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By Jordan Pierce , RF Sports Radio NBA voice NBA fans, Tuesday was supposed to be about Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. It ended up being about Paul George, who walked back into Philadelphia and buried the team that traded him. Six games, and three of them had a former star making a point. The facts Per the Associated Press, George scored 36 points with six 3-pointers in his return to Philadelphia, and Tatum added 21 as Boston beat the 76ers 123-101 for its ninth win in 10 games. Brown, traded to the Sixers over the summer, got into early foul trouble and scored 13, and Tyrese Maxey led Philadelphia with 24. Joel Embiid scored 16 after landing awkwardly late in the first half, per the official box score. In Portland, Damian Lillard scored 25 and Deni Avdija had 24 points and eight assists as the Trail Blazers beat Oklahoma City 123-103, AP reported. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 26 on 8-of-22 shooting for a Thunder team missing Jalen Williams, Chet Holmgren and Cason Wallace; ...

By Hank Dalton , RF Sports Radio MLB voice Rangers fans, the GM Meetings just got interesting. On Tuesday, the biggest name on the Rangers' roster went from 'available if someone asks' to 'the club plans to explore it.' Corey Seager is not traded, and he may never be, but Texas is going to find out what he is worth. The facts Per Dallas Sports Journal, Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic reported Tuesday, citing people briefed on the club's plans, that the Rangers intend to explore trading Seager at this week's meetings in Las Vegas. Seager would have to approve any deal. He gained full no-trade rights at the end of 2026 after 10 years of service, including five straight with Texas, and he is owed $155 million over the next five seasons, $31 million a year from 2027 through 2031. Seager hit .227 with 20 home runs, 51 RBIs and a career-low .736 OPS in 102 games this year, per DSJ, and had surgery on Oct. 6 to remove a bone spur from his right elbow. After ...

By Brooke Calloway , RF Sports Radio SMU voice Mustang fans, the committee told you exactly what it thinks on Tuesday night, and the answer was not much. SMU is 7-2 and nowhere in the College Football Playoff top 25. The good news is that the committee also handed SMU its best chance to change that: No. 13 Wake Forest is coming to Ford Stadium on Saturday. The facts Per the College Football Playoff's second rankings, released Tuesday, Wake Forest (8-1) moved up three spots to No. 13. SMU was not ranked. Miami, the ACC's other big name, fell six spots from No. 1 to No. 7, per the CFP release and ACC Sports. In ESPN's projected bracket off these rankings, the top four seeds are Georgia, Utah, Alabama and UCLA, and Wake is just outside the at-large field. Rhett Lashlee was blunt about the opponent. "You look at Wake Forest, they're complete in all three phases more than anybody we played all year," he said, per Roundtable. "Defensively, this is goin...

By Mac Rivera , RF Sports Radio Baylor voice Bears fans, the committee made Saturday even bigger on Tuesday night. BYU came in at No. 10 in the second College Football Playoff rankings, and Baylor's offense, the one that put up 40 in back-to-back weeks, finally gets to find out how real it is against a ranked defense. The facts Per the College Football Playoff's second rankings, BYU (7-2) slipped one spot from No. 9 to No. 10 after its 28-20 loss at Utah, and Utah rose to No. 2. Texas Tech (8-1) is No. 12, so three Big 12 teams sit ahead of Houston at No. 14. In ESPN's projected bracket, BYU would be the No. 10 seed at Miami. BYU Athletics also noted the No. 10 ranking. Per The Baylor Lariat, Baylor (6-3) has scored 40 or more in back-to-back games and faces its first ranked opponent of the season Saturday at 2:30 p.m. CT at LaVell Edwards Stadium on FOX. "We're not clean yet," interim coach Joe Klanderman said. "We're a long ways away, but w...

By Cam Sutton , RF Sports Radio Colorado voice Buffs fans, Deion Sanders stood at the podium on Tuesday and took the whole thing on his own shoulders. He is not firing his offensive coordinator, he is not blaming his players, and he knows a ranked Houston team is coming to Boulder on a short week. The facts Per Buffaloes Wire, Sanders answered "no" when asked if he would replace offensive coordinator Brennan Marion. Colorado is averaging 19.8 points a game, last in the Big 12 and tied for 123rd of 138 teams. "The kids are fighting. We're just not getting it done, I'm not getting it done. Don't say we," Sanders said, per Buffaloes Wire. He called Houston quarterback Conner Weigman "one of the best quarterbacks in the country," and said Colorado has "matchups we like, but we have to have a balanced attack." Per Colorado Athletics, linebacker Gideon Lampron was named Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week for the second straight we...

By Marcus Delaney , RF Sports Radio Mavericks voice Mavs fans, the glow from Monday night is real, but the schedule does not care. Dallas has two days to rest after Cooper Flagg's 43-point night, then heads to Minneapolis to face one of the best teams in the West. And the stuff Dusty May said before the Pacers game tells you where this rotation still has work to do. The facts Per the Associated Press preview, Dallas (7-4, ninth in the Western Conference) visits Minnesota (8-3, third in the West) on Thursday at 8 p.m. ET, which is 7 p.m. Central. The Mavericks have won three straight. In Monday's 125-122 win over Indiana, Flagg went 16 of 25 with 43 points, 10 rebounds and six assists, and Kyrie Irving scored 35 on 7-of-10 shooting from three, per Grant Afseth's notebook for Roundtable Sports. Dallas outscored Indiana by 29 with Irving on the floor, the best mark in the game, and it was the first time this season he played both ends of a back-to-back. Before that ga...