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Like the NFL on Thanksgiving, NBA on Christmas Day has been a longtime tradition spanning a number of generations over seven decades. The first NBA game on Christmas came in 1947, which was the league’s second official season. That year, the New York Knicks beat the Providence Steamrollers 89-75. Scheduling the NBA Christmas lineup isn’t an exact science. There’s a fluidity to it that tends to involve teams that appeared in the previous season’s NBA Finals. Looking over the 2025 NBA Christmas games lineup, you can see that both the Cleveland Cavaliers and Oklahoma City Thunder (last year’s NBA Finals teams) are playing on Christmas Day. Additionally, the NBA tries to get its trendiest or most popular teams on Christmas

With just two regular season games left for each NFL team, Week 17 is do-or-die for a handful of franchises trying to make the Playoffs. Another batch of squads are jockeying for postseason positions. In fact, the number one spot is up for grabs in each conference heading into the penultimate week. While it’s crunch time for the teams on the field, and for fantasy football managers playing in their league championships, Week 17 is ripe for NFL bettors looking to put together a winning parlay card. Week 16 did not go the way we had hoped. Some could say that our parlay picks ended up flopping like the Buccaneers and Lions did. In fact, it was Detroit’s home loss

When the NFL released its schedule for the 2025-26 season, these Christmas Day games felt like presents from Santa Claus. Unfortunately, as we approach Christmas, NFL Week 17, these games feel more like lumps of coal. We can’t blame the NFL schedule makers for how these teams turned out. But it would be nice if there was a flex policy since Christmas is a day for celebration, not skipping the games for Netflix’s latest shows and movies. Yes, I still need to get caught up on Stranger Things season 5. With that said, only the Detroit Lions and one of the Super Bowl favorites in the Denver Broncos have Playoff possibilities while the other four teams are already eliminated. And,

On Saturday, December 27, the sport of boxing will close out the year with a thrilling event titled The Ring V: Night of the Samurai, live from the Mohammed Abdo Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The main event of the night will see one of the sport’s P4P best fighters Naoya Inoue defend his undisputed junior featherweight championship against unbeaten challenger Alan David Picasso Romero. Inoue (31-0, 28 KOs) is now the best pound-for-pound fighter in all of boxing after Terence Crawford just announced his retirement this week. Inoue last competed in September, and he defeated Murodjon Akhmadaliev via unanimous decision. Saturday’s bout against Picasso will be Inoue’s fourth fight this year. Picasso (32-0-1, 17 KOs) is a rising contender