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September 03, 2025

Celebrating the holidays with a heaping helping of basketball and football

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Save one lockout-canceled holiday in 1998, the NBA’s top teams have met on December 25th each year since 1947, just one year after the Basketball Association of America (which later became the NBA) was formed.

December 24, 2025

NFL, Hallmark partnership illustrates potential scripted media opportunity in women’s sports

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This holiday season, the Buffalo Bills aren’t just playing NFL games — they’re the latest team featured in a holiday-themed Hallmark movie thanks to the channel’s NFL partnership.

December 23, 2025

Wasserman publishes latest report on private equity, asset appreciation in women’s sports

On Monday, Wasserman’s The Collective published the third part of its extensive research on the economy of women’s sports and the influence of women fans. In this edition, The Collective focused on the growth of the women’s sports ecosystem, studying macrotrends exemplified by increased private equity (PE) investment and infrastructure investment.

December 23, 2025

Four NFC teams punch postseason tickets in Week 16

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There’s just two weeks left in the regular season, and the NFL’s postseason picture is more chaotic than your last-minute trip to the mall. Forget sugarplums — visions of playoff spots are dancing in everyone’s heads.

December 22, 2025

Everything you need to know about the College Football Playoff quarter-finals

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Just like that, the College Football Playoff (CFP) quarter-finals (QFs) are set (and The GIST’s College Football Bracket Challenge is underway) after a thrilling weekend on the gridiron. And if you’re still looking for New Year’s plans, you’re in luck — there’ll be one QF game on New Year’s Eve and three more on New Year’s Day. Never too early to preview the action.

December 22, 2025

Previewing the first round of the 2025 College Football Playoff

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Tick tock — you have until 12 p.m. ET today to enter The GIST’s College Football Bracket Challenge, plenty of time to read this primer then make your picks. The top four College Football Playoff (CFP) seeds (No. 1 Indiana, No. 2 Ohio State, No. 3 Georgia, and No. 4 Texas Tech) received a bye to the quarter-finals, while the other eight squads will battle it out in first-round action beginning tonight. Hut hut, here we go.

December 19, 2025

What the LA Dodgers’ second straight World Series means for baseball

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What the LA Dodgers’ second straight World Series means for baseball

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November 03, 2025

It’s been two days since the LA Dodgers topped the Toronto Blue Jays 5–4 in a thrilling 11-inning Game 7, securing their second straight World Series pennant. And that means two things: Your blood pressure might finally be returning to normal, and it’s time to dissect what the Dodgers winning back-to-back titles means for baseball.

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The GIST of It Podcast

Ep #518

It’s time for a College Football Playoff primer

December 18, 2025

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It’s time for a College Football Playoff primer

It’s the most wonderful time of the year.

And not just because of the holidays. Between the final few weeks of a thrilling NFL season and the College Football Playoff, there’s no shortage of gridiron action to take in. That’s why on today’s episode of The GIST of It, co-hosts Ellen Hyslop and Steph Rotz are tossing the perfect spiral: a College Football Playoff special, breaking down the 12-team field and this weekend’s spiciest showdowns. Hut, hut, here we go.