As teams complete their regular seasons with hopes of being selected to the 68-team NCAA tournament field, national player of the year candidates are polishing their resumes for consideration. Unlike players from the teams on the bubble for the NCAA tournament, fans can be sure they'll see all of the following candidates in the 2013 tourney:
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MMA fighting is known for its bone-crunching violence. In an effort to put an exclamation point on that fact, Kiwi star Mark "Super Samoan" Hunt crushed Stefan "Skyscraper" Struve Saturday night in Japan.
Every once in a while, an NBA team is constructed in such a way that it can bring multiple years of success to a franchise. Are the current Miami Heat one of those teams?
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Vontae Davis of the Indianapolis Colts knows how to play defense. Vontae Davis does not know the rules of the NFL in regard to free agency and tampering, how hacking works, the rules of capitalization and that Twitter has a delete function
A marquee NBA matchup and the start of an international baseball tournament highlight the upcoming sports calendar. Here's what to watch this weekend:
Brent Musburger may never live down how he gawked at Katherine Webb during the BCS National Championship last month, but he seems at peace with that.
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Hope springs eternal this time of year for us Cubs fans - mainly because we haven't played a regular season game yet. Club President Theo Epstein, who rebuilt the Red Sox and his GM Jed Hoyer have said this is year two of a three year rebuilding progress
If you think the NBA’s slam dunk contest has lost some of its luster, then you won’t know what to make of the disaster that is the Chinese Basketball Association’s version of this event.
