Ohio State, Virginia agree to nonconference game, increasing positive trend of high-profile February matchups

For decades, college basketball’s schedule in January and February was dotted with notable games between inter-conference opponents, adding flavor and competitive intrigue to the schedule before March’s postseason. Due to a confluence... Read more »

Maxx Crosby hopes Raiders can make worst-to-first leap like NBA champion Thunder; how far away are they?

For the last few years, the Las Vegas Raiders have not been a very good football team. They’ve won just 18 combined games over the last three seasons, the sixth-fewest in the... Read more »

UNC AD Bubba Cunningham to step down in 2026, move to advisory role; successor hired

Longtime North Carolina athletic director Bubba Cunningham will step down from his post in 2026 and transition into a newly created senior advisory role, the school announced. Cunningham, who led the Tar... Read more »

LeBron James responds to photo of him at Cavaliers’ practice facility: ‘Y’all bored, man!’

Amid uncertainty surrounding LeBron James’ future with the Los Angeles Lakers and analysts including Yahoo Sports’ Tom Haberstroh asserting that a return to the Eastern Conference might be in his best interests... Read more »

It makes sense for Lakers to trade LeBron James, but there’s one big reason why talks are dying on the vine

LeBron James becoming available has, typically, been a seismic NBA event. Teams famously spent the several years leading up to his 2010 free agency clearing cap space. Pretty much all league business... Read more »

Players Era Festival 2025 schedule: St. John’s, Houston, Auburn lead field battling for millions in NIL money

Matchups have been set for the most anticipated regular-season event of the 2025-26 college basketball season, sources told CBS Sports. The Las Vegas-based Players Era Festival will feature 18 teams, all playing... Read more »

NBA free agency, offseason winners and losers

The NBA offseason moved fast this year — so fast that it started before the NBA Finals were even over with the Kevin Durant trade. Then there were a series of trades... Read more »

2026 NBA Mock Draft: Cameron Boozer, Darryn Peterson, AJ Dybantsa headline full first-round projection

The 2025 NBA Draft class — led by top-three picks Cooper Flagg, Dylan Harper and VJ Edgecombe — was very good at the top, though its depth was kneecapped by NIL packages... Read more »

Drew Timme opens up on NBA experience ahead of Summer League with Nets: ‘I’m still trying to make it’

Drew Timme, who signed a multi-year deal with the Brooklyn Nets in March and had his contract option picked up at the end of June, will be joining the team’s Summer League... Read more »

Data shows staggering boom in June NIL deals as college sports enters historic revenue-sharing era

The revenue-share era is finally here as schools are legally able to pay their athletes directly beginning on July 1 on the heels of the landmark House v. NCAA settlement. A historic... Read more »