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Kudos to Payton, Keep Coming! QUACK! Payton Pritchard steps up for Celtics in Game 3 win vs. Knicks, and it goes far beyond his 3-point shooting - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM The Sixth Man of the Year came up big at MSG

Gimme the Top 5 B1G Coaches. 2nd place Danno has Day in his sights 😉 BIG Ten Football: Ranking the top 5 coaches in the conference heading into the 2025 season SATURDAYBLITZ.COM The Big Ten has won back-to-back National Titles, with long-time rivals Michigan and Ohio State also winning titles. Along with the SEC, the Big Ten is consider

The author of this article argues that both UCLA and OBD were hosed.

Softball Ws and Ls. NCAA softball tournament winners, losers, snubs from 2025 selection show WWW.USATODAY.COM The 64-team field was set for the 2025 NCAA softball tournament. Here's a look at the winners, losers and snubs from Sunday's selection show:

Thank You, NJ! I note that OBD is not leading the recruiting rankings for the 2026 class. This ranking matters on signing day in December, period. Today, OBD is No.4 in the average ranking of 2026 recruits 'committed' to Dan and the program. With the transfer portal available for plugging holes on a contender's roster, a cumulative ranking, like this one from ESPN, matters today, not just in December. Follow the $$$ - 12 SEC teams and 7 B1G Teams are in ESPN's top 25. 7 of last season's 12 PO teams, including Boise State, will have a new starter at QB in 2025.

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Break out the brooms, but watch out for dog litter 💩!

Mahki and World Make the List of SI's 2025 Top 20 Impact Players. College Football’s Top 20 Impact Players for the 2025 Season WWW.SI.COM This group can elevate their teams in ways that don’t show up on a box score and will be must-watch this fall. Where da Pac-7 Players at? 🧐

Here's Some Hyperbolic Nonsense from a school that has done Jack since joining the B1G. Big Ten and SEC power grab could destroy the college football playoffs forever HUSKERCORNER.COM Nebraska fans could gain College Football Playoff access, but at what cost to the sport? Nothing concrete to back up any of this angst. The 3rd-place finisher in the ACC and B12, and the G6 'champ', will not have a 1st-round bye, and will not win the four games needed to win a CFB PO. The author doesn't realize the Cornhuskers best shot at the PO is likely qualifying as the 4th place team in the B1G. Fortunately, Petitti and Sankey are business people and not husked up dopes. 🤓

Hats Off to Fergie for Honoring Spencer Webb! Terrance Ferguson honors Oregon Football's Spencer Webb with LA Rams jersey number DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Former Oregon Ducks star Terrance Ferguson honors his fallen friend Spencer Webb with his Los Angeles Rams jersey number.

How 'Bout Them Diamond Ducks! Best record since 2013! Oregon baseball wins sixth straight game and takes the series with the Huskies DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM The Ducks takes the series over Washington with a 6-4 win and claims its best record through 50 games since 2013. Hopefully, the B1G trip to Omaha will preview a bigger Omaha trip to come.

Cannon Ball! WATCH: Dan Lanning celebrates commitment of 5-star EDGE Richard Wesley with pool jump DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM After the commitment of 5-star EDGE Richard Wesley, Oregon Ducks head coach Dan Lanning jumped in a pool to celebrate with the elite pass-rusher. Just the start of a pool of great recruits taking a plunge with the Ducks! 😁

WELCOME ABOARD! Oregon secures commitment from five-star EDGE Richard Wesley

Give Me 5* Richard Wesley! BREAKING: Oregon Football lands commitment from 5-star EDGE Richard Wesley SPORTS.YAHOO.COM The Oregon Ducks landed a commitment from 5-star EDGE Richard Wesley on Saturday, one of the top players in the 2026 recruiting class.

Is there a QB in the room? Apparently, not at OBD opponent, Oklahoma State. You do not want to be No. 1 on this list. Ranking the 10 bleakest QB situations among Power Four conferences entering the 2025 college football season - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM These programs are lacking at quarterback as training camp approaches

Pete Thamel: The Sweet 16 is not a done deal. Pete Thamel casts doubt on College Football Playoff expanding past 16 teams WWW.ON3.COM . Pete often hits the CFB mark.

Terrific comments that all lean in favor of the regular season meaning more, which makes sense. The problem? Since the 1980s, it's all been about Dollar$ and Cent$. If the House settlement is approved, programs will have to come up with $20.5 million in direct payments to athletes. (But they're still not employees, right?) This comes at a time when the majority of athletic departments are in the deep red. Oregon being in the black is a testament to Rob Mullens. I've dumped on his scheduling from time to time, but Rob is doing the job that counts, and Oregon is counting the money. State laws regarding athletes being paid directly and via NIL are all over the place. The latest ploy is to exempt compensation paid to athletes from state taxation. Give It Up for U and State! College sports need NFL-like protection from Congress. Is this attainable without turning college football into NFL-Lite? I hope so.

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30, I'm in complete agreement. But ESPN and Fox will not pay the same money without a football and men's basketball conference championship game, and basketball games. Flex-scheduling in the final football regular season will shorten the season by a week and bring in more money than is being paid for football championship games. The B1G and SEC proposal to expand the field and have four teams each in the field also includes the B1G and the SEC telling the PO Committee which four teams are in. In 2024, 9-0 Oregon would have played Minnesota in Autzen. If the Gophers pulled off a huge upset, Oregon, Indiana, and Penn State would be the PO representatives, with the Gophers knocking out the 4th-place Buckeyes. With three at-large spots in a 16-team field, Ohio State would have received an at-large bid. Do I like the regular season, not counting for PO and bowl seeding? No. But then again, with so much difference in the strength of conference football schedules, a final regular season flex-scheduled PO does not bother me as much as single elimination postseason conference champions, where 12-seed Purdue can host the tournament. In football, in most, if not all seasons, I like the Ducks finishing in the top 4, playing another home game, and the money for OBD and Lane County that comes with a home game.

Is the B1G Baseball Tourney a single-loss and your out format like the Softball Tournament? If this is the case, why bother? Why risk regular-season success and possibly ding the NCAA tourney seeding? As I noted in the Softball post, Fox and Friends would not have offered less money if Softball and Baseball did not have a conference postseason tournament.

A single loss and you're out when you can run into a hot pitcher? Why bother? Perhaps an NCAA tournament outlier sneaks in, but at the cost of dinging the regular season's champ seeding? I don't believe the conference media deal would be a cent less if this tourney were not played. I hope the conference covered the cost of getting to and from Purdue.

More Fodder for Four Being the B1G/SEC PO Floor. It's Easy as ACC. The stat that shows just how horrendous the ACC has been in the 2020s - Saturday Down South WWW.SATURDAYDOWNSOUTH.COM The ACC has endured a historically dreadful start to the 2020s decade, but can that turn around in the latter half?

Holy Heisman! Mahki, not Dante, Kenyon, or a WR? Top Heisman contender for every team in CBS Sports post-spring top 25 ahead of 2025 college football season - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM With the top 10 2024 Heisman vote-getters off the the NFL, the door is wide open for a new crop of stars in college football

Ready for 4-4-2-2-1-3? This is what the College Football (CFB) Playoff (PO) format could be beginning in 2026-27. A field with 4 B1G, 4 SEC, 2 ACC, 2 B12, 1 G6, and three, not one, at-large teams, with one of the three most likely to be Notre Dame year after year. As noted in the attached article, the Power 2 are driving the PO bus. Three at-large teams seem to me to be a bone being thrown to the ACC, B12, and the G6. In theory, the Lesser 2 and the G6 would have a shot at placing another team or two in the PO field. In reality, and looking back at the final rankings before seeding the BCS, 4-team, and 12-team PO, the B1G or the SEC are more likely to take the additional spots. It also appears that play-in games could replace a two-team conference championship game. As to a 16-team playoff field destroying the regular season and the playoffs? We heard the same warning before the BCS and the PO field expanded. In 2024, CFB attendance and viewership both increased. If the field expands to 16 teams, what has to happen is for the regular season to end at least two weeks earlier than it does today, so Ohio State vs. Notre Dame, for example, is not competing against NFL postseason games late into January, and drawing fewer than the expected number of viewers. Dropping conference-champ games in favor of a flex-scheduled last regular-season game week is a step in the right direction. SEC, Big Ten reportedly in favor of another major change to College Football Playoff WWW.YARDBARKER.COM The Big Ten and SEC want more pieces of the pie. I do not see this proposal equating to the B1G and the SEC wanting more pieces of the pie, but as noted above, a move toward 'fairness' by giving schools outside of the Power 2, two (in theory three) more chances to make the PO. I see the proposed change to the format as allowing the ACC and B12 commissioners to save face, and to quell the bogus 'Little Guy' objections.