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Predicting the 12-Team College Football Playoff Bracket: New-Format Projections for 2025
College Football did the right thing and improved the playoff seeding for 2025. The top four overall teams will get the byes this year, which means teams like Arizona State won’t be rewarded...
Mike Marteny
College Football Power Rankings: Post-Spring Top 25 Teams for 2025
College football rosters are about as finalized as they can be in this day and age. We are only a little over three months from the beginning of the college football season. While some battles wil...
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Top 10 Major League Baseball Hall of Fame Snubs - 2025 Edition
With this week’s news that Pete Rose and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson are no longer banned from baseball, we have a couple of players who could (should?) be in the Hall. Now that no pl...
Mike Marteny
Every Perfect Game In MLB History: The Complete List
Perfection. We all strive to achieve it, but most never do. The same is true of baseball players. In 154+ years of Major League Baseball, only 24 pitchers have pitched a perfect game. The definiti...
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Top 10 Greatest Miami Hurricanes Football Players Of All Time
If you think this list is going to be easier since Miami has only played 99 college football seasons, you’re sorely mistaken. Miami has only been a national power since hiring Howard Schnell...
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College Football Programs Ranked By Most Wins Since 2015: Top 10 Teams of the Last 10 Years
Which college football teams have the most wins over the last 10 years? There are some usual suspects on this list, such as Alabama and Georgia, but also some surprises. First, we must set some cr...
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Surprising MLB Stat Leaders: These 12 Names Will Shock You!
Aaron Judge was finally dethroned by Trout (who also has more homers than Judge, by the way) on April 19. Trout’s solo shot off of Landen Roupp in the fourth inning travelled a season-long 4...
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Top 10 Greatest Oklahoma Football Players Of All Time
When I was first approached about this piece, I knew it would be tough narrowing a list down to 10 for any school, let alone one that had played football for 130 years. The university was playing ...
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12 MLB Stat Leaders That Might Surprise You as of April 21, 2025
Admittedly, this one is not much of a surprise. Still, long home runs fascinate the fans, and it is worth mentioning how far some of these guys can hit a baseball. We’re nowhere close to Mic...
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12 MLB Stat Leaders That Might Surprise You as of April 14th 2025
This Titanic blast came off of former Yankee Nestor Cortes in his return to Yankee Stadium on March 29. Judge hit three home runs in that game. The average distance of Judge’s six home runs ...
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2024-25 College Basketball Final Power Rankings
The Razorbacks prevented all eight of the top teams from reaching the Sweet 16 by knocking out St. John’s. This team peaked at the right time. A Sweet 16 finish is better than most could hav...
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CBB DFS: NCAA National Championship DraftKings Daily Fantasy College Basketball Picks - Today's Top Lineups (4/7/25)
It has been a wild few months on the college basketball scene and hopefully, I've helped you come out of this DFS adventure ahead of where you came into it. It was a fun ride that comes down to an intriguing matchup that most never really planned on. It was supposed to be Duke and […]
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CBB DFS: Crown Tournament DraftKings Daily Fantasy College Basketball Picks - Today's Top Lineups (4/5/25)
I wish DraftKings would have just made this an all-day affair by adding the NCAA Tournament Final Four in with the semifinals of the Crown Tournament. We have four solid teams in this field. Three of them were in serious discussion for an NCAA Tournament bid. As with the NCAA Tournament games later in the […]
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CBB DFS: Final Four DraftKings Daily Fantasy College Basketball Picks - Today's Top Lineups (4/5/25)
The Final Four gets underway in San Antonio with the most loaded four teams we've ever seen in the final weekend of the NCAA Tournament taking the court today. All four teams are top-10 in single-season KenPom ratings, which have been around for 30 years. We are past the point of "good matchups." They simply […]
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These MLB Stat Leaders Might Surprise You: Will They Continue?
Much has been made about the “torpedo bats,” so it is a bit surprising to see Ryan Mountcastle leading the majors with a ball hit 116.7 mph. The bad news is that his launch angle is ju...
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CBB DFS: DraftKings Daily Fantasy College Basketball Picks - Today's Top Lineups (4/3/25)
We're back with the semifinals from the other side of the Crown Tournament bracket, but we also have the NIT Championship tonight between Chattanooga and UC Irvine. With three good matchups, we must pick the few spots that stand out. We had a good lineup last night with the Georgetown value and Boise State high-end […]
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2025 NCAA Tournament: One Sneaky X-Factor For Each Final Four Team
We all know about the stars that have led their teams to the Final Four. Johni Broome and Cooper Flagg are neck-and-neck for Player of the Year. Walter Clayton Jr.’s shooting at the end of t...
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CBB DFS: DraftKings Daily Fantasy College Basketball Picks - Today's Top Lineups (4/2/25)
The inaugural Crown Tournament has had a few clunkers in it, but how about the Butler-Utah and Georgetown-Washington State games? UCF and Oregon State were one of the better games I've watched in the last six weeks. There is excitement to be found in the desert while we wait patiently for the most loaded Final […]
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2025 NCAA Tournament Final Four Power Rankings
There weren’t any Cinderella stories in the NCAA Tournament this year. Arkansas was the only double-digit seed to make it out of the second round. All four top seeds made the Final Four for ...
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CBB DFS: DraftKings Daily Fantasy College Basketball Picks - Today's Top Lineups (4/1/25)
If you were wondering why the NIT does not have many high-major teams, I present to you the inaugural College Basketball Crown event from Vegas. Eight of the biggest NCAA Tournament snubs sacrificed another home game or two for a trip to Vegas and a chance at a massive NIL pool. I'm interested to see […]
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CBB DFS: DraftKings Daily Fantasy College Basketball Picks - Today's Top Lineups (3/31/25)
If you were wondering why the NIT does not have many high-major teams, I present to you the inaugural College Basketball Crown event from Vegas. Eight of the biggest NCAA Tournament snubs sacrificed another home game or two for a trip to Vegas and a chance at a massive NIL pool. I'm interested to see […]
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CBB DFS: DraftKings Daily Fantasy College Basketball Picks - Today's Top Lineups (3/30/25)
Half of the Final Four is set. The other half will be decided today. The matchups today are expected to be close. Yesterday, we had one good game and one clunker. If you followed the Vegas odds, that was slightly better than expected. We need to find some players who play big in big situations. […]
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2025 NCAA Tournament: Elite Eight Power Rankings
The Spartans aren’t supposed to be here. No team that was unranked in the preseason and had a top-eight overall NCAA Tournament seed has ever made the Final Four since the tournament expande...
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CBB DFS: DraftKings Daily Fantasy College Basketball Picks - Today's Top Lineups (3/29/25)
We are already down to the Elite Eight, the four regional finals that will produce our Final Four. There haven't been many surprises so far and even fewer buzzer-beaters, but we have had some fun basketball, nonetheless. Florida, Duke, Alabama, and Texas Tech have a seed total of seven. The only 2-seed that didn't make […]
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CBB DFS: DraftKings Daily Fantasy College Basketball Picks - Today's Top Lineups (3/28/25)
It's the twilight of the college basketball season. What the Sweet 16 lacks in mid-majors and double-digit seeds, it makes up for in great matchups. That's not always good for DFS, but we'll make it work. Last night was a decent night. We have a few better matchups tonight, but no one with the firepower […]
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2025 March Madness: One Fatal Flaw For Each Sweet Sixteen Team
16 teams remain in the hunt for the 2025 NCAA college basketball championship. We went through a regular season where there were two dominant teams for most of the season. One of them faltered and...
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CBB DFS: DraftKings Daily Fantasy College Basketball Picks - Today's Top Lineups (3/27/25)
It's the twilight of the college basketball season. What the Sweet 16 lacks in mid-majors and double-digit seeds, it makes up for in great matchups. That's not always good for DFS, but we'll make it work. We have a lot of data to sort through. It has helped in the first weekend and the NIT, […]
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College Basketball Power Rankings: NCAA Tournament 2025 Sweet Sixteen
Purdue came into the NCAA Tournament losers of seven of the last nine games. They had the easiest road to the Sweet Sixteen with wins over High Point and McNeese. I want to see how they do against...
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CBB DFS: DraftKings Daily Fantasy College Basketball Picks - Today's Top Lineups (3/23/25)
We have eight members of the Sweet Sixteen. The other eight will be crowned today. The DFS tournaments will get smaller after today, but the competition will be stiffer. That can make it harder to unlock value. We need to find some players who play big in big situations. Previous NCAA Tournament experience can come […]
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CBB DFS: DraftKings Daily Fantasy College Basketball Picks - Today's Top Lineups (3/22/25)
The field just went from 64 to 32 in the span of 48 hours. I've watched all 32 games and I'm ready to get on with the next round of DFS. All 16 of the top seeds advanced in the first round. That was the first time since 2017 that has happened. We had a […]
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