Welcome to the Tuesday edition of the Pick Six newsletter!  The final day of 2024 is here, which means you have just hours to finish all of your resolutions from 2024 before you have to start working on your new ones for 2025. I made a resolution seven years ago to never make another resolution and that has been working …

The quarterfinals of the College Football Playoff begin on New Year’s Eve at the Fiesta Bowl as (3) Boise State takes on (6) Penn State. And just in case advancing in the playoff wasn’t enough, it’s also a battle between two teams that have never lost a Fiesta Bowl. No program has won the Fiesta Bowl more often than Penn …

Week 18 fantasy championships will conclude with a showdown for the No. 1 seed in the NFC. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images) Welcome to Week 18 of the fantasy football season! If you’re here, you’ve probably got a championship to win, eh? You’ve made it this far, but fret not, we’re here to help you across the finish line. The …

The Washington Huskies will look to regain some of last season’s glory when they face the Louisville Cardinals in the 2024 Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl on Tuesday CBS on Paramount+. The Huskies went to the CFP Championship game last season ranked second in the nation, but they had trouble reaching the same level of dominance their first season in …

Belichick tells awesome Brady story about timeouts, clock management originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston Questionable timeout usage and bad clock management in general have been hot topics in the NFL this season. One of the most glaring examples happened on Thanksgiving when Chicago Bears head coach Matt Eberflus cost his team valuable seconds at the end of its game versus …

LSU football aims to close out the 2024 season with a win. The Tigers (8-4) take on Baylor (8-4) in the Texas Bowl inside NRG Stadium in Houston Tuesday. LSU has won both bowl games it has played under head coach Brian Kelly and a win over the Bears would mark the third consecutive season that it will end the …

Best kick of Vinatieri’s career? Belichick offers up surprising choice originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston The Pro Football Hall of Fame announced the 15 modern era finalists for the 2025 class last week, and former New England Patriots kicker Adam Vinatieri was among the players who made the cut. The final 2025 Hall of Fame class will be revealed …

A Big 12 vs. SEC showdown takes center stage when the Baylor Bears battle the LSU Tigers in the 2024 Texas Bowl on New Year’s Eve. Both teams enter Tuesday’s tilt with momentum. Baylor has won six consecutive games, most recently beating Kansas, 45-17, on Nov. 30. The Tigers, meanwhile, have won two straight, knocking off Oklahoma, 37-17, in their …

There is just one more week remaining in the NFL regular season, which is just fine by me because we’ve watched some bad football recently. The Thursday night matchup between the Seattle Seahawks and Chicago Bears had me considering leaving the sports industry, and then the 1 p.m. window on Sunday featured mostly blowouts. However, we did have the New …

Getty Images The Boise State Broncos are clear underdogs in Friday’s College Football Playoff Quartefinal at the Fiesta Bowl. Not many people are picking Boise State to upset Penn State, but one rhino at the Phoenix Zoo is standing with the Broncos. Prior to kickoff between the Broncos and Nittany Lions, the Phoenix Zoo let one of its rhinos, Chutti, …

The Dallas Cowboys must make a decision. They could renew head coach Mike McCarthy’s contract for the 2025 season and, if extended, likely beyond. Or they could commence interviewing coaching candidates and chase a new hire. What the Cowboys can’t do, when their season ends Sunday night: Sit pat. Because with McCarthy coaching the final year of his contract, they …

Tim Prangley, Trojans Wire Plain and simple, USC recruiting has not been good enough under Lincoln Riley. The Trojans have signed several top-15 classes, but he has yet to deliver the top-five ones that were expected when USC paid over $100 million to hire him away from Oklahoma. Much of that falls on the Trojans not having a true general …

Week 17 of the NFL regular season was particularly potent. A single-week record six teams scored 40+ points, according to CBS Sports’ research. Five wide receivers had at least 90 receiving yards in the penultimate week, so the rookie lists skews offense this week.  Here are the top rookies from Week 17 in the NFL regular season:  1. WR Malik …

USATSI The 12-team College Football Playoff continues on New Year’s Eve when (6) Penn State faces (3) Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl. The expanded format creates a more challenging path to the CFP title game, and the bracket will shrink from eight teams to four as we enter the new year. New Year’s Day begins with (5) Texas facing …

The best pick: Brock Bowers Bowers was often taken in the 10th or 11th round of fantasy football drafts this past summer. His talent level was never a question. He was one of the best college prospects at the position the previous three seasons at Georgia. But many people, including myself, wondered what Bowers’ upside would be with the Raiders’ …