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It's time for the CIF state championships in basketball and soccer (first time for soccer) in Sacramento on Friday and Saturday. Basketball will be played at Golden 1 Center. Soccer is at Natomas High.

Come on! Come on! Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? He didn't even get hit in the face! Take a look at this, folks. I gotta show it to you. Take a look at this.

UConn averages 88.7 points per game (second in college basketball) while giving up 50.4 per contest (first in college basketball). It has a +1266 scoring differential overall and outscores opponents by 38.3 points per game.

On the ice, Murray was a tough, hard-nosed player who was a nightmare to play against. He won the Selke Trophy in 1986 and the Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche in 1996. With Eddie Olczyk and Curt Frazier, Murray formed the "Clydesdale Line" in the 1980s.

Apple and Netflix have entered into a rather surprising partnership. The dynamic streaming duo will share Formula 1 programming, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The deal allows Netflix to stream the F1 Canadian Grand Prix in May, along with Apple TV. On the flipside, Apple TV and Netflix will both air season eight of the docuseries Drive to Survive.

Premier League chief executive Richard Masters announced the project on Thursday, confirming long-standing rumours of a 'Premflix'-style service for at least one territory. Masters stated the service would be branded as Premier League Plus, adding that the league would be closely monitoring its success to determine future expansion.

So, what is visual AI? Visual AI, also commonly known as computer vision in technical circles, focuses on extracting useful information from images and video. It detects objects, tracks motion, and measures positions. Visual AI builds on that foundation but goes further by incorporating context, reasoning, prediction, and decision support. Rather than simply answering what happened in a frame of video, visual AI asks what that information means, how confident we are, and what action should follow.

As I've said a few times, you don't dream about this because the dream is so silly that you stop and you wake up before you get to this point, Tirico said. I think for all of us, Super Bowls bring back very specific memories, people you've watched the game with. If your favorite team was in it, moments that have lasted forever. And to be a part of that scenario for this year's Super Bowl is the thrill of a lifetime.

Next Gen Stats began in 2015, when the National Football League deployed RFID chips in player shoulder pads and even in the football itself, enabling the league to capture location data multiple times per second through sensors installed throughout stadiums.

NBC Sports president Rick Cordella said during a press event last month the trifecta of events allows NBC Sports to do what it does best - "make big events even bigger." Zoom in: NBC's "Legendary February" month begins with the 2026 Winter Olympic Games opening ceremony in Milan on Feb. 6. Coverage of the Olympics will be balanced with the Super Bowl on Feb. 8, live from Santa Clara, California.

ITV plans to take advantage of the BBC's cut-price coverage to win the battle of the broadcasters at this summer's World Cup.

Even the "Granddaddy of Them All" has a dad. That's the late and legendary ABC Sports announcer Keith Jackson, who coined that term for the Rose Bowl Game and it stuck. He clicked off his microphone for the last time precisely 20 years ago after Texas beat USC on this storied field. The game was a classic and so was Jackson, the Saturday evening soundtrack for generations of college football fans.

On Thursday night, you did a little whoopsie-poopsie and forgot about your microphone! Dumbass! It happened during a TV timeout in the third period. "We'll take [the timeout] as well," you said. But you did not! You were still on the air. There were no commercials playing while you did your little scat-singing: "Mmmm. Bap-a-dap-a-dap-a-dap-a-dap." In the background, we can hear the audio from the arena, and then ...

Wright and Woods were on air together covering the Lionesses, before Woods suddenly appeared to faint, with Wright needing to catch her and help her back to her feet before ITV cut to an ad break. Woods herself posted on social media later that evening to clarify that she was alright, and Wright himself has now also spoken about the incident. The Gunners legend explained on The Overlap that Woods messaged him to say she was fine, though he found the incident pretty worrying in the moment.

The Lions have played every Thanksgiving since 1934, with the exception of 1939-44, despite the fact they haven't been a good team most of those years. The Lions played their first season in Detroit in 1934 (before that, they were the Portsmouth Spartans). They struggled their first year in Detroit, as most sports fans there loved baseball's Detroit Tigers and didn't come out in droves to watch the Lions. So Lions owner George A. Richards had an idea: Why not play on Thanksgiving?

Tubi is best known for its free slate of Gen Z-friendly shows and nostalgia-inducing movies, but sports have played a small yet important role in its rise. The Fox-owned free streamer, which became profitable for the first time last quarter, made a name for itself in 2023 with a viral Super Bowl ad. That month, Tubi ranked on Nielsen's ratings chart for the first time. Tubi reintroduced itself to football fans in February by streaming the Super Bowl at no cost. At its peak, more than 15 million people tuned into Tubi's Super Bowl simulcast.

You know what they say. Never judge a pitch until both teams have batted really badly on it. You know what they say. Over here you bat long, bat hard, bat short, bat soft. You know what they say, the Ashes in Australia is all about a hybrid maverick production with a fan-first identity. Given the brilliance of the basic entertainment on day one in Perth,

Disney and YouTube TV reached a new deal to bring channels like ABC and ESPN back to the Google-owned livestreaming platform Friday, ending a blackout for customers that dragged on for over two weeks. "As part of the new deal, Disney's full suite of networks and stations - including ESPN and ABC - have already begun to be restored to YouTube TV subscribers," The Walt Disney Co. said in a statement.

"As part of the new deal, Disney's full suite of networks and stations -- including ESPN and ABC -- have already begun to be restored to YouTube TV subscribers," The Walt Disney Co. said in a statement. "We are pleased that our networks have been restored in time for fans to enjoy the many great programming options this weekend, including college football."

There has always been a strong note of pranking to Terry Bradshaw's work as a NFL studio analyst at Fox. Bradshaw's role is mostly that of a Vibes Guy, the most off-kilter and least self-serious participant in a show that is mostly some guys in suits going "haw haw haw" and saying "the National Football League" during breaks in Sunday's NFL programming, while an enormous animated football robot glowers or heaves or does The Dougie behind them.

My family and I have been watching post-season baseball, and I think I have to lie down. We've seen so many ads for drugs prescribed to treat plaque psoriasis, Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis that I'm sure I've developed a rash, nausea, joint pain and dizziness. Just by watching. iSpot, the TV ad news site, says drug companies bought 895.8 million dollars worth of ads in sports programming last year.

If you've read Defector over the past few years, you know that the NBA arm of this company long ago identified Eric Collins as the most grating local play-by-play guy in that league, if not the whole of human history. Being primarily a football fan, I rarely had to worry about encountering Collins's work out in the wild because I'm not a diehard Hornets fan (no one is), and because I foolishly assumed that Collins only plied his trade in basketball.

Over the previous six months for 162 games you know who will be calling your games when you tune in that night, by and large. Yes, you'll run into an occasional national TV game with a crew that lacks the day-in and day-out knowledge of your team, but you can get through one regular season game with a subpar announcing crew.