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Tua Tagovailoa has been named the Atlanta Falcons' starting quarterback for Week 1 against the Pittsburgh Steelers, the team announced Monday. The decision comes after Tagovailoa’s months-long competition with Michael Penix Jr., who started nine games for the Falcons in 2025 before suffering a season-ending torn ACL in November. Prior to the injury, Penix had a 60.1% completion percentage and 1,982 passing yards, with nine TDs against three interceptions in […]

Kyle Larson didn’t enter The Chase trying to win a race or win his third NASCAR Cup Series title. The defending champion insisted Wednesday that he and his team just want to "do the best job" they can every week. The best Sunday at Darlington Raceway might have been fifth. Staying out on older tires for a restart with 24 laps remaining, he held everyone off for 12 laps before […]

Mauricio Pochettino’s first U.S. men’s national team roster since the World Cup will be young, but it won’t include 19-year-old German-American defender Noahkai Banks. Pochettino on Monday said during a video conference with reporters that he’s been in contact with Banks in the two months since the USA was eliminated from the 2026 FIFA World Cup by Belgium in the round of 16, but that the Hawaii-born center-back still hasn’t […]

Kylian Mbappé believes this could be the year he wins the Ballon d’Or for the first time. He's optimistic after winning his second consecutive World Cup Golden Boot with 10 goals, the most in 56 years. He also overtook Lionel Messi for the most all-time World Cup goals with 22. There were also 42 goals in 44 matches for Real Madrid, although the club finished last season without a major […]

Week 1 of the college football season showed me enough to feel at least half decent about my updated rankings. I have some questions about a few title favorites, and I'm sure the fans of those teams do, too. Also, I feel better about Texas than I do Ohio State heading into their Week 2 showdown. Rankings time. This page may contain affiliate links to legal sports betting partners. If […]

The wait is over. It's been seven months since Seattle and New England met in a surprising Super Bowl matchup. And now they're squaring off again, on a Wednesday no less, to kick off the new NFL season. It's one of a few games in Week 1 that promises to shake up the league hierarchy from the jump. With the 2026 campaign finally upon us, let's see where the Top […]

I have so many questions. I’ve been thinking about the 2026 season since … well, Feb. 9 at about 12:30 a.m., the morning after Super Bowl LX. What I didn’t realize was that the next official game we’d see would be a rematch of that title game. But on Wednesday, the first time an NFL season will open on a Wednesday, it's the Patriots against the Seahawks in Seattle. I […]

Christopher Bell had a simple plan on how to win races in a year when he has had seven runner-up finishes and no victories. "The same way that we finished second seven times, that’s how we’re going to win in The Chase," he told me Wednesday. He did just that on Sunday night. He took our tires on a pit stop and outdueled the competition over the final 24 green-flag […]

For over a century, Wrigley Field has been home to baseball, with generations of the greatest baseball players gracing one of the most stories venues in the sport. That changed Sunday, when the Big Ten/SEC Volleyball Challenge turned the Friendly Confines into a volleyball court for the first time ever, as No. 3 Kentucky defeated No. 13 Penn State and Nebraska was set to face Missouri in a doubleheader. It's […]