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- New York Times
2025 Heisman Trophy odds: Arch Manning favored, but is that a good thing for his hopes?
Predicting the Heisman Trophy before the start of the college football season is not an easy task. How the growing number of transfers will slot in with their new teams, even high-profile draft prospects, is unpredictable. Players who haven't played major roles yet and are mostly unknowns to casual fans will break through to become contenders. Advertisement Last year's Heisman finalists were a fitting example of the unpredictable nature of the award. Travis Hunter won as a two-way player, a true unicorn. He was a high-profile recruit, transferred to Colorado to follow coach Deion Sanders and starred in 2023, but he was a long shot (+3500, or a less than 3 percent implied probability) to win the award before the season. Runner-up Ashton Jeanty was known by NFL Draft heads, but was not viewed as a Heisman contender before the season, with even longer odds at +5000 (less than 2 percent). Dillon Gabriel, another transfer, was third in the voting and one of the preseason co-favorites at +800 (11.11 percent). Meanwhile, Cam Ward had incredibly long odds to start, at +20000 (0.5 percent). That's all to say, preseason odds for the Heisman Trophy are better for banter and message board fodder than they are for forecasting. Texas' Arch Manning is the favorite entering the 2025 season with +600 odds on BetMGM. While the talented quarterback with a famous last name is top of the odds board, +600 odds are long for someone considered a favorite (compared to favorites in other sports) and imply Manning wins the award 14.3 percent of the time. Favorites have not had a history of winning the award in recent decades. It's been at least 20 years since a preseason favorite won. Finding preseason odds for the Heisman Trophy gets tougher the further you go back, but either Matt Leinart in 2004 or Eric Crouch in 2001 were the last preseason favorites to win, depending on which sportsbook you look at. Manning is the most popular bet on BetMGM with 22.8 percent of the money and 16.9 percent of the tickets, leading in both categories. LSU's Garrett Nussmeier and Clemson's Cade Klubnik are next in the odds at +900 (10 percent probability). Both ranked in the top 10 in the country in passing yards last year, and six of those top 10 are now in the NFL. Manning is the hot name, but Nussmeier and Klubnik might have the best resumes of high-profile quarterbacks in the country. Hunter snapped a streak of three straight quarterbacks who had won the Heisman, but it's still a quarterback-dominated award. Since the turn of the century, 20 of the 25 winners have been quarterbacks. Going with that trend, 13 of the top 14 players in the odds to win the Heisman are quarterbacks. The one exception is notable, though: Jeremiah Smith. The Ohio State wide receiver proved to be a prodigious talent as a freshman last year with 1,315 receiving yards (fourth in the country) and 15 touchdown catches (second). He will have a new quarterback this year in Julian Sayin, who is also high up the board with +1800 odds, but Smith is talented enough and already an established name, so it won't be hard for him to break into the typically quarterback-heavy discussion. Smith is fourth in the odds at +1000 (9 percent). Advertisement Alabama's stud sophomore wide receiver Ryan Williams is +3500 (2.78 percent), not bad for a non-quarterback, but firmly in long-shot territory. Williams will also have a new quarterback, Ty Simpson, who is higher in the odds at +2000 (4.76 percent). Sayin and Simpson are unproven commodities, but when you start at Ohio State or Alabama, you at least have a chance to win the Heisman. Similar for Gunner Stockton (+2000), who is expected to start at Georgia. As for more established quarterbacks, South Carolina's LaNorris Sellers (+1600, 5.88 percent), Penn State's Drew Allar (+1800, 5.26 percent) and Florida's DJ Lagway (+1800) are also viewed as serious contenders. The way the Heisman goes, some names not mentioned and much further down the board will have breakout seasons and join the conversation. Will Nebraska's Dylan Raiola (+4000, 2.44 percent) start to play more like Patrick Mahomes and not just dress and act like him? Will Jeremiyah Love (+4000) emerge as the best running back in the country at Notre Dame? Will Nico Iamaleava (+8000, 1.23 percent) turn into a star at UCLA after teasing his potential last year at Tennessee? Betting/odds links in this article are provided by partners of The Athletic. Restrictions may apply. The Athletic maintains full editorial independence. Partners have no control over or input into the reporting or editing process and do not review stories before publication. (Photo of Arch Manning: Tim Warner / Getty Images) Spot the pattern. Connect the terms Find the hidden link between sports terms Play today's puzzle
CBS News
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- CBS News
Pirates fans talk about what keeps them going to games at PNC Park
The Pittsburgh Pirates are back in town and will be opening a week-long homestand tonight with the Toronto Blue Jays and the Colorado Rockies coming to PNC Park. For some time now, it's been clear that the Pirates won't be making the playoffs this season, but there are still nights when 30,000 fans show up at PNC Park. KDKA's John Shumway was in the crowd recently with a simple question. Everyone there knows how the season is going, so the question was -- what brings you out to the ballpark? When you see PNC Park packed to the rafters, it would certainly appear that winning doesn't matter. "It means something to me," said Matthew White. "I mean, I'd like to see a winning team." But not everyone seems to think that winning is the most important thing. "It's all about the game," said Tim Morris. "All about the game. This is a great game, baseball. It's our pastime. You know, it's always great to be around the game." "Because I grew up on it and I'm a baseball player myself, so that's why I really love it," said Zion Scales. And adding to the love of the game is a sense of history. "My grandfather used to take me to the Three Rivers Stadium," said Rogelio Garcia II. "He was just watching the Pirates. Whether they were good, whether they were bad, it didn't matter." And there's longevity pride in the names the fans proudly wear. "Born and raised coming here, we used to have tickets," White said. "So being here all the time, I just like coming out." For many fans, it's all about the atmosphere and the environment of being at the ballpark. "The atmosphere is just like, really fun and it's like, exciting and it's just happy," said Kaylee Miller. "The park is phenomenal," said Cindy and Joe Marty. "It's beautiful. We love the team. We love the players. So we support it all the time." "It's a great park," said Mike Mitchum. "You know, I love taking in the game as well as the city to get people watching." "The atmosphere is great," said Alicia Jordan. "We ate a lot of good food and it's a great game." "I just love the atmosphere," said Barry Jameson. "The hot dogs, the beer, and being with my wife." There's no doubt PNC Park is a player in attracting fans to come back again and again. The team's promotions probably help as an usher said that Hawaiian shirt nights and fireworks nights always help pack people into the ballpark.
New York Times
15 minutes ago
- New York Times
Complete Your Squat. The Internet Is Watching.
In 2001, Greg Glassman, a personal trainer in Santa Cruz, Calif., was kicked out of the upscale fitness studio where he had been training clients for several years. Having already cycled through most of the gyms in the area, he moved into a jujitsu studio owned by one of his clients, the Brazilian martial artist Claudio Franca. Over the next year, Mr. Glassman used that small space to teach his unique fitness methodology, which he called CrossFit. Mr. Franca's academy was built for jujitsu, and its floors were lined with smooth, padded grappling mats. To account for that, Mr. Glassman's clients could not wear shoes, and instead of doing Olympic weight lifting, which uses heavy steel barbells, they practiced their technique with medicine balls. As a drill, he had them pick up a medicine ball, perform a squat, then stand and throw the ball at a target on the wall about 10 feet off the ground. He called it a wall-ball shot, or just wall balls. When CrossFit exploded in popularity, it became one of the practice's defining moves. In the years since, this simple movement has become one of the more controversial exercises in the world of fitness and sport, thanks to social media critics who police the move at Hyrox events. And that criticism is changing how the sport is judged. A popular fitness race created in Germany, Hyrox combines eight kilometers of running with eight functional fitness movements. Most of the movements are straightforward and practically impossible to perform incorrectly: a one-kilometer row, a 200-meter farmer's carry with kettlebells, a 100-meter lunge with a heavy sandbag draped over the shoulders. But the eighth and final segment of a Hyrox race is a wall-ball station: Participants must complete 100 wall balls for time. And this station is the focus of outrage and debate. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
