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.
Marquette limps into Omaha at 5-7, already chasing oxygen in the Big East race. Creighton sits 6-5, steadier at home, and it gets this one in a building that expects clean offense. The spread has tightened to Creighton -6.5, which is the market admitting the game should stay lively. The total is 152.5, so this […]
December 20, 2025
No. 3 Duke walks into Madison Square Garden unbeaten at 11-0, carrying the ACC’s cleanest profile into a spotlight slot. No. 19 Texas Tech shows up 8-3 from the Big 12 grind, built to drag games into contact and late-clock toughness. The board is asking Duke to create distance on a neutral floor. Duke -8.5 […]
December 20, 2025
No. 21 Auburn and No. 6 Purdue meet in Indianapolis with the kind of neutral-floor tension that makes December feel like March. Purdue is 10-1 and carrying Big Ten expectations into a spotlight game that demands polish. Auburn is 8-3, battle-tested, and wired to turn these stages into full-contact exams. The number says Purdue should […]
December 20, 2025
Saturday night in Chicago isn’t entertainment, it’s an audit. The Bears and Packers drag the same division argument back into the room, only louder. Last week’s result lives in both staffs’ heads, but it cannot write the sequel. Late-season whistle chatter hangs over every tight fourth quarter, and both teams know it. Chicago also comes […]
December 19, 2025
Week 16 quarterback feels like the position got dragged into a cold courtroom and cross-examined under stadium lights. Patrick Mahomes’ season-ending knee injury wiped out the league’s safest autopilot, and Gardner Minshew now steers Kansas City. Miami just benched Tua Tagovailoa for rookie Quinn Ewers, a mid-December gut-check with nothing sentimental left. Washington ruled out […]
December 19, 2025
Two OVC teams open a conference stretch that can rescue a season fast. Little Rock shows up at 2–9 after living out of suitcases for a month. Southern Indiana sits 3–7, and this is the kind of home spot that has to become a foothold. Nobody’s coasting into January with these resumes. This is urgency […]
December 18, 2025
OVC play opens with two 5–6 teams that badly need a clean league start. SEMO arrives with preseason expectations and a recent three-game surge to steady its footing. Tennessee Tech gets the comfort of Hooper Eblen, plus a real chance to bank a statement win early. The number sits at SEMO -2.5 with a 155.5 […]
December 18, 2025
Conference play always feels like the moment the sport exhales and gets serious. Talk disappears, and every possession starts counting toward a bracket you can’t see yet. UT Martin walks into Nashville with the OVC’s best record and a real nonconference résumé in its pockets. Tennessee State opens league play in its own gym with […]
December 18, 2025
Thursday night in Seattle should play out like a playoff preview wearing a regular-season label. Both teams enter 11-3, tied atop the NFC West, with San Francisco lurking at 10-4. Los Angeles has already clinched a berth, and it’s fighting to keep its grip on the NFC’s No. 1 seed. Seattle can clinch with a […]
December 18, 2025
Monday night in Pittsburgh should feel like steel on your teeth, with breath hanging in the lights. Miami shows up playing loose after a season that got reset in public. Pittsburgh shows up tense, because the home crowd has been sharp lately. This game also lives under one brutal reality: T.J. Watt is not walking […]
December 14, 2025
Sunday night in Arlington feels like a sealed-room trial, with every snap echoing inside the roof. Dallas is chasing oxygen, because the playoff math is thinning after Detroit hung 44. Minnesota arrives scarred from a month of stalls, then freshly rinsed by a 31-0 shutout. The week’s loudest news is Trevon Diggs staying on IR, […]
December 14, 2025