Dan Johnson has been an editor, writer, and analyst for DraftKings and DraftKings Network since 2024. He’s previously held editorial posts at The Paris Review, Macmillan Publishers, Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, ASSIGNMENT Magazine, and FantasySixPack. You can find his various editorial work & writing (sports-related and non-) at all of the above.
Las Vegas gives them the same floor, the same tired walls, and a very different kind of pressure. Oregon watched Auburn sprint away late. San Diego State got shoved out of the gym by Michigan. Now the two wounded brands share a neutral arena that suddenly feels like a truth serum. This is where you […]
November 25, 2025
Maryland walks in off a workmanlike win over UNLV, still buzzing from a new coach and a frontcourt finally back to full strength. Gonzaga arrives having just gone ten rounds with Alabama and leaving the Tide buried under missed boxouts and bruises. Both teams know the bracket prestige runs through this game. The number at […]
November 25, 2025
Western Michigan and Eastern Michigan get a chilly Tuesday in Ypsilanti with the Michigan MAC Trophy hovering over everything. Rynearson’s gray turf feels a little stranger under lights when November wind cuts sideways across the track. The Broncos arrive one win from their first conference title shot since 2016; the Eagles arrive bowl-less but defiantly […]
November 25, 2025
Bowling Green and UMass meet with different kinds of embarrassment hanging over them. The Falcons are collapsing after a 3–3 start; UMass is trying to dodge a winless MAC return. Pride, jobs, and winter film sessions sit on this chilly Amherst afternoon. Below is my prediction for CFB Week 13’s football game between the UMass […]
November 25, 2025
Maui gets a realignment special tonight. Arizona State shows up as the new Big 12 kid trying to crash a grown bracket. Texas walks in carrying SEC expectations and a 4–1 start that looks exactly like a power flex. The Lahaina gym always shrinks the distance between favorite and underdog, but the physical gap here […]
November 24, 2025
Las Vegas gets the purest hoop hit of Feast Week tonight. Alabama wants chaos, Gonzaga wants control and trophies. Alabama already owns headline wins over St John’s and Illinois, with the Purdue loss framed as growing pains. Gonzaga has spent November crushing everyone, barely breaking a sweat through Oklahoma, Creighton, and Arizona State. This feels […]
November 24, 2025
Thanksgiving night is really the second screen to the real story: Joe Burrow’s return has turned into appointment news. We went from “out three months after Grade 3 turf toe surgery” in late September to “activated off IR and trending toward starting” headlines in November, with every practice clip getting slowed down and dissected. Beat […]
November 24, 2025
Levi’s gets another Monday night and it feels more like an evaluation than anything else. San Francisco is trying to prove this version still deserves NFC contender status after a year of wobble and renovation. Carolina arrives as the supposed undercard with a young quarterback who just dropped his first real haymaker. Christian McCaffrey’s old […]
November 24, 2025
UPDATE 2:12 PM: DK Metcalf has returned to the game for the Steelers after the Bears scored to tie the game at 14-points apiece. With the Steelers up 14-7 in the second quarter on an offensive drive, star wideout DK Metcalf, who already scored a touchdown on the day, headed to the medical tent before […]
November 23, 2025
Josh Jacobs came into the weekend with a questionable tag due to the knee injury he suffered at MetLife against he Giants in Week 11. His injury first seemed severe, but he practiced a bit this week, so there was some speculation he might take the field vs. the Vikings on Sunday. Unfortunately—not to be. […]
November 23, 2025
Sunday night in Inglewood feels like a referendum on tiers. The Rams are chasing NFC seeding now, not survival—stacked near the top of the conference, trying to keep pace with San Francisco and Philadelphia in the race for a bye. Tampa flies in as the scrappy wild-card hopeful, hovering around that .500 line where every […]
November 23, 2025