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Australian Open Survivor League- Men's Singles Only Pick 1 player to win their match each day. If your player wins you pick another player the next day. If your player loses you are out. You can not pick the same player more than once during the whole tournament Begins Sat Jan 17 7pm ET Ends with last person remaining or Sunday Feb 1 4am ET Ex: Alcaraz day 1, if he wins, you can't pick him again the rest of the tournament. Must submit pick by 7pm ET each day. If the players m

Euroleague I ain't forgot about you!!! I could never. Tomorrow we got Panathinaikos and Monaco playing road games vs Bayern Munchen and Paris Basket. The 2 best teams in the league, in my opinion. Or at least the two most talented rosters. Last time Monaco played Paris I think they set the Euroleague record for points in a game, and have been on a tear lately winning their last 4 games or more in the Euroleague. Everything is jazz over there and they look to just keep it humm

Day 3 Match Results- Women USA Taylor Townsend def ARG Jazmin Ortenzi 6-4 6-4 USA Sloane Stephens def AUS Olivia Gadecki 3-6 6-3 6-3 Day 3 Match Results- Men *** Match of the day USA Nishesh Basavareddy (Stanford University) def AUS Sam Ofner 4-6 6-4 7-6 (11), down 1-7 Ofner celebrates thinking he won in the 3rd, loses 8 of the next 9 points, has 2 more MP's, Nishesh goes Reggie/Tyrese and throws up the choke BEL Gilles Arnaud Bailly (University of Texas) def ESP Rob

Another entertaining day on the grounds of Melbourne Park yesterday for AO Q's Day 2. The results of the featured matches yesterday are as followed: AUS Jason Kubler Def FRA Harold Mayot 3&4 USA Zach Svajda Def LEB Hady Habib 1&3 USA Michael Zheng DEF AUS Cruz Hewitt 3&3 USA Mackenzie McDonald DEF KAZ Dmitry Popko 6-7 6-4 7-5 CAN Liam Draxl DEF AUS Moerani Bouzige 6&3 DAY 3 FEATURED MATCHES- MEMS USA Nishesh Basavareddy vs AUS Sam Ofner ESP Roberto Carballes Baena vs BEL Gill

Keeping this short and sweet for day 1 of AO Q's but those we had an eye on all were able to pull out their matches Carmel native Nishesh Basavareddy rolled against Canadian Alexis Galarneu 6-4 6-2. Florida native Martin Damm Jr beat Belgiums Onclin 6-4 in the 3rd, breaking at 5-4. Aussie Dane Sweeney who's been on a tear beat Pellegrino in 6-3 in the 3rd, finding his form late in the 3rd after being a break down. Cali kid Brandon Holt beats Austrias Neumayer 6-3 in the third

Last night we had madness at the end of the Orlando Magic @ Brooklyn Nets game. The Nets went on a 18-2 run at the end of the 4th to take the game to OT, including a 3 from Sergei Demin with 5 seconds left at the end of regulation to tie the game. Sergei hadn't made a shot all game until 2 minutes left in the 4th and he ended up with at least 18. The 18 went unconscious

I have considered Panathinaikos the favorite to win the league since I found out that Panathinaikos is hosting the Final 4 of 2025-2026 Euroleague. Lately however they've been in a bit of turmoil. They've lost multiple games in a row, and their owner came out saying that the guys were all out two nights before the game and the whole team isn't connected with 1 goal to win. If it wasn't for them hosting the Final 4, and with how crazy gate 13 is at their stadium, I would be ba

Tien vs Michelson Tonight in America, today in Australia, we get the 4th edition of these two young American prodigies squaring off against each other. Not only are they young Americans, but they're both from SoCal and only a year apart. They've grown up together and our good friends, as you can see and have heard in their interviews together. Michelson leads the head to head 2-1 and has won both matches that had normal ATP tour scoring. Tien won the first matchup they had at

Despite being undefeated in group play, it hasn't been all glamour and glitz for this USA team at the United Cup. It's only been two matches and there's already been multiple viral moments. First was Fritz up a set and break on Baez, hit the basketball made famous "too small" celebration, and went on to lose the match in a 3rd set. Then there was Coco Gauff mentioning to the media that USA fans are the worst of any country supporting there players internationally. That might'

It's that time of year again. Time for your sleep schedule to be wrecked for the next month while Aussie tennis starts at 7pm ET and is on still when you wake up for school in the next morning. As I was beginning this phase I tuned into Jack Pinnington Jones vs Gilles Arnaud Bailly (TCU vs Texas). The match was in a rain delay so all I could do was look at the court and noticed them in a Challenger in Canberra The Australian Open is often referred to as the happy slam overall

The Chiefs gon Chief ended up becoming a phrase that doesn't need explained because people already know what you mean by that. They're gonna win close games. And that was true for the whole decade up until this year. Well since the day Mahomes started playing they had only lost 1 score game. Until this year the Chiefs were gon Chief. But now this year, we have become lucky enough to get a new phrase that everyone needs to know. The Bucs gon Buc. No matter what, this year the

This one hits home, literally. Trey Lyles aka the Bron of Europe has maybe his best Euroleague game yet as Madrid comes back to beat Dubai FC 107-93, with the help of 6 different players in double figures. By looking at the score it looks like it was a routine win for Madrid but it really was all but that. For most of 1st quarter Madrid led a couple points but Dubai was able to take the lead a few times for very short stretches. The 2nd quarter is where it started to get craz

So far in the Euroleague season it's a tight race- record wise- through the top 10 teams. A few of those rosters stick out though as being a bit better than the others, and to me the best is sitting currently in 3rd, Panathinaikos. They got the reigning MVP, and the silkiest player in the league, Kendrick Nunn. Nunn is smooth and gets to his spots so easily, more surprising when he misses than makes. They added former Nuggets star Kenneth Faried, and Cedi Osman has added an e

Monaco's achilles heel all year has been inconsistent play. We've known they're capable of playing at the top level. I've been preaching it since my first Monaco article a few months back, and now Mike James is preaching it as well. In the post game press conference they asked him about they're level compared to some of their other good games and he said that they're "just looking for consistency" and "just trying to be consistent". Whether he's noticed it, or Coach Spanoulis

Pretty fitting the game of the day on the historical Christmas Day NBA games was the last game. Just too bad most people were asleep by then. (Honorable mention to Snoop Dogg for the moment of the day while people were awake hours though) Anytime these teams play each other it is usually an instant classic. You got Ant who can score as many points as anybody, jump over anybody, and has the swagger/confidence that he's not afraid of anybody and he makes it known too. There's a

As I started my day and realized that we'd be getting the long awaited Trey Lyles vs Mike James matchup today I thought it was Christmas all over again. This was better than any matchup in the NBA yesterday for me. Then you get the Euroleague Anthem starting as the game comes on Euroleague TV it just sets the vibes so high. Then the Monaco clapping that starts at intros and goes until the first basket is made. Basically the Taylor University Silent Night tradition but it happ

This is a post I figured I'd be writing but not this soon. As an OG Fia discoverer back in 2018 when Fia was just a young Lad (really Shariq aka Uncle Riqo told me about him) but we saw him in Amsterdam and predicted #1 in the world. Our best call to date. Or his I guess. But this isn't what I'd like my first article for Fia to be about. Carlitos Alcaraz and Juan Carlos Ferrero have ended their coach and player partnership. This is shocking news given the fact Ferrero has coa

I thought it about 10 years ago and I'm thinking it now. Is IU-Indy the next UCLA? Well with the new James T Morris Center it might be, especially if they calling it The Jim. UCLA is University of Cal Los Angeles, a branch of U Cal, just like IU-Indy is an off branch of IU. UCLA isn't thought of like that to average Americans though because of the notoriety it has with its sports programs and culture. It seems like its own powerhouse school, not UTSA to UT, or IUPUI to IU. Bu

Heisman Trophy- NCAA Football What a battle for 7th place. So many iconic trophies. Wimbledon plate, Lombardi Trophy, and the Larry O. But the winner for the last spot is... the Fernando Mendoza award, the Heisman Trophy. My only criteria for why this stood out from the others is this. What other award is a mold of a pose that people hit weekly? From kids in their backyard hitting the Heisman pose, to college athletes scoring and hitting the Heisman, there is no other award l

Indiana University football claim their first big 10 title in over 50 years. This is something I thought I would never see. It's the best turnaround in all of college sports. They went from the longest FBS team in the history of the sport, to Big 10 Champions in Cigs 2nd year. And in his first year he only lost 1 game and took IU to the college football playoff for the first time ever. Last year they were legit. Had transfer Kurtis Rourke at QB and had a lot of Cigs JMU trans

A look back on Lewis Hamilton vs Max Versrappen 2021 now that it's a few years removed. The most haunting sporting event's to me, in no order, are the Tyrese game 7 injury, Roger match points up at Wimby vs Novak, and this final race of the 2021 F1 season between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen. There's few days where if you take me back to them, my heart starts racing, in anx of knowing what happened. Unfortunately this is one of them. Still none of it sits right with me.

USA's World Cup Group couldn't have gotten much better. Shaq had the first draw with Australia. Aaron Judge had the 2nd pick with Paraguay. And Curaçao was picked 3rd by Wayne Gretzky. So the group will be USA, Paraguay, Australia, and the winner of a European playoff between Turkey, Slovakia, Kosovo, and Romania. The first game will be against Paraguay, a rematch of the match that finished in a benches clearing brawl that I wrote about a few weeks ago. If USA wasn't motivate

The 10 point streak for Bron is officially over. In terms of longevity, it is one of the most impressive accomplishments of all time. I mean this streak is older than Hulu. Older than President Obama's inauguration. Older than the first Iphone! Evan Cal Ripken's streak of 2,632 games played in a row is widely considered one of the best of all time but this is way better. He didn't just step foot on court for 1,297 times, but when he did step foot on court, he scored double di

Real Madrid 81 Anadolu Efes 75 This game was tight for most of the way. In the first half my Bron of Europe Trey Lyles was letting me down. He was trying to be the Jay Huff of Europe, catching and shooting every time he got the ball. Hezonja on the other hand started the game like prime Wilt. I thought I was going to witness a Euroleague 100 ball. He scored 10 points in the first 4 minutes on 100% shooting. Then after that stopped shooting until the 2nd quarter. What a bummer

Euroleague is back in action today and we'll look at a few of the games. I hopped on the Monaco wagon a few years ago, after Mike James left the KD Nets, and anywhere that Trey Lyles plays we gotta support, Naptown stand up. So today we will be previewing the Monaco vs Paris game, and Real Madrid Vs Anadolu. Real Madrid @ Anadolu Efes Madrid 7-6, Anadolu 5-8 Going into the season, this would have seemed like a possible future playoff game. But Anadolu have had the injury bug

American Universities are different when it comes to school spirit. It is my favorite atmosphere in sports because of the student sections and nonstop energy. It is similar to a European basketball or soccer game, but all drunk college students losing their mind. Part of this tradition of an electric atmosphere, is the mascots, and some schools don't just have any mascot, but an actual live animal mascots. The top tier of all mascots these guys are. Sometimes there will be a

Texas Tech Head Coach Joey McGuire was just on The Pat McAfee Show and might've just proposed the most plausible and easiest fix to fixing the college football schedule problem. Everybody knows the Lane Kiffin saga that happened but that same thing has happened to other programs now including Tulane who also was fighting for a playoff spot. The schedule is terrible that coaches are forced with this decision of leaving their team right before the playoff or taking a no brainer

The most one sided battle in sports is starting to even out. Everybody remembers that tweet from 2015 saying "Lebron is 30, this fuckery wont go on much longer, thank god". And then he proceeded to go to the 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020 NBA finals and has been an all star every year since then and it's now 2025 and he will once again be an All Star in 2026. But this year is the first year that he probably doesn't actually deserve it, but will get in off the fan vote. Every ye

If the Colts games were horse races they'd been good for about the whole race besides for that last lap. They keep getting up in games, or having chances to win games, but shooting themselves in the hoofs. It is tough when your quarterback is playing with a broken leg however, and was obvious that he wasn't looking to move out of the pocket ever. I wrote the article last week about the Colts being legit and dominant despite their loss. The problem with the Colts and a lot of

This is a strict criteria. These aren't just the best combined careers for father and sons, but they had to be on the same team at the same time. Whether playing, both coaching, or coach and player, they had to be on the same collegiate or professional team together. It is a moment they had together, not overall success. And Little league doesn't count, otherwise Christian Springer and his dad win this easy. Lleyton Hewitt and Cruz Hewitt, Doubles Sydney ATP Challenger 11/19/

Sunday was a huge AFC showdown between the AFC leading Indianapolis Colts and a team playing for a Wild Card spot, the Kansas City Chiefs. In recent years when these two teams play each other it has been the other way around. The AFC leading Kansas City Chiefs vs either the shitshow Indianapolis Colts, or wildcard hopeful Indianapolis Colts, depending on which year you want to look at. Which is why this year it has been hard for me to totally buy into this Colts team actually

Going into the game Messi had never won at FC Cincy. But it turns out this dude Messi is a really good soccer player. Did anyone know that or did I just discover this guy? Messi is 38 years old and to has mastered the game of soccer. He had already been the greatest but now the craft is mastered, He is like Lebron or Chris Paul in the way that he can just get old man buckets out there, and set his teammates up, until the day he dies. He may not be the youngest or the fastest

"YOU CAN HEAR EM CRYING AT THE LANE. EBERECHI SCORES AGAIN. ONE CALL FROM MIK ARTETA HE SAID WOW. FUCK OFF TOTTENHAM IM A GOONER NOW!!!!!" If there was one way to sum up the North London Derby on Sunday, it would be that chant above. Just absolute scenes out at the Emirates on Sunday from the second they walked out on the pitch to that sick Tifo, and the crowd absolute belting North London Forever. They sang the song into the first few minutes of the game. Electricity. Of cou

2 games ago for USA finished with a benches clearing brawl vs Paraguay. It started over who's ball it was, and a player from both teams picked up the ball, wouldn't let go, and it ran into the benches all getting involved too. Some serious playground fight during a professional, international FIFA match. You have to love to see it. And then following that, Maybe the most electric 45 minutes of footy I've ever watched. It is seriously up there with the Argentina France World

The best sports story of the day happened around 11:45ET in Sydney, Australia with hardly anyone watching. There's Ken Griffey Sr and Ken Griffey Jr playing together. There's LeBron and Bronny playing together. And now we have 2 time grand slam champion and former world number 1, Lleyton Hewitt, coming out of retirement for the week to play doubles with his 16 year old son Cruz Hewitt this week at the ATP Challenger tournament in Sydney, Australia. Lleyton and Cruz cruised to

If there was one word to describe the start of the year for As Monaco Basket it would be "inconsistent". They have shown they can beat the top clubs in the league with back to back wins over Panathinaikos and Olympiacos, but also have losses and struggled against teams they should beat handily such as Partizzan Mozart, Mccabi Tel Aviv, and Bologna. All in all Monaco players and fans are not particularly happy having a 6-5 record and sitting in 9th place currently. However, th

There is a major difference between favorite and iconic, but a top 10 list to me should be a mix of home. It is whatever logos hit home the most. Whatever logos you can look at and know right away what the meaning is, with still a good aesthetic. But sometimes, when trying to create these, they go totally wrong, or try to do too much and it butchers it. Here are the worst logos, in no particular order, of all time (according to Will Nevets.) Worst logos -Djokovic Falcon. Most

Miami 305. The championship winning team you've probably never heard of but put up one of the best championship moments in sports history. Led by Michael Beasley, Lance Stephenson, and Mario Chalmers, Miami 305 lifted the Big 3 championship trophy on Sunday. It had everything a basketball fan could want. It had a game-winning shot, had a 11 point lead blown and recovered, almost had a fight, and both teams were totally locked in treating it like a true championship game.  Lan

After watching Max Dowman for 33 minutes play vs Leeds, I am completely sold. We are talking Lamine Yamal and David Beckham in one. The kids got the swag of a legend and the skill to match. It was like watching Muchova or Kyrie on a soccer field, absolutely butter what he was doing with the ball. Lamine Yamal might be too young to have people be the next him, but Dowman is the white Lamine Yamal. Sagging like Mac Miller out there, Dowman was dazzling around defenders, and let

Daniil Medvedev had Louis Armstrong stadium rocking like Assembly Hall last night. Past midnight, down match point to lose in straight sets, the chair umpire gives Bonzi a 1st serve after the camera man steps onto the court between 1st and 2nd serve. Medvedev blows up, but the crowd erupts. We've all seen the clips it's easier to watch it then describe it. Link here. It's like nothing I've ever seen before. The crowd went on and on and on, completely uncontrollable. Medvedev