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"Don't f***ing talk to me! Knock it off!"- Ryan Leaf to San Diego Tribune's Jay Posner It was the defining moment and the epithet on Ryan Leaf's unfulfilled NFL career. It was repl...(full article)

Here is a look at some of the key injuries suffered so far in 2009 separated into three categories: a) Players whose lengthy absence has directly impacted team success; b) Those wh...(full article)

Instead of just looking at the number of comebacks, Kacsmar decided to look at the percentage of comeback opportunities won. (See his exhaustive treatise on the subject here.) His ...(full article)

The 2009-2010 season will begin on the 27th of October, just less than four weeks from now. We take a look at the top ten paid players in the league going into the season – deser...(full article)

Be it a baseball diamond, a soccer pitch, a hockey rink or a basketball court, every sport has its share of stadiums that create a formidable advantage for the home team. Whether i...(full article)

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Top 10 Revenge Games in NFL History - Don Banks, Sports Illustrated

Though it threatens to become as over-played as the no-respect angle, did you notice how the revenge factor was all the rage in the NFL on Sunday? We had Cincinnati's Cedric Benson...

Baseball's 10 Richest Players - The Daily Beast

The World Series, which begins tomorrow, will determine 2009 on-field primacy, as two classic franchises, the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies, battle for the crown. ...

The NBA's Most Overpaid Players - Tom Van Riper, Forbes

During the 1970s, the Rev. Ed Vischer was a prominent high school basketball coach in Long Island, N.Y., leading powerhouse Lutheran High to a string of state and national rankings...

America's Hottest Sports Cities - Monte Burke, Forbes

Boston was once a sports city of lovable losers. Now? Maybe calling them non-lovable winners is best. The city's pro sports teams have shed their underdog label, which has led to a...

The 10 Biggest Busts in Sports History - Maxim

From the thrill of victory to the agony of defeat... to the crippling humiliation of turning certain victory into the aforementioned crushing defeat... sports offers us life's ups ...

Top 10 College Football One-Sided Rivalries - RealClearSports

College football rivalries span generations, passing down hatred and animosity like family heirlooms. Yale and Harvard (simply known as “The Game”) have been playing each other...

America's Most-Liked Sports Figures - Tom Van Riper, Forbes

Since the Olympic Games in Beijing, gold medal gymnast Shawn Johnson has played it just right. She's been out there on the CMT Music Awards and Dancing With the Stars. She's scored...

Top 150 Athlete Golfers - Lisa Furlong & Craig Bestrom, Golf Digest

After many months of research, we've discovered that a huge number of active and retired athletes spend time on the golf course. Our ranking of the top 150 athlete-golfers is merel...

Ten Best Hitters Ever - Joe Posnanski, JoePosnanski.com

OK, so, I don’t really have time to do this. But you KNEW when I haphazardly put together a list of the greatest ever hitters in that last blog post, well, I could not leave it t...

Most Powerful Women in Sports - Tom Van Riper, Forbes

Lesa France Kennedy stuck with the family business. Now she's the most powerful woman in sports. As chief executive of publicly traded International Speedway ( ISCA - news ...

Top 10 Worst Owners in Sports - RealClearSports

National Boss Day is on Friday, so make sure to get a card to thank your boss for cutting your pay and making you come in to the office this weekend. It’s hard for people to cele...

NBA Players That Played 10 Years with Same Franchise - Basketball-Reference

Here's every player in NBA history to spend at least 10 seasons with the same franchise:   Player From To Years Tm John Stockton* 1985 2003 19 UTA Reggie Miller 1988 20...

Top 10 MLB Postseason Storylines - RealClearSports

Baseball is a game filled with major storylines and interesting subplots. In the postseason, every pitch carries with it tension and anticipation as we wait to see who will succeed...

MLB's 30 Best Moves of the Year - Jon Heyman, Sports Illustrated

Two of the best moves of the year involved Matt Holliday. One was a deal to acquire Holliday, the other was a deal to be rid of Holliday. Such are the dangers of big-league dealing...

10 Things to Watch this NHL Season - Wes Goldstein, CBS Sports

Can the rivalry between hockey's two brightest stars reach a new level this season? Are any of the Canadian teams good enough to win a Stanley Cup for a change? Are there any real ...

Top 10 Worst Sports Relocations - RealClearSports

From Baltimore to Cleveland to Milwaukee to Seattle, the map is littered with tombstones of where professional franchises once existed. And whether it’s the jilted fans, the lone...

Biggest Sports Cheaters - Wall Street Journal

The news that Formula One driver Nelson Piquet Jr. intentionally crashed his Renault to help a teammate at last year's Singapore Grand Prix is, without argument, one of the most eg...

10 Surprising NFL Players with Early Impact - Don Banks, Sports Illustrated

Nothing against Mark Sanchez, because New York's rookie quarterback has been everything the Jets hoped for and more, but when you go fifth overall in the draft, the bar of expectat...

Top 10 Surprises from the 2009 MLB Season - RealClearSports

From Zack Greinke’s remarkable season, to yet another playoff push by the Colorado Rockies, to the New York Mets' embarrassment of a year, the Top 10 2009 MLB Surprises have left...

Best & Worst MLB Free Agent Signings of 2009 - Ted Keith, Sports Illustrated

Milton Bradley's year came to an end on Sunday when Hendry suspended him for the rest of the season. It's difficult to imagine Bradley will be back with the Cubs next season, but e...

Top 10 NBA Meltdowns of the Past Decade - Kelly Dwyer, Ball Don't Lie

The criteria here is simple. Anyone who loses their dang mind, gets a vote. Anyone who decides to hold a candle to their frontal lobe, melting into ooze what once housed sound thin...

Top 10 Individual Seasons in Last Decade in the NBA - Kelly Dwyer, Ball Don't Lie

Best statistical season. Pure production. I don't care if a player's wife gave birth to triplets in the same season he was able to guest star on stage in a David Mamet production t...

MLB All-Decade Team - Tom Verducci, Sports Illustrated

The team of the aughts will be decided this postseason. The Yankees have the most wins this decade and the most World Series appearances, but the Red Sox have the most world champi...

Sports Greatest Comeback Wins - Monte Burke, Forbes

The comeback may be the most thrilling event in sports. One team or player is left for dead, done, kaput, down too many points or games to come back. We are rational beings. We lik...

Top 10 College Football Seasons by Freshmen - RealClearSports

We’re only two games into the season and Barkley will have to continue to prove himself. But being a star freshman QB at Southern California? It’s good to be Matt Barkley, the ...

Madden's First 7 Suggestions to Goodell - MJD, Shutdown Corner

Congratulations go out to John Madden, who was just named a special advisor to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. It's an unpaid position, but if Goodell's smart, the position won'...

10 Bold Predictions for NFL Season - Clark Judge, CBS Sports

Finally, we have games that count, which means finally we get serious about predictions. I'm not talking about who's going to the Super Bowl. I'm talking about who's going to make ...

Top 10 Best Dunkers of the Last Decade - Ball Don't Lie

There is absolutely no rhyme or reason to this list. We merely ranked the 10 finest dunkers we saw over the last 10 years, based on how much they made us squeal and/or mug in our o...

Top 10 2nd Round Picks This Decade - Kelly Dwyer, Ball Don't Lie

Drafting is an inexact science, save for the part where you're supposed to select the best player possible with the draft pick your team was assigned. With that in mind, and with 1...

Baseball's Future Stars - Zack O'Malley Greenburg, Forbes

In order to compile our list of baseball's future stars, we polled baseball experts, including Scott Swanay, founder of FantasyBaseballSherpa.com; Bobby Jurney, winner of last year...

The 10 Worst Players in the NFL - The Sporting Blog

Where there's the wheat, there's the chaff. And here's the chaffiest bunch of chaff who ever chaffed. The problem with making a worst player in the NFL list is that there's a high ...

Top 10 Ugliest Things in the NFL - RealClearSports

There are quite a lot of ugly parts of the NFL, some are ugly in a good way, and others are just plain ugly.  Ugly injuries are a common occurrence, ugly contracts plague the ...

Patriots' Kraft Top NFL Team Owner Rankings - M. Silver, Yahoo! Sports

Read why Kraft tops the list and see where your team's owner ranks....

2010 Most Influential in Basketball - Steve Kyler, Hoops World

There were several things we considered in creating this list - historical achievement was not one of them. What someone did, is not as important as what some are doing in shaping ...

Top 10 College Football Entrances - RealClearSports

College football season is nearly upon us. The next four months will be filled with high scoring shootouts, rivalry games, heralded school traditions, and triple options. The antic...

17 Great Clutch Athletes - LIFE

Joe Namath, New York Jets Before Super Bowl III, Namath made the most famous guarantee in sports history--that his underdog Jets would beat the powerful Baltimore Colts--and then h...

Top 10 Best Defenders of the Decade - Kelly Dwyer, Ball Don't Lie

It's hard to qualify with stats. Some of the best defensive stat-hoarders can also be the worst defenders. Some of the best defenders give you absolutely no stats at all. And even ...

Top 15 Reasons to Love College Football - The Legend of Cecilio Guante

This is my annual tribute to college football. It's now entering year three and is slightly updated each year. This season we expanded from 10 to 15. Please jump in... One wee...

10 Worst Free Agents This Decade - Kelly Dwyer, Ball Don't Lie

We knew each of these deals were pretty dodgy the day they were signed, so let's not make any excuses. Here follows the 10 worst free-agent signings of the last decade....

NFL's Most Underrated and Overrated Players - Zack O. Greenburg, Forbes

In order to determine these players, we polled a variety of experts and asked them to choose the most underrated and overrated players at each position, with an eye toward real foo...

Early Favorites for Heisman Trophy - Gene Menez, Sports Illustrated

The Heisman turns 75 this year, and what a birthday present it's about to get. For the first time in history, two players -- Tim Tebow (2007 winner) and Sam Bradford (2008) -- stan...

Five Ways to Make the BCS Better - Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas Morning News

None of these fixes would satisfy those who lust for a lengthy 16-team playoff but here are the five changes I would make to the BCS to create a more palatable system for all....

Top 10 Stadium Design Flaws - RealClearSports

Every new stadium is the result of years of planning, stacks of blueprints, and, of course, millions of dollars. In a new, unprecedented tab, Cowboys Stadium totaled over $1 billio...

Top 102 Games of College Football Season - Tom Dienhart, Rivals.com

Welcome to Oklahoma-Texas, the season's best game. For most of this decade, the Red River Rivalry in the ancient Cotton Bowl has been college football's main event. And that will b...

Top 10 Lottery Busts of the Last Decade - Kelly Dwyer, Ball Don't Lie

Drafting prospects of any regard is an inexact science, and teams are bound to run into some bum picks here and there. Here's our list of the top 10 busts of the decade....

Baseball's Angriest Players - Monte Burke, Forbes

When it comes to getting ejected from a baseball game, Chicago Cubs outfielder Milton Bradley has a near monopoly. The notoriously hot-headed Bradley has bumped, cursed and screame...

10 Best NBA Teams of the Decade Never to Win a Championship - Kelly Dwyer, Ball Don't Lie

Here are a list of the ten best teams to fall short of a ring, with no franchise being listed twice (to give everyone a chance), since the 1999-00 season. 10. Miami Heat, 2004-05 ...

Ranking the NFL Back-Ups - Don Banks, Sports Illustrated

Backups have been in the news a lot with Vick signing and the Vikings deciding who will back up Favre. Time to rank all the back-ups in the NFL....

Cable's Punch Only Ranks 5th in Raiders Lunacy - Gwen Knapp, CBS Sports

It doesn't take long for the immunity to set in. After a few seasons of following the Raiders, shock doesn't register anymore. The outside world sees high comedy and pure lunacy. T...

From Heroes to Villians - Sports Illustrated

Twelve sports personalities who went from beloved fan favorite to hated villain...

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