Big Ten Media Days kick off in Las Vegas on Tuesday, the unofficial start to the college football season. All 18 league teams will attend the three-day event, featuring 54 players including eight starting quarterbacks. Among the leading storylines of the week will be who will start at quarterback for Michigan and Ohio State, what the Big Ten’s stance is on the future of …
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Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti on Tuesday defended his proposed 16-team College Football Playoff format that would allocate twice as many automatic berths to the Big Ten and SEC. Speaking on the first day of his conference’s media days, Petitti said a field primarily determined by conference standings, rather than the CFP rankings, would make the selection process more objective …
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. What do The Pitt star Noah Wyle, former Captain America Chris Evans, and Democratic candidate for New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani have in common? According to thirsty fans on the internet, all their smiles are portents of something, …
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Ryan Day taking the podium at Big Ten Media Days signifies the start of the true run-up to the Ohio State football season. Every year, it starts the unyielding somersault toward the first game, with preseason camp on the horizon. With that somersault comes hype for the sophomore season of Jeremiah Smith, and Day added to it on Tuesday by …
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Samsung started beta testing Wear OS 6-based One UI 8 Watch for the Galaxy Watch Ultra and Watch 7 in the US and South Korea in late June. Now, in a very un-Samsung move, instead of releasing a second beta, the company has closed the beta program and pushed the stable One UI 8 Watch firmware to at least one …
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CNN — For years, Tesla has earned billions of dollars from its competitors just for selling electric vehicles. But that windfall is about to go away, just when the company may need it the most. Regulatory credit sales have been a huge source of revenue for the automaker, which currently faces a sales and profit slump. Legacy automakers purchase credits …
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The Athletic has live coverage of England vs. Italy semifinal at the 2025 UEFA Women’s Euros. There are a couple of paradoxes in international women’s football in Europe at the moment. The first is that, while the overall quality of the game is steadily improving year on year, it is difficult to make a case that any individual side has …
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It’s officially talking season in the Big Ten. With a little more than a week before Ohio State opens fall camp on July 31, the Buckeyes and 17 other B1G teams will arrive in Las Vegas over the next three days for Big Ten Media Days, an annual preseason event to preview the upcoming season. Eleven Warriors‘ Dan Hope and …
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The Pokémon Company dropped its second Pokémon Presents showcase of the year on Tuesday, revealing a surprise new game and offering our first look at a new Pokémon animated series from the studio behind Wallace & Gromit. There’s also an extended peek at the highly anticipated Pokémon Legends: Z-A for Nintendo Switch and Switch 2. For a quick rundown of …
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Cleveland Dot Com released its annual preseason Big Ten media poll and predicted order of finish for the 2025 college football season. There’s a bit of a change at the top! The outlet’s preseason poll is the predicted order of finish and it was a razor thin vote for the top spot in the conference. Overall, four teams received first-place …
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