Rotoworld: Oregon RB LaMichael James and Oklahoma State WR Justin Blackmon among top 10 players who are being overhyped for the 2012 draft.
SportsTalk: Albert Pujols signs with the Angels and Prince Fielder joins the Tigers. Which team is better now?
The Detroit Red Wings equaled an NHL record with their 20th straight win at home, beating the Philadelphia Flyers 4-3 Sunday night on the strength of Johan Franzen's tiebreaking goal early in the third period.
PBT: Boston's Rajon Rondo continues to be named in trade talks, which is madness. The Celtics guard creates offense and makes everyone around him better, which was evident in Sunday's win over the Bulls.
Arc's five up, five down: After No. 11 Michigan State's 58-48 upset of No. 3 Ohio State, you'd be a fool to discount the Spartans' national title chances now.
Miami coach Al Golden says the worst is behind him, but his headaches figure to continue now that former booster Nevin Shapiro, now in jail, says his involvement with the Hurricanes program will result in stiff penalties.
Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods greeted their Sunday pairing at Pebble Beach with optimism. But the day would end happily only for one.
The United States completed a 5-0 rout of Switzerland in the Davis Cup on Sunday, with 19-year-old Ryan Harrison and John Isner winning closing singles matches.
Zambia has won the African Cup of Nations, beating pre-tournament favorite Ivory Coast 8-7 on penalties in a dramatic final at Stade de l'Amitie.
Tessa Worley of France fought off gusting winds to win a second consecutive World Cup giant slalom Sunday in the Andorran Pyrenees. Overall leader Lindsey Vonn was more than a second behind and finished eighth.
Robins: It’s the Year of the Dragon on the Lunar calendar, and this Chinese influence could extend to it also being the year of the Pekingese on the green carpet at the 136th Westminster Dog Show on Tuesday.
APBig Brown, this year's Kentucky Derby winner, faces 12 probable challengers at Saturday's Preakness Stakes in Baltimore in his bid to become the first thoroughbred since Affirmed in 1978 to win horse racing's Triple Crown. Gayego, who finished 17th at Churchill Downs two weeks ago, is the only of Big Brown's defeated foes from the Derby to get another shot at him this weekend.
KENTUCKY BEAR has had only three career starts, all as a three-year old. But he's fresh and has been conditioned perfectly by Reade Baker for the Triple Crown's second leg. Coming off Keeneland's artificial ploytrack surface in the Blue Grass Stakes, where he finished a strong third after being bumped at the start, the speedy chestnut has worked extremely well in the mornings and figures to have the best shot at upsetting the heavy favorite.
BIG BROWN, who could go off as low as 1-5, which would be the shortest odds since Fusaichi Pegasus lost at 3-10 in 2000, appears likely to bounce and regress from an impressive performance in the Derby. The question remains whether after a move backwards, the colt will still be good enough to beat a less-than-stellar field.
BEHINDATTHEBAR's come-from-behind win in the Lexington Stakes at Churchill Downs two weeks before the Derby showed a style of running that is well suited to Pimlico and the mile-and-three-sixteenths distance. Trained by the skillful Todd Pletcher, the bay colt skipped the Derby and was aimed directly for this race.
The first of three pools of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager begins its three-day run on Friday and the bet's opening scenario is very similar to each of its opening pools since the wager was created in 1999.
It's first time that Classic will be broadcast in primetime on Nov. 3.
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Zambia has won the African Cup of Nations, beating pre-tournament favorite Ivory Coast 8-7 on penalties in a dramatic final at Stade de l'Amitie.
Wesseling: Each NFL team enters the offseason with a series of pressing needs. Sometimes a team can address them all, sometimes they ignore them all. But if a team's smart, they'll listen to us. These are the most crucial aspects for AFC teams.
The Red Wings have finally started to embrace a record they've been chasing.
