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FCS Score Predictions – Week 4: EKU-The Citadel, Missouri State-UCA
The HERO Sports FCS Pick-Em Challenge is back for the 2020 fall/2021 spring season. Brian McLaughlin and Sam Herder will predict scores of FCS vs. FCS games this fall and the top games in the spring with the FCS Pick Em Championship...
2020 FCS Jersey Countdown: 3 — The Best Player Who Wears No. 3 Is EWU’s Eric Barriere
Welcome to the 2020 FCS Jersey Countdown. Throughout the May-September months, HERO Sports is going to name the best returning FCS player by jersey number, 99-1. Due to rosters being updated at different times for teams across the country and to keep things...
Betnijah Laney Earns WNBA Most Improved Player Following Breakout Season
Following one of the greatest breakout seasons we've ever seen, Atlanta Dream guard-forward Betnijah Laney has been named the 2020 WNBA Most Improved Player the league announced today. Laney earned 25 of the 47 total votes from a panel of...
WNBA Players Team Up With Rock The Vote to Launch Hoopers Vote Initiative
The Women's National Basketball Players Association and players of the WNBA announced today the partnership with Rock the Vote, NBA players, coaches, national media on a new initiative called Hoopers Vote. The announcement comes in the middle of National Voter...
Candace Parker Earns 2020 WNBA Defensive Player of the Year
Candace Parker has been named the 2020 WNBA Defensive Player of the Year the league announced today. Parker earned 16 votes from a total of 47 from a national panel of sportswriters and broadcasters. Seattle Storm forward Alysha Clark finished...
2020 FCS Jersey Countdown: 4 — The Best Player Who Wears No. 4 Is Brown’s EJ Perry
Welcome to the 2020 FCS Jersey Countdown. Throughout the May-September months, HERO Sports is going to name the best returning FCS player by jersey number, 99-1. Due to rosters being updated at different times for teams across the country and to keep things...
Way-Too-Early 2021 Spring FCS Playoff Predictions
The 2021 spring FCS playoff format has been approved. The one-time format will be a unique one. Sixteen teams are in the bracket instead of 24. The typical 10 automatic conference bids have increased to 11 with the MEAC participating....
Spring FCS Playoff Format Approved
The DI Board of Directors approved plans for fall championships being held in the spring, including the FCS playoffs. The FCS bracket will be reduced from 24 to 16 teams with the selection happening on Sunday, April 18. The first...
2020 FCS Jersey Countdown: 5 — The Best Player Who Wears No. 5 Is NDSU’s Trey Lance
Welcome to the 2020 FCS Jersey Countdown. Throughout the May-September months, HERO Sports is going to name the best returning FCS player by jersey number, 99-1. Due to rosters being updated at different times for teams across the country and to keep things...
2020 FCS Jersey Countdown: 6 — The Best Player Who Wears No. 6 Is JSU’s Zerrick Cooper
Welcome to the 2020 FCS Jersey Countdown. Throughout the May-September months, HERO Sports is going to name the best returning FCS player by jersey number, 99-1. Due to rosters being updated at different times for teams across the country and to keep things...
WNBA Semifinals Continue Tuesday Following Additional Testing
Sundays postponed Semifinal matchup between the Seattle Storm and Minnesota Lynx has been rescheduled for tonight at 9:00pm ET. Game 1 between the Lynx and Storm was postponed following inconclusive COVID-19 test results with the Seattle players. The league announced...
Dearica Hamby Named Sixth Woman of the Year
For the second consecutive season, Las Vegas Aces forward Dearica Hamby has been named WNBA Sixth Woman of the Year the league announced on Sunday. Hamby averaged 13.0 points, 7.1 rebounds, 2.7 assists in 28.3 minutes per game. She came...
Semifinals Preview: Lynx vs. Storm
The 2020 WNBA Semifinals are upon us after single-elimination first and second rounds. The Connecticut Sun steam rolled the Chicago Sky and Los Angeles Sparks in rounds one and two playing the best basketball of the season earning their second...
WNBA Semifinals Preview: Sun vs. Aces
The 2020 WNBA Semifinals are upon us after single-elimination first and second rounds. The Connecticut Sun steam rolled the Chicago Sky and Los Angeles Sparks in rounds one and two playing the best basketball of the season earning their second...
Eastern Kentucky cherishes rare chance to complete 2020 fall season
BY DANIEL STEENKAMER HERO Sports Correspondent One might think, after last Saturday’s 56-10 setback at Power 5 West Virginia dropped their record to 0-2, that the Eastern Kentucky Colonels would hang their heads as they trod back into their tunnel,...