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Did the Reds do enough during the offseason to make one think they have the personnel to win the division for the second straight season?

I think so. They were fairly solid with what they had after the season was over. They led the league in BA, HR, RBI, H, SLG, OPS and OPS+. They led the league defensively in…

For the second year in a row, the Super Bowl will have a feature back from the University of Illinois. This time, the Illini tailback is the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Rashard Mendenhall;* who in 2008 became the first University of Illinois player taken in the first round of the NFL Draft since 1996.

14 years ago, UI produced the #2 (Kevin Hardy taken by Jacksonville) and #3 overall…

Well, it’s going to happen sometime. Just not tonight. I’m speaking of course about the #1 team in all of college basketball, the Ohio State Buckeyes finally losing a game at some point this season.

Heading to Northwestern seemed like a cakewalk for the Bucks…

“I am calling this the “Rex Ryan Affect.”

Ever since Ryan took over as New York Jets’ head coach two years ago and took on other players and other teams with his trash talking bravado, there seems to be more trashing talking not only in football, but in other sports as well.

For a brief time, Devon Alexander and Timothy Bradley’s professional boxing careers stood promisingly side-by-side. But, by the end of the night at the Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan, their stature in the highly competitive junior welterweight division were quite different, resembling two elevators that had traveled in vastly opposite directions.

The draft, as we know, is an art and not a science.

The fact that there are any number of ways to decide why or why not to draft a player gives that part away, but basically there are three ways teams approach the draft.

One is to draft according to need, the second is to draft the best player on the board regardless of position, [...]

I hate Kobe Bryant. I really do. I hate the way he looks on the court. I hate that stupid-ass smug grin he gets on his face. I hate the never-die attitude he possesses. I hate the fade-away shots he always makes. I hate the 3 point baskets. I hate the way he’s won five championships. I hate the fact that people discuss him in all-time great conversations.

After cutting ties with Vince Young, the Tennessee Titans have also decided to cut ties with head coach Jeff Fisher after 16 years.
In an unexpected development in what already has been a turbulent offseason in Tennessee, the Titans and Jeff Fisher, the NFL’s longest-tenured head coach, are preparing to part ways, SI.com learned Thursday afternoon.
According [...]

While reporting from the East-West Shrine Game in Orlando, Florida, NFL Draft analyst Todd McShay remarked that there was an outside chance the Carolina Panthers could select Missouri quarterback Blaine Gabbert with the No. 1 pick in the 2011 NFL Draft.

This is astonishing, considering just one month ago, Gabbert’s meager draft[...]

Columbia (FL) defensive tackle Tim Jernigan is a hot commodity these days, as he is being recruited extremely hard by every major college football program in the South. Jenrigan has narrowed his list down to Florida State, Alabama, LSU, Tennessee and Florida.
Although he’s scheduled to head to[...]