College Basketball Coverage: Reviewing The Preseason Top 16
College basketball coverage here at TheSportsNotebook will tip off with a basic look at the nation’s Top 16 teams, as ranked in the preseason AP poll…
College basketball coverage here at TheSportsNotebook will tip off with a basic look at the nation’s Top 16 teams, as ranked in the preseason AP poll…
When the 2013 NFL season started, the Las Vegas oddsmakers saw five teams as head and shoulders above the rest when it came to the Super Bowl betting odds. The Denver Broncos, San Francisco 49ers, New England Patriots, Seattle Seahawks and Green Bay Packers were the favorites, ranging from 3-1 to 6-1, and from there it was a big dropoff to the next team up at 18-1.
Are the Green Bay Packers dead in the water? That’s the question the NFL world is asking in the wake of the Aaron Rodgers injury, a fractured collarbone last night on Monday Night Football, a game his team lost 27-20 to the Chicago Bears, slipping into a three-way tie with the Bears and Detroit Lions for first place in the NFC North.
NFL Week 9 had a lot going on–Nick Foles looked like a Hall of Fame quarterback while Aaron Rodgers was knocked out. The collapses in Atlanta and Baltimore continued, while Seattle and Indianapolis showed some escape-ability. But TheSportsNotebook’s NFL analysis is going to begin with the New York Jets and Carolina Panthers, two enigmatic organizations that are showing themselves to be for real
Central Florida hosts Houston on Saturday night (7 PM ET, ESPN2) and the winner will hold the inside track to the outright conference championship and the BCS automatic bid.
Within the Pac-12’s six contract bowls outside the BCS, there’s a another divide. The Alamo, Holiday and Sun offer the chances to play what should be pretty good teams from the Big 12 or ACC, giving a team the opportunity to end its season with a notable win.
The game of the regular season in the Pac-12–maybe the entire country–is coming up Thursday night when Oregon visits Stanford (9 PM ET, ESPN). But there’s a lot more going on in this conference, and it starts with a compelling race in the league’s South Division. TheSportsNotebook’s college football coverage focuses in on the Pac-12 Sou
The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race for the championship is a dead heat, as Matt Kenseth and Jimmie Johnson are tied at the top with three races to go, as the circuit prepares for Sunday’s AAA Texas 500 at Texas Motor Speedway (3 PM ET, ESPN).
The nationally televised games for Sunday of NFL Week 9 are games that looked at the start of the year like possible AFC divisional playoff round games. That is, until Pittsburgh and Houston fell apart and took some of the shine off these games. Even so, Steelers-Patriots and Colts-Texans make for good late Sunday afternoon/prime-time viewing, and that leads into Monday Night’s NFC North tussle in Lambeau Fiel
TheSportsNotebook’s has gone into recent lore with a look back on the high points of the Miami-Florida State rivalry and a preview of Saturday night’s game specifically. Our college football coverage closes its prep for Saturday with a look at the TV schedule that fans have in front of us…
For those of us who remember quite vividly the college football world of the late 1980s and early 1990s, this game wakes up the echoes. It’s easy to say that the Miami-Florida State rivalry was hot back in the day, but I don’t think even those words convey just how hot it was.
The NFL’s Thursday night package takes deserved hits for some of the bad games it offers, but this week isn’t one of them. The Cincinnati Bengals take their talents to South Beach for a game with the Miami Dolphins (8:25 PM ET, NFL Network) for a matchup that leads our look at what Thursday and Friday night has to offer fans across the sports spectrum.