More NBA and NHL futures, plus an F1 winner and another attempt to break our MLB losing streak.
Who Core Score Says Can Win the NBA Finals
Whose best players are good enough?
Today’s Best Bets: More Liberatore, and Our Annual NHL and NBA Playoff Futures
A big day for The Barking Crow and the city of St. Louis.
3 Things: Vampire Corbin, Lee Corso Retires, R.I.P. Mad Ants
The three biggest stories in sports.
3 Thoughts: Are College Sports Illegal?
Sometimes, the law is inconvenient. Also: NHL ticket sales, and the Rockies are looking like this year’s White Sox.
3 Things: Which NBA Gimmick Tournament Best Pays Tribute to the NIT?
Also: Has the NFL cured CTE yet? And yes, very lame of Colorado to retire Shedeur Sanders’s jersey.
3 Thoughts: The NBA Regular Season Has Issues, and That’s Ok
It might not be good, but it makes the playoffs better. Also: Setting an over/under on when the Bulls will win the East, and Braden Smith’s return shouldn’t have surprised anyone.
Free Hoops, Episode 12: Steve Helwick on NIT Alumni in the NBA Postseason
We draft two starting 5’s built exclusively of NIT alums.
All the NIT Alumni in the 2025 NBA Postseason
From Stephen Curry to Jack McVeigh.
3 Thoughts: Paige Bueckers Is the Salary Cap’s Latest Victim
Salary caps are bad, and the WNBA’s is no different. Then: A little more torpedo bat, and a little Justin Steele talk.
3 Thoughts: JT Toppin’s Staying, Texas Tech’s Rising
Is NIL keeping players out of the draft? Is Texas Tech taking over the Big 12? And some numbers on Lennie Acuff, Samford’s new head coach.
3 Thoughts: In Firing Michael Malone, the Nuggets Are Trying to Win a Championship
Also: The size of college basketball’s NIL gap, and thoughts of the Bucky McMillan hire at Texas A&M.
3 Things: Panama City Airport, the NIT, and America
The big three.
3 Thoughts: The Rockets Saved the Coogs, SEC Greatness, and Torpedo Bat Inefficiencies
Houston’s lucky to have Kelvin Sampson. Really lucky.
Good for Hockey
Team USA lost. Hockey won.
What’s Going to Happen in 2025
Georgia will win the national championship. Oregon will win the national championship. Oregon State will win the national championship. That’s three of them, right there.
College Football Vibe Check: Is Dabo Swinney Dumb?
It would make a lot of things add up, even if we shouldn’t let Dabo be the one doing the adding.
Off the Lake: Derrick Rose Persevered
Rose grew from the concrete, then grew back again. Also: The White Sox now fight history, two possible Cubs issues, and the Bears see what a good organization looks like.