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Saturday, September 10, 2016

UFC 203 fight card: Start time and TV schedule for Miocic vs. Overeem

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Stipe Miocic and Alistair Overeem are set to throw down, but many eyes will be watching on Saturday for the debut of CM Punk.

A heavyweight bought between Stipe Miocic and Alistair Overeem is set to headline UFC 203: Stipe vs. Miocic on Saturday, but the card is packed with intrigue. Miocic will be defending the UFC Heavyweight Championship against Overeem, and is riding a three-fight win streak.

This will be Miocic"s first title defense since he won it over Fabricio Werdum. Overeem, who lost three of his first five UFC fights, is on a four-fight win streak with the organization and has rebounded nicely.

Another pair of heavyweights, Travis Browne and Werdum, will face off in the penultimate match on Saturday"s main card. But the third match on the card is making the biggest headlines due to the fact that it will be the MMA debut of former WWE performer CM Punk.

Punk is trying his hand at MMA, and the UFC is giving him a spot on the main card for his debut. He"ll be facing Micky Gall, a fighter with a 2-0 record but one who is favored over Punk due to that experience. Punk has been practicing for his debut for well over a year, but Gall has already stepped into a ring and fought, something Punk cannot say.

The main card will also feature Urijah Faber in a bantamweight bout against Jimmie Rivera, and a women"s straweight contest between Jessica Andrade and Joanne Calderwood. A match between Jessica Eye and Bethe Correia headlines the preliminary card.

Previously, the card was supposed to feature Ray Borg and Ian McCall on the preliminary card, but Borg sustained an injury and had to bow out. Werdum was originally set to face Ben Rothwell, but Rothwell had to pull out due to injury. Browne originally lost a unanimous decision to Werdum back in 2014 at UFC on Fox: Werdum vs. Browne.

Saturday"s pay-per-view main card is set for 10 p.m. ET. The night of fights will start, as usual, on the subscription service UFC Fight Pass at 6:30 p.m. After a pair of fights, FOX Sports 1 will pick up coverage for the remainder of the preliminary card at 8 p.m. until the pay-per-view card begins.

You can watch the entire card online via UFC.TV, the UFC"s YouTube channel and via UFC apps on the current generation of game consoles and other smart devices. Below is a look at the full fight card and links to all you need to watch the action.

All times Eastern

Main Card (PPV, 10 p.m.)

Stipe Miocic vs. Alistair Overeem
Travis Browne vs. Fabricio Werdum
Mickey Gall vs. CM Punk
Urijah Faber vs. Jimmie Rivera
Jessica Andrade vs. Joanne Calderwood

Preliminary Card (FOX Sports 1, 8 p.m.)

Bethe Correia vs. Jessica Eye
Michael McBride vs. Nik Lentz
Caio Magalhaes vs. Brad Tavares
CB Dollaway vs. Francimar Barroso

Preliminary Card (Fight Pass, 6:30 p.m.)

Yancy Medeiros vs. Sean Spencer
Drew Dober vs. Jason Gonzalez

UFC 203: Miocic vs. Overeem schedule and coverage for Saturday

Time: Prelims 1 - 6:30 p.m., Prelims 2 - 8 p.m., Main Card - 10 p.m.

Location: Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, Ohio

TV: Fox Sports 1 (Prelims 2), PPV (Main Card)

Online Stream: UFC Fight Pass, UFC.TV, UFC YouTube

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Friday, September 9, 2016

How to watch 2016 college football, Week 2: TV schedule, streaming, and the "best" games

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Good morning! This is the Read Option, your daily college football newsletter. Sign up for this in your inbox! Below, you"ll find TV/streaming info for every FBS game of this weekend, in a chart showing you what to watch when.

College football"s opening weekend was great, wasn"t it? Five or seven days, depending on your calculations, with a handful of games we"ll all remember all the way through the end of the season. Four matchups between ranked teams, the highest Week 1 total in more than a decade! What could possibly go wrong?

Week 2 is what could go wrong. All the bad games were shoved into this weekend in order to make the opening to-do a real spectacle. The NFL also starts up this weekend, meaning college football retreats into a corner for a few days.

There are good games, interesting games, and games that will go so sideways they"ll be watchable. There just aren"t very many of them. That"s OK, though, because if you follow the plan below, you"ll enjoy the whole thing just fine. And as always, something completely bonkers will happen.

In each time slot, I"ve forced myself to pick at least one WATCH THIS game. Otherwise, games are sorted based on a subjective assessment of stakes, competitiveness, and entertainment value ... and this week, everything"s graded on a curve.

Thursday

Mercifully, Week 2 will give you time to prepare yourself. There are no FBS games and no games on national TV, and the NFL is starting anyway.

Friday

UofL vs. Cuse should be pretty fun. Lamar Jackson vs. a Dino Babers offense, with the stronger team having to go on the road? That might be one of the best Friday games of the year, and might be the best chance all week for a ranked team to lose. Or the Orange might get rocked.

Elsewhere, Maryland"s on Extremely Weird Road Game Upset Alert.

Saturday

	WATCH THIS	Maybe watch this	This is a football game
8 p.m. ET	#13 Louisville at Syracuse ESPN2, WatchESPN	Maryland at FIU CBSSN

Lemme explain the MUST-WATCH picks:

Penn State and Pitt are decent Power 5 teams that hate each other and don"t get to play all that often these days. That"s the only storyline of national interest in the entire early block.

Western Kentucky-Alabama gets top billing over similar-sounding games in a desperate middle shift -- I have to pick something -- because Conference USA favorite WKU can ball, especially on offense. The Hilltoppers will have a better final margin against Alabama than USC did, and you tuned in for that game without complaining.

Business picks up, relatively, later. Arkansas-TCU is one of the season"s best non-conference games, tempered quite a bit by both teams struggling against weak competition in Week 1. According to Vegas, this is the best ranked game of the week, as the Frogs are only favored by six points.

Georgia Southern-South Alabama could be one of the Sun Belt"s biggest and best games of the year, considering USA beat Mississippi State last week. Or maybe MSU is just very bad.

Here"s why you should watch ¡El Assico!, and it"s the same article as last year and next year.

Here"s why you should watch BYU-Utah. This is an actual story that does not insult an entire state.

Here"s why you should watch Tennessee-Virginia Tech:

TTU-ASU should be one of the most combustible night games of the year, pairing the most stereotypically all-offense, no-defense Big 12 team with one of #Pac12AfterDark"s repeat offenders. They should"ve been rivals all along.

Finally, Washington State at Boise State will be good, based on the precedent of Wazzu being extra dangerous against competent teams after it"s lost an FCS game.

Enjoy the many good moments sure to arise, and then we get a much, much better Week 3. We can do this.

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Noon ET	Penn State at Pitt ESPN, WatchESPN	Rice at Army CBSSN	UCF at #5 Michigan ABC, WatchESPN
						NC State at East Carolina ESPNU, WatchESPN	Lamar at #6 Houston WatchESPN
		Wyoming at Nebraska ESPN2, WatchESPN	Nicholls at #9 Georgia SEC Network, WatchESPN
						Cincinnati at Purdue ESPN, WatchESPN (Yeah, it"s that rough)	Prairie View A&M at #20 Texas A&M SEC Network, WatchESPN
			CMU at #22 Oklahoma State FS1, FOX Sports GO
							Indiana State at Minnesota ESPNews, WatchESPN
			Howard at Rutgers BTN, BTN2GO
							Boston College at UMass WatchESPN
12:30 p.m. ET			Troy at #2 Clemson ACC Network, WatchESPN
							Charleston SU at #3 Florida State ACC Network, WatchESPN
1 p.m. ET			Stony Brook at Temple WatchESPN
				2 p.m. ET		Georgia State at Air Force CampusInsiders.com (Because of these clothes)	Youngstown State at West Virginia ROOT Sports Pittsburgh
		Utah State at USC Pac-12 Networks, P12N Live
				2:30 p.m. ET		Ohio at Kansas FSN, FOX Sports Go (What? KU is favored!)
3 p.m.			Mercer at Georgia Tech ACC Network, WatchESPN
				3:30 p.m.	WKU at #1 Alabama ESPN2, WatchESPN	Tulsa at #4 Ohio State ABC, WatchESPN	Akron at #10 Wisconsin BTN, BTN2GO
		SMU at #23 Baylor FS1, FOX Sports Go	Nevada at #18 Notre Dame NBC, NBCSports.com
						Kentucky at Florida CBS, CBSSports.com (Very high Debacle Factor)	ODU at Appalachian State WatchESPN
		UConn at Navy CBSSN	North Dakota at Bowling Green WatchESPN
							Wake Forest at Duke ESPNU, WatchESPN
			Eastern Illinois at Miami (Ohio) WatchESPN
							Illinois State at Northwestern BTN, BTN2GO
4 p.m. ET		Ball State at Indiana ESPNews, WatchESPN	Wofford at #19 Ole Miss SEC Network, Watch ESPN
							UTSA at Colorado State CampusInsiders.com
			MTSU at Vanderbilt SEC Network, WatchESPN
				5 p.m. ET			Idaho at #8 Washington Pac-12 Network, P12N Live
5:30 p.m. ET			Idaho State at Colorado Pac-12 Network, P12N Live
				6 p.m. ET		FAU at #25 Miami ACC Network, WatchESPN	Elon at Charlotte ConferenceUSA.com
			NC A&T at Kent State WatchESPN
							Morgan State at Marshall beIN Sports
7 p.m. ET	Arkansas at #15 TCU ESPN, WatchESPN	South Carolina at Mississippi State ESPN2, WatchESPN	UTEP at #11 Texas Longhorn Network, WatchESPN
					Georgia Southern-South Alabama WatchESPN	NIU at USF CBSSN	ULM at #14 Oklahoma SoonerSports.com
			McNeese State at UL Lafayette WatchESPN
							SCSU at Louisiana Tech ConferenceUSA.com
			Bethune-Cookman at North Texas ConferenceUSA.com
							Savannah State at Southern Miss TBA
			Maine at Toledo WatchESPN
							NC Central at Western Michigan WatchESPN
7:30 p.m. ET	¡El Assico! (ISU at #16 Iowa) BTN, BTN2GO	Arkansas State at Auburn SEC Network, WatchESPN	EMU at Missouri SEC Network, WatchESPN
					BYU at Utah FOX, FOX Sports Go	North Carolina at Illinois BTN, BTN2GO	Jacksonville State at #21 LSU ESPNU, WatchESPN
8 p.m. ET	#17 Tennessee vs. Virginia Tech ABC, WatchESPN	New Mexico at New Mexico State WatchESPN (Yes, I will overrate any rivalry)	Southern at Tulane WatchESPN
							UNLV at UCLA Pac-12 Network, P12N Live
10 p.m. ET	Texas Tech at Arizona State FS1, FOX Sports Go		Sac State at Fresno State TBA
				10:15 p.m. ET	Washington State at Boise State ESPN2, WatchESPN
10:30 p.m. ET		Cal at San Diego State CBSSN	Virginia at #24 Oregon ESPN, WatchESPN
				10:45 p.m. ET			Grambling State at Arizona Pac-12 Network, P12N Live
Midnight ET			UT Martin at Hawaii Oceanic PPV

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

US Open 2016: Bracket, schedule and scores for men"s draw

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Can Novak Djokovic recover from an early Olympics exit by taking the US Open?

Andy Murray came out on top at the recent Rio Olympics, prevailing in the gold medal match over Juan Martin Del Potro. That makes two singles gold medals in a row for Murray, who also won at the London 2012 Olympics. Del Potro took bronze in those games, and was a surprise contender in this year"s Games.

Del Potro shocked everyone when he upset Novak Djokovic, the top seed, in the opening round in Rio and went on all the way to the final, dropping Rafael Nadal along the way. Now Del Potro will enter the US Open unseeded, fresh off a silver medal win and playing some of the best tennis of his career. Can he continue his run, and maybe put up something close to 2009, when he won the tournament?

Murray is the second seed, and he once again has to consider the chance of meeting Djokovic in the finals, though that"s a long way off yet. Nadal is also in the tournament and in the discussion, while Roger Federer is unfortunately not participating. Federer is missing the US Open for the first time since 1999.

How the US Open will shake out is anybody"s guess. So many players are playing great tennis right now and it should be a good one. Below, we will have an updated bracket and schedule throughout the tournament. Television coverage will be carried by ESPN and ESPN2, with live streams available via WatchESPN.

Bracket

Bracket taken from the official US Open website.

How to watch the tournament

The tournament"s broadcast schedule is much the same as it was last year, its first year of running exclusively on the ESPN family of networks. Coverage will typically begin between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on most days, and will run all through the day. Coverage will be shared across ESPN and ESPN2 throughout. Live streams of all matches will be available via WatchESPN online.

Go to SB Nation"s tennis hub for recaps and in-depth how to watch information each day. Below is a full look at the start and end times each day and which channel you can find the coverage on. All times are Eastern.

Schedule

Day 1: Monday, Aug. 29 (recap)

No. 1 Novak Djokovic def. Jerzy Janowicz, 6-3, 5-7, 6-2, 6-1
No. 4 Rafael Nadal def. Denis Istomin, 6-1, 6-4, 6-2
No. 5 Milos Raonic def. Dustin Brown, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4
No. 7 Marin Cilic def. Rogerio Dutra Silva, 6-4, 7-5, 6-1
No. 9 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga def. Guido Andreozzi, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4
No. 10. Gael Monfils def. Gilles Muller, 6-4, 6-2, 7-6(5)
Kyle Edmund def. No. 13 Richard Gasquet, 6-2, 6-2, 6-3
No. 15 Roberto Bautista Agut def. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, 7-6, 6-1, 6-7(5), 7-6(3)
No. 18 Pablo Cuevas def. Dudi Sela, 6-3, 6-2, 0-6, 5-7, 6-3
No. 20 John Isner def. Frances Tiafoe, 3-6, 4-6, 7-6(5), 6-2, 7-6(3)
No. 23 Kevin Anderson def. Yoshihito Nishioka, 6-3, 7-5, 6-4
No. 24 Lucas Pouille def. Mikhail Kukushkin, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2
No. 26 Jack Sock def. Taylor Fritz, 7-6(3), 7-5, 3-6, 1-6, 6-4
Mikhail Youzhny def. No. 28 Martin Klizan, 6-2, 6-1, 6-1
No. 31 Albert Ramos-Vinolas def. Julien Benneteau, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3, 2-6, 6-1
No. 32 Benoit Paire def. Dusan Lajovic, 6-2, 2-6, 3-6, 7-5, 6-1

Day 2: Tuesday, Aug. 30

No. 2 Andy Murray vs. Lukas Rosol
No. 3 Stan Wawrinka def. Fernando Verdasco, 7-6(4), 6-4, 6-4
No. 6 Kei Nishikori def. Benjamin Becker, 6-1, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3
No. 8 Dominic Thiem vs. John Millman
No. 11 David Ferrer def. Alexandr Dolgopolov, 6-5 (ret.)
Jared Donaldson def. No. 12 David Goffin, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4, 6-0
No. 14 Nick Kyrgios vs. Aljaz Bedene
No. 16 Feliciano Lopez def. Borna Coric, 3-4 (ret.)
Damir Dzumhur def. No. 17 Bernard Tomic, 6-4, 6-3, 4-6, 7-6(0)
No. 19 Steve Johnson vs. Evgeny Donskoy
No. 21 Ivo Karlovic def. Yen-Hsun Lu, 4-6, 7-6(4), 6-7(4), 7-6(5), 7-5
No. 22 Grigor Dimitrov def. Inigo Cervantes, 6-2, 6-4, 7-6(7)
Nicolas Mahut def. No. 25 Philipp Kohlschreiber, 6-3, 7-5, 1-0 (ret.)
No. 27 Alexander Zverev def. Daniel Brands, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, 7-6(4)
Janko Tipsarevic def. No. 29 Sam Querrey, 7-6(4), 6-7(0), 6-3, 6-3
No. 30 Gilles Simon def. Radek Stepanek, 6-3, 6-1, 6-4
Juan Martin Del Potro def. Diego Schwartzman, 6-4, 6-4, 7-6(3)

Day 3: Wednesday, Aug. 31

No. 1 Novak Djokovic vs. Jiri Vesely
No. 4 Rafael Nadal vs. Andreas Seppi
No. 5 Milos Raonic vs. Ryan Harrison
No. 7 Marin Cilic vs. Sergiy Stakhovsky
No. 9 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga vs. James Duckworth
No. 10 Gael Monfils vs. Jan Satral
No. 15 Roberto Bautista Agut vs. Federico Delbonis
No. 18 Pablo Cuevas vs. Nicolas Almagro
No. 20 John Isner vs. Steve Darcis
No. 23 Kevin Anderson vs. Vasek Pospisil
No. 24 Lucas Pouille vs. Marco Chiudinelli
No. 26 Jack Sock vs. Mischa Zverev
No. 31 Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Andrey Kuznetsov
No. 32 Benoit Paire vs. Marcos Baghdatis

Day 4: Thursday, Sept. 1

Second-round play

Day 5: Friday, Sept. 2

Third-round play

Day 6: Saturday, Sept. 3

Third-round play

Day 7: Sunday, Sept. 4

Round of 16 play

Day 8: Monday, Sept. 5

Round of 16 play

Day 9: Tuesday, Sept. 6

Quarterfinals play

Day 10: Wednesday, Sept. 7

Quarterfinals play

Day 11: Thursday, Sept. 8

Women"s semifinals

Day 12: Friday, Sept. 9

Men"s semifinals

Day 13: Saturday, Sept. 10

Women"s final

Day 14: Sunday, Sept. 11

Men"s final

* * *

Something bad is going to happen to this ball boy

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Day	Round	Start	End	Network
Aug. 29	First	1 p.m.	6 p.m.	ESPN
Aug. 29	First	6 p.m.	11 p.m.	ESPN2
Aug. 30	First	1 p.m.	11 p.m.	ESPN
Aug. 31	Second	1 p.m.	6 p.m.	ESPN
Aug. 31	Second	6 p.m.	11 p.m.	ESPN2
Sept. 1	Second	1 p.m.	6 p.m.	ESPN
Sept. 1	Second	6 p.m.	11 p.m.	ESPN2
Sept. 2	Third	1 p.m.	6 p.m.	ESPN
Sept. 2	Third	6 p.m.	11 p.m.	ESPN2
Sept. 3	Third	11 a.m.	11 p.m.	ESPN2
Sept. 4	Round of 16	11 a.m.	11 p.m.	ESPN2
Sept. 5	Round of 16	11 a.m.	11 p.m.	ESPN2
Sept. 6	Quarterfinals	12 p.m.	11 p.m.	ESPN
Sept. 7	Quarterfinals	12 p.m.	6 p.m.	ESPN
Sept. 7	Quarterfinals	7 p.m.	11 p.m.	ESPN2
Seot, 8	Women"s Semifinals	7 p.m.	11 p.m.	ESPN
Sept. 9	Mixed Doubles Final	12 p.m.	2 p.m.	ESPN2
Sept. 9	Men"s Semifinals	3 p.m.	11 p.m.	ESPN
Sept. 10	Women"s Final	4 p.m.	7 p.m.	ESPN
Sept. 11	Men"s Final	4 p.m.	7 p.m.	ESPN

US Open 2016 Schedule: Wednesday Order of Play & TV Info

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Second-round play at the U.S. Open gets underway Wednesday at Flushing Meadows.

On the men’s side, world No. 1 Novak Djokovic continues his quest for his third major of the year against Jiri Vesely, while No. 4 seed Rafael Nadal takes on Italian Andreas Seppi.

No. 2 Angelique Kerber highlights the women’s action with a match against Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, while No. 3 Garbine Muguruza and last year’s U.S. Open finalist Roberta Vinci are also in action.

Here’s a complete look at Wednesday’s schedule, along with everything you need to know to watch:

US Open Day 3 Viewing Info

Date: Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Start Time: 11 a.m. ET

TV Channel, USA: ESPN

TV Channel, UK: Sky Sports & British EuroSport

TV Channel, Elsewhere: You can click here for broadcasters from other countries around the world

Live Stream, USA: WatchESPN or Sling TV

Live Stream, UK: SkySports.com or EuroSport Player

US Open Day 3 Schedule of Play

Arthur Ashe Stadium

Note: First match starts at 11 a.m. ET. Matches are listed in chronological order. You can click here for the complete schedule of play for every court

Women’s Round 2: (14) Petra Kvitova vs. Cagla Buyukakcay

Women’s Round 2: Caroline Wozniacki vs. (9) Svetlana Kuznetsova

Men’s Round 2: (1) Novak Djokovic vs. Jiri Vesely

Women’s Round 2: Anastasjia Sevastova vs. (3) Garbine Muguruza, starts at 7 p.m. ET

Men’s Round 2: (4) Rafael Nadal vs. Andreas Seppi

Louis Armstrong Stadium

Note: First match starts at 11 a.m. ET. Matches are listed in chronological order. You can click here for the complete schedule of play for every court

Women’s Round 2: (7) Roberta Vinci vs. Christina McHale

Men’s Round 2: (20) John Isner vs. Steve Darcis

Women’s Round 2: Mirjana Lucic-Baroni vs. (2) Angelique Kerber

Men’s Round 2: (26) Jack Sock vs. Mischa Zverev

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Tuesday, August 30, 2016

ESPN"s calling this the best Week 1 CFB schedule ever. Well, it"s close enough for now!

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College football fans have had 2016’s opening weekend schedule circled for about a year and a half now. As non-conference games like Alabama-USC joined games like LSU-Wisconsin, and with Houston-Oklahoma gaining Playoff ramifications thanks to the Cougars’ rise, it became clear that something special was happening.

As of a few days ago, ESPN’s now repeatedly billing it as the greatest college football opening weekend ever.

It’s a very good weekend. It has four games between AP Top 25-ranked teams (LSU-Wisconsin, Georgia-North Carolina, Bama-USC, FSU-Ole Miss) and at least half a dozen other games that anybody anywhere should be interested in.

But best ever? Nah.

CBS Sports found four seasons since just 1985 with at least as many ranked-vs.-ranked games in Week 1. 1998 had double as many. And while spreading all this across five nights sounds nice and means Notre Dame-Texas and FSU-Ole Miss don’t get thrown on during other big games, the best game before Saturday is ... uh ... Kansas State-Stanford?

What is special here: we’re getting back to the way the sport should work. Good teams should play good teams from other parts of the country before bowl season.

What’s changed?

For one thing, in 2006, the NCAA started allowing each team to play a 12-game schedule every year. Most teams added cupcake opponents. Colleges like easy wins and home-game profits, and every team now has room for plenty of those per year.

One of the College Football Playoff’s stated goals is to encourage teams to play tougher schedules. Athletic directors talk about the perceived pressure to arrange quality matchups (because fans can’t yell at you if your coach can’t handle the elite schedule you gave him, at least for a while), the Big Ten and SEC have mandated their teams to play at least one Power 5 non-conference opponent per season, and neutral-sites have emerged as a way to make better games happen. So sure, the Playoff’s helped.

Probably more important, though: ESPN’s investment in college football. Kurt Dargis, ESPN’s director of programming and acquisitions, in an interview with Saturday Blitz:

It’s kind of a three-party process between the schools, the organizers and us. It takes about that long to get these done. There are some big headliner games beyond this season which we’ve already begun working on. Next year we have Michigan and Florida in Arlington. Alabama is playing Florid State in Atlanta on Saturday and Tennessee is playing Georgia Tech in Atlanta on Monday night. BYU is playing LSU in Houston…so, we’re working on those games in the outer years and our goal is always to have those things done two, three or four years ahead of time.

He’s talking specifically about kickoff times and which networks to put these games on, but there’s no question that ESPN’s influence throughout the sport has helped push schools toward games worthy of opening-weekend spotlights. And when ESPN helps make a good weekend, as ESPN"s done here, ESPN will let you know about it. That"s fine!

(Those "12th games" are arriving in Week 2 this year, by the way, with likely no games between AP-ranked teams. Week 3 looks great, though!)

Elsewhere

Bill is cranking through advanced conference predictions, with detailed win projections for each team. The ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, Independents, Mountain West, Pac-12, and SEC are up, with the rest coming today.

Jim Harbaugh tried to answer a question about Colin Kaepernick. Let’s just say he ended up having to tweet through it.

South Carolina got its highest-rated commit in years, and Bud explains why it’s an even bigger deal than it sounds.

Let’s talk through the 2016 season #narratives we’re already sick of! The comments are mostly people arguing about whether the SEC’s overrated or not, so I think the king of all arguments is still the king.

It’s not easy to see how Auburn beats Clemson, other than Jordan-Hare madness or whatever.

Urban Meyer doesn’t agree with a player’s year-long suspension, meaning it was a school rule of some sort.

If Tyrone Swoopes were to have some big moments as Texas’ starting QB this year, that would be pretty neat.

Hell yeah. Noel Devine, producer of some of the greatest highlight videos ever, is returning to WVU to finish his degree.

PREVIOUS: Combining Boston College’s defense and Texas Tech’s offense would give you the country’s best team. Combining their other units would give you the worst.

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2016 US Open: Bracket, schedule and scores for women"s draw

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Can Serena Williams keep her No. 1 ranking?

Serena Williams held on to her world No. 1 ranking when Angelique Kerber failed to take the recent title in Cincinnati, but four different women could emerge from the US Open — the final Grand Slam of 2016 — with the ranking, depending on how things finish.

Williams earned her 22nd Grand Slam singles title earlier this year, putting herself into a tie with Steffi Graf for the most of any woman in the Open Era. She also stands to tie Graf"s record for longest time with the No. 1 ranking if she makes it through the US Open still on top of the standings.

But the year hasn"t been completely kind to Williams, who lost to Kerber in the finals of the Australian Open and Garbiñe Muguruza in the finals of the French Open at Roland Garros.

For years, Maria Sharapova had been the No. 2 woman in the world, but with her suspension the void has been filled by a rejuvenated Kerber, a surging Agnieszka Radwańska and, of course, Muguruza. Serena"s sister, Venus Williams, is also playing well in 2016 and another American woman, Madison Keys, is also doing quite well for herself.

The Rio Olympics are in the rearview mirror, and the Williams sisters will be glad for it as they were both eliminated from singles and doubles play early on. Monica Puig, who holds the No. 32 seed here at the US Open, won the women"s singles gold medal, upsetting Kerber in the final.

Throughout the US Open, we"ll be providing schedules, recaps and more below. The tournament will run through Sept. 11 and will be broadcast primarily on ESPN and ESPN2. Below is all you need to know about the tournament, updated daily.