only way to do that of course is to throw some money on the games that you are watching. This gives you a whole other rooting interest, and may even make you more intrigued in the game than you already were. Welcome to the third and…

Notre Dame welcomes 12 early enrollees to its 2023 football team, and five of those signees are on the offensive side of the ball. Getting this group in early should give the Irish depth chart a big boost in the spring, and several could have a chance to make an early impact. A look at the early enrollees for the Notre Dame offensive signees who…

College football's 2022 season came to an end last week when Georgia walloped TCU in the national championship game, giving the Bulldogs back-to-back titles. Immediately following that game, several publications released "Way-Too-Early" Top 25 projections for the 2023 season. Not surprisingly, the Michigan State Spartans were not included among…

The Phoenix Suns travel to Denver to battle the top team in the Western Conference when the Nuggets play host to them later tonight. The Suns hope to rid themselves of the current two-game losing streak and gain a clutch win in the final of five Christmas Day NBA matchups. Back-to-back NBA MVP Nikola Jokic may have something to say on that. The…

Liam Coen has officially returned to Kentucky football as its offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the second time in three years, returning to Lexington after spending one season as OC of the Los Angeles Rams in the NFL. Coen signed a three-year contract on Dec. 12, though the news wasn't made official by Kentucky until Tuesday, Jan.…

For the first time in nearly two months, the NFL betting schedule has a full roster of games in Week 15. There are no more byes, at least until after Week 18. At that time, two lucky teams (most likely Philadelphia and someone from the AFC) will be enjoying the coveted playoff bye. Most of the league will be on a bye until next September. The rest…

Typically, when an NBA team trades its best player, it signals a shift into rebuilding mode. The Utah Jazz traded their three best players this offseason: Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert and Bojan Bogdanovic. But if they were supposed to be rebuilding, their players seem to have missed the memo. Utah has the Western Conference's best record at 10-3.…

With the 2022 college football season officially over, it's time to direct attention to the 2023 season. There's no better way to do that than to talk about "way-too-early" top 25 rankings and look at Big Ten Championship and College Football Playoff championship odds, so we decided to do just that. We took a look at where Ohio State falls in the…

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Penn State finished the 2022 season at No. 7 in the final Associated Press top 25. It is poised to start the 2023 slate inside the top 10, as well. Early rankings and oddsmakers' opinions in the future market have head coach James Franklin's team anywhere from a top-five team to No. 9 nationally. Sporting News places the Lions in the latter spot in…

It's never too early to think about next year as one college football season ends and the next one becomes the conversation. So, who is No. 1? The very early top-25 rankings are now starting to roll in 235 days before Alabama opens the 2023 season against Middle Tennessee State. There's a consensus with Georgia at No. 1 in the three-peat bid, but…

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The climb up the NFC North standings for the Lions started in November, thanks to four wins over their past five games. On the year, Detroit is 8-4 against the spread while riding a five-game winning streak in the betting market. New SI Sportsbook users in Michigan can take advantage of a great promotion to claim a $200 bonus when betting on the…

The national championship is finally here! The college football season comes to a close tonight in Inglewood, Calif., as Georgia and TCU meet with everything on the line. It's one of the best sporting events of the year, and I can't wait to tune in to a game with so much intrigue on paper. Also on tonight's docket there's a trio of interesting…

The Chargers and Broncos will face off in the final week of the regular season schedule. The Chargers are searching to lock in the AFC's No. 5 playoff seed with either a loss by the Ravens, or by defeating the Broncos. Denver sits towards the bottom of the totem pole in which they don't have any playoff implications at stake. This week is simply an…

The Wisconsin Badgers officially concluded spring camp last Friday night and now head into the summer months preparing for the fall. While spring football is generally a time for self-improvement and overall development, the 15 extra practices also provide players the opportunity to step up and show the coaching staff that they warrant playing time…

This is the complied version of the All Things CW notes column by Christopher Walsh which appeared in five part this week, with the latest on the Alabama Crimson Tide. It actually began with a long-snapper. Nick Saban always has what he calls the 24-hour rule regarding games, giving everyone a chance to enjoy the wins a little, or get the losses…

Our NBA insiders are debating the biggest topics in the league. Sports Illustrated senior writers Chris Mannix and Howard Beck weigh in on the rocky start in Minnesota and where the Timberwolves should go from here. Chris Mannix: All right, Beck, we are fast approaching the midway point of the season, so it's time to ask: What is going on with the…

For most NFL players, coaches, staff, fans, and media, the past few days have been unlike anything we've experienced before. Waiting and wishing for the best possible outcome for Damar Hamlin, the majority of us have put trivial-sounding things like betting and fantasy on the back burner. But now that doctors have started revealing good news…

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…

The Jaguars are a rare road favorite in their Week 17 trip to Houston for a rematch with the Texans. The Jacksonville Jaguars want to do a lot of things in Week 17. For one, they want to avenge a Week 5 loss at home vs. the Houston Texans that they still believe never should have happened. "Yeah, you look at the way we played the first game,…

College football bowl season takes a big step towards New Year's with a notable Big Ten vs. SEC matchup in the Music City Bowl between Kentucky and Iowa. The game features two teams that failed to repeat their success from the year before, each coming in with 7-5 records after having won 10 games last season. Iowa comes in playing behind the…

2003 NASCAR Cup Series champion Matt Kenseth Made his Cup Series debut in 1998. In a career spanning 22 years, he accomplished a lot. Considered among the best racers during his peak years, he gave stiff competition to several legends of the late 90s, 2010s, and early 2020s. Among them was the Intimidator, Dale Earnhardt. In a fairly old interview,…

This year's Sun Bowl game finds a resurgent UCLA team meeting up with ACC challenger Pittsburgh as college football bowl season moves towards the new year. Pittsburgh finished 8-4 in Pat Narduzzi's eighth season, placing second in the division behind UNC, averaging 30.8 points per game and ending the year on a four-game win streak, but also losing…

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…

In the premier ACC bowl of the postseason, conference champion No. 10 Clemson is set to take on No. 6 Tennessee in the Orange Bowl. Gameday Info Kickoff: 8pm ET TV: ESPN Spread: Clemson -6 (-110), Tennessee+6 (-110) Total: 63.5 Clemson Team Preview For the second-straight season, the Tigers (11-2) missed out on the College Football Playoff, but…

For the first time in five years, the Bruins are participating in bowl season. No. 18 UCLA football (9-3, 6-3 Pac-12) will play Pittsburgh (8-4, 5-3 ACC) at the Sun Bowl on Friday. The Bruins enter the game as six-point favorites coming off of their best regular season in eight years, while the Panthers will roll into El Paso without the starting…

There are many statistics that you could cherry-pick when trying to decipher the absolute calamity that has been Kentucky basketball so far this season. But one glaring stat stands out, as presented by ESPN insider Jeff Borzello: If you aren't in-tune with college basketball metrics such as KenPom, this can be broken down much simpler in layman's…

This season, 12th-ranked Iowa (10-3) is the Caitlin Clark show again as the dynamic do-it-all playmaker is putting up some of the best numbers in women's college basketball again for the third straight season. The Hawkeyes continue early Big Ten Conference play against their rivals in Purdue (10-2), who is off to a great start to its season, having…

The Bruins' five-year postseason drought will finally come to an end at the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl on Friday, giving the vast wave of seniors one last hurrah in blue and gold. WHO: UCLA vs. Pittsburgh DATE: Friday, Dec. 30 TIME: 11 a.m. PT LOCATION: Sun Bowl, El Paso, TX TV: CBS - Brad Nessler (play-by-play), Gary Danielson (analyst), Jenny Dell…

Here's a look at the betting odds ahead of the Chargers' Week 17 matchup against the Rams. The Chargers and Rams will square off in Week 16 with the winner carrying bragging rights in the Battle of L.A. showdown. The Chargers will attempt to improve their playoff seeding after clinching a spot in the postseason last Sunday. Currently, they hold the…

North Carolina will attempt to snap a three-game losing streak and reach the ten win mark for the first time since 2015 when they take on the No. 15 Oregon Ducks in the San Diego Credit Union Holiday Bowl. With the recent movement in the transfer portal and Josh Downs' decision to enter the NFL Draft, the Tar Heels will be without their best…

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The Celtics are back in action Tuesday night One of the best rivalries in sports will have its next chapter written Tuesday night. The Boston Celtics are set to take on the rival Los Angeles Lakers on the second night of a back-to-back after falling to the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday night at Crypto.com Arena. Boston's loss to the Clippers was…

IOWA CITY, Iowa - Iowa and Kentucky are running it back in the New Year's Eve Music City Bowl in Nashville. It's a rematch of last year's Citrus Bowl in Orlando. It's not often we see Power 5 schools meeting up in back-to-back bowl games. And this one is being frowned upon by college football fans outside of the fan bases, especially by the folks…

The Greensboro Coliseum is excited to host the 2023 ACC Women's Basketball Tournament (March 1-5), 2023 New York Life ACC Men's Basketball Tournament (March 7-11) and First and Second Rounds of the NCAA ® Division I Men's Basketball Championship (March 17 & 19). The Coliseum will be hosting the ACC Women's Basketball Tournament for the 23rd time,…

One of my favorite baseball (if not all of sports) tropes is the, "Unheralded prospect reaches the majors and succeeds beyond expectations." It is exactly the type of underdog, perseverant, hopeful story and dynamic that sports so uniquely deliver on a seemingly endless basis. Josh Rojas absolutely typifies that trope from his biography and…

Roughly an hour before the Philadelphia 76ers and the New York Knicks were set to tip off for their Christmas Day matchup, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported on something that was already being speculated in the weeks leading up to the primetime matchup at Madison Square Garden. According to the NBA Insider, Sixers guard James Harden and his "inner…

Bowl season is underway. This year, there are 41 bowl games between December 16 and January 2, plus the National Championship Game on January 9. The Big 12 Conference had eight teams qualify, which is one team up from last season. For the second year in a row, two of those teams will play in one of the NY6 Bowls. No. 3 TCU is coming off an amazing…

The Celtics take on the Suns on Wednesday and it'll certainly be interesting The Boston Celtics are back in action Wednesday night. The Eastern Conference top seed will hit the road to take on the Western Conference-leading Phoenix Suns at Footprint Center with tip-off scheduled for 10 p.m. ET. Boston enters the showdown with the best record in the…

The Pittsburgh Penguins have made the month of December quite merry for their fanbase as they've used a month full of home games to make up a lot of ground in the standings and pad their place among the playoff teams. Currently, Pittsburgh has 43 points and are eighth in the NHL with a 19-9-5 record. As per usual, the Metropolitan Division is on…

College sports leaders have spent more than a year reviewing the calendar, and where everything fits in it, to best accommodate the oft-conflicting pursuits of athletic excellence, academic credibility, athlete well-being and piles of cash. It's a well-meaning endeavor, but it's missing one obvious fix: Get rid of the December football signing…

The Celtics are looking to get out of their funk Wednesday The Boston Celtics are back in action Wednesday night and are looking to get back on track. Boston is in the middle of its first mini-struggle of the 2022-23 season and has dropped four of its last five games heading into Wednesday's tilt. The Celtics currently sit in second place in the…

Acquired: International Free Agent, March 2018, $50K signing bonus Tools: Fastball 70, Slider 45, Changeup 45, Command 30, Overall 40 Martinez has a very electric fastball, in the 97-100 MPH range with good carry at the top of the strike zone thanks to a spin rate around 2500 RPM. (MLB average is 2276) His fastball movement is almost purely…

Florida State is officially on a winning streak with back-to-back wins over Louisville and USC Upstate. Can they keep it going with a matchup against a very good St. John's team? It's going to be a good test to see how far along this team has progressed recently. St. John's sits 71st in NET Rankings, compared to Florida State which is up to 251st…

The fifth regular season of the Chip Kelly era is coming to a close. No. 18 UCLA football (8-3, 5-3 Pac-12) will play Cal (4-7, 3-5 Pac-12) at California Memorial Stadium on Friday. The Bruins enter the game as 10-point favorites coming off back-to-back last-minute losses to Arizona and USC, while the Golden Bears are fresh off a rivalry win over…

Can first-year head coach Billy Napier secure a winning season for the Gators in fabulous Las Vegas, Nev., or will Florida replicate its 6-7 finish from a year ago? We'll find out on Saturday when the Gators take on the No. 14 (CFP) Oregon State Beavers in the 2022 SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl at Allegiant Stadium. Florida enters the game as a…

A new type of opponent is on the slate for the Bruins on Saturday, with an HBCU program visiting the Rose Bowl for the first time ever. And instead of the record-breaking heat from a week ago, the two sides may have to face off in the rain this time around. WHO: UCLA vs. Alabama State DATE: Saturday, Sept. 10 TIME: 2:07 p.m. PT LOCATION: Rose Bowl…

UConn heads to Indianapolis on Saturday evening to take on Big East rival Butler. The Huskies have been on a tear to start the year as they have reeled off 11 straight wins and have moved up to No. 3 in the latest AP Poll. The Huskies have been one of the most dominant teams in the country as they have won all 11 of their games by at least 10…