Which “Bubble Teams” in the MW, PAC-12 Will Find Their Way To Bowl Season? Believe it or not, Week 7 marks the halfway point for the 2026 college football season. This means the clock is ticking for ...

The transverse Mercator projection was created for European sailors – and it worked for their world, writes Paul Harwood The subject of projections is incredibly complicated and you did a good job of ...

That was an absolutely bonkers weekend in college football, and you don’t even have to touch upon all the theatrics surrounding Lane Kiffin’s return to Oxford, Miss., to know that. Vanderbilt won a ...

Do you think it was personal for Ole Miss during Saturday night's public shaming of Lane Kiffin? The Rebels' impressive Trinidad Chambliss-led win over LSU in a showdown of unbeaten top-10 teams has ...

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This interactive map compares the Mercator projection versus the Equal Earth projection. Use the slide bar to compare the 2 maps. Image via EqualEarthMap.app. Science news, night sky events and ...

The first full weekend of the season is nearly over, and Sports Illustrated has updated its projections for every postseason game. Week 1 is (almost) in the books and, thanks to our first look at ...

Despite being developed for navigation, the Mercator projection has remained common in educational materials, media, digital mapping, and other forms of geographic representation. Its continued use ...

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday endorsed a new world map that represents Africa more accurately in its larger size, a culmination of a recent campaign led by African countries and ...

The Equal Earth projection shows countries’ true relative sizes, unlike the Mercator map, which critics say makes Africa look smaller than it is. By John Yoon The United Nations General Assembly on ...

The only thing predictable about the college football season is its unpredictability. Forecasting the 12 teams that will make the College Football Playoff is like trying to predict the entire first ...

All 32 NFL teams have one more preseason game this week. And then they all must cut their rosters down to 53 players by Sunday at 6 p.m. ET. Who will make each team? Which front offices have tough ...