How LeBron James and Dwyane Wade ruined Knicks fans forever
Check on your strong Knicks fan friend today, guys.LeBron James and Dwyane Wade fought to the finish on Monday night. This is Wade’s final season in the NBA, and the Heat’s matchup against the Lakers...
View Article2018’s college football award tracker: Who won what?
The year’s major award winners are all collected here.Here’s the full list of this year’s award finalists for a bunch of top honors. Winners are listed in bold.Heisman Trophy (most outstanding player,...
View ArticleCity is in second place. So *this* is what a title race looks like
The anatomy of a title race now that there’s a Premier League title race worth dissecting. And yet another reminder not to read The Sun in this week’s Tactically Naive.Hello and welcome to Tactically...
View ArticleThe Ultimate SB Nation Holiday Gift Guide
Need something for the sports fan in your life? We have you covered with everything you could possibly imagine. ‘Tis the season for joyous college football bowl games, Christmas Day NBA games, that...
View ArticleBama-OU has a record Vegas total and just might blow past it
Vegas gives Alabama-Oklahoma the highest points over/under of any Playoff game ever and any bowl this season.Oddsmakers expect a game involving Alabama to be the highest-scoring game of bowl season....
View ArticleSteven Adams is the throwback center of your modern NBA dreams
Adams deserves to make his first All-Star appearance after proving outdated bigs can still thrive in today’s NBA.Steven Adams has quickly grown into one of the NBA’s best centers his own way,...
View ArticleAll your last-minute fantasy football lineup questions answered by our experts!
The SB Nation Fantasy War Room is LIVE! We’ll be answering fantasy football questions all season long.Welcome to Week 15! The 2018 NFL season is chugging along, and fantasy league playoff pictures are...
View ArticleHow Kliff Kingsbury’s arrival changes USC’s whole equation
It’s not as simple as USC hiring an air-raid guy and throwing more. The offense’s priorities will shift in more fundamental ways.In each of the last last five years, Southern California has produced at...
View ArticleThe Clippers’ obvious interest in Kawhi Leonard, explained
L.A. surely wants Kawhi, who could become a Clipper in July.Kawhi Leonard has been linked to the Los Angeles Clippers since the summer, when his trade request from the San Antonio Spurs became public....
View ArticleThe winter meetings are heating up
LAS VEGAS — The action picked up on Day 2 of the winter meetings, with a number of moves highlighting Tuesday’s action. Let’s keep track of all the wheeling and dealing in one spot.Cutch returns to...
View ArticleViral video results in San Francisco holding ‘free popcorn night’
If you’re in the San Francisco are and you enjoy college basketball and/or popcorn, Thursday is your night. San Francisco guard Frankie Ferrari produced one of the more enjoyable moments of the 2018-19...
View ArticleThe Celtics don’t need their stars to win games
Boston’s convincing win without its three stars was a reminder that sometimes, they just don’t need them.No Kyrie Irving. No Al Horford. No Gordon Hayward, either. No problem.The Boston Celtics still...
View ArticleUnder Armour announces launch of the Curry 6
The “Fox Theater” colorway is the latest shoe in the signature series, and will drop on January 4. For all the Stephen Curry fans out there, there’s some big news to report about a new shoe that’s...
View ArticleVillanova’s 25-game ‘Big 5’ winning streak ends with 78-75 loss to Penn
The Big 5 is up for grabs once again. Villanova’s 25-game “Big 5” winning streak came to an end Tuesday night thanks to a 78-75 loss at the hands of Pennsylvania. The winning streak in the annual...
View ArticleS&P+ spread picks for every 2018-19 bowl game
Entering a bowl pool? Allow us to help you out a bit.Below are FBS picks and projections for every game of the 2018-19 bowl season using the S&P+ projections, listed in full for all 130 FBS teams...
View ArticleA brief history of calls to EXPAND THE PLAYOFF
Six! Eight! Ten! Sixty-four! A pre-Playoff playoff!foThere’s nothing more college football than arguing about the postseason. That doesn’t just mean squabbling over the real national champion or...
View ArticleThe Bulls’ dysfunctional front office is good at one important thing
The Bulls’ front office is incompetent and an embarrassment ... except in this one way.The Chicago Bulls are, again, a national embarrassment. The team fired its head coach Fred Hoiberg because the...
View ArticleStephen Curry’s moon landing conspiracy comments are (hopefully) a dumb joke
Curry has to know who Neil Armstrong is, right?Stephen Curry may not think one of man’s greatest accomplishments actually happened. At least that’s what he said on a recent appearance on the Winging...
View ArticleThe 9 last men standing in the 2018 NFL MVP race
It looks like a two-man race between Brees and Mahomes, but there’s still time for veterans to crash the party.Week 14 was a brutal week for MVP candidates.The herd of potential honorees was culled...
View ArticleHow do NFL defenses survive in a game that favors offense?
The deck’s stacked against defenses in today’s NFL, so to have an impact, teams are having to reassess what they want a defense to do. Defense is hard as hell to play in the NFL now. Rules are slanted...
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