Thanksgiving Week has blessed us with rivalry games — old and renewed — featuring endless conference tiebreaker and College Football Playoff scenarios, including Michigan at Ohio State, a top-15 Palmetto Bowl and the return of Texas versus Texas A&M. Let’s rank the top 10 games of Week 14, starting with honorable mentions and counting down.…

Inside the mind of Erling Haaland there is a searing, scorching, unplayable nothing. This may not sound like much of a compliment, not when we are considering the most prolific striker of his generation — a man who has taken a flamethrower to the history books — but it is precisely this destructive blankness that…

FIFA, the world governing body for football, released on Friday night its evaluation report for Saudi Arabia’s bid to host the men’s World Cup in 2034, awarding the nation a higher score for bidding requirements than it granted the successful Canadian, American and Mexican joint bid for the 2026 edition, while declaring the risk assessment…

Here we go again. For the fifth time since firing Lovie Smith after the 2012 season, the Chicago Bears are searching for a new head coach. The team fired Matt Eberflus on Friday and named offensive coordinator Thomas Brown the interim head coach. General manager Ryan Poles is expected to run the search for a…

Iga Swiatek’s one-month suspension for unintentionally taking the banned substance trimetazidine (TMZ) comes down to picograms. World No. 2 Swiatek’s positive test, recorded August 12 and communicated to her alongside a provisional suspension September 12, detected 50 picograms of TMZ per milliliter of urine, which doping experts call a trace amount. A picogram is 1,000th…

Monday marked a massive step for American motorsports. But can it be converted to a victory? Formula One announced that it came to “an agreement in principle with General Motors,” the well-known American manufacturer, to join the grid in 2026. It’ll be the first time more than 10 teams have been on the grid since…

By Dianna Russini, Jeff Howe, Adam Jahns and Kevin Fishbain The Chicago Bears fired Matt Eberflus on Friday, making an in-season coaching change for the first time in franchise history less than 24 hours after a three-point loss to the Detroit Lions in which Eberflus was widely criticized for his clock management. The loss dropped…

The most important day in the American calendar is finally here: Black Friday. It’s a day to celebrate consumerism in all its glory with epic deals on TVs, toasters and coffee makers. At Power Rankings HQ, we wanted to join in on the festivities of this very important holiday. We scoured the books for this…

December is almost upon us. The final month on the calendar is the most transactional time of the baseball year. In nine days, the industry will gather in Dallas for the Winter Meetings. The biggest questions of the offseason — Where will Juan Soto go? Which pitcher will get paid the most? Seriously, who is…

You’d be surprised how many people play “Fantasy On-Air Staffing” in the sports media business. I know of one prominent ESPN-er who for fun would staff the company’s on-air talent if ESPN ever acquired the Olympic Games. (Since he’s already called Olympic basketball many times, put me down for Mike Breen broadcasting Olympic track as…