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🚨 Titles
🏀 Historical eruption: Kansas n ° 23 fell to Byu, 91-57, for their Worse defeat as a team classified against an unopenious team. The Jayhawks of pre-season n ° 1 will soon be classified for the second time since February 2009.
🏒 Huge number: The United States game against Canada on average 10.1 million North American viewers (4.4 m in the United States and 5.7 million in Canada), which leads to each final Non Stanley Cup match since 2014. Needless to say, the revenge match of tomorrow should shoot even more.
⚽️ Playoffs of the Champions League: Feyenoord (Netherlands), Club Brugge (Belgium), Benfica (Portugal) and Bayern Munich (Germany) Advanced around 16.
🏀 Kyrie Commander of allegiances: Kyrie Irving, born in Melbourne, plans to represent Australia At the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. The 32 -year -old man has not played for the American team since Rio 2016 matches.
⚾️ Buck is back: Joe Buck will call the opening game of Brewers and Yankees For ESPN, marking its first national MLB program since 2021. Buck, 55, called a record 24 World Series for Fox.
🏈 The CFP era at 12 teams may already end in its end
Dry sports directors and big ten will meet in New Orleans today to discuss a plan to extend the university football playoffs to 14 or 16 teams And assign several automatic qualifiers by league – with up to four each for themselves.
How we got here, Via Yahoo Sports’ Ross Dellenger:
Last spring, during intense negotiations on the future of the playoffs of university football, the leaders of Big Ten and the SEC threatened to create their own system in the playoffs if they did not grant themselves by majority of income from the PCF and full authority in the format of the playoffs.
In the end, the leaders of the 10 FBS and Notre Dame leagues signed a memorandum of understanding to control control to the two richest conferences in university football. Soon they should exercise this control.
Details: The 14 team format is described as a 4-4-4-2-1 + 1 model, which would give four automatic qualifications each to Big Ten and dry and two each to ACC and to Big 12. The group of five teams would get the last automatic berth.
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There would also be a space point – or three, if the format extends to 16 teams – it would automatically go to Notre Dame if they ended in the Top 14.
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These changes would probably trigger the four power leagues to revise the weekend of the conference championship. After all, a title game does not do much when there are two (or four) automatic offers to win.
What they say: Unsurprisingly, most outside the Big Ten and the dry are not delighted with this. “It must be a real championship … not an invitation,” said ACC commissioner Jim Phillips, in Yahoo Sports. “You will alienate part of the country,” added an ESPN frame.
Expansion, expansion, expansion: While the power brokers of university football discuss the expansion of the CFP, the leaders of university basketball would have get closer to an NCAA tournament at 76 teams (At the top of 68) as of next year. These two money seize had pat forde in full -fledged diatibe mode On the latest episode of the Podcast College Football Enquirer de Yahoo Sports:
“It is still greed. It is not controlled power. Sports.
🏀 Old men feed the best team in the country
The best classified, which obtained the global seed n ° 1 in the NCAA Early support revealsare extremely good. * They are also extremely old.
Old men on campus: The average age of the first five (23.2) of Auburn is almost the same as the average age of the head of the Western conference Oklahoma City Thunder (24.1).
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Chad Baker-Mazara: 25 (Super senior)
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Denver Jones: 24 (Super senior)
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Dylan Cardwell: 23 (Super senior)
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Johni Broome: 22 (Super senior)
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Miles Kelly: 22 (Senior)
Consider this: Seven of the nine players on average more than 10 minutes per match for the n ° 1 Auburn are seniors (or super seniors). It is two more than the n ° 2 of Florida and the Duke n ° 3 in their rotations, combined.
Overview: Auburn’s list reflects the current state of university basketball, where unlimited transfers and zero funds have enabled programs to build experienced lists on the force of veteran talents.
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Of course, some power plants are still counting on players to one and duration, but the fight against maturity of young people is a new recipe for success, and teams can recruit new upper binders each year in what is essentially ‘Free agency.
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Namely, eight of the 15 players who have adapted to Auburn are superior class transfers, and the tigers are not alone. N ° 4 Alabama, their dry rival, has six of these players. N ° 9 St. John’s, enjoying its best season for decades, has seven.
In the future: Tigers are the favorites to reduce nets in April (+325 in Betmgm). If they do, almost the whole team will be able to celebrate legally with a champagne shower.
*How good was Auburn? The two losses of the tigers came against n ° 2 in Florida and the No. 3 Duke, and they have 14 quads 1 victorieswhich is six more than any other team.
📸 Photo day: new faces in new places
Fort Myers, Florida – Alex Bregman was a third basic player in the gold glove in Houston, but Rafael Devers does not want to change position. Let’s see how it goes!
Tampa, Florida – Former brewer Devin Williams was Rocking more than a simple shade at 5 hours Tuesday. You can’t do that! Yankees do not allow beard! Directly in prison for you, sir! (The most stupid rule of sport.)
Mesa, Arizona – Kyle nestled Played on the October scene During each of the last six seasons with the Astros. Can he bring the cubs back to the playoffs for the first time since 2020?
Glendale, Arizona – Japanese phenomenon Rōki Sasaki is Already turns into the dodgers camp. “Oh my God,” exclaimed Austin Barnes after catching his separator.
🏀 NBA Playoff Picture: Odds title
The NBA comes back from the stars break this evening, Beginning a two -month sprint in the playoffs.
Title favorites: The title champion Celtics and the West Thunder are the favorites co-title (+225 in BETMGM), followed by horsemen with an eastern head (+800).
Contenders: Knicks (+1300), Nuggets (+1400), Lakers (+1400), Grizzlies (+2500), Bucks (+3000), Clippers (+3500), Mavericks (+4000) and Warriors (+4000) are the other only the other teams with ratings better from 50 to 1.
📺 Watchlist: Madrid vs Man City
Real Madrid welcomes Manchester City today (3 p.m. and, paramount +) At the second stage of their Champions League qualifiers, Madrid holding an advance of 3-2 to come. Which European giant will go to 16 years?
Elsewhere: Dortmund (3-0) Sporting host (12:45 p.m., CBSSN) In Germany, PSV (1-2) hosts Juventus (3 p.m., Paramount +) In the Netherlands, and PSG (3-0) hosts Brest (3 p.m., Paramount +) In France.
More to look:
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🏀 NBA: Hornets at Lakers (10 p.m., League pass) … The only game of the night.
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🏀 NCAAM: Arkansas at N ° 1 Auburn (9 p.m., ESPN); N ° 4 Alabama at n ° 15 Missouri (9 p.m., dry) … The dry Gauntlet is so real. No easy victories.
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🏀 NCAAW: N ° 22 Michigan State at No. 4 USC (9:30 p.m., peacock) … The superstar of the horses of Troy Juju Watkins ranks fourth in the score (24.2 ppg).
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⚽️ Premier League: Aston Villa against Liverpool (2:30 p.m., United States) … Reds seek to extend their advance at the top of painting.
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⚽️ Champions Cup: KC Sports against Inter Miami (8 p.m., FS2) … Could it be the coldest football match of all time? *
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🏒 PWHL: Toronto in New York (7 p.m., youtube) … The sirens of the last place welcome fourth place skeptres.
*Boullant: the wind cooling planned in Kansas City is -9 degrees at kick -off and could fall to -11. It will be colder than any game in MLS history and maybe One of the coldest football matches ever recorded, anywhere.
🏀 Trivia NBA
Question: While the NBA returns from the break, can you name the current leaders of the Ligue in a score, bouncing and helping per game?
Hint: Two to the west, one to the east.
Answer at the bottom.
🏀 It’s great
The Illinois has shifted the retreat of Jersey of Terrence Shannon Jr. On Saturday, when they hung his uniform upside down. He takes advantage of itdrop a new shirt that reads:
“When life has you upside down, turn it over!”
The best part? All the profits of the shirt, which presents the jersey upside down on the front, will benefit the local club of boys and girls.
Trivia’s response: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (32.5 points), Domantas Sabonis (14.6 rebounds), Trae Young (11.5 assists)
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