It’s the final week of the college basketball regular season for the power conferences, and the last call for the championship push in three significant leagues. Nowhere is it more dramatic than the Mountain West, where a winner-take-all battle highlights the weekend sports docket.
I’m not going to enable the NFL obsession of our national sports media by giving this game any more attention than it deserves, other than to make a pick of Jacksonville (+155) on the moneyline for an outright win.
Thursday is going to be a great night to be a sports fan, as the daily sports TV schedule is awash with great games, and it starts with a big college football doubleheader.
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.
The Cleveland Indians improbable ride to the MLB postseason is complete. The Indians beat the Twins 5-1 thanks to 6.2 inning of one-run baseball pitched by Ubaldo Jiminez, and two hits apiece from each of the top three hitters in the order in Michael Brantley, Nick Swisher and Jason Kipnis. The game opened with a Brantley single and Swisher home run, loosened everyone up and Cleveland coasts in to the playoffs on a 10-game winning streak.
The Cleveland Indians closed to the threshold of the postseason, the Tampa Bay Rays are flirting with a collapse and baseball fans everywhere still have the dream of a three-way tie on the table as the regular season hits its final day. Here’s how Saturday went down…
The six automatic spots in the Division Series are now complete. The St. Louis Cardinals clinched the last remaining division title with a 7-0 win over the Chicago Cubs on Friday night in front of the home fans. Yadier Molina went 2-for-4 with three RBIs, while both David Freese and Matt Holliday homered. It was the first division title for the Cardinals since 2009 and just the second since their run from 2004-06.
Cleveland and Texas both went to the wire before surviving 6-5 decisions on Thursday night, keeping the Indians a game up on the Rangers for the final wild-card berth. And Tampa Bay finished off a sweep of the Bronx to keep their own lead over Texas at two games as we head into the final weekend. Here’s how last night broke down…
The drama in the MLB playoff race is winding itself down. Detroit became the fifth team to clinch a division title, locking up the AL Central. The wild-card race in the AL has been cut from six teams to three teams in the span of two days.
No-hitters, eliminations and near-eliminations marked last night in the major league baseball playoff race, with the American League wild-cards and the NL Central title still open questions in this last week of the regular season. Here’s how it all went down…
The first part of the National League playoff race is all but set. We officially know who the five teams are that will make the postseason, and all that’s left to be sorted out is who which of the three NL Central contenders will win the division and which two will face off in the wild-card game.
Monday Night Football will key the daily sports agenda for a lot of fans today, as the Oakland Raiders go to Denver in an 8:30 PM ET kickoff… But another Oakland team has captured the hearts of its fans today, and the A’s—along with the Atlanta Braves clinched divisions.