Good morning, it's Friday, December 13th. That's Friday the 13th, just realized that. Well, hopefully you will have some superstitions today that will carry you through the weekend with great conversation and camaraderie and connections with your family and friends as the holidays approach. Let's dive into a couple of quick points happening this weekend in the world of sports. Saturday, we have one of the most storied traditions in college football, the 125th edition of the Army-Navy game.
Matchup has occurred every year since 1930 and it's gonna happen to be a good one this year. Army is ranked number 22nd in the country and won their AAC Championship game last week. And Navy is eight and three and they've had a strong season as well. They always do great uniforms and Army is honoring their 101st Airborne Division known as the Screaming Eagles who parachuted into Normandy on D-Day.
Then the Navy, are honoring their Fighter Squadron 17, which is themed, which are, which honors the Jolly Rogers for their pirate theme to match their fighter jets. Moving on to 72 year old Bill Belichick is set to return to the sideline shockingly as the North Carolina head coach. His dad was a North Carolina assistant coach and Belichick says that his first words were beat Duke.
He gets $10 million to allocate to his assistant coaches and the university has agreed to increase their NIL spending from 4 million to It's worth noting that Belichick seems to be bringing along his 24 year old girlfriend who posted, are on to Chapel Hill as a comment, a nod, who posted, we are to a Chapel Hill. And that was a nod to Belichick's famous quote, we're on to Cincinnati. Now, last but not least in college football, the best player in college football will be crowned on Saturday.
The four finalists. Vying for the Heisman Trophy include favorite to win Travis Hunter from Colorado Ashton Gentry Ashton Gentry Ashton Gentry from Ashton Ashton Gentry Aston Jeanty from Boise State and quarterbacks Dillon Gabriel from Oregon and Cam Ward from Miami. There are 170 media voters along with all the former Heisman winners get to vote to. Check that out on Saturday night.
With players' houses being, moving on to the NFL, with players' houses being broken into during games, Miami's quarterback Tua Tagovailoa issued a warning to potential thieves about his security. He said, I've got somebody with my wife, we've got someone at the house, someone surveying the house, so just let it know and they are armed. If you decide to go to my house, you better think twice.
Now we've seen Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes be robbed, Joe Burrow was the latest NFL player to be robbed. and his model girlfriend and influencer, Olivia Ponton, was at home at that time. And he says his privacy was violated, partially for the break-in and partially because he's a normally really private guy and has ousted the fact that Ponton is his girlfriend. Moving on to Vegas. The NBA heads to Las Vegas for the NBA Cup semi-finals on Saturday.
Milwaukee Bucks take on the Atlanta Hawks and the Oklahoma City Thunder take on the Houston Rockets. the oklahoma city Thunder have the youngest average age in the league at 24.148 years old. Now in the semifinals, if you lose, when the players on that team win $102,000, the losing team, they go then heading to the finals, the players on the losing team in the NBA Cup finals, they each take home $205,000. And the players on the winning team in the NBA Cup finals take home $514,000.
The finals are on Tuesday, December 17th. And last but not least in the NFL, the Buffalo Bills are taking on the Detroit Lions this weekend and many think it's a Super Bowl preview. So let's show that CBS is sending its football show on location. With a big high profile game going on, the Bills announced some big time investors. They added 10 non-controlling minority owners to the team's ownership group. And that includes basketball Hall of Famers, Vince Carter and Tracy McGrady.
That's what you need to know for this weekend ahead. Have a fantastic weekend. It's the weekend before. Enjoy all of your holiday parties and celebrations. And of course, check us out at lastnightsgame.com. sure you follow us on this. Make sure you follow us on your favorite listening platform. And we'll be here again on Monday to get you started off for your week ahead. Have a great weekend.