Joe Rexrode

6 days ago | nytimes.com | Joe Rexrode

Yes, we're all sick of hearing about the Michigan sign-stealing scandal that made a celebrity of Connor Stalions, an NFL coach again (on a show cause) of Jim Harbaugh and a successor trying to pick and choose his future suspension dates in Sherrone Moore.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Joe Rexrode

UCLA vs. Kentucky might have had more of a blue blood feel, but St. John's vs. Kentucky means Rick Pitino vs. Kentucky - for the first time since he was still at rival Louisville in 2016 - in the CBS Sports Classic on Dec. 20 in Atlanta. That switcheroo for one of next season's premier one-day men's college basketball events was announced Thursday. UCLA opted out of the event and St. John's took UCLA's place opposite Kentucky.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Joe Rexrode

Some transfers, recruits and NBA hopefuls have yet to decide where they will play basketball in the fall, but we've got enough information to react. Enough to declare men's basketball portal winners and losers and assess best portal fits. Enough to look at the SEC and ACC and size up how they might follow up historical greatness and humbling futility. Enough to hope incoming Vanderbilt recruit Chandler Bing is ready for some of the goofy questions coming his way and can pivot to basketball.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Joe Rexrode

An indelible moment from the night Tennessee won its first baseball national championship on June 24 in Omaha, Neb. - maybe the indelible moment, if you're adding up the ensuing discourse - was when the coach of the team that just missed on its first baseball national championship addressed job rumors.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Joe Rexrode

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Save them, Cam Ward. Save Tennessee Titans fans from football that has been even less watchable than successful, 17.6 points per game in the last 41 outings, nine of them wins. Save the players on this roster, the worst roster in the NFL by The Athletic's calculations, from more embarrassment. Save a second-year coaching staff, led by purported quarterback developer Brian Callahan, from winter dismissals that will leave you learning a new system as a second-year quarterback.