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Weekend Wrap Up: 1st Round of CFPs Done, NFL Playoffs Take Shape, Fury Loses & More

Your Weekend Before Christmas Sports Recap Has Arrived With CFP, NFL, NBA & More

Joy to the World, the CFPs Are Under Way!

Good morning, everybody! Except if you’re an Indiana, SMU, Clemson, or Tennessee fan.

This weekend, the first round of college football games in the inaugural 12-team NCAAF playoffs got underway, and well, to get the good news out of the way first, the quarter-finals are set.

Weekend Wrap Up: 1st Round of CFPs Done, NFL Playoffs Take Shape, Fury Loses & More
Head Coach Steve Sarkisian Of The Texas Longhorns Celebrates | Tim Warner/getty Images/afp

Secondly, let’s just say the omnipresent Committee should take a second, look back at the carnage in the first four games, and really think if they made the right call when selecting the teams playing.

I feel tempted to say I knew what was bound to happen to everybody picking these teams in their College Football Playoffs betting odds tickets for this past weekend, but no, the beating your teams took should be punishment enough.

While Notre Dame beat Indiana by 10 points, 27-17, SMU looked like the cast of My Little Pony getting stomped by Penn State 38-10, Ohio State put up 42 against Tennessee’s lackluster 17, and Clemson?

Look, if you’re going to hit the “night night” celebration in a game, make sure it’s after giving your opponent a beating worth going to bed for, not after scoring first in the game and thinking it was all over.

Now, it’s on to New Year’s Eve and Jan 1st to get the second round of CFP action.

 

Deck the Halls With NFL Playoff Buzz!

Moving on to pro football, if you haven’t caught up with NFL news yet, following week 16’s action, a total of 13 teams have officially been eliminated from playoff contention this season, with the Arizona Cardinals, Dallas Cowboys, and San Francisco 49ers being the latest teams to say bye bye to any postseason plans they had in mind.

Starting with the Niners. It doesn’t matter if you have one of the best rosters in the league and have the potential to lead every NFL stats ranking around. If you can’t win games when they matter most, you’ll get the chop!

As far as the Cowboys go, even after being eliminated before even playing their Sunday Night Football game against Tampa Bay, thanks to the Commanders putting on one of their best “beat the clock” performances in recent times (can anybody say Jayden Daniels OROY?). That win against the Bucs is worth giving props to, even if it meant nothing.

And lastly, as far as the Cardinals go, what the hell did you expect would happen if you couldn’t even beat the Panthers? You deserve to be out of playoff contention.

In other results, the Texans took the “L” at Arrowhead (prayers up for Tank Dell’s recovery), the Ravens beat the snot out of the Steelers, the Bears, Giants, Jets, Browns, Patriots, and Jaguars lost (what’s new there?), and now it’s on to week 17.

Fun times in the NFL!

 

Jingle Bells, NBA Hoops Gave Sixers Fans Hell

Over in the pro hoops courts, your usual NBA odds favorites Boston Celtics, New York Knicks, Milwaukee Bucks, Oklahoma City Thunder, Memphis Grizzlies, Houston Rockets, and Dallas Mavericks continued doing this weekend what they’ve been doing so well thus far, winning games!

Of course though, for there to be winners, there have to be losers as well, and to no surprise, the Philadelphia 76ers decided to kick off this holiday week taking yet another “L” this weekend, this time against the top team in the east, the Cleveland Cavaliers by 126-99.

Between Jared McCain’s injury and the team taking to stink up the courts like it was a sport of its own, being a Sixers fan must suck right about now.

 

Fury Asked for a Win for Christmas, Instead He Got an ‘L’

When I was younger, watching a heavyweight boxing title bout was one of the coolest things around. Of course, though, I grew up watching Mike Tyson (Prime Mike, not the ass-out version), Lennox Lewis, Evander Holyfield, and some of the best to do it.

This weekend in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk threw down to not much avail, although boxing fans and experts have spoken highly of the level of quality in the bout.

In what’s said to have been a controversial win for Usyk, the Ukrainian fighter defeated Fury for the second time in his career, this time by unanimous decision, retaining his WBC, WBO, and WBA heavyweight titles.

Yes, I said it right. Just like Usyk has beaten Anthony Joshua twice in his career, he has now beaten Fury twice as well.

 

Boston Filled Buehler’s Stocking With $21M Deal

MLB rumors had been buzzing lately about the Boston Red Sox potentially moving to land Dodgers hero Walker Buehler to help strengthen their plans of rebuilding their reeling rotation.

Now, rumors have become a reality as Buehler and the Sox have agreed on a one-year $21M deal, taking the ace who manhandled the New York Yankees in last season’s World Series to try and get something popping at Fenway.

Could this move mean a new, more promising future for Boston? Probably not, but don’t take my word; I just hate the Red Sox.

Anyways, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everybody!

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