The NBA Finals ended last week, the NHL handed out Lord Stanley's Cup Monday night and Major League Baseball's regular season is reaching the halfway point.
Alabama and Oregon remained a solid 1-2 punch in the latest Associated Press college football poll after easy victories on Saturday, as the top five remained the same from last week.
Former conference rivals are set to collide in the 2014 Cotton Bowl at AT&T Stadium, as the ninth-ranked Missouri Tigers take on the 13th-ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys.
Joe Adams scored on a 51-yard punt return and No. 7 Arkansas built a big early lead Friday night on the way to beating No. 11 Kansas State, 29-16, in the Cotton Bowl.
When the two finalists of the first four- team playoff in college football are decided, they will do battle at Cowboys Stadium for the national championship.
Appalachian State and Georgia Southern University announced on Wednesday they will rise to the Football Bowl Subdivision in moving from the Southern Conference to the Sun Belt Conference effective July 1, 2014.