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Thursday, November 5, 2026
USMNT to Close 2026 Against Jamaica in Fort Lauderdale as MLS Players Get December Spotlight

The U.S. Men’s National Team will close out its 2026 campaign on Sunday, Dec. 13, against longtime Concacaf rival Jamaica at Inter Miami CF Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Kickoff is set for...

Peterson’s Double-Double Powers Auburn Past Southern Miss, 56-48

Jessica Peterson notched her first double-double at Auburn and took control in the fourth quarter Thursday at Neville Arena, leading the Tigers to a hard-fought 56-48 win over Southern Miss....

Boone Scores 21 as No. Kentucky Rolls Past Northern Kentucky, 79-28

Kentucky didn’t need its best shooting night to stay unbeaten. Asia Boone scored a game-high 21 points, Clara Strack posted a double-double, and the Wildcats’ defense smothered Northern Kentucky...

NFL Launches American Football Week to Honor the Coaches Behind the Game

The NFL is bringing every level of football together this weekend for American Football Week, a four-day national initiative running Nov. 5–8 that unites youth, high school, college and...

McMiller Pours in Career-High 42 as Florida Rolls Past UCF, 95-65

Kiyomi McMiller turned Thursday night at the Stephen C. O’Connell Center into a personal showcase. The junior poured in a career-high 42 points, the fourth-highest total in program history, as...

College Park Skyhawks Set Opening Night Roster as Sanjay Lumpkin Era Begins

Skyhawks Open the 2026-27 Season on Nov. 6 with Three-Game Homestand Featuring Raptors 905 and Long Island Nets The College Park Skyhawks set their opening night roster on Thursday. It gives...

2026 WNBA season review: The Toronto Tempo were on track for a special expansion campaign, until injuries derailed everything

You can’t talk about the Toronto Tempo’s inaugural season without starting with Marina Mabrey’s WNBA-record-tying 53 points in a single game on June 25. Mabrey ended up averaging a career-high...

NCAA gameday discussion: When No. 5 Michigan hosts No. 1 UConn, watch out for Syla Swords and Jovana Popovic

The early-season women’s college basketball menu is often overstuffed with a buffet of blowouts, as top-ranked teams fatten up on overmatched opponents, resulting in games that not only are...

Season 3 of Unrivaled is on the way. With all eight rosters now revealed, which 3×3 club is the early championship favorite?

While the WNBA season is over, US-based women’s professional basketball will be back soon thanks to Unrivaled. On Wednesday, the 3×3 league unveiled the full rosters for the eight clubs that will...

Balanced Vanderbilt Attack Overwhelms Queens in 100-42 Rout

Every Commodore who stepped on the floor scored Wednesday night at Memorial Gymnasium, and the stars set the tone early. Mikayla Blakes, the SEC’s Preseason Player of the Year, scored 24 points....

Wednesday, November 4, 2026
Booker Opens Senior Season With 24 as No. 6 Texas Rolls Past Fairleigh Dickinson

Madison Booker didn’t need long to show that the Longhorns’ national title hopes still run through her. The senior forward scored 24 points on 10-of-20 shooting, adding seven rebounds, five...

Ranked Showdowns in Charlotte Highlight Opening Week in the SEC

The SEC’s two biggest games of the opening week are both on Sunday, Nov. 8, at the Ally Tipoff in Charlotte, N.C., where No. 14 Kentucky and No. 1 South Carolina take on ranked ACC opponents. The...

Preseason All-American Madison Booker Named to Wade Watch List as Texas Opens Season

The last time Madison Booker walked off a college basketball court, it was after the toughest night of her career. On April 3 in Phoenix, Texas’ All-American forward went 3-of-23 from the field...

2026 WNBA season review: The arrival of Angel Reese has forever changed the Atlanta Dream, and it’s just the beginning

The Atlanta Dream were about 10 minutes away from becoming WNBA champions. Before that, they tied the franchise record for wins a single season. They won a playoff series for the first time since...

Chris DeMarco is out as New York Liberty head coach after one season. Who are the candidates to replace him?

When reviewing the New York Liberty’s 2026 season, I wondered if general manager Jonathan Kolb would be willing to admit that Chris DeMarco was the wrong hire and move on from him after one...

Tuesday, November 3, 2026
COLLEGE PARK SKYHAWKS AND GRAY MEDIA ATLANTA TO BROADCAST ALL SKYHAWKS HOME GAMES ON PEACHTREE SPORTS NETWORK

The College Park Skyhawks, the official NBA G League affiliate of the Atlanta Hawks, and Atlanta News First, the official broadcast partner of the Atlanta Hawks, announced today that Peachtree...

Why these WNBA players are three too-early offseason trade candidates to monitor

The Golden State Valkyries are still celebrating their history-making 2026 WNBA championship. But even as champagne flows in San Francisco, WNBA fans are rushing to what’s next. Denied drama last...

Thanks to Addi Mack’s 35-point explosion and a 25-point comeback, No. 20 Maryland can feel good despite losing to No. 1 South Carolina

When Maryland’s Addi Mack scored 17 points in a single quarter against Georgetown last year, we waited to crown her. We wanted to see it against better competition. She delivered two games later...

Monday, November 2, 2026
Now a WNBA Finals MVP, Gabby Williams has had an improbable, irreplicable rise to superstardom

WNBA Finals MVP in hand, Gabby Williams’ name has ascended far past it’s previous heights. She’s stood under brief spotlights as a two-time NCAA national champion at UConn and Olympic silver medal...

Georgia State Opens the Jon Cremins Era Tonight Against Bowling Green

Georgia State University’s men’s basketball program opens its 2026-2027 season today at 6 p.m. at home against Bowling Green under new leadership, and the name on the sideline may be familiar: Jon...

NCAAW gameday discussion: Women’s college basketball is back! Let us know who you’re watching on opening day

While No. 13 Notre Dame’s 99-75 victory over Villanova in Rome technically served as the official tip off of the 2026-27 women’s college basketball season (all with an extra dose of Catholicism),...

Sunday, November 1, 2026
Why these four comeback players could define the 2026-27 women’s college basketball season, beginning with JuJu Watkins’ return for USC

Choose your favorite cliché about a setback leading to a better-than-ever comeback. That sentiment has driven the mindset of many women’s college basketball players who have been out action,...

Tons of women’s college basketball stars will be suiting up for new teams for the 2026-27 season, but these three transfers are the most interesting

In contemporary college sports, the transfer portal is essentially a tsunami, crashing down on campuses across the nation and disbursing athletes to new destinations. Keeping up with who’s now...

GOLDEN STATE VALKYRIES ANNOUNCE CHAMPIONSHIP PARADE INFORMATION

Valkyries Championship Parade Presented By Kaiser Permanente To Be Held Wednesday, Nov. 4 at 12 p.m. Along The Embarcadero The 2026 WNBA Champion Golden State Valkyries and the City of San...

Led by the heroics of Finals MVP Gabby Williams, the Golden State Valkyries capture a historic WNBA championship

It took seven games to decide if the Golden State Valkyries or the Atlanta Dream were the better team, but we finally got our answer. Golden State protected their home court and beat Atlanta 68-63...

Saturday, October 31, 2026
Gabby Williams Leads Valkyries Past Dream 68-63 for First WNBA Championship

The Golden State Valkyries and Atlanta Dream took the floor Saturday night for the first Game 7 in WNBA history, and the Valkyries struck first, opening on an 8-0 run led by Kaila Charles’ four...

Georgia Smothers Florida in Atlanta, Rolls to 27-8 Win

Georgia did all of its important work by halftime Saturday, building a 24-0 lead with an efficient running game and a defense that kept taking the ball away, and the Bulldogs beat Florida 27-8...

Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries Meet in the First Game 7 in WNBA Finals History

One game will decide the 2026 WNBA championship. The Atlanta Dream and the Golden State Valkyries play Saturday night at Chase Center in the first Game 7 in WNBA Finals history, and whichever team...

Georgia State’s Skid Reaches Three as Coastal Carolina Pulls Away at Center Parc

Georgia State came out of the first quarter on Halloween afternoon with a lead, but Coastal Carolina took control in the second quarter and never let go, beating the Panthers 31-20 at Center Parc...

Halloween Saturday in the SEC: Georgia and Florida Bring the Rivalry to Atlanta as Five League Games Fill the Day

Halloween falls on a Saturday this year, and the Southeastern Conference has filled it from late morning to late night, with five league games stretching from Oxford to Fayetteville and the...

WNBA Finals Game 7 discussion: What will determine if the Golden State Valkyries or Atlanta Dream become first-time champions?

On Saturday night in San Francisco, WNBA fans will witness the league’s first-ever Game 7, with the host Golden State Valkyries and visiting Atlanta Dream vying for a first championship in a...

By leading the Atlanta Dream to a Game 7 win in the WNBA Finals, Angel Reese can silence her critics—forever

This is it. Atlanta Dream vs. Golden State Valkyries. Game 7. Regardless of the outcome, this contest will be historic, with one team winning their first WNBA title. For the players, legacies are...

Ahead of Game 7 of the 2026 WNBA Finals at Ballhalla, it’s important to celebrate why San Francisco residents are diehard women’s basketball fans

The Atlanta Dream have star power. The Golden State Valkyries have depth and all the intangibles needed in clutch time. The Dream have State Farm Arena, which proved to be a phenomenal home...

Friday, October 30, 2026
Starr’s Mill Football Rallies Around a 6-Year-Old Fighting Brain Cancer

By: Micahya Costen “With this win, I think that Aubrey’s going to get a bunch of boostful motivation. First win of the season, and it’s a blowout.” That’s what middle schooler Jake Kluemper told...

The 2026-27 women’s college basketball season is about to begin, and these are the five most-intriguing freshmen

Next week, 24 five-star prospects will make their women’s college basketball debuts, beginning their heralded freshman seasons for teams with ambitions of contending for the 2027 national title....

WNBA Finals photo essay: How Atlanta and the Dream came alive on Thursday afternoon for a celebratory Game 6 win

As Angel Reese declared after the Atlanta Dream’s Game 6 victory in the 2026 WNBA Finals, “We ain’t have everybody come out at 12:30 for no reason.” Atlanta, however, was ready to come out and...

Thursday, October 29, 2026
Valkyries Rally Comes Up Short as Dream Force Game 7

The Golden State Valkyries spent the second half of Game 6 chipping away at a 25-point deficit, but the Atlanta Dream held on for an 80-69 victory Thursday afternoon at State Farm Arena, evening...

The Atlanta Dream forced the first Game 7 in WNBA Finals history by dominating the Golden State Valkyries in Game 6

You can’t fake desperate. With their season on the line, the Atlanta Dream took on the Golden State Valkyries in their Thursday matinee and said, “Not today!,” to an end to their season, beating...

Ohemaa Nyanin and the Valkyries Prove Everyone Wrong

A few days into training camp this spring, Gabby Williams approached Ohemaa Nyanin in the player hallway and, as Nyanin recalls, looked as if “something was actually wrong.” The Valkyries’ general...

Who’s the real MVP? Ranking the WNBA Finals MVP candidates from the Golden State Valkyries and Atlanta Dream ahead of Game 6

I believe the regular-season MVP award should go to the best individual player, regardless of wins and losses.  However, when it comes to Finals MVP, I believe only the games a player’s team wins...

WNBA Finals Game 6 discussion: To achieve her championship ambition, can DeWanna Bonner help the Atlanta Dream stay alive against the Golden State Valkyries?

Yesterday, Beckett Harrison considered how the early start time of Game 6 of the 2026 WNBA Finals, which will tip off at 12:30 p.m. ET in State Farm Arena in Atlanta, could impact players (USA...

Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Yes, Game 6 of the WNBA Finals is starting early. So, what should we expect from the Golden State Valkyries and Atlanta Dream?

Much has already been made of the fact that Game 6 of the 2026 WNBA Finals, a potential championship-clinching game if the Golden State Valkyries, up 3-2 on the Atlanta Dream, were to win, will...

Why Houston Comets, Portland Fire and Washington Mystics fans should be encouraged by early EuroLeague Women action

Women’s pro basketball never stops. Stateside, most fans’ attention, understandably, is on the WNBA Finals. But for WNBA fans of eliminated teams, or those that didn’t even make the postseason,...

Tuesday, October 27, 2026
After a significant front office shake up, what’s next for the Indiana Fever? And what will franchise’s decisions reveal about the team’s future?

When reviewing the Indiana Fever’s 2026 WNBA season, Edwin Garcia wrote, “When win-now teams lose, change is next.” The change is underway in Indy. Last Friday, the organization announced that...

With a defensive masterclass, the Golden State Valkyries controlled Game 5 of the WNBA Finals, earning a 3-2 series over the Atlanta Dream

The Golden State Valkyries took care of business in Game 5 of the 2026 WNBA Finals, winning 64-55 over the Atlanta Dream to take a 3-2 series lead. Golden State is now just one win away from a...

Monday, October 26, 2026
Valkyries Move One Win From a Title, Beating the Dream in Game 5

Golden State is one win away from a WNBA championship. The Valkyries pulled away from Atlanta in the second half Tuesday to take a 3-2 lead in the 2026 Finals, leaning on the defense that has...

Global Cultural Icon JAŸ-Z to Perform at Apple Music Super Bowl LXI Halftime Show

Today, Apple Music, the NFL and Roc Nation announced that JAŸ-Z will perform at the Apple Music Super Bowl LXI Halftime Show at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, Calif. on Sunday, February 14, 2027,...

Dream and Valkyries tied 2-2 as turnovers and bench play loom large in WNBA Finals Game 5

The Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries are tied 2-2 in the WNBA Finals, and Game 5 tips tonight at Chase Center (5 p.m. PT, 8 p.m. EDT, USA and Peacock). The winner will be one win from a...

WNBA Finals Game 5 discussion: Can the Atlanta Dream unlock Angel Reese, or will the Golden State Valkyries keep her locked down?

As goes Angel Reese, so goes the Atlanta Dream. The Dream’s late-season rise corresponded with Angel’s individual ascendance. In the postseason, and especially the 2026 WNBA Finals, the...

Ahead of Game 5 of the WNBA Finals, do the Golden State Valkyries or Atlanta Dream have the advantage?

While the 2026 WNBA Finals are tied 2-2, nothing is ever evenly balanced. A pivotal Game 5 awaits. The team that wins two games will be crowned champion. The question is: Which team has the edge...

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