Today on the Kevin O’Connor show, KOC is joined by Tom Haberstroh to ask some big questions in the NBA world: Are the Houston Rockets done? What teams have the most to prove in the 2nd half of the season? Which young players might break out and which coaches are on the hot seat?
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Then, the pair look at two of the hottest names in college basketball: Darius Acuff and Darryn Peterson. How does Acuff’s 49-point explosion affect his draft stock? Is Peterson’s self-check-out gambit for Kansas threatening his no. 1 draft pick potential?
Later, KOC is joined by Daman Rangoola, Sam Esfandiari & Claire De Lune from All-Star Weekend to talk the latest with the Lakers and Warriors. That and more on today’s show!
(1:11) Contenders with the most to prove (13:38) Young players to watch (20:26) NBA coaches on the hot seat (33:46) Kings decimated by injuries (37:12) Darius Acuff drops 49 points vs. Alabama (41:44) What’s going on with Darryn Peterson? (56:32) Daman Rangoola & Sam Esfandiari join from All-Star (1:43:10) Claire De Lune joins from All-Star
HOUSTON, TEXAS – FEBRUARY 11: Kevin Durant #7 of the Houston Rockets looks on during the second half of the game against the Los Angeles Clippers at Toyota Center on February 11, 2026 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Jack Gorman/Getty Images)
Nate Tice & Charles McDonald join forces to answer the NFL offseason’s biggest looming questions submitted by the audience. The duo start off by diving into the New York Giants’ potential NFL Draft plans with the 5th overall pick, how the Chicago Bears can fix their defensive line and whether or not Brian Daboll is a good fit with QB Cam Ward as the new Tennessee Titans OC.
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Next, Nate & Charles discuss whether or not the Los Angeles Chargers can fix their offensive line in one offseason, if the Jacksonville Jaguars defense can take a leap next season, who the Denver Broncos should be targeting in free agency (Tyler Allgeier?) and what our expectations for the 2026 Washington Commanders should look like.
Later, the two hosts wrap up with thoughts on the New England Patriots’ upcoming offseason decisions, why Sean McVay changed to a duo run game style with the Los Angeles Rams, whether Sean McDermott was really the problem with the Buffalo Bills and more.
(44:15) – Biggest offseason questions: Patriots, Rams, Bills & more
New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye (10) warms up before the NFL Super Bowl 60 football game against the Seattle Seahawks, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026, in Santa Clara, Calif. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
The BBC has unveiled three new dramas coming to our screens in due course, including Shy & Lola with Hayley Squires and Bel Powley.
Shy & Lola, a new six-part drama for BBC iPlayer and BBC One, is written by award-winning screenwriter and novelist Amanda Coe (Apple Tree Yard, The Trial of Christine Keeler) and produced by multi-BAFTA and Emmy award-winning Clerkenwell Films (Baby Reindeer, The Death of Bunny Munro, The End of the F***ing World), part of BBC Studios.
The darkly comic story follows Shy and Lola, two very different women who are forced to become allies when a murder entangles them in the criminal underworld operating in Shy’s small coastal town in the North of England. Squires (The Night Manager, I, Daniel Blake) stars as Shy, a cleaner scraping by and dreaming of a new life in Portugal, with Powley (A Small Light,The Diary of a Teenage Girl) playing Lola, an ex-model-turned-grifter who arrives in town with trouble at her heels.
Filming on the show, based on the French television drama Cheyenne and Lola, will begin this spring in and around the U.K. cities of Hull and Leeds.
Also announced on Monday is D-Notice from writers and executive producers Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn. The six-part British political thriller is set in the world of investigative journalism. Patterson and Lawn are said to “have some experience of” the D-notice mechanism, which allows the government to advise journalists about national security. Now, they’ve come up with a drama that looks at how truth and power speak to one another. It is their third project for the BBC, following The Salisbury Poisonings and Blue Lights, and their first commission from production company Hot Sauce Pictures, backed by Sony Pictures Television.
The BBC has also commissioned 1536, a new drama series for BBC iPlayer and BBC One, based on Ava Pickett’s play of the same name. The eight-part show written by Pickett from Drama Republic (Riot Women, One Day) is set in the heart of Tudor England against the backdrop of Anne Boleyn’s arrest and weaves royal scandal with rural struggle.
1536 centers around Anna, Mariella, and Jane: three young women gossiping, arguing, and dreaming in an Essex village, desperately waiting for their lives to start. When the news reaches them that King Henry VIII has had his Queen, Anne Boleyn, arrested, the three of them never suspect that this act will change their lives forever.
Pickett said: “1536 is something I am immensely proud of and I feel so lucky and privileged to have the chance to bring Anna, Jane and Mariella to a wider audience and to build out their lives even more. In a world where every decision made in the corridors of power ricochets through all of our lives, this story feels more relevant than ever. I’m so grateful to Lindsay Salt for being such a champion of it from the start.”
Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama, added: “From the moment we saw Ava’s play we knew that we had to have the TV version on the BBC. Visceral, funny, provocative, timely and full of courage, this is a piece of work like no other. Ava is an exceptional voice, so we feel very lucky to be working with her and the brilliant team at Drama Republic to bring three iconic female characters to the screen.”
Executive producers are Jude Liknaitzky, Roanna Benn, Rebecca de Souza, Chloe Beeson and Pickett. The series was commissioned by Salt.
BBC Studios CEO Tom Fussell and Zai Bennett, CEO and chief creative officer of BBC Studios Productions, discussed tariff talk by U.S. President Donald Trump, mega-consolidation, including the planned Netflix-Warner Bros. Discovery deal, the growth of the company’s U.S. streaming business, and the Bluey movie.
They spoke to the press on the first day of the 50th annual BBC Studios Showcase in London. BBC Studios, the commercial arm of British broadcaster BBC, is known for such hit franchises as animated powerhouse Bluey, Netflix’s Baby Reindeer, legal drama The Split and its upcoming spin-off The Split Up, and such natural science hits as Walking With Dinosaurs, and it recently unveiled new shows to mark broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough’s 100th birthday on May 8.
“We have seen no impact” from Trump tariff talk, Fussell said when asked about any possible fallout, also lauding the continuing popularity of BBC News in the U.S. He didn’t discuss Trump’s lawsuit against BBC News, simply touting the resilience of the BBC brand and saying “we are not seeing any changes.”
Asked about Netflix-WBD, he said “we are well diversified, and obviously, you can only control what you can control, so you focus on your priorities, and our priority is carrying the transformation and the growth in the areas we’ve got.” He emphasized though that “no doubt, … people have talked about challenging markets and the rest of it, and our view going forward is that the market growth is not going to be anything like what it had been in the [past] five years.”
Continued Fussell: “And when you start seeing rumors upon rumors about takeovers and consolidation, that normally is testament to the fact there aren’t huge amounts of growth in the market, because everyone’s looking for … synergies. But we know what we’re doing. We know where we want to be investing in our global expansion of our studio.”
In that context, he also highlighted that BBC Studios was “a growing business that’s transforming,” with revenue up 55.7 percent over the last four years.
Following TV market challenges, Bennett on Monday suggested that “there are definitely green shoots of recovery,” sharing that “Paramount is back in the market, spending money,” among other things. But he reiterated that things are “definitely not” expected to return to the highs of the past five years but play out in a new normal range.
Fussell suggested though that he felt the business would be “talking about striving again,” from scripted to unscripted and, vitally, kids programming.
Mentioning the 2019 BBC Studios deal with what was then Discovery to take full control of UKTV’s entertainment channels, including Dave, Gold, and Drama, as well as a 2024 deal with ITV that gave the company full control of streamer BritBox International, Fussell also signaled that BBC Studios could also strike more acquisitions of its own. He said it would “carry on investing organically and maybe inorganically.”
Bennett, who started his role in late 2024, similarly noted that BBC Studios Productions is seeing “solid organic growth and investment” and “looking for inorganic growth in some territories,” mentioning the rest of Europe, the Middle East and Africa as one possible region for deals.
Fussell added that there “are opportunities for inorganic growth in streaming across the genres,” adding: “I think we have a right, as the home of British streaming, to grow that even further.” But he emphasized that “these opportunities take time,” concluding: “We are very judicious with how we spend that investment.”
Fussell on Monday also touted the success of streaming services BritBox and BBC Select, which focuses on documentaries, in North America. “Last week was the fifth birthday of BBC Select, and BBC Select is now the third-largest factual SVOD in the States, and we’re really proud of that,” he said. He also touted the growth of BritBox and its launch of a premium tier.
Among content trends, Bennett was asked about the growth of microdramas, saying that “we’re looking at that right now” and signaling the company could talk about this space more in the coming months. He added: “We’re certainly experimenting.”
Questioned about audience and buyer appetite, he sees for escapist content versus programming dealing with the world’s cultural and political divisions, Bennett said BBC Studios Productions looks at market needs and is “leaning into specificity and Britishness” more than anything else.
Current and old content favorites also drew reporter questions on Monday. Could motoring show Top Gear return to U.K. screens? Replied Bennett: “Never say never.”
Of course, the upcoming Bluey: The Movie was also a talking point. Fussell shared that he just visited creator Joe Brumm in his studio in Brisbane, calling the experience “an absolute pleasure,” and saying that the work on the film was going well. But “I can’t say anything” more, he emphasized. And Bennett shared: “We’ve seen bits of it, and it looks amazing.”
The Cooligans welcome former MLS head coach and analyst Giovanni Savarese for a deep dive into the 2026 MLS season. Gio shares his predictions, breakout teams to watch, and how the league continues to evolve ahead of a massive 2026 on home soil. The conversation also turns to the USMNT, as the guys assess expectations, pressure, and what success should realistically look like at the 2026 World Cup.
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Christian and Alexis then tackle the troubling racist incident involving Vinícius Júnior during Real Madrid’s clash with Benfica. They unpack how these situations are currently handled, question whether the responsibility to stop a match unfairly falls on the player experiencing abuse, and debate what meaningful structural changes could better protect players moving forward.
Finally, it’s a jam-packed Champions League recap. Folarin Balogun shines in a statement performance against Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus suffer a shocking defeat to Galatasaray, and Bodø/Glimt pull off a stunning win over Inter Milan. The boys react to all the drama, surprises, and what these results mean going forward.
Timestamps:
(6:30) – 2026 MLS preview and predictions
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(30:00) – Gio Savarese’s USMNT World Cup outlook
(39:00) – Vinicius Junior deals with racism again: time for a rule change?
(59:00) – Folarin Balogun shines in Champions League loss to PSG
(1:04:30) – Serie A teams suffer shocking Champions League losses
“Wednesday” Season 3 is officially in production, with the show bringing in four new additions to its cast.
Chris Sarandon (“Dog Day Afternoon,” “The Princess Bride”), Noah Taylor (“Peaky Blinders,” “Game Of Thrones”), Oscar Morgan (“A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” “Gotham Knights”), and Kennedy Moyer (“Task,” “Roofman”) are all set to appear in the hit show’s third season. The new castings come just after it was reported that Winona Ryder would be guest starring in Season 3, while it was previously reported that Eva Green would play Morticia Addams’ sister.
Taylor previously worked with “Wednesday” director and executive producer Tim Burton on the film “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” while Sarandon voiced Jack Skellington in Burton’s “A Nightmare Before Christmas.”
“It’s our dark delight to fling open Nevermore Academy’s gates once more as we begin production on Season Three,” series creators and showrunners Al Gough & Miles Millar said. “We thank our invincible cast and crew for their continued commitment to doom and gloom. To the fans, we appreciate your patience and ravenous online commentary – your twisted theories have inspired nightmares. This season we welcome new students, new teachers, and excavate some long-rotting Addams Family secrets. Don’t say you weren’t warned.”
As with past seasons, the third is being shot in Dublin, Ireland. Jenna Ortega will return in the role of Wednesday Addams, who viewers last saw riding off with her Uncle Fester (Fred Armisen) to attempt to rescue her friend and roommate Enid (Emma Myers) from being trapped as an alpha werewolf.
“I’m so excited to be back for Season 3 and it’s great to be reunited with all of the original cast,” Burton said. “The addition of some dear friends and past collaborators of mine – Winona, Eva, Chris, Noah…makes this season extra special. I feel very lucky.”
Aside from Ortega, Myers, and Armisen, the cast of “Wednesday” includes: Hunter Doohan, Joy Sunday, Moosa Mostafa, Georgie Farmer, Isaac Ordonez, Billie Piper, Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo, Victor Dorobantu, Evie Templeton, with Luis Guzmán, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Joanna Lumley.
The show is based on characters created by Charles Addams. Gough, Millar, and Burton are all executive producers. MGM Television is the studio.
“Wednesday” Season 2 was released in two parts in August and September 2025. Like the first season, the second went on to become a massive hit for Netflix, where it currently ranks as the streamer’s fifth most-watched English language season of TV ever. Season 1 is the most-watched season ever.
A spinoff of CBS and Dick Wolf‘s long-running drama series “FBI,” “CIA” follows an elite FBI/CIA fusion cell that investigates international plots, terrorist cells and geopolitical secrets. A generic police procedural, “CIA” isn’t mind-blowing. However, based on the show’s opener (critics received just one episode for review, which is an anomaly), the series will undoubtedly shift and expand, bringing in viewers who have rocked with “FBI” for the past eight seasons, and newcomers looking for an entry point into the franchise.
The series opener begins in present-day New York City, and follows CIA case officer Colin Glass (Tom Ellis), who receives a call that leads him to a crime scene. A towering and roguish agent who sees rules as mere suggestions, Colin isn’t pleased to see that the FBI has already been tipped off and is swarming around. He’s increasingly annoyed when his presence is questioned by Bill Goodman (Nick Gehlfuss), an FBI Special Agent, whose goody-two-shoes personality and straight-laced looks immediately scream Fed. Unfortunately, for the duo, Colin needs an FBI liaison to operate on U.S. soil. The CIA’s New York deputy chief, Nikki Reynard (Necar Zadegan), FBI Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille (Alana de la Garza) and Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine (Jeremy Sisto) pair the men together to solve the case, but things don’t exactly go swimmingly.
It’s quite a challenge to evaluate a series in totality based on just one episode, but getting “CIA” to air has not been easy. According to a Variety report from the fall, there was drama behind the scenes: Production for “CIA” was initially pushed back, and then briefly paused, after actress Michael Michele left the show (she was supposed to portray the character that Zadegan now plays). After Michele parted ways with “CIA,” longtime “Law & Order: SVU” showrunner Warren Leight stepped down as showrunner — Leight had taken over the role from David Hudgins. “FBI” showrunner Mike Weiss finally stepped in once Leight exited. These changes moved the show to a midseason premiere rather than its original fall 2025 debut. With only the pilot available to screen, it will be interesting to see whether any pauses or shifts have affected the storytelling as the season progresses. So far, “CIA” works well as an average New York City-set law-enforcement procedural. Perhaps that will be enough.
“CIA” premieres Feb. 23 on CBS, with new episodes dropping weekly on Mondays.
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💔 Gone too soon: Vikings wide receiver Rondale Moore was found dead on Saturday with a gunshot wound suspected to be self-inflicted. The former Purdue standout was 25 years old.
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⛳️ Bridgeman breaks through: Jacob Bridgeman avoided a Sunday collapse and held off a surging Rory McIlroy to secure a one-shot victory at the Genesis Invitational, his first win on the PGA Tour.
🏈 Cignetti signs extension: Curt Cignetti signed a new contract with Indiana that will pay him $13 million per season through 2033. The only other college football coaches earning that much annually? LSU’s Lane Kiffin and Georgia’s Kirby Smart.
🏀 Lakers honor Riley: The Lakers unveiled a bronze statue of Pat Riley outside their arena on Sunday. It fittingly stands between statues of Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, with whom Riley won four championships as head coach of the “Showtime” Lakers.
🏁 Back-to-back: After going winless in 2025, Tyler Reddick has opened 2026 with two straight victories, adding Sunday’s double overtime thriller to last week’s Daytona 500. He’s the first driver since 2009 to win the first two races of the NASCAR Cup Series season.
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🥇 USA 2, Canada 1 (OT)
Jack Hughes, American hero. (Elsa/Getty Images)
46 years to the day after a bunch of unheralded amateurs stunned the heavily favored Soviet Union en route to winning Olympic gold, the U.S. men’s hockey team engineered another epic victory.
ICYMI: Team USA toppled longtime nemesis Canada, 2-1 (OT), on Sunday to win their first Olympic gold in men’s hockey since the famed 1980 “Miracle on Ice.” Devils star Jack Hughes scored the decisive goal, ripping a shot past Jordan Binnington less than three minutes into 3-on-3 overtime.
“I love the USA. I love my teammates. It’s unbelievable,” said Hughes postgame, his mouth bloody and two of his front teeth missing after taking a stick to the face earlier in Sunday’s game.
“It’s just a ballsy, gutsy win. That’s American hockey right there. That’s a great Canadian team, but we’re USA. We’re so proud to be American. Tonight was all for the country.”
Player of the game: While Hughes was the hero, Connor Hellebuyck was the star. The three-time Vezina Trophy winner (best NHL goaltender) stopped 41 of 42 shots, none bigger than his stick save on Devon Toews at the doorstep.
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Talk about an epic photo…
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Honoring Johnny Hockey: If not for a horrible tragedy that cost him and his brother their lives, Johnny Gaudreau would have been part of this U.S. team. His former teammates and friends made sure to honor him in their moment of glory, skating around the rink with his jersey and bringing out his kids for the team photo.
“What you saw today was the build of a generation, inspired perhaps by that team that lost in 2010 in Vancouver to the Sidney Crosby golden goal in overtime. Or the team where T.J. Oshie had all those shootout goals in 2014. That’s when these guys were doing what you’re doing — watching on TV.”
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“So for all the young people out there — not just hockey but all the Olympics you’ve watched — those dreams are formed now. Go chase them and go get them, because our country loves sports and it brings us together unlike anything else. And if you didn’t know that, if you haven’t been watching the last two weeks, you saw it in Team USA Hockey.”
🥇 Final medal tally
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Two weeks and 116 medal events later, the 2026 Winter Olympics have concluded.
Medal leaders:
🇳🇴 Norway: The Norwegians dominated the medal table to extend their lead as the all-time winningest nation in Winter Olympics history. Their 18 gold and 41 total medals are both the most ever, breaking their own records of 16 gold and 39 total medals from 2022.
🇺🇸 USA: The Americans won 12 gold medals, exceeding their previous high of 10 set in 2002 in Salt Lake City. Team USA also finished solo second in both gold medals and total medals for the first time since 1952.
🇳🇱 Netherlands: No nation over-indexes in a single sport quite like the Dutch, whose 20 medals at Milan Cortina came entirely from long (13) and short track speed skating (7).
🇮🇹 Italy: The Italians won by far their most gold (10) and total medals (30) at a single Winter Games, continuing a trend that sees countries perform better when they host the Olympics.
Lionel Messi and Son Heung-Min hug ahead of their season-opener. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
Los Angeles — Inter Miami’s title defense got off to a rocky start in Saturday’s 3-0 loss to LAFC, which came in front of 75,673 fans at LA Memorial Coliseum. That’s the largest opening weekend crowd in MLS history and the second-largest ever.
Meanwhile, in Orlando: NY Red Bulls beat Orlando City, 2-1, with a starting lineup that included Julian Hall (17), Matthew Dos Santos (17) and Adri Mehmeti (16), marking the first time in MLS history that a team started three players under 18 in a regular-season match.
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Fort Myers, Florida — Spring training has officially arrived. All 30 MLB teams were in action over the weekend, giving baseball fans the opportunity to get caught up with … well, everyone.
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As a reminder: Many of MLB’s best players will be departing camp in the coming days to compete in the World Baseball Classic, which begins next Wednesday, March 4.
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Washington, D.C. — No. 3 Duke took down top-ranked Michigan, 68-63, on Saturday behind another huge game from freshman Cameron Boozer (18 points, 10 rebounds, 7 assists). Look for the Blue Devils to take over the No. 1 spot in this week’s AP poll.
More from Saturday: No. 4 Arizona beat No. 2 Houston, Cincinnati stunned No. 8 Kansas, UCLA upset No. 10 Illinois and No. 23 BYU took down No. 6 Iowa State. Full scoreboard.
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Detroit — Claressa Shields adjusted to an early onslaught from familiar rival Franchon Crews-Dezurn in their rematch Sunday to retain her undisputed heavyweight titles and stay undefeated (18-0, 3 KOs).
Brighton midfielder James Milner made his 654th career Premier League appearance in Saturday’s win over Brentford, breaking Gareth Barry’s record for the most in league history. The 40-year-old, who debuted in 2002, has played for six different clubs: Liverpool (230 caps), Manchester City (147), Aston Villa (100), Newcastle (94), Leeds (48) and Brighton (35).
Wild stat: 876 other players have made at least 100 Premier League appearances since Milner’s debut, and entering Saturday he’d played either with or against 875 of them. The only one who’d been missing? Brentford’s Nathan Collins, who came on as a sub in Saturday’s game.
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🏀 16 straight losses
The outlook isn’t brilliant in Sacramento, where the Kings have lost a franchise-worst 16 straight games while losing three players to season-ending injuries (Domantas Sabonis, Zach Lavine and De’Andre Hunter).
Tanking rankings: Sacramento’s futility comes amid a league-wide tanking epidemic, with over one-third of teams either trying to lose or simply not good enough to win. Where do the NBA-worst Kings (12-46) land in our tanking power rankings? Find out here.
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🎾 14 countries
Carlos Alcaraz dispatched Arthur Fils in just 50 minutes on Saturday in Doha to win the Qatar Open, giving the world No. 1 an ATP Tour victory in his 14th different country. At the age of 22. Three weeks after he completed the career Grand Slam.
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Trophy case: Alcaraz has now won 26 tour-level titles since 2021, with six coming in the U.S., four in the UK, four in Spain, two in France and one each in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, Croatia, Italy, Japan, Monaco, the Netherlands and Qatar.
🌹 45th season
UCLA won’t be leaving the Rose Bowl after all, with the school announcing on Saturday that it will play at least the 2026 season in the iconic Pasadena stadium it has called home for the last 44 years.
Backdrop: UCLA has been exploring a move to SoFi Stadium despite their Rose Bowl lease running through 2043. This prompted the city and stadium to sue the school for “irreparable harm,” and a court date is set for Friday.
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📺 Watchlist: Monday, Feb. 23
Cade Cunningham is powering the Pistons to their best season in decades. (David Jensen/Getty Images)
🏀 Spurs at Pistons
Two of the NBA’s best teams meet tonight in Detroit (7pm ET, Peacock), where the first-place Pistons (42-13), who’ve won five straight games, host the second-place Spurs (40-16), who’ve won eight straight games.
MVP watch: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (-140 at BetMGM) and Nikola Jokić (+310) are still the favorites, but Pistons star Cade Cunningham (+500) isn’t far behind. Victor Wembanyama (+2500) is a distant fourth, but you can’t count him out the way he and the Spurs are playing.
🏀 NCAA Basketball
No. 16 North Carolina hosts No. 21 Louisville in the first game of tonight’s doubleheader (7pm, ESPN), followed by No. 8 Kansas hosting No. 2 Houston in the nightcap (9pm, ESPN).
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Load management? Freshman Darryn Peterson has been sensational for Kansas, but he’s also missed — or exited early from — more than half of their games, leading some to question whether the potential No. 1 pick is protecting himself for the NBA Draft. “He hasn’t finished games,” said head coach Bill Self. “There is a way to change the narrative: Play. Finish.”
More to watch:
⚽️ EPL: Everton vs. Manchester United (3pm, USA) … United, riding a nine-game unbeaten streak in league play, will climb into the top four with a win or draw.
🏀 Unrivaled: Lunar Owls vs. Vinyl (7:30pm, TNT); Mist vs. Breeze (8:45pm, TNT) … Here are the standings entering the penultimate night of the regular season.
⛳️ TGL: Atlanta vs. Boston (5pm, ESPN); Atlanta vs. Los Angeles (9pm, ESPN2) … Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas, Tommy Fleetwood, and more are in action tonight.
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🏀 NBA trivia
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Pat Riley, whose bronze statue now sits outside the Lakers’ arena, is the fifth-winningest head coach in NBA history (1,210 wins).
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Question: Who are the only four head coaches with more wins?
Hint: Six combined NBA championships (five from one guy).
Answer at the bottom.
🇮🇹 That’s a wrap
The Olympic rings are displayed during the Closing Ceremony. (Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)
Trivia answer: Gregg Popovich (1,390 wins); Don Nelson (1,335); Lenny Wilkens (1,332); Jerry Sloan (1,221)
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After the 2025 NFL trade deadline passed, Breece Hall was the last man standing with the New York Jets. Hall watched as both Sauce Gardner and Quinnen Williams were traded away, making him the physical embodiment of that Will Smith gif from the end of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”
Hall finished out the season with the Jets and now has an opportunity for a change of scenery as well. If his comments Saturday are any indication, Hall seems very open to the possibility of playing elsewhere in the immediate future.
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When asked how he’s feeling about the Jets in the long term, Hall didn’t exactly commit to the franchise. He told the New York Post, “I don’t know,” before adding, “I’ve addressed this for the last six, seven months now. But now I’m just kind of like whatever happens, happens.”
It’s not the strongest response, though one that probably hints at Hall testing the free-agent waters. While Hall wasn’t traded at the deadline, there were rumors the Jets tried to move the 24-year-old running back. There were also rumors Hall wanted out of New York. Neither side got their wish, as Hall remained on the team.
That wasn’t Hall’s desired outcome, but he still turned in a solid season. Hall rushed for a career-high 1,065 yards in 2025, scoring four touchdowns. He also caught 36 passes for 350 yards and one receiving score. While Hall didn’t score much, it’s tough to put that on him. The Jets ranked 29th in points scored last season.
That’s been pretty consistent during Hall’s tenure with the team. In his four years with the Jets, the highest the team has ranked in points scored is 24th. A former second-round pick, Hall has shown potential but has constantly been saddled with terrible offensive environments.
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This offseason will provide him the chance to prove he’s been held back by poor situations. Hall is among the best running backs on the market, and could join a strong team ahead of the 2026 NFL season. With a stronger quarterback, and a better line, Hall might be on the verge of a true breakout season.
That feels … unlikely … to happen if he sticks with the Jets. New York appears deep in a rebuild after last year’s big free-agent signing Justin Fields failed to progress. The Jets pick second in the 2026 NFL Draft and could be looking to grab a quarterback with that pick. While some rookies have shown the ability to immediately lift a franchise like Jayden Daniels in his rookie year, that’s not the common experience (see: Caleb Williams and Drake Maye in their rookie seasons).
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Hall is definitely aware of that, and could prioritize going to a situation where he can both thrive and win games. He hasn’t done much of the latter over his career. Hall is just 22-46 since being drafted by the Jets.
After four years of losing, it certainly sounds like the running back is ready for a change.
The BBC has unveiled three new dramas coming to our screens in due course, including Shy & Lola with Hayley Squires and Bel Powley.
Shy & Lola, a new six-part drama for BBC iPlayer and BBC One, is written by award-winning screenwriter and novelist Amanda Coe (Apple Tree Yard, The Trial of Christine Keeler) and produced by multi-BAFTA and Emmy award-winning Clerkenwell Films (Baby Reindeer, The Death of Bunny Munro, The End of the F***ing World), part of BBC Studios.
The darkly comic story follows Shy and Lola, two very different women who are forced to become allies when a murder entangles them in the criminal underworld operating in Shy’s small coastal town in the North of England. Squires (The Night Manager, I, Daniel Blake) stars as Shy, a cleaner scraping by and dreaming of a new life in Portugal, with Powley (A Small Light,The Diary of a Teenage Girl) playing Lola, an ex-model-turned-grifter who arrives in town with trouble at her heels.
Filming on the show, based on the French television drama Cheyenne and Lola, will begin this spring in and around the U.K. cities of Hull and Leeds.
Also announced on Monday is D-Notice from writers and executive producers Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn. The six-part British political thriller is set in the world of investigative journalism. Patterson and Lawn are said to “have some experience of” the D-notice mechanism, which allows the government to advise journalists about national security. Now, they’ve come up with a drama that looks at how truth and power speak to one another. It is their third project for the BBC, following The Salisbury Poisonings and Blue Lights, and their first commission from production company Hot Sauce Pictures, backed by Sony Pictures Television.
The BBC has also commissioned 1536, a new drama series for BBC iPlayer and BBC One, based on Ava Pickett’s play of the same name. The eight-part show written by Pickett from Drama Republic (Riot Women, One Day) is set in the heart of Tudor England against the backdrop of Anne Boleyn’s arrest and weaves royal scandal with rural struggle.
1536 centers around Anna, Mariella, and Jane: three young women gossiping, arguing, and dreaming in an Essex village, desperately waiting for their lives to start. When the news reaches them that King Henry VIII has had his Queen, Anne Boleyn, arrested, the three of them never suspect that this act will change their lives forever.
Pickett said: “1536 is something I am immensely proud of and I feel so lucky and privileged to have the chance to bring Anna, Jane and Mariella to a wider audience and to build out their lives even more. In a world where every decision made in the corridors of power ricochets through all of our lives, this story feels more relevant than ever. I’m so grateful to Lindsay Salt for being such a champion of it from the start.”
Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama, added: “From the moment we saw Ava’s play we knew that we had to have the TV version on the BBC. Visceral, funny, provocative, timely and full of courage, this is a piece of work like no other. Ava is an exceptional voice, so we feel very lucky to be working with her and the brilliant team at Drama Republic to bring three iconic female characters to the screen.”
Executive producers are Jude Liknaitzky, Roanna Benn, Rebecca de Souza, Chloe Beeson and Pickett. The series was commissioned by Salt.
