Step up to the plate: The 2026 softball season is here. Texas won its first national championship in program history after defeating instate rival Texas Tech in a winner take all Game 3 in the 2025 NCAA Tournament. But the Red Raiders are ranked No. 1 in at least one preseason poll on the strength of […]

Though a team from outside of men’s college basketball’s five biggest conferences hasn’t won a national championship since UConn in 2014 — and even that feels like a bit of a technicality for a school that was one year removed from being in the Big East — several teams from those leagues have made their […]

DAVIDSON, NC — When Curt Cignetti was hired at Indiana as the school’s head football coach two years ago from James Madison, he famously said at his introductory press conference, “It’s pretty simple. I win. Google me.” If she wanted to, George Mason women’s basketball coach Vanessa Blair-Lewis could make the same declaration. Last Wednesday, […]

A USA TODAY analysis found thousands of underage bettors are caught annually by legalized sportsbooks. While sportsbooks file fraud reports with state regulators, consequences are rare, typically resulting only in a ban from the app. Seventy-five dollars is all Sam needed for his next round of sports bets on his BetMGM app. Well – it […]

Deion Sanders recently told his Colorado football team about dousing broadcaster Tim McCarver with water in 1992. Sanders said he did it because McCarver had described him as selfish for playing both baseball and football. Sanders said he wanted to win the World Series MVP that year so McCarver would have to interview him. Colorado […]

Drake Maye is looking to join Tom Brady as the only quarterbacks to ever lead the New England Patriots to a Super Bowl victory. As Maye prepares to do that, some of the guidance the legendary quarterback has given him over his career has been rattling around in his brain. Maye was asked at Super […]

Across the NCAA, 37 of the top players departed for Olympic national teams, and another handful will find themselves at a six-nations tournament in Austria.  The change stripped NCAA hockey of seven of the top 10 scorers nationally, with major programs like Wisconsin, Minnesota and Ohio State playing with shortened benches due to their absences.The […]

The Department of Justice released millions of files associated with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Jan. 30. Included in these files were emails exchanged by the disgraced financier and New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch. The NFL acknowledged it would ‘look into the matter’ in a statement released Feb. 2, just hours before NFL […]