Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell is a risk taker. Sometimes it pays off, other times it backfires. Most would advise against going for it on fourth down at your own 31-yard line when it’s a tie game with 43 seconds left, but Campbell isn’t most coaches. His bold attempt in the divisional game against the Green Bay Packers paid …

The Kansas City Chiefs have already secured their 10th consecutive playoff berth, the second-longest streak in NFL history. They can clinch the AFC West title with a win over the Chargers on Sunday Night Football during the Week 14 NFL schedule. Kansas City is a four-point favorite in the Week 14 NFL odds, but the Chiefs have failed to cover …

CANTON — The Hillsdale High School football team and Maria Stein Marion Local will kick off Day 2 of the 2024 OHSAA football state championships this morning with the Division VII title game at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium. It’s the first of three high school football championshp games today – featuring a Marion Local team on an epic winning streak- as games continue Friday and Saturday at the stadium. …

The Pittsburgh Steelers will try to maintain their lead atop the AFC North standings when they host the Cleveland Browns on Sunday during the Week 14 NFL schedule. Pittsburgh has won six of its last seven games, including a 44-38 victory at Cincinnati last week. The Steelers are 6.5-point favorites in the Week 14 NFL odds, despite losing to Cleveland …

Dominate in Week 14 with Sal Vetri’s keys to a fantasy football victory. Pick-up-and-play: Nick Westbrook-Ikhine vs. JAX Nick Westbrook-Ikhine is coming off his best game of the season in Week 13, catching three of his eight targets for 61 yards and two touchdowns. This was his second top-10 finish at the position in the past three weeks. Westbrook-Ikhine has …

A champion will be crowned on Friday when the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers (8-4) take on the Jacksonville State Gamecocks (8-4) in the 2024 Conference USA Championship Game. The Hilltoppers have lost two of their past three games but are coming off a 19-17 victory over Jacksonville State on Nov. 30. Prior to the loss against WKU, the Gamecocks had won …

After winning four of their first six games of the season, the Chicago Bears have lost six straight, leading to the firing of head coach Matt Eberflus on Black Friday. Chicago will try to get back in the win column when the Bears take on the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday. The Bears are four-point underdogs on the road according …

Week 14 of the 2024 NFL season is underway after a thriller on “Thursday Night Football” in which the Detroit Lions hung on to defeat the Green Bay Packers 34-31 with a buzzer-beating field goal.  Could the rest of Week 14 be just as exciting? Here is how the remaining Week 14 slate could unfold with increased levels of stunning …

Seahawks vs. Cardinals isn’t a game many NFL fans would have expected to have first-place implications in the Week 14 NFL schedule when the 2024 NFL schedule was first released. The Seahawks (7-5), however, hold a one-game lead over the Cardinals (6-6) in the NFC West, making it a crucial contest for playoff positioning on Sunday. Daily Fantasy football players …

Dan Radakovich sat on the very first College Football Playoff selection committee. He was part of the group that made the controversial decision to choose Ohio State over TCU or Baylor as the final team into the 2014 field. He was on the committee in 2016 too, when members kept out Big Ten champion Penn State for the Pac-12’s Washington. …

The NFL Playoff race is heating up and these remaining four or five games will ultimately determine who has an opportunity to compete for the Super Bowl. Some teams are getting healthy at the right time while others are hanging on by a thread. Scouring injury reports, injured reserve and more, here is the most pressing need for each contender …

The Lions have a deep list of playmakers on their offense and different ones have stepped up at different points to help the team to a 12-1 record and a playoff berth this season. Wide receiver Tim Patrick got his chances to join that list on Thursday night and he might be the most improbable addition of them all. Patrick …

Georgia coach Kirby Smart reacts after losing the SEC Championship game against Alabama at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023. Alabama won 27-24. The Georgia Bulldogs may not be too excited that ESPN’s “College GameDay” is headed to Atlanta, Georgia, for the SEC championship game. Yes, Georgia is glad to be back in the SEC championship, but …

In our everlasting mission to predict the future, a top-down look at how an offense might attack their opponent’s defense is, in my humble estimation, a good place to start. We find defenses every season that profile as a so-called run funnel, meaning opponents lean unusually hard on the rushing attack in neutral and positive game scripts. The same goes …

Dec. 6—Take a peek at the boxscore from any 2024 Idaho football game and one will see two names spearheading the Vandals’ air attack. Junior wide receiver Jordan Dwyer and redshirt freshman Mark Hamper have generated nearly 1,700 combined receiving yards, representing two-thirds of the Vandals’ total passing yards. “We take a lot of pride in that,” Dwyer said just …