#road-performance

#road-performance

While NFL experts, like old friend Cam Newton, twist themselves into a pretzel trying to downplay the New England Patriots' eight-game winning streak entering Week 10, their most impressive streak at all has been hiding in plain sight. Patriots fans get it. Their team's 2025 schedule has been favorable. Over the past two months, they've feasted on bottom-feeders like the New York Jets, New Orleans Saints, Cleveland Browns, and Tennessee Titans, while dunking on fringe NFL starting quarterbacks like Spencer Rattler, Dillon Gabriel,

But four years into his tenure as the Trojans' coach, Riley's once-sterling road reputation feels like a relic of a past life. Until USC won at Nebraska earlier this month, Riley hadn't beaten a team on the road that finished better than .500 since November 2022, when his Trojans toppled UCLA at the Rose Bowl. Otherwise, outside of L.A., USC's only road victory against a quality team under Riley came against Oregon State ... in his fourth game leading the Trojans.

There's a strange phenomenon brewing in the Western Conference. If you only watched the Los Angeles Kings on their home ice at Crypto.com Arena, you might write them off as a team struggling to find its footing, a group battling an early-season slump. To date, they've managed just a single victory in their own building. But if you caught them anywhere else-in Pittsburgh, Montreal, or virtually any other hostile NHL arena-you'd be watching one of the most formidable, balanced, and successful teams in the league.

After Wednesday nights 13-4 win behind a strong start from Shane Bieber, the Blue Jays are looking to become just the fourth team to come back from an 0-2 deficit in LCS history, but the odds might not all be stacked up against them. There's a reason Toronto was one of the toughest and most successful teams all season, and this isn't just going to disappear in the span of a week.