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A weekend of relatively limited combat sports action has opened the door for some of MMA’s bigger personalities of the past decade to steal the spotlight in the Misfits Boxing ring. On Saturday, Misfits Boxing 22 takes place in Manchester, England, primed to deliver the promotion’s typical brand of chaos. The main event features a duo of former UFC middleweight …

Last season, we learned that a team can lose to Northern Illinois and still (easily) make the College Football Playoff. It was one of the greatest lessons we could have learned in the very first year of the 12-team Playoff because it immediately forced us to recalibrate the way we view teams and the natural ups and downs of the …

The Florida State Seminoles will open their 2025 season by hosting the 8th-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide, and unveiling their updated Doak Campbell Stadium after a two-year renovation that began after the 2023 season. The football program and it’s fans are hoping these opening ceremonies will exorcise the demons from the 2024 football season. Florida State and Alabama will meet for …

Icebergs in Disko Bay (West Greenland) discharged by the Jakobshavn Isbrae, one of the fastest moving outlet glaciers in the world. Mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet has contributed nearly 2 cm (three quarters of an inch) to global sea-level rise over the past three decades. Credit: Torbjörn Törnqvist/Tulane University Satellites confirm that mid-1990s climate projections of sea-level rise …

We love the NFL, even when it doesn’t love us back Football is pain. Beautiful, exquisite, pain. For 17 weeks we fall in love all over again, maybe longer if we’re lucky — knowing full well that the season will likely end in heartache. We keep coming back, year after year, even when our team is terrible, because loyalty mandates …

Syracuse, N.Y. — The Syracuse football team will face No. 24 Tennessee at noon Saturday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta (TV: ABC). It’s time for our predictions. The panel includes Brent Axe, sports columnist; Chris Carlson, sports enterprise reporter; Javon Edmonds, SU football reporter and Nate Mink, managing producer for sports. If you purchase a product or register for an …

With just a few more days until the 2025 college football season gets fully underway, it’s time to take a look at some of the crazy-but-maybe-realistic outcomes we could see this season. No, I’m not going to predict that Bill Belichick takes UNC to the College Football Playoff or that the national championship game is decided by a walk-off 65-yard …

The preseason games are over. Cutdown day is close. We’re just about set for the NFL regular season to start. The last thing to check off the list: Fantasy football bold predictions. Below you’ll find my bold predictions for the 2025 fantasy season. I do things a little differently in this space than most people, as you’ll see. So …

“The ultimate test of climate projections is to compare them with what has played out…” says earth sciences professor Torbjörn Törnqvist, lead author on a new study published in the open-access journal Earth’s Future (published by the American Geophysical Union). But after “decades of observations,” he says his researchers “were quite amazed how good those early projections were, especially when …

Here are five college football predictions and round-by-round picks for the college football playoffs: CFP five predictions Clemson claims its fourth title There are stars everywhere you look on Clemson’s roster. At quarterback. At wide receiver and linebacker. On both the offensive and defensive lines. These Tigers have the kind of balance and next-level talent their 2016 and 2018 championship …