The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! You’re a GOAT in my bracket.
Let’s begin this morning with some late-breaking news from last night: 2023 NL Cy Young winner Blake Snell agreed to a five-year, $182 million contract with the defending champion Dodgers, a startling deal for two reasons: The money is significantly higher than we projected , and the No. 5 free agent is off The Athletic ’s Big Board. For the Dodgers, it’s a great solution for their biggest issue last season: starting pitching depth.
Not that it mattered in the end. Also last night: Two of men’s college basketball’s best teams staged a classic . No.
1 Kansas edged No. 11 Duke 75-72, but Blue Devils mega-prospect Cooper Flagg earned a signature dunk in the loss: COOOOOOP 🔨🔨🔨🔨 (ESPN) pic.twitter.
com/w7V3C7xXQQ — Duke Men’s Basketball (@DukeMBB) November 27, 2024 Flagg finished with 13 points in the defeat, which also included a bit of controversy after Jayhawks star Hunter Dickinson got ejected for this flagrant foul: Hunter Dickinson was ejected after being assessed a flagrant 2 foul for kicking Maliq Brown. pic.twitter.
com/lXR91RTiWX — ESPN (@espn) November 27, 2024 Ouch. Jayhawks are still undefeated, though. We’re getting close.
The College Football Playoff committee released its fourth set of rankings last night, meaning we have just one more round before the final f.