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This past Friday saw the NBA Draft Combine invite list, 73 names long, released, and it included three Illinois Fighting Illini. Shooting guard and Jerry West Award wiiner Keaton Wagler, point guard/combo guard Kylan Boswell and small forward Andrej Stojakovic. Wagler is set to become a top 10, maybe even 5 overall pick. Stojakovic, who […]
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On Thursday, Monumental Sports Network announced that former Washington Wizards players John Wall and Brendan Haywood will join the Wizards’ broadcast team for games in the 2025-26 season. Haywood will make his season debut on Nov. 1 when Washington hosts the Orlando Magic. Wall will make his on Saturday, Nov. 8 when the Wizards host […]
The Cleveland Browns are enjoying their bye week, which provides a respite for players (and fans) to rest and recharge before starting the second half of the 2025 NFL season. The week off is also an opportunity for the coaching staff to reflect on what went right and wrong during the 2-6 start to the […]
Real Madrid’s Estadio Santiago Bernabéu will transform into a festive wonderland this Christmas, opening its doors from December 24th to December 31st to host a family-friendly experience filled with dazzling lights, live music, and spectacular shows, according to a report by MARCA. The initiative represents a creative way for the club to generate additional revenue […]
The writing was on the wall with where the new salary cap market was heading and the Colorado Avalanche decided to finally lock up their top line star Martin Nečas to an eight-year extension. The contract doesn’t come cheap after an offseason of the bar continually getting raised with new contract extensions on the projected […]
Graduate student Graham Ike was named to the Karl Malone Award preseason watch list, an award that’s given to the best power forward in the country. Drew Timme, now with the South Bay Lakers (Los Angeles Lakers’ G League affiliate), won this honor in the 2020-21 season with the Zags. In his two seasons with […]
The Chicago Bulls keep turning heads.
Entering the season with their sights set largely on development, expectations for the organization were rather low. Many sportsbooks and analysts projected the team to finish with a win total in the low 30s, presumably ending their Play-In Tournament streak by missing the postseason altogether. To be sure, we can’t rule this out only four games into the regular season, but early indications are that the Bulls could be on the brink of their best seaso...
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Herald Josh Minott making ‘excellent’ impression as new Celtics starter
Jaylen Brown, Celtics make statement with upset rout of Cavaliers
Celtics notebook: Josh Minott’s ‘effort’ earns him second straight start
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Jaylen Brown’s big night leads Celtics to statement win over Cavaliers: Takeaways
Jaylen Brown scores 30 as Celtics snap Cavaliers’ win streak
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Luciano Spalletti is done with his few months back on his vineyard and hanging out with his favorite geese and ducks in the Tuscan sunshine. He is back in the game — and Juventus hope that he is the man who can, at the very least, get things headed in the right direction once again […]
Things are not going well for the Dallas Cowboys. After eight games, the team has only three wins. Their chances of making the playoffs grow slimmer with each week. Besides their inability to win back-to-back games, they have multiple things working against them. For starters, 13 of the 16 NFC teams (81%) also have at […]
The Miami Hurricanes clock in as the 10th-ranked team in the latest AP poll and have their first true road game of the season against the SMU Mustangs. This will be the first time the Hurricanes leave the state of Florida, as they travel to Texas for a big ACC matchup with a ton of […]
There’s a lot of talk about a lack of player-to-university commitment nowadays, but universities can’t seem to commit to their coaches, either. Billy Napier was fired as head coach at Florida football midseason. Brent Pry of Virginia Tech suffered a similar fate. James Franklin of Penn State, DeShaun Foster of UCLA, Mike Gundy of Oklahoma […]
The Minnesota Vikings have lost three of the five games since J.J. McCarthy went down with a high ankle injury. Carson Wentz did his best and kept the team afloat for a few weeks. McCarthy took a little longer than many expected to return from the injury. The last two weeks of Wentz were two […]
The players each year vote in a handful of awards for their peers in the Major League Baseball Players Association. No active Chicago Cubs were honored this time around, but I still wanted to share the results, which did include a couple former players with Cubs ties:
The MLBPAA honors the late Scott Sanderson and Don Baylor as recipients of the 2025 @MLBPA Curt Flood Award! An award presented by the Major League Baseball Players Association to honor former Players who, like Flood, showed...
The most wonderful time of the year is (sort of) here. Also, very happy to announce that the CC Podcast is now powered by LG&E. Direct link here.
The Steelers are in a bit of flux as we head toward Week 9 of the 2025 season. While in recent years, you could have set your watch to a Steelers collapse around late November-early December, Pittsburgh could be in the midst of the ground falling out from under them before Thanksgiving. The defense currently […]
For the 317th and 318th time in the long-standing rivalry, the Wisconsin Badgers and Minnesota Golden Gophers men’s hockey teams will battle at the Kohl Center to kick off conference play. Bucky endured the season sweep last year against Minnesota, but looks to get back on top when they put their six-game unbeaten streak to […]
The Houston Rockets have struggled to get their offense into gear. Last year’s team wasn’t necessarily world-beaters on that end of the floor, but they were much better, even without Kevin Durant, one of the game’s greatest scorers ever. Even with the same double-big lineup, although Jabari Smith Jr. wasn’t a permanent starter, as the […]
The Washington Nationals have a new manager! According to multiple reports, the team has decided to hire Blake Butera, a former minor league manager and player development guru with the Tampa Bay Rays. My first reaction was ‘who is that guy’ and I am sure I am not alone. We will dive into who Blake […]
It’s another fun night around The Association!
The slate is a smaller one this evening, but we’re still set for four fun matchups, so let’s take a look at some NBA odds! Here’s the schedule for tonight’s NBA action:
Orlando Magic (1-4) at Charlotte Hornets (2-2) – 7:00 PM ET
Golden State Warriors (4-1) at Milwaukee Bucks (3-1) – 8:00 PM ET
Washington Wizards (1-3) at Oklahoma City Thunder (5-0) – 8:00 PM ET
Miami Heat (3-1) at San Antonio Spurs (4-0) – 8:30 PM ET
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We keep talking about how limited the options are for teams to make significant improvement via free agency . One name many Blackhawks fans have liked for a couple years — including me — is now off the market for the 2026 shopping season.
On Thursday, the Colorado Avalance signed forward Martin Nečas to a blockbuster contract. The deal is reportedly an eight-year, $92M extension ($11.5M AAV).
MORE MARTY PARTIES IN COLORADO pic.twitter.com/MmnzVEAgp5 — Colorado Avalanche (@Avala...
October was good to Marcus Jones. The New England Patriots cornerback has been named AFC Defensive Player of the Month to cap it off, the NFL announced Thursday. Jones, who was named AFC Special Teams Player of the Week as the calendar turned, played an integral part in what followed. The slot corner recorded 20 […]
In the Boston Celtics season opener, they lost a heartbreaker to the Philadelphia 76ers, a one-point loss in which Payton Pritchard wasn’t able to convert on either of the two game-winning shot attempts he had. Payton obviously wasn’t happy with the end result, not only for missing the shots, but also for not finding one […]
Welcome to the third part in our preview of every Husky scholarship player this season. If you missed them you can find part one (primary ball handlers) and part two (other guards/wings) right there at those links. Let’s keep going with our players who might see time at the power forward spot this season. F/C […]
The Colorado Avalanche have locked up Martin Necas for the long term, agreeing on an eight year, $92 million deal at a whopping $11.5 million AAV. According to Elliotte Friedman , the contract is front-loaded with $60M in signing bonuses, and includes a full no-move clause for the first 7 years of the deal. It brings to an end, essentially, the long, drawn-out affair that began with the Avs’ sudden, shocking trade of superstar Mikko Rantanen to the Carolina Hurricanes for Necas la...