Photo: Isaiah Hole Many fans of Michigan football and basketball insisted that athletic director Warde Manuel wasn’t long for the job in recent years. However, in the interim, he was named chair of the College Football Playoff committee and essentially given an award that equates to AD of the year. Now, a sobering moment for those who were looking for …

Welcome to the Thursday edition of the Pick Six newsletter! We’re getting our first Thursday night game of December tonight, and things are starting off with a bang as the Lions will be hosting the Packers in an NFC North showdown. This is the old “Thanksgiving leftovers” game where the NFL takes two teams that played on Thanksgiving and has …

PHILADELPHIA — For the majority of his tenure with the Philadelphia Eagles, Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni has called Lane Johnson “the best tackle in the world.” He hasn’t shied away from that title, even as Johnson is hitting his mid 30s.  This season, Johnson may not even be the best tackle on his own team. Johnson’s fellow tackle …

Can the No. 5 Georgia Bulldogs sweep the No. 2 Texas Longhorns on Saturday and guarantee themselves a place in a College Football Playoff quarterfinals? A Sugar Bowl berth and the No. 1 or No. 2 seed in the CFP are on the line in this high-stakes matchup. The Bulldogs went to Austin and dominated the Longhorns on October 19th, …

Green Bay Packers vs. Detroit Lions will kick off the Week 14 NFL schedule on Thursday Night Football. It has the highest over/under of any game of the week at 51.5 points, according to the latest NFL odds from the SportsLine Consensus. Targeting a game with a high over/under is a popular NFL DFS strategy when playing multi-game contests, but …

Startling TD stat shows how 49ers stars declined from 2023 to 2024 originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area There really is a lot that seems inexplicable about the 49ers’ fall this season. San Francisco was the top team in the NFC last year. It clinched the top seed in the conference with a 12-4 record before resting many of …

Kaleb Webb. Tennessee Volunteers versus Kent State Golden Flashes on Sept. 14, 2024 at Neyland Stadium. Photo by Dan Harralson, Vols Wire Tennessee (10-2, 6-2 SEC) is ranked No. 7 in College Football Playoff rankings ahead of conference championship week. The Vols will not play this week and await their final College Football Playoff ranking and seeding. Ahead of postseason …

Two of the top teams in the NFC will clash in Week 14 when the Green Bay Packers battle the Detroit Lions in a key NFC North divisional matchup on Thursday Night Football. Both teams posted wins on Thanksgiving Day, with Detroit outlasting Chicago, 23-20, and Green Bay downing Miami, 30-17. The Packers (9-3), who are third in the division, …

The Pittsburgh Steelers are getting some reinforcements for Sunday’s Week 14 home matchup with the Cleveland Browns. Pittsburgh (9-3) will have two defenders back in the lineup who did not play when the Browns upset the Steelers two weeks ago.  Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin said Tuesday that he “fully expects” to have starting outside linebacker Alex Highsmith for Sunday …

Three teams enter Week 14 of the 2024 NFL season with 2-10 records, and two of them are in need of a franchise quarterback. Unfortunately for the New York Giants and Las Vegas Raiders, the pool is extremely shallow after last year’s NFL Draft saw signal-callers taken with six of the first 12 selections – including each of the first …

Signing Day came and went Dec. 4 and was in part defined by the biggest college football recruiting flips — which is when a player decommits from one school and nearly simultaneously joins the commitment class of another. The early signing period runs through Dec. 6, but the fireworks mostly happen on Day 1, and we sure did see a …

Victoria Matiash, Fantasy HockeyDec 5, 2024, 03:00 PM ET CloseESPN.com Fantasy Contributor since 2010Part-time anchor at NEWSTALK1010 By hacking the schedule — figuring out which teams are more active when most others are not — fantasy managers can seize greater flexibility in maximizing their lineup potential every date of the schedule. The greater number of players in action each date, …

Eagles injury report: Britain Covey returns to practice originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia Eagles punt returner Britain Covey made his return to practice on Thursday after missing the start of the week with a neck injury. WR/PR Covey injured his neck against the Ravens on Sunday night. On Thursday, Covey was late to get over with the punt returners …

Dec. 5—Frost Athletic Director and Head Football Coach Phillip Gibson has been selected to coach in the All-American Bowl at AT&T Stadium on December 29th. This will be Coach Gibson’s sixth time to be the Offensive Coordinator for the All-American Bowl that will consist of the top high school football players and coaches in the United States. Gibson is in …

The 2023 quarterback draft class has now had nearly two full NFL seasons.  The group still brings more intrigue than certainty as to who they’ll become in the league.  There’s the Texans’ C.J. Stroud, last year’s Offensive Rookie of the Year, who put together arguably the best rookie quarterback season ever. This season, however, all the talk has been about …