NCAA - UMass Snaps Near Two-Year Losing Streak...Complete With Fireworks

The opening week of the college football season every year brings the same feelings. Fans pack stadiums across the country by the thousands, but the major players do not start their schedule until the following week. You have a few smaller conferences that open the national television schedule, and might get a few ranked teams in action.

When a team predicted to finish near the bottom of the Big 10 loses to the worst team in college football at home, you don’t need to be ranked to call it an upset.

Rutgers paid Massachusetts $1.5 million to come to Piscataway back on Thursday night, and were levied as nearly 30-point favorites by the sportsbooks (-28.5 points). The only reason this was not a 40-point spread is Rutgers was picked by coaches to finish in the bottom five of the Big 10 for 2026.

WNBA - Carrington's Racist Accusation Over Her Dirty Play Worse Than The Actual Act

With less than 15 games remaining, the Chicago Sky sit at 12-20, seven games out of the final WNBA playoff spot, and are about to miss the playoffs for the third straight season.

The rivalry between Chicago and the Indiana Fever may have lost some of its luster after the Sky traded Angel Reese to Atlanta back in April, but Saturday showed there is still plenty to talk about whenever the two teams come together, regardless of their records.

A layup by Chicago guard DiJonai Carrington gave the Sky an 18-17 lead with 2:49 in the first quarter. It would be her eighth and final points of the afternoon.

NBA - James' "Final Decision" Is Just the Business of Another Aging Journeyman Mercenary

LeBron James has made his “final decision,” and will be heading to Philadelphia. Sixer fans are ecstatic...for now. Need we remember this is the same fanbase that threw snowballs and batteries at Santa Claus.

The hatred by most of the country around the decision is not how long it took, but the idea that the NBA’s biggest alpha of the 21st century tucked his tail between his legs to go be a third option with a team that traded for Jaylen Brown just a few weeks earlier.

MLB - Red Sox Have Club Record Winning Streak, Now Focus Shifts To Consistency Over Final 60 Games

The key to a great winning streak is not the suddenness of it, but rather the consistency throughout. With Boston running their winning streak to 15 with a matinee win over Baltimore on Wednesday, the Red Sox have a chance to break an 80-year old record with a victory in the nightcap of the doubleheader.

Boston was 37-48 when the calendar changed over to July, which was part of the reason that manager Alex Cora was fired on April 25. The Red Sox started 10-17 when Cora was replaced by Chad Tracy. The Red Sox now sit at 52-48, two games in front of Seattle for the final Wild Card spot in the American League.

NHL - Vegas Enters Finals In Typical Team Fashion...With Controversy

Quickly…everyone name their three least favorite NHL teams, and why are the Vegas Golden Knights on just about all of your lists?!

The Knights swept the President’s Trophy-winning Colorado Avalanche in the Western Conference Finals, and will play for the Stanley Cup for the third time in their nine-year history starting on Tuesday night in Carolina. The Hurricanes, who also likely appeared on the majority of your lists I bet, polished off Montreal on Friday night in dominating fashion, to reach the Finals for the first time since winning the Cup in 2006.

This may be the most unwatchable Stanley Cup Final in history.

NCAA - Denver Wins 11th Hockey Title With Stunning Late Charge and Suffocating Defense

To call the University of Denver a dynasty in terms of college hockey would be understating the obvious. The Pioneers won their third National Championship in five years on Saturday, downing Wisconsin 2-1. This is Denver’s record-setting 11th National Championshp, and sixth this century. The 2026 Frozen Four also saw Denver make their 21st appearance. In fact, the last time Denver lost a National Championship game was back in 1973.

Not bad for a team that was outshot 21-5 through two periods, including not registering their first shot on net for more than eight minutes of the first period, and just two for the entire first 20 minutes.

NCAA - High Point Scores Expected Upset Via Unconventional Means

Taking down a higher seed is why we love March Madness. We saw three double-digit seeds earn victories through the first three blocks of games to open the first round on Thursday, but none bigger than a matchup between two teams that consider home more than 2,000 miles away each.

The High Point Panthers, champions of the Big South Conference, took a 14-game winning streak into the NCAA Tournament, longest in the nation. Their opponents were the 4th-seeded Wisconsin Badgers, who lost in the semifinals of the Big 10 Conference tournament to Michigan.

The Panthers led 43-41 just 1:09 into the second half, after Wisconsin took a 41-39 lead into the half. With just 14 seconds remaining in the game, ESPN had Wisconsin calculated to be a 70.2-percent favorite to win.

High Point will play SEC Tournament Champion Arkansas on Saturday in the second round.

NCAA - Redhawks See Undefeated Season Fall Right Before NCAA Tournament Field Announcement

Bubble teams in Auburn, Bloomington, and a handful of others just had the door of opportunity open a little further on Thursday afternoon. With an 87-83 defeat to the Massachusetts Minutemen (17-15), previously undefeated Miami (Ohio) (now 31-1) suffered their first loss of the season. The Redhawks became the first team since St. Joe’s in 2004 to enter their conference tournament undefeated, and then suffer their first loss before the NCAA Tournament.

St. Joe’s still ended up as a 1-seed that year, despite losing to Xavier in the first round of the Atlantic 10 Conference Tournament. Miami’s loss to UMass should not come as large a surprise as fans across the country should think. In two previous matchups, Miami won by a combined 11 points (86-84 in Miami on January 27, and 86-77 at UMass on February 17).

Miami last won the Mid American Conference (MAC) tournament in 2007, and this was their first regular season MAC title since 2006.