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When I put together my early 2011 fantasy football running back rankings Peyton Hillis missed the cut. After 1654 total yards (1177 rushing, 477 receiving) and 13 touchdowns (11 rushing, 2 receiving) there are questions at the validity of my rankings. Well, I’m here to defend my rankings.
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Cleveland Browns GM Tom [...]

Nothing has been formally agreed between the players and the owners yet, but it looks pretty likely that the players will get 48% of all revenues. In an earlier series of posts on revenue sharing, we looked at how that percentage of all revenues has developed over the last ten years, summarizes in the table below. Obviously, the 48% that are being talked[...]

Hello everyone and welcome to today’s “The Stack” with me, Nathan Stacken. Last blog post of the week and we have plenty on the NBA Draft and a few other interesting tidbits in “The Stack” so let’s get right to it:
1. Kyrie Irving, Derrick Williams go one, two.
The NBA Draft took [...]

Compared to year’s past, it was a relatively quiet draft night in terms of veteran players being dealt.* We can probably thank the pending NBA lockout for that.* Still, there were a few deals made during the 2011 NBA Draft including point guards Andre Miller, Raymond Felton, George Hill, and Jonny Flynn.* Here is my breakdown of the trades.

Denver Nuggets Get: [...]

The former Washington Nationals manager resigned out of the blue on Thursday, just as his team hit the .500 mark upon winning their 11th game in 12 opportunities.

According to general manager Mike Rizzo, Riggleman called it quits after he asked the team pick up the $600,000 option on his contract for 2012 and the club declined to do so. [...]

(Ed. Note: Gabriel Landeskog is a winger for the Kitchener Rangers and is expected to be a Top 3 pick in the 2011 NHL Draft. He’s agreed to write a few Draft Diaries for Puck Daddy before and after the first round. Here’s the first entry.)

I am Gabriel Landeskog and here is a little recap of the past few weeks…

Now that summer has officially started, I find myself for the first time actually noticing that football isn’t gearing up to get started. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of the NFL but apparently not as big of one as I thought. Honestly, I can say I’m shocked they haven’t managed to figure out a way to make $9 billion dollars go around yet as the toll the lockout is taking on the fans…

I’m going through an awesome break-up right now. Literally, the only thing keeping me in a decent enough mood not to trash all of his shit and burn the house down is my undying love for baseball. And my girlfriends.

I could sit all day and think up reasons why baseball is better than my ex-boyfriend, and for all you men out there, why it’s a million times more enjoyable than your stupid…

Hello everyone and welcome to today’s “The Stack” with me, Nathan Stacken. The NBA Draft is tonight and we will have a preview, though it will be nothing like our NFL Draft preview. There are a few other things going on in the world of sports so let’s get right to “The Stack”:
1. Baseball’s biggest [...]

Freddie Roach, who is widely known as one of the best boxing trainers in the world, believes the current World Boxing Association’s World Heavyweight Champion, David Haye, can defeat Wladimir Klitschko, if he puts early pressure on his opponent…