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[unable to retrieve full-text content]NBA playoffs: Who’s had the most impressive start to the postseason? Most surprising?  Yahoo Sports Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Jimmy Butler, a de-factor disciple of Buzz Williams, continues to be the NBA’s best player in the postseason  Yahoo Sports Source link

Logan Wilson must have known the old “jump and stretch the ball over the goal line” play was coming. We’ve seen it countless times on quarterback sneaks, but rarely has it been defensed as well as Wilson did it on Sunday night. Wilson, a Cincinnati Bengals linebacker, reached up when Baltimore Ravens quarterback Tyler Huntley was about to cross the ball over the goal line in the fourth quarter of a tie AFC wild-card game. Wilson knocked the ball out, then defensive end Sam Hubbard took the… Source link

The NBA expanded its playoff play-in concept for this season following the popular and successful intro inside the bubble at Walt Disney World last summer. At least one player in the league, however, isn’t happy about it. “I don’t understand the idea of a play-in,” Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic said Monday night, . “You play 72 games to get into the playoffs, then maybe you lose two in a row and you’re out of the playoffs. So I don’t see the point of that.” Dallas tracking… Source link

The College Football Playoff begins on New Year’s Day with No. 1 Alabama taking on No. 4 Notre Dame in one semifinal (5 p.m. ET) and No. 2 Clemson facing No. 3 Ohio State in the other (8:30 p.m.). It is a familiar field — all four participants have previously made the 7-year-old playoff system. It’s the sixth appearance for Alabama and Clemson and the fourth for Ohio State. Of the 28 all-time playoff slots those three teams (plus Oklahoma) have taken up 20. (Notre Dame is making its… Source link

The Cleveland Browns are 8-3 heading into December, and it hasn’t been a big story this NFL season. Maybe it’s the constant headlines about COVID-19. The Browns won four games total between 2015-17. They haven’t won eight games in a season since 2007. The last time Cleveland was in the playoffs was 2002. That’s still the only playoff appearance since the franchise restarted in 1999. The Browns blew a big lead to the Pittsburgh Steelers and lost in their only playoff game that… Source link

Chicago White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu wins the American League MVP award. (Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty Images) José Abreu’s value to the Chicago White Sox has never been in question. The question has always been, how much more valuable could José Abreu be with a competitive supporting cast. We got the answer in 2020. The slugging first baseman was named the American League’s Most Valuable Player Thursday after helping lead Chicago to the postseason for the first time since 2008. He’s the… Source link