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Three-seed Seattle hosts six-seed Los Angeles at 4:40 p.m. ET on Saturday, Jan. 9. The game will be broadcast on Fox, and it’ll be the rubber match after the Rams won the first meeting of the season only for Seattle to bounce back and win part two. The narrative leading up to the game will surround L.A. quarterback Jared Goff’s right thumb. He broke it in Week 16 against the Seahawks and missed Week 17, forcing former CFL player John Wolford to start in his place....

Houston (10-5) has already clinched the AFC South, but it sits just one game back of Kansas City for the 3-seed in the AFC playoff picture. Meanwhile, Tennessee (8-7) currently holds the final wild-card spot in the AFC by virtue of a tiebreaker with Pittsburgh. A win on Saturday would punch the Titans’ ticket to the postseason. MORE: Watch Titans vs. Texans live with fuboTV (7-day free trial) Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson has been listed as questionable for Sunday’s matchup with a back injury....

Volkanovski, who won his featherweight title in December of 2019 against Max Holloway, is making his second title defense against Ortega, who is the third-ranked fighter in the division according to UFC.com. Ortega was previously named the 2017 Breakthrough Fighter of the Year at the World MMA Awards and won his most recent fight against Chan Sung Jang by unanimous decision in Oct. 2020. The two fighters will headline a main card that features women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko vs....

The superstar slugger sits at 60 home runs, just one off Roger Maris’ American League record and the Yankees franchise record as well. On top of that, Judge is also in the mix for the Triple Crown in the AL, which means every at-bat counts as he tries to fend off the Twins’ Luis Arraez and the Red Sox’s Xander Bogaerts in the batting race. The Red Sox are hurtling toward an offseason with more questions than answers....

Wenger announced on Friday that he was to end his 22 year stay at Arsenal following years of protests calling for the Frenchman to resign from his role. More recently the club’s Emirates Stadium has seen attendances dwindle due to supporters keeping away to highlight their discontent with Arsenal’s inconsistency and inability to challenge for a major trophy. When asked whether he was relieved to be leaving behind his busy schedule, he responded:...

At the time, the athlete shared his concerns about Saudi Arabia’s history with human rights and said he overlooked the alleged issues to reshape the operations of the PGA tour: The golfer went on to say that Saudi Arabia’s financial aid had given players the “leverage” to bring significant changes to the PGA tour: Following the publication of the interview, Phil Mickelson faced severe criticism from fans as well as contemporaries like Rory McIlroy and Billy Horschel....

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The night begins with a showdown between the Warriors and Nets at 7:30 p.m. ET and ends with a battle between the 76ers and Jazz at 10:00 p.m. Both the 76ers and Jazz got off to hot starts this season. Despite not having Ben Simmons in the lineup, the 76ers won eight of their first 10 games on the strength of the league’s No. 1 ranked offense. Unfortunately for them, they’ve seen several key players enter the league’s health and safety protocols recently, most notably four-time All-Star Joel Embiid, and have lost four straight....

Doc Rivers’ side currently sit atop the East with the 4th best defense in the league and will have to keep at bay the 2nd best offense, though without its key weapon - Kevin Durant. The superstar was pulled from the Brooklyn Nets’ Friday night loss against Toronto due to health and safety protocols after recording a scoreline of 8-6-5 in 19 minutes. Durant’s absence will be a huge blow for the Brooklyn Nets on both ends of the court as coach Nash continues to deal with his side’s current defensive woes....

On one hand you have undefeated, 30-0 Gonzaga. The Bulldogs are the 2021 NCAA Tournament’s top overall seed and aiming to become the first unbeaten team since Indiana in 1975-76. That said, they’ve never won an NCAA Tournament and have only one previous Final Four to their name, and that in 2017. On the other hand you have First Four team UCLA, which has enjoyed more Final Four success than any team in college basketball yet finds itself an overwhelming underdog to Gonzaga as the 11 seed out of the East Region....

The Timberwolves stunned the No. 2 seed Grizzlies behind a breakout 36-point playoff debut from Anthony Edwards, but Memphis responded with a blowout 28-point victory in Game 2. Star guard Ja Morant called his shot on Instagram before the game, posting this viral video of Michael Jordan during “The Last Dance” documentary: He backed it up by going for a near-triple-double of 23 points, 10 assists and nine rebounds, while six other Grizzlies joined him in scoring double figures....

Last year, the Rattlers finished the year 9-3, 7-1 in the Southwestern Athletic Conference. Their one loss, of course, came in that game against the Tigers, so they’ll look to avenge it. FAMU, however, started the season embroiled in controversy. It looked as if it wouldn’t be able to field a team against North Carolina in Week 0 because 20 players were academically ineligible. The team is now at odds with the university, which it says doesn’t provide proper support....

Of the 259 NBA playoff series in which a team has held a 3-1 lead, the team with the advantage has emerged victorious 246 times. Underdogs like the 2016 Cavaliers and 2020 Nuggets stick out in recent history because they overcame the odds, but the fact is 3-1 usually means it’s time to start packing bags. MORE: Watch the NBA Finals live with fuboTV (7-day free trial) If Miami wants to avoid that deficit, it will need another outstanding performance from Jimmy Butler, who went off for 40 points, 13 assists, 11 rebounds, two steals and two blocks in a Game 3 win....

As for Sunday’s Gander RV 400 at Pocono Raceway, the Cup Series’ second of two visits to the “Tricky Triangle” this season, the channel that will broadcast the race is NBCSN. The start time for the race at Pocono is 3 p.m. ET. The 3 p.m. ET start time is the fifth such start time this season (Texas, Sonoma, Chicagoland and New Hampshire were the others). As for the TV channel, the NASCAR Cup Series this weekend is on NBCSN for the fourth time this year....

For Oklahoma, much like last year, the game presents more than a rivalry matchup – It’s the embodiment of a trap game. Nebraska is beginning life without Scott Frost after firing him this week, with Mickey Joseph taking over. In that regard, the teams are on familiar ground. The Sooners are in the debut season of former Clemson defensive coordinator Brent Venables, and it’s going swimmingly thus far. Oklahoma won its first two games by a combined score of 78-16, but with those games coming against UTEP and Kent State, it’s fair to say Nebraska will be its first test of the year....

No. 10 Oregon (5-1) will play host to No. 10 UCLA (6-0) in Eugene, Ore., this Saturday — the lone meeting of top-10 teams for the week. The outcome of the game will leave only one team undefeated in Pac-12 play and impact whether the conference can make the College Football Playoff for only the third time; remember, the conference did away with divisions this year. As of now, the best hopes for the conference lie with UCLA, the lone undefeated team left in the Pac-12, and USC, which is 6-1 on the season....

Tom Brady and his Buccaneers host Drew Brees and the Saints on Sunday night in Tampa at Raymond James Stadium. The Bucs, at 6-2, hold a small edge in the NFC South standings over the Saints, who are 5-2. New Orleans won a matchup between these opponents in Week 1, but the Buccaneers have a chance to take a huge hold on the division with a win Sunday on NBC....

MORE: Complete NFL TV coverage map for Week 18 But that’s where the teams stand heading into the final week of the regular season. Seattle needs a win to keep its fading playoff hopes alive, while Los Angeles is playing for little more than pride as the reigning Super Bowl champion ends a miserable campaign. With a victory on Sunday — and a Lions win (or tie) against the Packers — the Seahawks (8-8) will clinch a playoff spot that looked highly improbable following the departure of Russell Wilson over the offseason....