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The hope at the beginning of every college football season is that good players will improve to become great and that previously undiscovered talent will make a draft class that much better. The reality, however, is that some players regress. And with today’s liberal transfer policy and the allure of NIL dollars, players are more…

There’s no room for favoritism in the Vatican. That’s what Pope Leo XIV told the basketball teams from Villanova and Notre Dame ahead of their highly-anticipated doubleheader in Rome. Then the pope, who was born Robert Prevost, said his former self might disagree. “Prevost has another opinion, but we won’t do that now,” he said to laughs during a cheering…

As Villanova and Notre Dame prepare to meet in the Eternal City Tip-Off Nov. 1 in Rome, Italy, both men’s basketball programs are in peculiar spots. The Wildcats haven’t won an NCAA Tournament game since their 2022 Final Four run. For the Irish, it’s been almost 10 years, as their last deep March Madness run…

The run-up to this year’s NFL trade deadline has already brought a ton of exciting moves. But with a little less than two weeks before, we might have gotten the biggest deal we’ll see this deadline season when the Chicago Bears landed All-Pro defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons on Thursday. Simmons, a three-time All-Pro and four-time…

The World’s Largest Cocktail Party had Florida fans looking for answers at the bottom of a bottle on Saturday afternoon. There was no drama. No doubt. No weirdness. The festivities, moved from their usual home in Jacksonville to Atlanta due to ongoing stadium construction, were dominated by No. 4 Georgia, as the Bulldogs rollicked their…

Only one of the three remaining undefeated teams — the Miami Hurricanes — feels capable of winning the national championship. To those two others, Utah and UCLA, you’ll have every opportunity to prove me wrong. All you have to do is keep winning. However, that’s been especially tough this season. Injuries to important players at…