The Players Era Festival starts Monday in Las Vegas. It's an 18-team tournament (with a weird format) that pays schools millions of dollars to be there. How will the title game be decided? Will it ever be financially feasible? Is it responsible for the field of the 2025 Maui Invitational being ... lackluster?

Michigan opens against San Diego State on Monday (10 p.m. ET, 7:30 local, TruTV) and will face Auburn on Tuesday (8:30 p.m. ET, TNT) in a rematch from last year’s Sweet 16. The opponent for a third game, likely Wednesday but potentially Thursday, will be based on the results of the first two days.

Lewis Hamilton expressed disappointment after finishing eighth in the Las Vegas Grand Prix. Despite moving up from the back of the pack to fifth during the race, he found little comfort in the result.

A three-day stretch of Las Vegas matchups became more challenging for Syracuse on Monday, when the Orange announced star freshman Donnie Freeman will miss at least a week because of a lower-body injury.

Tennessee basketball destroyed Rutgers to open Players Era Festival on Nov. 24. Ja'Kobi Gillespie scored a career-high 32 points.

Tahaad Pettiford scored 24 points and No. 21 Auburn used a 10-0 run late in the second half to take control in an 84-73 win over Oregon on Monday in the first game of the Players Era men's championship for both teams at Las Vegas.

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