Big East Get ready for another unpredictable year in the Big East. West Virginia is the favorite, despite changing head coaches in early June. Bill Stewart resigned, elevating offensive coordinator Dana Hol...
ACC Athlon continues our countdown to the upcoming season with our first and second All-ACC teams for the 2011 season. Click here for all our college football team previews, rankings and predictions. ...
1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, ACC
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro The old racing adage that states “the best car doesn’t always win” has applied to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series more often than not in 2011. Fuel mileage, pit strategy a...
1 year ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR
Mountain West In this space last year, we chronicled the dominance of the 2009 TCU Horned Frogs, a team that cruised to the Mountain West title with an 8–0 record and average margin of victory of 32 points. We...
WAC Something is missing here. What could it be? Oh, it’s Boise State, the team that won (or shared) the league title in eight of its nine seasons in the WAC. The Broncos, looking to improve their lo...
2 years ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, WAC
Sun Belt FIU and Arkansas State are inching closer to the top, but the Sun Belt title still runs through Troy. The Trojans have shared or won five straight conference titles and appear to be in great shape ...
2 years ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, Sun Belt
Conference USA Conference USA might not be home to some of the elite teams in college football, but you can’t deny that the league plays a pretty exciting brand of ball — that is, if you like watching a lot o...
MAC Change is a constant in the world of MAC football. Consider the following: Six different schools have won the conference title over the last nine seasons, and 11 of the 13 head coaches have been at...
2 years ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, MAC
Notre Dame By Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven on Twitter) When the preseason magazines and polls are released every year, no team generates as much discussion as Notre Dame. The Irish are one of the most pol...
Pac 12 The Pac-10 has become the Pac-12, bringing the first alignment change to the conference in 33 years. There are divisions for the first time. There is a new league championship game. However, in the...
College Football Looking at Brady Hoke’s big, linebacker’s body, it isn’t hard to imagine him as a little kid, riding a Stingray bike with the banana seat to a pee-wee football game, black-and-gold helmet gle...
NASCAR by Mike Neff Stock car racing has been around for nearly a century, and NASCAR has been responsible for a vast majority of the growth of the sport since the early 1950s. From its humble beginni...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR
College Football By Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven on Twitter) Here's a look at the top transfers to watch for 2011. Quarterbacks Terrance Broadway (Houston to UL Lafayette) – Broadway ranked as ...
2 years ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football
West Virginia Mountaineers The coaches’ responses were measured and polite. They attempted to deflect any controversy. You could tell they had thought about what they would say. Rehearsed it, even. “The programs are ...
Golf The U.S. Open is not what it used to be — that is, the hardest test that the players faced each year. It is now more democratic in its punishments. In the last five years the winner has averaged ...
2 years ago by Corby Yarbrough Tags: Golf
MLB Rosenblatt Stadium produced myriad moments that will stick with Omaha residents. ...
College Football -By Braden Gall (@AthlonBraden) The 2006 recruiting class of quarterbacks is probably the best collection of college signal callers of the modern recruiting era. Two Heisman Trophy winners, si...
2 years ago by Braden Gall Tags: College Football
College Football   For North Carolina, the 2010 football season ended in fitting fashion — with a bizarre mix of chaos, confusion and perseverance swirling together and leaving everyone puzzled. In the ...
2 years ago by Athlon Sports Tags: College Football
Golf Irishman Graeme McDowell will try and defend his title this week as Congressional Country Club will play host to the U.S. Open for the third. Here is a breakdown of all 18 holes of the 7,574-yard, ...
2 years ago by Corby Yarbrough Tags: Golf
MLB Diamond Update AL Player of the Week Dustin Pedroia, Boston For the third week in a row a player from the Red Sox is our AL Player of the Week. Pedroia led the AL with a 1.405 OPS, a .474 b...
2 years ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB