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You’ve read our Power Four college football coach rankings by now. At least, you’d better have. This is the eleventh year we’ve done them at CBSSports.com, but last year we started a new tradition.We gave everybody a peek behind the ballots.There are 10 voters on our panel, and we all think differently. When you combine those different brains with unclear voting criteria, it leads to significant variance in the results. It also exposes some biases in how we vote. We’re all a little kinder to coaches in certain leagues than we are to others, usually because, in our line of…
The NFC East is far from the strongest division, but it isn’t anywhere close to the weakest the NFL has to offer. It’s a balanced, mid-tier division with four teams that could all state a realistic argument regarding their potential to go on a deep postseason run. The Philadelphia Eagles are likely to remain the class of the NFC East, even after their bid to repeat as Super Bowl champs fell flat in 2025. After losing Kellen Moore to the New Orleans Saints, the team couldn’t find the same success with Kevin Patullo and limped into the playoffs following an…
Armathwaite Hall Hotel & Spa, based near Keswick in the Northern Lake District, announced its sponsorship of the Armathwaite Lakes 11 Cricket Club. The team, formed last year, is set to join the West Cumbria Midweek League for the 2026 season. Comprising mainly employees from the hotel, the club has quickly become a hub for cricket enthusiasts. The Baggrow Cricket Ground will serve as the club’s home venue. Team co-ordinator Albin Thomas and team captain Alwin Raju are leading the side in its league debut. Fixtures, predominantly on Wednesdays, are now available online. Fans are encouraged to support the team…
Tyson Fury has hinted that he plans to fight again in Dublin on 1 August in a post on social media.The two-time heavyweight champion of the world posted the caption “Let’s go August 1, Dublin, Ireland” alongside a video of him training in Thailand.Fury’s promoter Frank Warren is staging a fight night in the capital of the Republic of Ireland on that date, with the light-welterweight IBO title fight between Pierce O’Leary and Mark Chamberlain set for the city’s 3Arena.Official confirmation of the 37-year-old’s involvement on the card has yet to be announced.An August fight could serve as a warm-up…
Allen Trieu | Special to The Detroit NewsMichigan State’s first official visit weekend for the 2027 class is here.The Spartans have a good group coming in to start things off.Among the headliners is Detroit Country Day four-star tight end Anthony Cartwright. Cartwright is a longtime target of the Spartans and his dad is an alum, but his recruitment has also been national since his freshman year. Oregon and LSU are two of his top schools, and he just wrapped a visit to Stanford. Miami and Michigan are also still very much in the mix.This will be a very important visit…
What better way to become a part of your hometown baseball team than to buy a stake in the franchise?That’s what Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce has done, purchasing a minority stake in the Cleveland Guardians, according to ESPN; Kelce attended Cleveland Heights High School, which is roughly 20 minutes east of Progressive Field, home of the Guardians.”I have so much love for this city,” Kelce said about purchasing a minority stake in the Guardians, per ESPN. “I say it all the time: I’m just a kid from the Heights living the dream. I credit every good thing in…
In the spring of 2011, I went to the MCC library at Lord’s – the world’s largest collection of printed material on cricket. I was near the start of a PhD on the history of women’s cricket and I wanted source material: this, surely, would be where I would find it?Nope. When the MCC’s Neil Robinson took me to the section of the shelves on women’s cricket, I found that it consisted of three books, one of which was the autobiography of Rachael Heyhoe Flint, published in 1978. As for the MCC archives? The store cupboard was bare.I decided, there…
Real Madrid presidential candidate Enrique Riquelme has launched his campaign by promising to develop the club’s training ground into a hub for fans including swimming pools, padel courts and a basketball arena.Renewables tycoon Riquelme is standing against Florentino Perez in the first presidential election in 20 years featuring a challenger.Perez announced the election during an extraordinary news conference earlier this month in which he criticised journalists and La Liga and spoke of an “organised campaign” against him.The 79-year-old has been in office since 2009 – and was previously president between 2000 and 2006 – but has overseen two successive trophyless…
After three consecutive home games, Nebraska football will begin conference play on the road in East Lansing against Michigan State. The Spartans, after going a combined 9-15 under Jonathan Smith in two years at the helm, are welcoming in a new head coach. Pat Fitzgerald, a familiar name to Husker fans, led the Northwestern Wildcats for 17 years, becoming one of the winningest head coaches in Big Ten history. Now, he’ll look to revive a program that went 11-2 just five years ago. Here’s an early look at what Michigan State is expected to bring to the table this fall,…
If there is one thing upon which the NFL prides itself, it’s parity. The league’s ability to tout a franchise’s ability to turn things around in an instant, to find themselves in the thick of the championship conversation, gives every fan base a reason to believe when we kick off a new season.Take last year, for example. Both the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots were on the outside looking in on the playoffs in 2024, only to each find themselves playing in Super Bowl LX the following year. That’s how quickly things can change in the NFL. Want even…