College ballers still have buckets to sink before Blitzen’s visit. No rest for the naughty or the nice on this week’s courts.

The broadcast company — famed for organizing America’s national spelling bee competition — launched Scripps Sports on Thursday to compete regional and national sports packages.

To cap off their one-loss season, the Longhorns brought brooms to Omaha, NE, Saturday night, bagging their third-ever natty (and first since 2012) by sweeping fellow No. 1 seed Louisville Cardinals 25–22, 25–14, 26–24 in front of a sold-out crowd.

Per a Friday report, prospective owners from Boston, Tampa and San Francisco are finalists to land the league’s 14th franchise and are willing to pay up. The highest opening bid is “well over” $40 million, outpacing the $2 to $5 million the NWSL’s last expansion teams paid in 2020.

This weekend was one for upsets, with five Top 25 men’s teams falling to lower-ranked or unranked opponents on Saturday, and one on Sunday.

The legendary Lionel Messi and No. 3 Argentina are your 2022 FIFA men’s World Cup champions after taking down Golden Boot winner Kylian Mbappé and No. 4 France yesterday in perhaps the greatest sporting event ever.

Mercury’s not in retrograde just yet, which means this weekend of absolutely weird football is truly inexplicable.

The NWSL and its Players Association (NWSLPA) published findings from its joint investigation on Wednesday, sharing that over half of the league’s 12 teams were negligent with respect to widespread misconduct and outlining the league’s necessary areas of improvement.

The PHF announced plans to double its salary cap for the 2023–24 season on Wednesday, and didn’t stop there, announcing a splashy All-Star weekend yesterday — two major steps towards luring top talent from the PWHPA and solidifying itself as a power player in the budding women’s hockey space.

With just four weeks left in the regular season, the pressure to make the playoffs is on, and a few teams could lock it up this weekend. Paging Jim Mora.

Despite the Toreros’ impressive first-set win, Texas quickly rallied to take the next three, booking their ninth program ticket to the national final.