Conference membership and realignment has become a mainstay off-field talking point of college athletics, and the ACC enters the 2024 season as both the beneficiary and potential victim of such matters. The effective dissolution of the Pac-12 has resulted in two West Coast additions — Cal and Stanford — that turn the Atlantic Coast Conference into something of an “All …

Anthony Gharib, ESPNAug 19, 2024, 12:03 PM ET Jayson Tatum and Matthew Tkachuk are fresh off winning a championship last season for their respective franchises. Months later, the two high school classmates reunited in St. Louis for an important task — recreating a photo they took together growing up. Editor’s Picks The Boston Celtics and Florida Panthers stars were classmates …

Patriots exec admits team could be aggressive on waiver wire originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston The New England Patriots are in a prime position to add a useful player to their roster before Week 1 of the 2024 NFL season because of their position on the league’s waiver wire claim order. The Patriots finished with the third-worst record in …

Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift’s whirlwind romance has taken the sports and entertainment worlds by storm, and a lot has happened over the past year. The Kansas City Chiefs’ superstar tight end got a chance to shoot his shot last summer — and the rest is history. [Related: Why has Chiefs superstar Travis Kelce been so quiet lately?] Since Swift …

Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports The Pac-12 would have been really good this year, because it was really good last year and has schools with retooled rosters in 2024. Alas, the Pac-12 has been broken up, its schools moving to different conferences this year. Before the new college football season begins, let’s allow ourselves to imagine what it would be like …

Quarterback Colt McCoy announced on Monday that he’s retiring from the NFL after 14 years and 56 games played. The 37-year-old apparently already has his next gig lined up, as NBC Sports announced that McCoy will serve as an analyst for their Big Ten Football coverage.  McCoy had a legendary career at the University of Texas, where he threw 112 touchdowns compared …

As soon as the Week 1 NFL schedule was released, the Week 1 NFL odds were posted as well. There is just one game with a spread of more than a touchdown, Joe Burrow’s Bengals favored by nine over the Patriots as they begin the post-Bill Belichick era. The smallest Week 1 NFL spread has the Vikings favored by a …

The 2024 college football season is on the horizon and Brett McMurphy of Action Network provided his bowl predictions Monday, including which bowl game he sees the Wisconsin Badgers playing in. McMurphy has Wisconsin facing Texas A&M in the Music City Bowl on Dec. 30 in Nashville, Tennessee. It would mark the Badgers’ 23rd consecutive year in a bowl game, …

Brian Flores never appeared to be a Tua Tagovailoa fan, and the quarterback has confirmed the feeling is mutual. Flores was Tagovailoa’s head coach for the first two years of the QB’s NFL career with the Miami Dolphins, and the former Bill Belichick assistant embraced a tough-love coaching style.  That’s a markedly different style than the laid-back, encouraging tone that …

One of the decisions the 49ers have to make before playing the Jets in the first week of the regular season is who will serve as the backup quarterback to Brock Purdy. Brandon Allen and Josh Dobbs are competing for the role and head coach Kyle Shanahan didn’t offer much hint about which way he’s leaning when he spoke to …

The Colorado Buffaloes will make their return to the Big 12 in 2024 and continue to be one of the most talked-about teams in college football. The Buffs’ second season under head coach Deion Sanders kicks off August 29 when CU hosts North Dakota State, the No. 2-ranked team in the country at the FCS level, at Folsom Field. The …

Several NFL teams have active quarterback competitions unfolding ahead of the 2024 regular season. And perhaps nothing influences the outcome of said battles quite like the preseason, with signal-callers splitting live reps to make their case for top jobs. Now that two weeks of exhibition games are in the books, where do the legitimate competitions stand? Which quarterbacks are the …

What is the longest field goal in NFL history? Looking back at record-setting kicks originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Justin Tucker kicked his way into NFL history three years ago. The five-time All-Pro etched his name in the record books with a game-winning 66-yard field goal to lift the Baltimore Ravens over the Detroit Lions in Week 3 …

PHILADELPHIA — In a perfect world, Quinyon Mitchell would be playing at one of the outside cornerback spots on the Philadelphia Eagles and Cooper DeJean would be playing inside. That perfect world may come into fruition at some point this season, but Mitchell and DeJean are making the best of their current situation.  Mitchell has been playing the slot in …

Yahoo Sports’ Caroline Fenton looks ahead to the upcoming season in the Southeastern Conference – with Texas and Oklahoma’s arrival adding more talent to an already loaded league. View more Video Transcript It is a new era in the SEC as the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma sooners join the conference and Texas joins the SEC and probably the best way …