March Madness is nearly here, but first conference tournaments serve as the perfect warmup, with NCAA squads fighting for rivalry wins, trophies, and most importantly, automatic bids to The Big Dance. The women’s action gets underway today — let’s boogie right into this primer.

Only two undefeated teams remain in women’s college basketball. As expected, one of them is the defending champs, No. 1 UConn, but the other — No. 5 Vanderbilt — is an unexpected powerhouse. Ahead of the Commodores’ 3 p.m. ET Sunday showdown vs. No. 2 South Carolina, let’s break down the Black and Gold’s serendipitous success.

The Week 18 NFL slate can sometimes be a buffet of meaningless football, with the playoff field often set and teams resting their top talent — but not this year. There was plenty to play for in the regular-season finale, from division titles to all-important playoff seeding. Let’s dig in.

There’s just two weeks left in the regular season, and the NFL’s postseason picture is more chaotic than your last-minute trip to the mall. Forget sugarplums — visions of playoff spots are dancing in everyone’s heads.

Big day for dads and athletic trainers.

Who could clinch a postseason berth in Week 15?

The postseason plot thickens with four weeks left in the regular season.

It’s NCAA football conference championship weekend, aka teams’ last chance to show the College Football Playoff (CFP) selection committee that they belong in the 12-team hunt for the national championship before Sunday’s 12 p.m. ET selection show.

The NFL chose chaos once again this week, with holiday hi-jinks and stunners aplenty. Contenders are turning into pretenders faster than you can say Hail Mary — and vice versa. As Week 13 wraps up, let’s muddle through the madness.

Hear that? Sounds like postseason panic setting in as college football careens into Week 12 of the 15-week regular season. With four top-25 matchups on tomorrow’s docket, the College Football Playoff (CFP) selection committee is watching closely — here are the teams with the most to gain (and the most to lose).

The college football coaching carousel kicked into high gear on Sunday when Penn State fired head coach James Franklin following three straight losses: a double-overtime heartbreaker against No. 8 Oregon, then back-to-back upsets at the hands of Big Ten bottom-feeders UCLA and Northwestern. Everyone’s buzzing about his ouster, and not just because of the $50M buyout.

Stock up on glizzies, because tomorrow brings yet another quadruple-header of hanging-on-every-pitch play. Stressed, but excited.