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As first reported by ESPN.com, the Washington Nationals will name Davey Johnson as manager. John McLaren, who took over on an interim basis, will move into a roll in the front office. Johnson is expected to manage his first game on Monday.

Johnson has managed the New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds, Baltimore Orioles, [...]

The Edmonton Oilers completed their trade for hockey hero Ryan Smyth on Sunday, ending a few days of confusion, false starts and unintentional comedy … and making Los Angeles Kings GM Dean Lombardi look like a [expletive] genius.

From the Edmonton Journal:
The Edmonton Oilers finally [...]

With the possible exception of Vanderbilt, this probably the worst team in the SEC. Which usually makes you pretty good. It’s like being fat…by supermodel standards. You’re still in very good shape.* What the Ole Miss Rebels need, in addition to a more contemporary nickname, is an overhaul on defense. They were abysmal last year, especially so against the pass. They only return three starters[...]

Each and every year, a rookie comes out of no where to become a fantasy hero. Last season, it was the Detroit Lions RB Jahvid Best and the Minnesota Vikings WR Percy Harvin the year before that.

Who will it be this season?

Here’s a list of which rookies you should [...]

Tamika Catchings scored a team-high 13 points, grabbed a game best 12 rebounds and dished out five assists, recording her 70th career double-double, to lift the Indiana Fever to an impressive 75-70 victory over Connecticut Sun on Saturday night at Conseco Fieldhouse. [...]

Football is like baseball, I can watch almost any game and enjoy it. Watching someone beyond the Celtics or Bruins is semi-sacriligious in their sport! Yet, the Patriots have been such a credit to the league that the interest in who we were playing next week or just the general non-ambivalence to the game of football so he could concentrate[...]

Earlier this week, our own KD Drummond caused quite a stir with an article suggesting the Cowboys may have the best passing attack in the NFC East.

That premise was hotly debated and the discussion quickly veered off topic, so today we refocus on the Cowboys’ passing game with the help of a few very simple stats…

The International Boxing Federation’s Light Welterweight Champion Zab Judah is pretty confident ahead of his bout and reckons Golden Boy Promotions is sacrificing the current World Boxing Organisation’s World Super Lightweight Champion Amir Khan…

For the first since the NBA Draft was reduced from seven rounds to two round in 1988, one college basketball program, the Kentucky Wildcats, has seen at least four players get selected in back-to-back drafts. Last year five Cats got picked (John Wall Washington Wizards, DeMarcus Cousins Sacramento Kings, Patrick Patterson Houston Rockets,* Eric Bledsoe [...]

With the 1st pick in the 2011 NHL Draft, the Edmonton Oilers select Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, a center from the Red Deer Rebels of the Western Hockey League.
Nugent-Hopkins is the top-ranked skater in the draft, as determined by Central Scouting, although he was selected second overall in SB Nation’s network-wide Mock Draft. Peter Sullivan [...]