Now, you see wrestling virtually every day of the week either on television or online, and it’s hard to decipher what’s going on with the parts constantly changing. MORE: Juice Robinson explains benefits of New Japan over WWE One storyline, though, has given hope to the art not being totally lost, as a nearly one-year build is set to culminate Saturday evening in the main event from the historic Cow Palace in San Francisco at New Japan Pro Wrestling’s G1 Special when Cody challenges Kenny Omega for the IWGP heavyweight championship (8 p....

As a result of wanting to resolve the mental conflict of cognitive dissonance, people might either change their behavior or ignore information that goes against their desires and goals. For example, the smoker might either quit smoking or rationalize their smoking by saying other habits are just as dangerous. Cognitive dissonance theory, which was founded by American social psychologist Leon Festinger in 1957, states that cognitive dissonance drives people to resolve the conflict between truths and behaviors that don’t match one another....

The Tar Heels could survive each of the first three defeats. Ohio State holds the No. 1 rating at KenPom.com, so falling to the Buckeyes was no shame. Virginia is the reigning NCAA champion and has the nation’s highest-rated defense by a significant margin. The Wofford game was at home, and this is not the same team that dominated the Southern Conference and advanced in the 2019 NCAA Tournament, but the Heels were playing that game without Anthony....

Transcript courtesy of the San Francisco Chronicle. Why did you choose to do this? People don’t realize what’s really going on in this country. There are a lot things that are going on that are unjust. People aren’t being held accountable for. And that’s something that needs to change. That’s something that this country stands for freedom, liberty and justice for all. And it’s not happening for all right now....

In Kaepernick’s most recent post, he shared footage of himself working out with Odell Beckham Jr. and throwing deep balls to the Browns star receiver. “From putting in work predraft, to staying ready against the odds! Love to my Brother @obj,” Kaepernick tweeted Wednesday. The video opens with a graphic that reads, “Denied work for 917 days,” marking the last time he played in the NFL in December 2016. He released a similar video last month, sending a message to teams that he’s “still ready....

Kaepernick was scheduled to conduct an NFL-sanctioned workout for all teams in Atlanta in November 2019, but that ended up much smaller in scale. He threw in front of scouts representing only eight teams during a public session conducted at a local high school. Given the lateness in the season plus the late venue change, what little renewed chance Kaepernick had to land with a new team evaporated. The current offseason landscape gives Kaepernick a better chance at playing in the NFL again....

There will be March. There will be plenty in between that will be uncomfortable, disruptive and unprecedented — just like every other sport, professional or collegiate, that has returned to competition since the summer. MORE: Meet SN’s college basketball preseason All-Americans There are 353 teams in the NCAA’s Division I — wait, no, that was last season. We’re up to 357. It is a massive enterprise comprising more than 4,200 athletes and 1,400 coaches....

Notre Dame 104, Louisville 101, 5 OTs. The Irish’s win of a marathon affair in February didn’t faze the Cardinals on the way to a national title, but it still qualified as the game of the year. The stat lines of the game: Eric Atkins played 60 of the 65 minutes and scored 14 points for Notre Dame, and Chane Behanan scored 30 points and had 15 rebounds in 56 minutes for Louisville....

On Saturday, the Tigers face their first Top-25 opponent of the campaign when they host No.12 ranked Texas A&M in a rematch of what was arguably one of the best matches of 2018. In September last year Clemson beat Texas A&M 28-26 in College Station, Texas. Down 21-6, the Aggies rallied back and were a missed two-point conversion away from tying the game in the closing stages. Their task this weekend is altogether more difficult....

That is par for the course for what has been an unprecedented college football season played through the COVID-19 pandemic. Several teams have accepted bowl bids, and SMU will play UTSA in the Tropical Care Smoothie Bowl on Saturday. MORE: Eight College Football Playoff scenarios That is the start of what promises to be a bowl season that will include teams opting out and bowl ties being tested from now until the College Football Playoff championship game....

My flippant answer: “I couldn’t tell my good friend Randy Evans (the U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg) that his beloved Georgia Bulldogs would not be playing in Athens this fall, so yes, we will have college football.” Then I got to thinking about the question. It is a commentary on the dominance of the dire, defeatist public health pundits that whether there will be football more than 100 days from now could even be a question....

At 3:30 p.m. ET, Alabama, the No. 5 team in the College Football Playoff rankings, hosts No. 1 Mississippi State. Action has been on the Crimson Tide, Matty Simo reports from Las Vegas , driving the line up. Florida State’s No. 3 ranking is also in a precarious spot, as the Seminoles travel to rival Miami as very short favorites. Those two games are just scratching the surface of Saturday’s nearly endless wagering opportunities, and The Linemakers, a group of former sports book operators with dozens of years of collective experience making odds and handicapping games in Vegas, offer our opinions and picks on several more games on tap....

Now, the Bulldogs are facing another question as they revel in their glory: Can they do it again next season? Sportsbooks apparently like their chances, as Georgia (+200) opened as co-favorites to win a national title in 2022, per odds from FanDuel Sportsbook. DECOURCY: Final scoring drive an emphatic ending to Georgia’s drought The Bulldogs may need to rebuild their stellar defense a bit, as many of their starters will be heading to the 2022 NFL Draft, but the team has recruited well in recent years and will have plenty of depth to trust during the upcoming season....

No. 2 Ohio State meets No. 6 Michigan in the The Game at noon in a battle of 10-1 teams looking to win the Big Ten East. It’s yet another chance for the Wolverines to break an eight-game losing streak to the Buckeyes. The prime-time showdown features No. 10 Oklahoma at No. 7 Oklahoma State. The Sooners and Cowboys might have a rematch in the Big 12 championship game, but Bedlam is always a high-stakes matchup....

Week 7 features six matchups between teams ranked in the AP Top 25, including three matchups between unbeaten teams and two top-10 showdowns. It’s loaded. That starts in the noon ET window with a Big Ten East showdown between No. 10 Penn State and No. 5 Michigan. The 3:30 p.m. window features the other top-10 showdown when No. 3 Alabama travels to No. 7 Tennessee. Will the Crimson Tide extend their winning streak in the Third Saturday in October rivalry to 16 games?...

But it’s all about quality, not quantity: No. 23 Tennessee heads to No. 24 Florida, while No. 3 Clemson and No. 14 Louisville battle it out in another potential ACC-deciding game. Of course, there’s also that little rematch of the 2006 Rose Bowl between No. 4 USC and Texas. MORE: Week 3 picks against the spread Sporting News offers its picks for those games and more this week: We’re 13-3 on the season after going 6-2 in Week 2....

This year, the College Football Playoff semifinals will be played on Dec. 29 at the Orange Bowl and Cotton Bowl Classic. The College Football Playoff championship game will be played on Monday, Jan. 7 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. MORE: SN’s preseason top 25 rankings Who will challenge for the national championship? Alabama, Georgia, Clemson and Ohio State lead the gang of usual suspects, but it’s anyone’s game....