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TORONTO – One name: Kyle DeHaven. One word: Unstoppable.

Baltimore’s high-grade, multidimensional star (3 reception, 57 yards, 1 TD, 7 carries/72 yards, 2 TD) repeatedly attacked the Toronto defense tonight with the lethal force of a runaway locomotive, flattening would-be defenders like pennies [...]

It’s hard to win a World Series without a little luck.

I’m practically impossible to win a seven-game World Series without a lot of luck.

And the Cardinals rode their share of good luck to yet another championship, beating the Rangers 6-2, Friday night in Game 7 of the 2011 World Series.

You can’t do it without some really good [...]

Goalkeeper superstar Hope Solo is now without a professional soccer team. As is, Abby Wambach and several other members of the USWNT team that played in the World Cup final and captivated the nation this past summer.

The Women’s Professional (Soccer Association? League?) terminated their South Florida franchise after taking issues [...]

In arguably the greatest (or most bizarre) World Series game of all time, David Freese (0-3 at the time), with one strike away from walking back to the dugout while the opposing team (the Texas Rangers) celebrates their first World Series title, hit a deep shot that knocked in Albert Pujols and Lance Berkman. In extra innings, he hit a solo jack that gave the Cardinals the win and forced a game 7.

That’s game, that’s game, that’s game. [...]

Former NBA super star Allen Iverson has accepted that his last couple of years in the league were very disappointing, but pointed to the many personal troubles he went through during that period as a major reason.

The former Philadelphia 76ers guard is now looking to get back into the NBA once [...]

The #15 Wisconsin Badgers national title hopes may be dead, but their Big Ten title hopes are well and alive. Their route to the inaugural Big Ten Championship and a BCS bowl hits another potential barricade this weekend when they take on the Ohio State Buckeyes.

At 4-3 and 1-2 in the conference, this Ohio State team is not your typical Buckeye team. In fact, this will be the first time since 1963 that the Badgers enter the game [...]

No. 1 Star: Nikolai Khabibulin, Edmonton Oilers

The 38-year Russian netminder continued his strong start to the season with a 34-save night in a 2-1 win over the Washington Capitals. Edmonton got power play goals from Taylor Hall and Jordan Eberle to hand the Capitals their first loss of the season. Khabibulin [...]

It’s Friday and that means it’s time to make our picks for week 8 of the NFL. So far through 7 weeks, we’re 69-34, and that includes last week’s disgraceful 7-6 record. Who’s going to win this week? Find out now:

Arizona @ Baltimore 1:00 ET FOX

Let’s see, Baltimore looked like crap on offense Monday night [...]

1. Adrian Peterson, Minnesota at Carolina
2. Fred Jackson, Buffalo vs Washington
3. Arian Foster, Houston vs Jacksonville
4. Ahmad Bradshaw, New York Giants vs Miami
5. Ray Rice, Baltimore vs Arizona
6. Maurice Jones-Drew, Jacksonville at Houston
7. Pierre Thomas, New Orleans at St. Louis
8. Frank Gore, San Francisco vs Cleveland
9. Chris Johnson, Tennessee vs Indianapolis
10. LeSean McCoy, Philadelphia vs Dallas
11. Ryan Mathews, San Diego [...]

This Saturday night the defending Eastern Conference Champion Philadelphia Passion square off against the expansion Cleveland Crush. The Passion started their season off right with a huge win in their opener while the Crush suffered their second heartbreaking loss in as many games last week and are winless midway through their season. On paper it would appear Philadelphia [...]