At the risk of being an old man yelling at a cloud 3-on-3 for the gold medal is bruuuuuuuuuuuutal.

I, like everyone else, finding out the Olympics use 3-on-3 overtime and am appalled. Why are we using the gimmick intended to end games faster when the stakes are this high! Play actual hockey!

Back on some AP work today covering No. 5 Vanderbilt women’s basketball at Georgia. Interested to get a look at Mikayla Blakes and Aubrey Galvan in person. Noon tip.

The 800 (!!!) kids at this one suburban Atlanta high school have more about them than anyone in a Congressional position. www.gwinnettdailypost.com/local/archer...

I promise you do not have to watch the Super Bowl if the matchup is not interesting to you, the sun will come up and nobody is going to show up and ban you from sports fandom if you spend a Sunday watching a movie or something.

Here’s a 🧵 of info about how/where you can Help Minnesota right now. I’m going to slowly add more links, but here is a good one to start with a bunch of other links. standwithminnesota.com

I actually really respect the Bucks holding on to the bitter end with Giannis. Everyone thinks it's crazy they're not trading him when it's almost certainly over, but when you're a small market with someone like that you fight and claw to squeeze everything possible out of it.

It makes so much sense why the Phoenix Suns have punched so far above their talent weight by just being a really annoying, difficult team when you see a lineup with Dillon Brooks and Grayson Allen together lol.

It's an excellent day for Prince, Randy Moss highlights and hearty reminders of what has historically happened when fascists invade the coldest places in the world.

Late game halfcourt offense in Norman

Australian Open is unquestionably the best time of the year to be an insomniac sports fan. Olympics in Milan will be somewhat beneficial but not in the same way.

Love a good rubbernecking score. Who among us has not felt like the Nets a bit recently.

Guy tonight went right after the sports category first!

I don't know what the feasibility of it is but I think the overwhelming majority of people's gripes could be solved by reducing or banning the heavy deferred payments. The Dodgers spending isn't the problem, them having two billion dollars earmarked through the 2040s to boost the 2026 roster is.

"It’s hard to imagine a better future when so much effort is necessary just to keep things from getting worse..." whewwwwwwwwwwww right in the chest.

It is literally impossible to articulate or do proper justice to the notion of 16-0 National Champion Indiana Football. There is nothing to compare it to or contextualize it with. No hyperboles would be enough.

Highly distressing to learn there's a guy making big plays in the national title game who wasn't even born yet when App State beat Michigan.

Starting to feel a liiiiiitle 2007 Giants-Patriots in here, in the sense of a supposed monolith missing some chances to put away an underdog that's pretty muh built on incredible pass rushers.

Don't overthink this NFL GMs, just take Bain.

Left side of that Indiana offensive line finally got it going. Really impressive drive. Not overwhelming push but enough to get guys turned and make enough space.

A thought I've never had but am now curious about: Is there a CFP contingency for what happens if the NFL stadium they're using is hosting a playoff game the weekend before? What if the Dolphins had some crazy season and tore up this field yesterday?

A bunch of really interesting teams and storylines have faded into....the most milquetoast final four imaginable, as was feared.

MORMONS: look its very clear that God and his established authority on the earth, do not have the power to actually influence sporting events. Thats why BYU doesn't win anything important. That would be way too hard POPE (roller skating backwards while eating a hot dog) not that hard

POPE FROM CHICAGO

It's gonna be 2093, we're gonna have flying cars that fold into briefcases and vertical cities like The Jetsons. Football teams will be averaging 78 points game as offense is completely solved and teams will still be handing it off five yards behind the LOS on fourth-and-inches.

I promise you do not have to watch the Super Bowl if the matchup is not interesting to you, the sun will come up and nobody is going to show up and ban you from sports fandom if you spend a Sunday watching a movie or something.

Just getting out in front of it, do not look up the injury Janiah Barker just suffered and skip the replay if it hits your timeline.

Jarrett Stidham throwing his first pass in two years in the AFC Championship is like when the Braves called up Dylan Lee from A-ball for his first career start in the World Series, except the Broncos can't go to the bullpen after three minutes.

Last thought on the other game but I know there's a very large group of people in western NY/Ontario who identify as Bills, Blue Jays and Maple Leafs fans and if you are in that group, I think you are well within your rights to simply quit sports and find other hobbies! You can do something else!

On one hand everything is terrifying and the world is burning, on the other hand there was no line at the Publix deli counter and I got a sub in like five minutes, so who's really to say how things are going.

The worst part of all of this is *gestures broadly at the evil* but the most disheartening part is the general nonchalance and belief from people in positions of power that there’s a solution in a 5th grade Social Studies book.

Not sure if I was more impressed by Madina Okot hitting a three or playing an entire defensive possession while holding her shoe.

I seriously wonder if we ever see pro sports a coach hit 19 years again. The only active coaches across NFL, MLB, NHL, PWHL, NBA and WNBA even over 13 years now are Erik Spoelstra (currently year 18) and Cheryl Reeve (heading into year 17). When those two go, I think that's it.

My useless stat is this is only the fifth time in NFL history the four divisional round games are in four different time zones

All the people who spent all year begging or anything but the Chiefs or the Eagles might have monkey's paw'd a much worse outcome lol

Am I insane or did the Eagles just cost themselves a chance to get the ball back for no real reason?

"Two teams are playing football right now" thanks Tony Romo for this top tier analysis

Tonight I had the interesting experience of picking up a Bears fan from the airport. Their flight was delayed two hours so they missed most of the game. Got in my car at 27-16 with six mins. left, so I listened to the rest of the game through various screams, yelps, and deep breaths. 10/10 no notes.

Bears defense forced four (!) punts on its last 30 regular season possessions, we are about to find out how are pure dependence on turnovers and playing keep away can get a team.

If you view Matthew Stafford vs. Bryce Young as an extension of the Georgia-Alabama series, the double-digit blown lead in a postseason game was a mortal lock.

Feeling a Pats/Rams or Eagles/Broncos Super Bowl or something of that 2007 college football ilk (chaos season into a chalky title game) but would love to be wrong. Gimme the Jags/Bills winner going on a run, the Bears riding the Pope's magic, the Texans and that crazy D-line, something fun.

Lee Corso as Indiana's honorary captain for the national title game or what's the point of any of this

Watching Indiana football

Tre Roberson.

I honestly think Purdue fans are well within their rights to literally never watch sports again, completely reasonable to say you gave it a shot and it's simply not worth it anymore. No way back from this.

This is an excellent football game if you consume the sport just by staring at the offensive lines. Just a big 'ol bag of hammers for both teams up front.

Figured I should do my once-a-year self plug now that it's 2026: Hi, I'm Alan, a freelance writer. I covered South Carolina athletics (football, hoops, baseball, softball) for three years before getting laid off. Mostly cover high school sports with some spot work for the AP in Atlanta now. (1/2)

Lane could win three national titles at LSU and it will still be infinitely less interesting or memorable than the last three weeks of Ole Miss football. Sincere hat tip for one of the more fun rides in recent CFB. Trinidad Chambliss forever.

I don't really know how Ole Miss is supposed to win this game short of "Trinidad Chambliss becomes Patrick Mahomes in the second half" but that was also the Sugar Bowl script, so.

Ole Miss saw Miami Wile E. Coyote itself out of a possession with wildcat and said "gimme some of that!"