Month: November 2024

They’re not going to tell you things are off the rails. But you have eyes. You can see how wrong it’s gone for the New York Rangers. Eight days ago they were hitting the ice in Calgary, a 12-4-1 team that had gotten some incredible goaltending and timely scoring to get out to a fast […]

A report commissioned by FIFA has concluded football’s governing body “has a responsibility” to compensate workers who suffered during the hosting of the 2022 Qatar World Cup. The long-awaited report from FIFA’s sub-committee on human rights and social responsibility — finally published on Friday at midnight Central European Time — says the governing body “took […]

The home teams feasted on Thanksgiving while the Kansas City Chiefs spent Black Friday rebuffing another Las Vegas Raiders attempt at a road upset. So, as a result, the holidays leave Sunday’s schedule for Week 13 lighter than usual, but certainly not lacking. Our writers Mike Sando, Zak Keefer and Jeff Howe dish on Trevor […]

Thanksgiving Week has blessed us with rivalry games — old and renewed — featuring endless conference tiebreaker and College Football Playoff scenarios, including Michigan at Ohio State, a top-15 Palmetto Bowl and the return of Texas versus Texas A&M. Let’s rank the top 10 games of Week 14, starting with honorable mentions and counting down. […]

Inside the mind of Erling Haaland there is a searing, scorching, unplayable nothing. This may not sound like much of a compliment, not when we are considering the most prolific striker of his generation — a man who has taken a flamethrower to the history books — but it is precisely this destructive blankness that […]

FIFA, the world governing body for football, released on Friday night its evaluation report for Saudi Arabia’s bid to host the men’s World Cup in 2034, awarding the nation a higher score for bidding requirements than it granted the successful Canadian, American and Mexican joint bid for the 2026 edition, while declaring the risk assessment […]

Here we go again. For the fifth time since firing Lovie Smith after the 2012 season, the Chicago Bears are searching for a new head coach. The team fired Matt Eberflus on Friday and named offensive coordinator Thomas Brown the interim head coach. General manager Ryan Poles is expected to run the search for a […]

The most important day in the American calendar is finally here: Black Friday. It’s a day to celebrate consumerism in all its glory with epic deals on TVs, toasters and coffee makers. At Power Rankings HQ, we wanted to join in on the festivities of this very important holiday. We scoured the books for this […]

Iga Swiatek’s one-month suspension for unintentionally taking the banned substance trimetazidine (TMZ) comes down to picograms. World No. 2 Swiatek’s positive test, recorded August 12 and communicated to her alongside a provisional suspension September 12, detected 50 picograms of TMZ per milliliter of urine, which doping experts call a trace amount. A picogram is 1,000th […]