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Ruined King is a good starting point into the League of Legends world if you just watched Arcane on Netflix.
Ruined King is a brand new action-RPG by Darksiders creator Joe Madureira and Airship Syndicate. It’s a good starting point into the League of Legends world if you just watched Arcane on Netflix.
Arcane, the Netflix animated series released in November, has given League of Legends mainstream appeal. The series was acclaimed both by critics and viewers, to the point where a second season has already been greenlit and announced just a few hours after the end of the first.
Here is what the Big Ten football recruiting rankings look like two weeks from the early signing period
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. No, we’re not talking about the holiday season. Instead, we’re talking about the early signing period in college football! December is here and the early signing period is just two weeks away for college football, and Penn State continues to lead the Big Ten in the national recruiting rankings.
We didn’t take a look at the Big Ten football recruiting rankings in November due to some vacation plans putting that on the shelf (and quite franking, I forgot to organize it when I returned), so our ranking movement will be reflective of how the national recruiting rankings have shifted since October 1. Overall, there hasn’t been much movement within the Big Ten pecking order, and the national rankings haven’t shifted too dramatically on the past two months.
Penn State is no longer the top-ranked team in the nation, which was to be expected as Georgia and Alabama made their expected surges to the top of the rankings (which sounds familiar), and Texas A&M and Notre Dame have maneuvered their way in front of the Nittany Lions as well. And don’t look now, but Ohio State is just behind Penn State in the recruiting rankings as well.
With the early signing period nearly upon us, here is a look at how the Big Ten recruiting rankings for the Class of 2022 look according to the team composite rankings provided by 247 Sports.
Penn State recruiting: Two players on the radar for 2022 and 2023
Penn State didn’t end their season the way they wanted to, but the future is still bright in Happy Valley. The past few days have been a whirlwind of emotions with big coaching changes around college football.
Penn State fans can take a big sigh of relief, as James Franklin will be staying put for the next 10 years. As previously mentioned, this is a huge plus for recruiting.
Let’s take a look at some players on the radar for the Nittany Lions.
The first one is four-star 2022 safety in Larry Turner-Gooden.
Gooden is another two-way player that could potentially be finding his way to Happy Valley to join Cristian Driver, another fellow WR/S playing under James Franklin from the 2022 class.
Gooden recently announced his top five schools, with Penn State making the list. He will be announcing his commitment on January 8th at the All American game.
BREAKING: Four-Star Safety Larry Turner-Gooden is down to 5️⃣ Schools, and has set his Commitment Date.
The 6’0 180 S from Playa Del Ray, CA will commit at the All-American Game on January 8th
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He would be a be another versatile addition to the 2022 recruiting class, which continues to get better.
The next one is a four-star defensive lineman from Bradenton, Florida in Will Norman.
Norman can excel both as an interior or on the outside. He also recently released his top 10 schools, with two Big Ten schools making the list, including Penn State.
Extremely thankful for these opportunities! God please continue to bless me and guide me in the right direction 🙏🏽(Recruitment 100% Open) pic.twitter.com/vtFGMFnHfZ
— Will Norman (@WThrill3) November 25, 2021
Four-star 2023 IMG DL Will Norman taking more Big Ten visits👀@RWrightRivals talks more with Norman about his upcoming visits and other recruiting news: https://t.co/Vz5V8vIj45 pic.twitter.com/hludFxxK8o
— Rivals (@Rivals) November 4, 2021
Both of these players would be big additions to Penn State’s defense.
The secondary is potentially losing a good amount after this season, but they have a good amount of young talent coming in.
As for the defensive line, they are continuing to develop their current underclassmen, and Norman would be a versatile recruit that could provide help anywhere on the defensive line.
Penn State’s future continues to look bright, and guys like Gooden and Norman would be nice additions to a strong defense in Happy Valley.
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The Georgia Bulldogs will play against the Alabama Crimson Tide in the 2021 SEC Championship at 4:00 p.m. EST on Dec. 4
The Georgia Bulldogs will play against the Alabama Crimson Tide in the 2021 SEC Championship. The game will kick off at 4 p.m. EST on Dec. 4 and will be televised on CBS.
Brad Nessler, Gary Danielson and Jamie Erdahl are the CBS commentators for the SEC Championship.
The game will be UGA’s fourth SEC Championship appearance in the past five years. Alabama has won seven SEC Championships since Nick Saban took over as head coach of the Crimson Tide.
Alabama is coming off a 24-22 overtime win at Auburn. Georgia had a much easier time in its 45-0 victory over Georgia Tech last week.
The Crimson Tide enter the game 11-1. Georgia is 12-0 and has only played in a single close game (season opener versus Clemson).
Alabama has the SEC’s second-leading passer in quarterback Bryce Young. Young loves to throw to wide receivers Jameson Williams and John Metchie. The Crimson Tide’s duo of Williams and Metchie have hauled in 59.1% of Young’s passing yardage.
Georgia’s top-ranked defense has allowed seven defensive touchdowns all season. The Dawgs will face their biggest challenge of the season against the Crimson Tide.
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#Bills get Star Lotulelei, Jon Feliciano, Spencer Brown back at practice:
A trio of starting players for the Buffalo Bills returned to practice on Tuesday just in time to potentially face the New England Patriots in Week 13.
The Bills (7-4) see the full returns of two players from their Reserve/ COVID-19 list.
That pair is defensive tackle Star Lotulelei and rookie offensive tackle Spencer Brown, who were activated from the designation.
Because of the nature of the list, both Lotulelei and Brown are cleared to start on Monday against the Patriots (8-4). Lotulelei has been on the COVID list since Nov. 14 while Brown’s spell there began on Nov. 18.
While that’s good news, the Bills (7-4) are not fully in the clear with offensive lineman Jon Feliciano.
Buffalo designated Feliciano to return from injured reserve on Tuesday as well. He landed on IR on Nov. 6 thanks to a calf injury.
Changing Feliciano’s status simply means he can now practice with the team. It does not mean he will play vs. the Pats.
Buffalo has 21 days to activate him full to their 53-man roster or else Feliciano returns to IR. So the Bills could just be getting him in playing shape to return in two games… time will tell.
If that window closes and Feliciano goes back and is not activated from IR, he goes back to the injured reserve list for good and his season is over.
The Bills will certainly hope that Feliciano will be available and good to go against New England.
For what it’s worth, prior to facing the New Orleans Saints in Week 12, Buffalo designated wide receiver Marquez Stevenson for return as well. He immediately got into the lineup.
Returning Lotulelei, Brown and Feliciano would be positive additions to Buffalo’s play in the trenches on both sides of the ball.
Buffalo also placed rookie offensive lineman Tommy Doyle on the COVID-19 list after activating Brown and Lotulelei from it on Tuesday. Cornerback Tre’Davious White was also placed on injured reserve with his season-ending ACL injury.
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The Los Angeles Lakers picked up win No. 12 on the year in a road blowout of the Sacramento Kings.
The Los Angeles Lakers got their payback against the Sacramento Kings with a 117-92 win on the road.
Los Angeles, playing without LeBron James who is now in the NBA’s health and safety protocols, started sluggishly on both ends of the court. Anthony Davis bailed out the offense with several and-1 plays.
However, Malik Monk’s buzzer-beating swish at halftime seemed to spark a second-half scoring eruption.
The Lakers went on a 40-8 run in the second half — which included outscoring the Kings 37-15 in the third quarter — en route to a blowout final score.
Davis led the way with 25 points while Russell Westbrook stepped up in the second half to tally 23 points.
Malik Monk and Dwight Howard had incredible games off the bench. Monk got back to his scorching form to drill 22 points on 6-of-10 3-point shooting, while Howard played a season-high 35 minutes and dropped 12 points, 13 rebounds, two blocks and two steals.
Head coach Frank Vogel removed DeAndre Jordan after just four minutes into the game for Howard, and the Lakers didn’t look back.
The Lakers are now 12-11 on the season, but this momentum will have to hold while James’ status is ambiguous moving forward.
The Lakers next play the L.A. Clippers on Friday, Dec. 3.
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During a run in the third quarter, Warriors guard Gary Payton II spiked a powerful one-handed dunk against the Suns.
While offensive fireworks from Steph Curry and strong defense from Draymond Green has helped lead the Golden State Warriors to a league-best 18-2 record, dunks from Gary Payton II have also been a theme throughout the season.
In a must-see battle against the streaking Phoenix Suns on Tuesday, Payton II added another powerful dunk to his 2021-22 highlight reel.
With the Warriors building a run to tie the game, a steal by Jordan Poole gave Payton II a clean lane to the basket. Poole found his high-flying teammate on the fast break for an emphatic one-handed dunk. Payton II’s tomahawk spike tied the game up with just under two minutes remaining in the third frame.
Via @NBA on Twitter:
✈️ Gary Payton II liftoff on TNT ✈️ pic.twitter.com/anrzUhgpRY
— NBA (@NBA) December 1, 2021
Despite a big dunk from Payton II, the Suns and their defense stole the show in the fourth quarter as they surged to a 104-96 victory over the Warriors. With a win on Tuesday, the Suns matched a franchise-best 17-game winning streak.
Payton II finished the contest with eight points on 4-of-6 shooting from the floor with seven rebounds, an assist and a steal in 16 minutes off the bench.
The Warriors will have a chance for revenge on Friday when the Suns make the trip to the Bay Area for a rematch at San Francisco’s Chase Center.
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Pac 12 Championship: Oregon vs Utah prediction, game preview, how to watch, lines, and why each team might – or might not – win on Friday night
Pac 12 Championship: Oregon vs Utah prediction, game preview, how to watch: Friday, December 3
Date: Friday, December 3
Game Time: 8:00 ET
Venue: Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, NV
How To Watch: ABC
Record: Oregon (10-2), Utah (9-3)
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Can Utah possibly generate the same energy, the same effectiveness, and the same sort of production twice?
That 38-7 loss in Salt Lake City a few weeks ago was almost too obvious.
Oregon had been winning, but it wasn’t consistent and it wasn’t quite as sharp as a College Football Playoff team should look, it had a few problems on the road after the Ohio State win – losing at Stanford and needing to battle to get by UCLA and fight too hard in bad weather against Washington – and …
The Utes ripped through the Ducks clean.
But the running game still works. It was humming along before the Utah loss, and it showed up after in the win over Oregon State to get here.
The talent on both sides is undeniable, the O can match Utah’s third down conversion for third down conversion, the defense should come out and play like it’s personal.
Oregon’s run defense has been a rock over the second half of the season, but Utah ran for over 200 yards. Expect a quick adjustment in energy and production up front, and expect the defense to start taking the ball away a bit.
Missing in the first meeting were takeaways – that’s not normal for Oregon.
The Ducks went without a takeaway four times, and two of those games were the two losses. The offense hasn’t lost the ball in the last two games, but …
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Utah doesn’t turn the ball over.
It doesn’t come up with takeaways – none in the last three games – but it has just two turnovers in the last six games.
No, Utah isn’t going to have the same juice it showed in the first meeting, but the idea is still the same.
Dominate the time of possession battle, own third down conversions, and swarm around the running backs and make Anthony Brown make big plays. Everyone tries that, but Utah was able to actually do it.
This is still a brutish team on the lines, it’s great in pass protection and it leads the Pac-12 in sacks and tackles for loss, and Utah has to prove that its talent can overcome the pure power Utah brings.
It’s not that the offense went off in the first meeting. It’s that the offense just kept moving. It never let the Ducks offense get into any sort of a groove outside of the opening drive of the second half, and that was answered by a dominant finish.
Utah didn’t get any less nasty and physical over the last few weeks.
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The script is playing out like it’s supposed to.
Oregon plays well, Oregon loses November road game to screw up College Football Playoff chances, Oregon gets into the Pac-12 Championship, Oregon wins Pac-12 Championship over Utah, Oregon goes off to win the Rose Bowl.
At least that was how 2019 played out.
It’s so, so hard to be a talented team like Oregon twice. It’s even harder to try recreating the magic that got the win the first time around.
However, Utah is going to do what Utah does. It’s going to slug Oregon with the best running game in the Pac-12 and dare the D to hold up. Only this time, the Ducks will get its own O going.
Expect an entirely different Oregon.
The speed and flash will show up, the offensive line will play like it’s been challenged – because it has been – and Oregon takes its third straight Pac-12 Championship helped by two key takeaways in the second half.
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Oregon 30, Utah 24
Line: Utah -3, o/u: 59.5
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Roy Thomas Jenkins traveled to Clemson a couple of years ago and attended the Tigers’ 24-10 victory over Texas A&M in 2019 as a spectator in the stands. But two weekends ago, the talented freshman quarterback from Monsignor Kelly Catholic High …
Roy Thomas Jenkins traveled to Clemson a couple of years ago and attended the Tigers’ 24-10 victory over Texas A&M in 2019 as a spectator in the stands.
But two weekends ago, the talented freshman quarterback from Monsignor Kelly Catholic High School (Beaumont, Texas) returned to Clemson for what was his first recruiting visit to the school.
Jenkins (6-3, 175) took in the Tigers’ 48-27 win over then-No. 10 Wake Forest at Death Valley on Saturday, Nov. 20.
“It was awesome,” he told The Clemson Insider. “The campus is beautiful, and I just loved everything about the town. The game, the environment was electric. And playing Wake Forest, it was pretty cool.”
Jenkins, a class of 2025 prospect with an early offer from Houston already under his belt, made the trip to Tiger Town with his parents, two sisters and brother. One of his sisters wanted to check out Clemson as she is in the process of touring prospective colleges, so it provided a good opportunity for Jenkins to make an unofficial recruiting visit at the same time.
“We were doing some college visits for my sister, too, and she wanted to go see Clemson,” he said. “So, we just went ahead and did both.”
While on campus, Jenkins spent the most time with senior offensive assistant J.P. Losman, who gave him a tour of the campus and facilities, and Jenkins also spoke briefly with quarterbacks coach Brandon Streeter.
“They’re telling me they aren’t a school to offer very early. They want to see how you develop and everything,” Jenkins said. “So, he said how it plays out, he just wants to keep in contact, and wants me to go up to a camp this summer and go back up there and maybe another visit sometime next year. But other than that, he said just stay in contact because we’re not the type of school (to offer early), we want to see you develop as a quarterback.”
Jenkins plans to participate in the Dabo Swinney Camp this summer and hopes to put his skills on display for Clemson’s coaches to see up close.
“I feel like I can put the ball where I want it,” he said. “I can control where I throw, and I feel like I can show the Clemson staff my arm talent and where I can put the ball in certain places.”
Jenkins started on varsity as a freshman this year. According to MaxPreps, he completed 62 percent of his passes for 2,216 yards and 28 touchdowns with 10 interceptions.
Along with Clemson, Jenkins visited Georgia this season, while he is planning to visit Mississippi State in the spring and intends to camp at Duke this summer as well.
“That’d be a dream come true. Clemson’s definitely in my top three choices, and it definitely would be a dream to go play there. They’ve got something good going on over there.”
An offer from Clemson in the future, Jenkins said, “would be a dream come true” for him.
“Clemson’s definitely in my top three choices, and it definitely would be a dream to go play there,” he said. “They’ve got something good going on over there.”
“Clemson, I love it a lot because Trevor Lawrence, he’s my favorite player,” Jenkins added. “And what he did at the university, it kind of made me want to go there more.”
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Down goes No. 1! #GoBucks
It didn’t look good for a while, but the Ohio State basketball team fought its way through some struggles with turnovers and mistakes to knock off No. 1 Duke 71-66 in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge. Maybe it can act as a little salve in the wounds after the Buckeyes lost to arch-rival Michigan on the football field Saturday.
It was really a tale of two halves for Ohio State. The Buckeyes shot the ball well in the first half but missed a slew of free throws and turned the ball over nine times in the first 20 minutes, and Duke went into the half up 43-30 and it looked like it would be OSU’s third loss on the year already.
But not so.
Ohio State kept the Blue Devils in arms reach by locking things down on the defensive end. OSU then turned to Zed Key in the paint who had a monster game against an athletic front line, leading all scorers with 20 points, 11 of it coming in the second half.
Still, the Buckeyes didn’t lead until E.J. Liddell knocked down a pair of free throws with just over 1:00 minute left. OSU’s best player also hit a fade-away mid-range jumper with under 20 seconds left to give Ohio State a three-point lead. Duke would misfire from beyond the arc on the next possession and OSU would close it out at the free-throw line with Cedric Russell knocking two free throws down the shoot to ice it.
DOWN GOES NUMBER ONE. #Team123 #GoBucks pic.twitter.com/iNaS1U35w1
— Ohio State Hoops (@OhioStateHoops) December 1, 2021
Liddell and Cedric Russell joined Key in double figures with 14 and 12 respectively as OSU ended the game on a 14-1 run to pull off the improbable.
With the win, Ohio State improves its record to 5-2 and has now beat a No. 1 ranked team while itself being unranked for the ninth time in school history. That mark leads all programs.
The Buckeyes are next in action and open Big Ten play on Saturday against Penn State.
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