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Bob Costas believes there’s at least one change Major League Baseball players and owners should agree to in their upcoming labor negotiations, fewer regular season games. The current MLB collective bargaining agreement expires after the 2026 season, and according to most analysts, a lockout seems likely. While quarrels over a salary cap are destined to Read more... The post Bob Costas believes MLB should cut back to 156 games appeared first on Awful Announcing.

We have about two months until the field for the 2026 NCAA Hockey Tournament is unveiled, but the postseason picture is beginning to take shape. Most teams around the country have played at least 20 regular season games, which is around the time the postseason formula begins to be useful for ranking the teams. As of this morning, the NCAA Tournament picture looks like this, based on NPI and conference standings. Please note that projected conference tournament winners are in italics and are based on current in-conference point percentage: Locks (2): Michigan, Michigan StateSafe (7): North Dakota, Minnesota-Duluth, Western Michigan, Penn State, Wisconsin, Quinnipiac, DartmouthBubble In (5): Cornell, Denver, Providence, St. Thomas, Augustana, Boston CollegeAutomatic Qualifier(1): Bentley Bubble Out (5): Boston University, St. Cloud State, Michigan Tech, UConn, Harvard My projected bracket looks like this: Sioux Falls Regional North Dakota vs. Augustana Western Michigan vs. Cornell Worcester Regional Michigan State vs. Boston College Wisconsin vs. Quinnipiac Albany Regional Michigan vs. Bentley Dartmouth vs. Providence Loveland Regional Minnesota-Duluth vs. St. Thomas Penn State vs. Denver Some things to note here: Michigan and Michigan State are the only two teams I feel comfortable locking in as of this weekend. They both have a significant cushion in NPI over the first teams outside the field. Boston University (53.42), the first team out, is closer to No. 47 Yale (47.96) than they are to No. 1 Michigan (60.13). No. 15 is the current cut line for an at-large bid, but Hockey East and the CCHA have current projected champions closer to the bubble than the Big Ten, ECAC, and NCHC. Normally, No. 12 or higher is safe for an at-large bid. Penn State (No. 6) is safely on the right side, but the No. 4-9 teams in the NPI are not separated by much. We are likely to see these teams shuffle around this range each week. The battle for the final No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament will be interesting, to say the least. Key Games This Weekend No. 6 Penn State at No. 7 Wisconsin- Friday (8pm on Big Ten Plus) and Saturday (8pm on Big Ten Network) I will have the full preview for this series tomorrow. Both of these teams are safely in the field, but Big Ten title positioning is at stake. No. 5 Western Michigan at No. 4 Minnesota-Duluth- Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 7pm Again, both teams are safely in, but the winner of the series would bump up to the No. 1 seed line. No. 8 Dartmouth at No. 11 Cornell- Friday (7pm on ESPN+) Cornell has a golden opportunity to gain some ground on Dartmouth in the conference standings and pull away from the bubble a bit more. No. 17 St. Cloud State at No. 10 Denver- Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 8pm Denver has looked a bit vulnerable this season. A loss to St. Cloud State would bump the Pioneers down closer to the bubble while also giving the Huskies a quality win to move up in the NPI. No. 12 Providence vs. No. 16 Boston University- Friday at PC (7pm on ESPN+), Saturday at BU (7pm on ESPN+) Boston University has been playing better since its dreadful start to the season, though the Terriers are still inconsistent. They will need to find a way to at least gain a split in this series to avoid falling further down the pecking order.

Le 14 janvier, le tribunal administratif de Nice a condamné une commune au paiement d'une importante somme au titre d'une astreinte, car elle s'opposait délibérément à l'injonction, par le juge, de délivrer un permis de construire. La Cour des comptes a reçu copie de ce jugement, et pour rappel, les élus locaux sont justement justiciables devant elle dans cette situation précise.

When things are going the way they’ve been going for the Knicks, can you ever definitively say you’re confident in them to win, regardless of opponent? Yes, on paper, it was more likely the Knicks (26-18) would embarrass the Nets (12-30) by biblical margins than it was for them to manage to lose, especially when fully healthy. But after whatever the hell happened on MLK Day (and in Sacramento), the offense’s recent short-circuiting, and the fact that Cam Thomas has a penchant for scoring in bunches against the Knicks, I was worried. Maybe I should’t have been. Some things transcend slumps and horrifically bad vibes. When one team owns another the way the Knicks do to the Nets, they’ll win no matter what. This effect was reversed a few years ago, as the Nets, in the midst of their ten-game winning streak against the Knicks, came back from a 21-point halftime deficit despite missing Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, and Ben Simmons. Sometimes, you just own a team. Nic Claxton would know, that’s 13 straight. "Me I never lost to the Knicks since I been in the league" –– Nic Claxton now 0-13 vs Knicks since thispic.twitter.com/Oe39S43NFJ— New York Basketball (@NBA_NewYork) January 22, 2026 Every so often, we get a game that makes you dig deep into the Statmuse files. Let’s see what we can get from this historic, 54-point drubbing: It’s the largest margin of victory in franchise history. For a team that’s now played 6,231 games since 1946, that’s a lot. It breaks a three-way tie of games in 1968, 1972, and 1994, all 48-point wins. The Knicks led by 59 in the final minute before the Nets scored five to end the game. That 59-point lead is probably the largest in franchise history, but we only have concrete data in the last 30-ish years. Looking at the box scores of the pre-play-by-play era games, I don’t think an anyone got to 60. It’s the second-largest margin of victory by an NBA team this season. The Hornets destroyed the Jazz, 150-95, 11 days ago. The Knicks would’ve had this one, but Danny Wolf had to statpad with 10 seconds left. Alas! The Knicks last allowed 66 points or fewer on April 13, 2012, when they smacked the Wizards 103-65. Wizards’ leading scorer? Jordan Crawford (who went 6-for-20 from the field). The Nets are the first NBA team to score fewer than 70 points since… them last season (67). Last one to score less than that was the Mavericks on November 18, 2016, losing a disgusting 80-64 game to Memphis. Who remembers the 79-73 a few years ago? The Nets last scored this few points on March 12, 2005. In case you forgot, team’s score more in like four minutes now than they did in whole quarters 20 years ago. For reference, with 66 points, the Knicks have had 21 halves this season where they’ve put up 66 points. They’ve also allowed 10, with six coming since Christmas (yikes) The Knicks have won 13 straight games against the Nets. It’s the longest streak in the rivalry’s history and is quickly rivaling the streak the Knicks had against the Pistons from 2020-24 of 16 straight. 120-66 is such a ridiculous score. It’s happened once before in NBA history, but it’s a score you’re more likely to see in non-conference college basketball. In November 2024, UMass Lowell beat NAIA Fisher College, 121-66. That’s a bunch of Division I athletes destroying a non-NCAA school. This just shouldn’t happen in the NBA with 15 of the best 450 players in the world on each bench. There’s not much to say about the game itself. The only time the Nets looked anything other than total dog poo was when Egor Demin nailed two threes early. From what I’ve seen so far, the No. 8 overall pick has by far the best chance of becoming a solid NBA starter of the five first-round picks the Nets had this year. He’s shown some advanced playmaking, and the BYU product is a sneaky good shooter. Egor Dëmin has, for the majority of his rookie season, shut down the narrative that he’s a non-shooter He’s not just hitting catch-and-shoot looks, but he’s consistently…

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