Don't let the calendar fool you. As we hit the mid-December mark in the NBA, the sample size is getting too big to ignore. The pretenders are fading, the contenders are separating, and the anomalies ...

With the road to Miami officially underway, the 12-team College Football Playoff bracket has taken its first round of cuts. Behind a 34-7 scoring run beginning in the second quarter, Ty Simpson and No ...

No bracket bangs as hard as the annual 68-team NCAA Tournament every March. Period. But this year's 12-team College Football Playoff bracket brings loads of appeal, even to us hoops scribes whose ...

Here are the latest wrestling team rankings as of Jan. 12. For these, we took a look at returning champions and place-winners from the previous season, as well as the team's performance in the season.

More than half of the NFL's 14 playoff spots were clinched in Week 16. Four spots in the NFC were clinched by the Seahawks, Eagles, Bears and 49ers. Over in the AFC, the Patriots clinched on Sunday ...

It's crunch time at the 2025 NCAA volleyball tournament, with only 16 teams remaining heading into the regional round. Stakes are getting higher and higher as programs narrow their sights on Kansas ...

The College Football Playoff is back. 2024 marked the first time that the playoff field expanded to 12 teams, and there were some tweaks for the 2025 season. The top-four seeds in the playoff going to ...

It took a whole lot of controversy and even a bowl boycott by Notre Dame, but the 2025 College Football Playoff field is officially set. All 12 teams are seeded and know who and where they’re going to ...

The World Cup trophy will be dished out for the 23rd time in the summer of 2026. / Mandel NGAN/POOL/AFP/Getty Images Thinking in four dimensions, appreciating the vastness of the universe, grasping ...

It took a year, but road teams finally had success in the College Football Playoff. That didn't necessarily lead to significant changes when it comes to re-seeding the bracket, but if we shift the ...

The NFL playoff bracket will come into clearer focus after Week 17 of the regular season, with nearly every division having a pathway to crown a champion. The Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks can ...

Week 16 of the NFL season features some games with massive playoff implications, and the first one on the ledger occurred Thursday after the Seattle Seahawks overcame a 16-point second half deficit to ...