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Syracuse football: Calvin Russell’s surgery successful, possible return in 2026

The Syracuse Orange football squad will finish spring practice this week, and while we won’t see top recruit Calvin Russell in Saturday’s spring game, he might not be out as long as everyone anticipated. Last week after practice, Fran Brown followed up on this report and shared that Russell’s expected to return to the Orange […]

Celtics sign training camp standout to two-way deal

TORONTO — Ron Harper Jr. has become somewhat of a fixture of Boston Celtics training camp. Now, he’s officially getting a contract with the Celtics, too. ESPN’s Shams Charania reported on Wednesday that the former Rutgers standout is signing a two-way contract with the Celtics as he begins his fourth NBA season. Harper Jr. has […]

ACC Power Rankings—Week 8, 2025

The bye-heavy week of the schedule is over, and the quiet week is giving way to a defining one across the conference. Nearly every ACC team either rested or reset, but Week 8 will draw sharper lines between contenders and chaos. Here’s how all 17 programs stack up heading into a pivotal stretch. 17. North […]

GDB 4.0: Oilers Winning With Defence (5:30 PM MT, SN360)

Just as many expected. The Edmonton Oilers are winning early on this season on the strength of good defensive play and sound goaltending. Through the first week of the season, the Oilers lead the NHL with a 1.33 GAA (goals against average), while ranking 25th in goals per game at 2.67. The Oilers have three…

Week 7 Big Ten Power Poll: Crazy Real Estate

This week’s Power Poll topic came about in honor of what has effectively become James Franklin Week here at OTE. In our Slack, I mentioned that if I were James Franklin, I’d take my $50 million and flit off to a castle in Italy, never to be seen or heard from again. This lack of […]

Tottenham Hotspur Predicted Starting XI vs Aston Villa

During the FIFA window, Muhammad Kudus put on a display for Ghana. He can really ball, and we all saw his elite skill set during the October internationals. Kudus is certainly in the “cannot be dropped” from the first team category right now. Picking him up from West Ham United this summer was a very […] The post Tottenham Hotspur Predicted Starting XI vs Aston Villa appeared first on The Sports Bank .

NWSL Power Rankings (Matchday 24): Trinity Rodman leaves match early due to injury, KC Current make even more history, San Diego Wave and Orlando Pride earn massive wins

With the playoffs quickly approaching, every result down the stretch will be magnified and be crucial for the NWSL playoff picture. From matchday 24, KC Current made another big statement and the remaining playoff picture gets even murkier after San Diego Wave and Orlando Pride pick up much-needed wins. And the Washington Spirit’s superstar left […]

Unadulterated Signs of Impending Authoritarianism, or A Day at the Movies

Many moons ago, I lived overseas underneath a military dictatorship.  Rights were repressed and freedom of speech was halted.  The media was controlled and many of the nation’s people lived in fear, remembering all too keenly the coup that had Continue reading Unadulterated Signs of Impending Authoritarianism, or A Day at the Movies →

More On Last Night’s Game

That was far more pleasant than the first couple of games of this series. The story of the first two games was that, though the Jays didn’t strikeout much, they weren’t hitting the ball hard. Yesterday there were a lot of hard hit balls by the Jays: 14 balls hit at over 100 mph. It […]

Off-Season Thought Experiment: Should the Houston Astros consider a reunion with Kyle Tucker? 

To say that the Astros’ 2025 outfield situation was chaotic would be an understatement. Between injury, position switching, matchup issues and outright ineffectiveness, the Astros used the following players in the outfield: Jose Altuve, Cam Smith, Chas McCormick, Jake Meyers, Mauricio Dubon, Yordan Alvarez, Cooper Hummel, Jesus Sanchez, Taylor Trammell, Zach Dezenzo, Zach Cole, Kennedy […]

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The Shotgun/Throwdown (10/16/25): WVU women’s soccer looks to keep unbeaten streak alive at Kansas

Welcome to The Shotgun/Throwdown, your daily West Virginia sports roundup (that we didn’t already talk about in another article) with some sophomoric humor and daily distractions thrown in for good measure. And if there’s something we missed, be sure to talk about it in the comments. SUNFLOWER SHOWDOWN The WVU women’s soccer team hits the road tonight to […]

Three things we learned from USMNT’s October window

The United States Men’s National Team have completed their October window, drawing 1-1 against Ecuador on October 10th and beating Australia 2-1 on Tuesday night. The USMNT looked better across the window against two teams that have already qualified for the 2026 World Cup, and Mauricio Pochettino will look to take a lot of positives […]

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Rockets 2025-2026 NBA player previews: Fred VanVleet

Poor Fred VanVleet. He was one of the key catalysts of the culture change for the Houston Rockets, alongside head coach Ime Udoka and the traded away Dillon Brooks. The Rockets finally looked poised to pay off all of the hard work they’ve put in and actually be title contenders, and VanVleet goes down with […]

Comments from the Other Side - Raptors 10/15/25

Good win to close out the preseason.  Next time they take the court, it will be for real against the 76ers.  Raptors fans are funny.  They trashed their own team way more than they did the Celtics.  Poor Scottie Barnes.  He really got a lot of hate from the fans.  And,  they sent a lot of love toward the Celtics, especially Pritchard and White.  I do think the Celtics are going to be fun to watch this season.  My favorites are in bold.  What ar...

Know Thine Enemy: Arkansas Razorbacks

Texas A&M hits the road for the first time in SEC play this Saturday, traveling to Fayetteville for the first time in over a decade to take on the Arkansas Razorbacks. As the Ags look to stay undefeated on the season, we reached out to Jacob Davis of Hogs on SI to get some insight on […]

Ben McCollum & MBB media day recap

The Iowa Hawkeyes begin a brand new season with a brand new coach and overhauled roster for the first time since 2011. Before we jump into the quotes & highlights from yesterday’s media day, let’s take a look at the new threads Iowa will be sporting this season. The Hawkeyes keep the same lettering style […]

Bucks waive Chris Livingston

With just under a week until the Bucks tip off their 2025–26 campaign in Milwaukee and their preseason concluded, the front office has begun the process of paring down their standard roster to 15 players (note that two-way players, like the recently-signed Alex Antetokounmpo, aren’t included in this). As Jack discussed earlier this morning, there […]

An updated timeline of the Royals new stadium saga

Long discussed as a fun “what if” scenario in bars and around water coolers throughout the Kansas City metro area, the idea of a Kansas City Royals downtown stadium is slowly becoming a reality. Over the last few years, there’s been so much information doled out piecemeal as an immense amount of work gets done […]

Bochy to Padres: 4x World Series champion could be the difference

San Diego is still reeling from the surprise retirement announcement of Mike Shildt as the Padres manager. The organization stated the search for a new skipper will begin immediately. But it should start and end with the hiring of Bruce Bochy. His experience and proven track record make him the ideal choice for a team […]

Mavs vet Dwight Powell likes what he’s seeing: “That’s the beauty of a team like ours”

Dwight Powell, backup center and by far the longest tenured Dallas Maverick, has become quite the culture and chemistry guy for this team going into his 12th season in Dallas.  Last May, then Maverick Spencer Dinwiddie, who went to the Charlotte Hornets this summer, called Powell a “standout voice in the locker room” through adversity. […]