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Tulane got their revenge on Northwestern on Saturday to open the 2025 college football season, wiping them out out of New Orleans, 23-3. However, that wasn’t enough for head coach Jon Sumrall not to bring up the uniform drama in the postgame press conference. “When you show disrespect to the city of New Orleans, that’s what’s going to happen to you,” …

Dutch Grand Prix winner Oscar Piastri claims “there is a long way to go yet” in his quest for a maiden Drivers’ title, having taken a substantial points lead over McLaren team mate Lando Norris after his retirement. Piastri took a lights-to-flag victory at the Zandvoort Circuit, leading all 72 laps from pole but having faced constant pressure from behind …

The Michigan Wolverines were able to open up the 2025 season at home with a win over New Mexico, but will immediately hit the road this weekend to take on a much bigger challenge in the Oklahoma Sooners. Oklahoma — which opened its season with a 35-3 in over Illinois State — represents a huge early-season test for the second …

NEW YORK — The Mets and Marlins’ benches cleared in the bottom of the seventh inning of Sunday afternoon’s series finale at Citi Field after Mets DH Mark Vientos was hit by a pitch from Miami starter Sandy Alcantara. With the Marlins ahead 5-0 and Alcantara holding the Mets scoreless into the seventh, Alcantara’s running 90.4 mph changeup caught Vientos …

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The coronation of Arch Manning atop college football was cancelled in Week 1, and ESPN’s Paul Finebaum isn’t shy about calling out college football’s potential golden boy. After a pre-season love fest for No. 1 Texas and Manning, who Finebaum himself had labeled a Heisman Trophy favorite and a potential Tim Tebow successor, Ohio State flipped that script in the …

FRISCO, Texas – The Cowboys and cornerback DaRon Bland agreed to a four-year, $92 million extension on Sunday, keeping one of the cornerstones of Dallas’ secondary in the boat. Getting an extension done before the season was something that Bland wanted, and he and the Cowboys had been in discussions during training camp in Oxnard. Now four days before the …

Estimated reading time: 35 minutes Each season, most of the players who lead teams to the fantasy playoffs are those selected early in the draft. However, there are always a few who dominate despite being drafted much later. For example, Brock Bowers last season and Raheem Mostert the year before went from late-round draft picks to fantasy superstars. We’re identifying …

Baseball’s latest gambling scandal won’t be ending anytime soon. Via David Purdum of ESPN.com, Major League Baseball announced on Sunday that Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz will stay on nondisciplinary paid leave “until further notice.” The MLB Players Association agreed to extend the paid leave, while a gambling investigation continues. Originally, the paid leave for both players …