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In the playoffs, rotations shrink, but perhaps Lakers head coach JJ Redick will have to open his up a bit. The Lakers had only eight players who logged at least 10 minutes and with so many subpar performances, someone else needed to be called upon. The Thunder had 10 players play more than 10 minutes […]
For Week 8, the New Orleans Saints are back home in the dome for their first divisional matchup this season against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. So, let’s jump right in and take a look at some of the Canal Street Chronicles staff’s predictions for this week’s matchup between the Saints and Bucs. NIC: KYLE: CALEB: […]
As we prepare for a big weekend of football, let’s look back at the former Orange on NFL rosters: Arizona Cardinals: Garrett Williams Williams remains out of action. Atlanta Falcons: Matthew Bergeron Bergeron played all 65 snaps in the loss to San Francisco. Cleveland Browns: Andre Szmyt Szmyt had a 30 yard field goal and […]
Last week brought some clarity to the championship picture with Boise State’s 56-31 win over UNLV. This week, there are four Mountain West games with four teams on a bye. Before we break down this week’s games, let’s take a look at where things currently stand in the Mountain West. Favorites Boise State (3-0 in […]
Manchester United return to Premier League action this weekend at Old Trafford, welcoming Brighton & Hove Albion to town with hopes of building a winning streak after wins over Sunderland and Liverpool. Here are three points of emphasis ahead of the Saturday match. Who Starts at the Back? Brighton have become United’s bogey team in […]
Aaron Rodgers will be under center for the Pittsburgh Steelers this week, bringing the former Packers quarterback full circle. Despite a contentious exit from the Packers, Rodgers has been magnanimous this week, praising the Packers and sharing plenty of anecdotes about his time in Green Bay. Win or lose, Rodgers will become the latest in […]
There’s something almost grotesque in the way that the summer lingers in Texas. Where other regionalities have begun to cool in the 10th month of the annum, a feeling of freshly minted hell permeates throughout the beef state, with 90-degree temperatures still in reach. Fall is here, though, make no mistake. And with it, the […]
Has anyone watched a Big 12 game this year and enjoyed it? Too bad. That shouldn’t matter. Not enough people made the same decision you did. That’s right. It’s late October and it’s time for Ratings Discourse. This should come as a surprise to no one, but the Big 12 isn’t doing great in the […]
The Milwaukee Bucks secured an opening-night win over the Washington Wizards, 133-120, but now they face their first road test of the season, traveling north of the border to take on the Toronto Raptors. Milwaukee took the season series against Toronto last year, 3-0. The last time these two teams met was January 17, when […]
Welcome to the 2025 edition of Ranking the Rockies, where we take a look back at every player to log playing time for the Rockies in 2025. The purpose of this list is to provide a snapshot of the player in context. The “Ranking” is an organizing principle that’s drawn from Baseball Reference’s WAR (rWAR). […]
Happy Friday A’s fans! The 2025 World Series begins tonight in Toronto as the Blue Jays host the Los Angeles Dodgers for the first game of the series. As the #1 seed the Jays get home-field advantage thus getting to host the first two games before the series shifts to LA. Still, let there be […]
The Las Vegas Raiders have been struggling to stop the pass all year. They ranked 25th in EPA and are one of the worst teams on third down. It has fans questioning while Kyu Blu Kelly continues to play and get major snaps week to week. According to Pro Football Focus, Kelly has allowed 399 […]
A reminder that since the Cubs aren’t likely going to go beyond 2026 for these sorts of things, this is probably just a thought exercise. But let’s give it a shot anyway! Cade Horton was the Cubs’ No. 1 pick in 2022 out of the University of Oklahoma. Then various injuries prevented him from pitching […]
The Seattle Seahawks are steamrolling towards a quarterback controversy. Well, if things continue at their current trajectory, it won’t be much of a controversy at all. But Seattle’s positioned itself for a very different future at QB than nearly anyone would have predicted six months ago. “With the 92nd pick of the 2025 NFL draft, […]
It was a struggle to get there and it wasn’t a pretty path, but the San Jose Sharks can finally say the team has a win this season. It took overtime and a Herculean effort by both Macklin Celebrini and Will Smith, but the most important thing is that even when the team lost its lead late in the third period, the Sharks battled back to win and beat the New York Rangers 6-5 in overtime. Better yet, the Sharks put six goals past Igor Shesterkin, who, going into the night, had not allowed more tha...
Real Madrid midfielder Dani Ceballos was able to complete Friday’s training session with the rest of the group and will be available when Los Blancos host FC Barcelona in El Clásico this upcoming Sunday. Ceballos had missed the last two games against Getafe and Juventus due to a mild muscle injury. Defenders Dean Huijsen, Trent […]
Good morning, LSB. No new Rangers news out there today, but there is some good World Series preview content out there with Game 1 starting tonight. Jayson Stark asks if the Dodgers are actually ruining baseball. And MLB Pipeline has a list of eye-popping prospects, one for every team That’s all for this morning. Happy […]
Kansas Jayhawks News What are realistic expectations for the six freshmen on the basketball team? Lance Leipold discusses what’s at stake in tomorrow’s game against KSU A comprehensive list of who’s out due to injury for both Kansas and Kansas State Links! Here’s a look inside the way a high stakes, mafia-connected poker game was […]
Erling Haaland continued his fine goalscoring streak as Manchester City beat Villarreal in their third UEFA Champions League Group Phase match. His first half strike along with a header by Bernardo Silva earned City a relatively easy victory in a potential banana skin of a match against 3rd place in La Liga Villarreal. Here are […]
Good morning, Chargers fans! You know what to do! And now for today’s links. Chargers News: Five takeaways from the Chargers’ win over the Vikings on Thursday Night Football (Chargers.com) It was a group of Chargers rookies that propelled the Bolts to victory on Thursday Night (Chargers.com) Five more takeaways from LA’s latest victory (Chargers […]
The #3 ranked Minnesota Golden Gophers Women’s Hockey Team will face their second of three consecutive Top-5 matchups when they head up I-35 to face the #4 ranked Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs for a two game series. Minnesota will need to deal with the talented Bulldogs shorthanded on Friday as both Chloe Primerano and Gracie Graham will […]
Before the 2025 NFL season got underway, there was a lot of chatter about how difficult the Detroit Lions’ schedule looked. At least on paper and before any real football had been played, it appeared daunting. However, as we know, things can change fast in the NFL, and while some of the games to come […]
If you were like me yesterday in watching the game against the Hornets, you became well aware of two things. First, Brooklyn (as of now) can’t play a lick of defense, and second, that this is going to be a long season in which your patience will be tested, perhaps every game. En route to […]
It really feels like Alabama plays South Carolina less often than all of the rest of the SEC teams. And for whatever reason, every time they do play, it winds up being a memorable one. The 2004 disaster with Spencer Pennington and Marc Guillon combing for 55 total yards was the first Alabama game I […]
For the past eight years, expectations in Philadelphia have been nothing short of sky-high. The 2017–18 season, the dawn of the Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid era, felt like the breakthrough fans had been waiting for. The Sixers had arrived. They’d finally turned the corner, and for the first time in years, it felt like […]
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