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One of the hottest teams in the country over the last two-plus months will not be in the College Football Playoff. Notre Dame, despite a 10-game winning streak, was left on the outside looking in.

More than half of the NFL's 14 playoff spots were clinched in Week 16. Four spots in the NFC were clinched by the Seahawks, Eagles, Bears and 49ers. Over in the AFC, the Patriots clinched on Sunday ...

No bracket bangs as hard as the annual 68-team NCAA Tournament every March. Period. But this year's 12-team College Football Playoff bracket brings loads of appeal, even to us hoops scribes whose ...

Don't let the calendar fool you. As we hit the mid-December mark in the NBA, the sample size is getting too big to ignore. The pretenders are fading, the contenders are separating, and the anomalies ...

Selection Sunday has come and gone, and the 2025-26 College Football Playoff is set with an unprecedented team atop the field as the undefeated, top-ranked Indiana Hoosiers shockingly stand atop the ...

The College Football Playoff committee’s job used to be to select the four best teams for the bracket. No automatic bids, although conference championship games provided a useful data point. Then came ...

Editor's note: Check out scores from Wednesday's NBA Cup games below: The NBA Cup action continues with a full slate of quarterfinal games this week. The winner of those games will move on to the ...

The NBA Cup title game matchup is finally set. In the semifinals Saturday night, the Knicks took down the Magic 132–120 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas behind 40 points from Jalen Brunson. A few hours ...

A man convicted of stabbing a woman to death during a home invasion robbery more than 30 years ago was executed Tuesday evening in Florida. Asked if he had any last words, Geralds addressed someone by ...

Ohio State won last year's College Football Playoff. Who will prevail in this season's 12-team bracket? Alex Slitz / Getty Images The College Football Playoff field is set, with much angst and some ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols picked his last meal ahead of his scheduled execution, according to the Tennessee Department of Correction. Nichols, 64, is to die by lethal injection ...