JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jaguars are the talk of the town after concluding a stellar bounce-back season with an AFC South championship and a 13-4 record, but one fan was able to take the concept of “putting the team on their back” to new levels after the team’s 41-7 win over the Tennessee Titans on … Read more
It’s the start of a new year and that means the kickoff of a whole new slate of television series. And while 2026 will bring plenty of those, it will also yield revivals, new seasons of beloved shows, spinoffs and long-awaited finales. Though this list isn’t exhaustive by any means, and not all dates have … Read more
Monday’s NBA slate offers plenty of opportunity for fantasy managers and DFS players willing to navigate shifting NBA lineups and a lengthy injury report. With multiple teams shorthanded and several star players listed as questionable, staying on top of the latest NBA news and player injuries is critical when building lineups. This breakdown covers NBA … Read more
Tim BontempsJan 4, 2026, 12:52 AM ET Close Tim Bontemps is a senior NBA writer for ESPN.com who covers the league and what’s impacting it on and off the court, including trade deadline intel, expansion and his MVP Straw Polls. You can find Tim alongside Brian Windhorst and Tim MacMahon on The Hoop Collective podcast. … Read more
Kevin PeltonJan 5, 2026, 07:00 AM ET Close Co-author, Pro Basketball Prospectus series Formerly a consultant with the Indiana Pacers Developed WARP rating and SCHOENE system Will the last NBA star eligible for awards please turn out the lights? As we approach the midpoint of the NBA regular season — on Thursday, the Atlanta Hawks … Read more
The Rockets and Pistons both rise into the Top 5 in this week’s Power Rankings. You are what your record says you are. But sometimes, a team’s record doesn’t tell the whole story. At this point of the season (43% of the way through), there can be a pretty big disparity in how tough schedules … Read more
Iowa women’s basketball travels to Northwestern for a Jan. 5 affair, looking for its second Big Ten road win of the season. Big Ten Network will televise the 7:30 p.m. CT contest. The No. 14 Hawkeyes (12-2, 3-0 Big Ten Conference) opened Big Ten resumption with home victories over Penn State and Nebraska to go … Read more
Shesterkin will get the starting nod at home against the Mammoth on Monday, Vince Z. Mercogliano of The Athletic reports. Shesterkin is coming off a fantastic performance at the Winter Classic in which he stopped 36 of 37 shots in a win over the Panthers. After a difficult 2024-25 campaign, the Russian backstop is on … Read more
New year, new killing spree. This is the third time the BBC has dropped a new season of The Traitors on or close to 1 January, enshrining a great new British tradition of easing into the new year with a month-long “psychological game of deception” – and, after a slow-burn start to the first season … Read more
On the Shelf Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster By Jacob SoboroffMariner Books: 272 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. If journalism is the first draft of history, TV news is a … Read more