The Ravens are seeking their third straight division title and, tough as the AFC North might be, they should be considered the favorites. With perennial MVP candidate Lamar Jackson in his prime and Derrick Henry still seemingly close to his peak, the Ravens will be a nightmare matchup for most teams. They’ve still been capable of some shocking losses the …
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By Grant Brisbee, Chad Jennings and Levi Weaver Every week, we ask a selected group of our baseball writers — local and national — to rank the teams from first to worst. Here are the collective results. It is Aug. 5. Finally, we can stop talking about the trade deadline. Well … after this. We have a little bit more …
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Now that the trade deadline has come and gone, we are officially in baseball’s stretch run. A flurry of activity made for a chaotic Thursday, with teams buying and selling and sometimes doing a little bit of both (or nothing at all). With July in the rearview mirror, the time felt right for another set of power rankings after our …
Read More »Texas holds the top spot in the USA Today preseason coaches football poll released on Monday. The Longhorns received 28 of the 67 first-place votes. Defending national champion Ohio State is No. 2 after receiving 20 first-place votes and the Buckeyes are followed by No. 3 Penn State, No. 4 Georgia and No. 5 Notre Dame. Texas leads nine Southeastern …
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BYU’s questions at quarterback haven’t kept the Cougars from being ranked to start the 2025 season. BYU is ranked No. 23 in the preseason US LBM Coaches Poll released Monday morning, with 287 points. That comes a year after the Cougars went 11-2 overall, finished in a four-way tie at 7-2 in the Big 12 and won the Alamo Bowl. …
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Welcome to Sports Illustrated’s College Football Quarter-Century Week. We will look back at the past 25 seasons in college football, ranking the top 25 teams, quarterbacks, non-QB players, coaches, games and scandals. Up first: The best teams from 2000 to present. The term “loaded” has never applied more accurately to a team than these Hurricanes. Thirty-eight players on the ’01 …
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For the fourth straight year, we’re going to be charting the Green Bay Packers’ first-team snaps this summer. While we don’t have video of practice, we do have the broadcast of Family Night and will get the team’s preseason games, which the starters sometimes play in. As much as I’d like to put this series to rest, it unfortunately is …
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The brutal rape and murder of four teenage girls at an Austin, Texas frozen yogurt shop is the subject of Margaret Brown’s HBO docuseries “The Yogurt Shop Murders.” The 1991 slayings of Amy Ayers, sisters Jennifer Harbison and Sarah Harbison, and Eliza Thomas mystified police, haunted the victim’s families, and eventually became “part of the fabric of Austin,” according to …
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The dog days of the NBA offseason have set in. Just about the only thing hanging over the league right now is the frozen restricted free agent market keeping four young players from agreeing to new deals. It’s brought the rest of the NBA’s summer activity to a halt with it. There’s still plenty of time left for a big …
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Tim Brando will be back in the booth calling college football games this season for FOX. And with the season right around the corner, he decided to celebrate by putting out a preseason top 15. Brando hopped on with Crain & Company, going through his list. A ton of different conferences are represented, having a total of six. One independent …
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