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The Seattle Mist and Green Bay Chill both will look to capitalize on one another as the inter-conference opponents square off on Friday night (10:00 p.m. ET, MTV2) with the Mist looking for redemption after a disappointing 2010 season and the Chill attempting to make amends for a season opening 28-25 home loss to Minnesota. [...]
Michael Vick was banged around again this week as the Philadelphia Eagles took on the New York Giants, suffering a broken right hand as a result of the hits he took throughout the game. Just like last week, Vick was hit early and often, sometimes after the ball was released. And after the game, Vick blasted the officials, saying they have to do their job and protect him.[...]
Everything’s falling into place.
Oh, not for the Atlanta Braves. Sunday afternoon in our nation’s capital, the Braves were whitewashed by Washington’s Ross Detwiler and a trio of relievers. For the rest of us, though, events have conspired to give us a great deal to watch in the National League, which certainly isn’t what we expected just a week or two ago. . Because with the Braves losing [...]
In a reversal of last year’s Chase race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Tony Stewart was able to save enough fuel and capitalize as race leader Clint Bowyer ran out of gas with two laps to go.
“You can take a breath, I’ve got this,” Stewart said on the final lap coming to the [...]
To add insult to injury following a loss to the LSU Tigers, the West Virginia Mountaineers had their locker room broken into sometime after the game on Saturday night. Morgantown was in the spotlight this weekend, with a nationally televised evening game and the presence of College Gameday for the first time ever. But following the game, a series of incidents turned what could have been [...]
The Pittsburgh Penguins must be delighted that Evgeni Malkin is showing signs of being Evgeni Malkin again. Even so, the team’s ceiling will rise to undeniable Stanley Cup contender heights if Sidney Crosby can be reasonably healthy during the 2011-12 season.
Crosby still has quite a way to go before that happens – the Penguins center [...]
Let’s quickly recap yesterday’s action in the National League.
National League Wild Card
Atlanta Braves: Lost to Washington Nationals 4-1: Chien-Ming Wang shut down the Braves yesterday as the former New York Yankee allowed just four hits in six innings. [...]
Boy, what a fun time I had at the Goodman vs. Indy Pro Am game. In this Ball It for It All game, John Wall lighted it up with 41 points to lead Goodman in a 170-167 finish.
Indy Pro-Am started off behind and slow but Eric Gordon helped lead them to leading at many points in the game. It was just a solid game overall. [...]
he first two weeks of the 2011 NFL season was a mixed bag of inconsistent play that was hindered further by newly implemented rules, as well as a few record-setting moments by a pair of rookies in Cam Newton and Ben Tate.
Tate, of the Houston Texans, is not considered a rookie technically because he made the Texans squad last year. He did, however [...]
Three rounds are in the books for the main event of UFC 135 – a light heavyweight championship bout between Jon “Bones” Jones and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson. This is the first time Jones has ventured into the championship rounds, though he has dominated the fight thus far. The referee overseeing the action is Josh Rosenthal.
For [...]