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CFB Fantasy: Week 8 TE Ranks
Fantasy Need some help setting your college fantasy lineup? Instead of wasting hours trying to decide which player to start, check out Athlon's weekly fantasy ranks, which will help get your team on the w...
2 years ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, Fantasy

CFB Fantasy: Week 8 K/DEF Ranks
Fantasy Need some help setting your college fantasy lineup? Instead of wasting hours trying to decide which player to start, check out Athlon's weekly fantasy ranks, which will help get your team on the w...
2 years ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, Fantasy

Athlon Interview: Roy Williams
College Basketball Roy Williams warned us. Told us before last season his Tar Heels weren’t top-five material. Probably didn’t deserve the top 10, either. But did we listen? Nope. It’s hard to pay clos...
2 years ago by Charlie Miller Tags: College Basketball

Surprise Teams in 2010-11 Part II
College Basketball We continue our look at some potential surprise teams in college basketball in 2010-11. Today, the focus is on the SEC and Big East.SEC Georgia Bulldogs When everyone is tabbing you as a surprise te...
2 years ago by Mitch Light Tags: College Basketball

Martinsville Speedway
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro and Nathan Rush Location: Martinsville, Va. Distance: .526-mile oval (500 laps/263 miles) Banking/Turns: 12 degrees Race Dates: March 28 (Denny Hamlin) and October 24 From ...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Newton Entering Rarified Air
College Football In honor of this week's Editor's Heisman voting, I thought I would look at just how impressive Auburn Cam Newton's stats have become. (Incidentally, Newton claimed all seven first place vo...
2 years ago by Braden Gall Tags: College Football

Will Spurrier win SEC East in the Swamp
College Football What is it about No. 1 teams in college football not being able to play on the road? Alabama ventured to South Carolina and lost. Then on Saturday, top-ranked Ohio State visited Wisconsin and the Badg...
2 years ago by Charlie Miller Tags: College Football

Lee still dominating Yanks
MLB Cliff Lee is firmly cemented among the best postseason pitchers ever. He is 7-0 in his eight starts with a 1.26 ERA. His latest gem Monday night confirmed that he is better than the Yankees. He proved...
2 years ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB

Waiver Wire
Fantasy By Matt Schauf RapidDraft.com Every week folks grab the Keiland Williamses and LeGarrette Blounts of the fantasy world off the waiver wire in hopes that they luck into some gem of a bye-week cover...
2 years ago by Charlie Miller Tags: Fantasy

Where we went right; where we were wrong
Fantasy In a week full of 80-plus-yard TD plays and nasty hits on pass catchers that likely resulted in some serious concussions (and saw guys like DeSean Jackson get knocked out in the first quarter), quite ...
2 years ago by Charlie Miller Tags: Fantasy

Notes & Stats from Week 7
College Football Here's a quick look at some notes and stats that caught my attention from the weekend of college football. • Florida had 35 rushing attempts against Mississippi State, but only 11 came f...
2 years ago by Mitch Light Tags: College Football

Newton Tops Voting
College Football The Heisman Trophy is college football's most prestigious trophy, so the editors here at Athlon take the voting for the 13.5-inch, 25-pound award very seriously. Each week, the ballots are collect...
2 years ago by Braden Gall Tags: College Football

Tar Heels Roll
College Football This season was supposed to be a special one for North Carolina, and it certainly has been. Just not in the way everyone envisioned. The program has made far more headlines for off-the-field transgres...
2 years ago by Braden Gall Tags: College Football, ACC

Familiar Outcome
College Football For one cloudy afternoon in Los Angeles, this was the familiar USC, the one that steamrolled opponents for the better part of a decade and left observers shaking their heads in wonderment. The Trojans...
2 years ago by Braden Gall Tags: College Football, Pac 10

From Russia Without LeBron
NBA The Cavs would not have lost a preseason game to CSKA Moscow had LeBron James been on the floor, on the bench or maybe even just rooting for Cleveland from the stands. So, the anti-Witness himself, Co...
2 years ago by Nathan Rush Tags: NBA

Minnesota Fires Brewster
College Football The grass isn't always greener on the other side. Just ask Minnesota. The Golden Gophers made the first coaching move of the 2010 college season, firing Tim Brewster after a 1-6 mark this year and...
2 years ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football

To the Limit
NASCAR by Tom Bowles “It’s tough, when you sit down and think about it; the saddest thing is that you never got a chance to say goodbye to him. But oh, how he lived.”  — Kerry...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

Purdue's Hummel Out
College Basketball The Purdue Boilermakers, one of Athlon Sports 2010-2011 predicted Final Four teams, took a major shot to the jugular this weekend. For the second time in two years, do-everything forward, wing Robbie ...
2 years ago by Braden Gall Tags: College Basketball

Week 7 Report Card
College Football It was a rather interesting weekend in college football. Here's a look at three teams that stood out and three teams that were a disappointment.Teams of the Week Mississippi State — Dan Mull...
2 years ago by Mitch Light Tags: College Football

Big 12 Turnover
College Football An earthquake struck not far from Owen Field in Norman last week, a rare quake for the state of Oklahoma that shook buildings across campus. The rest of the Big 12 — and other parts of the natio...
2 years ago by Braden Gall Tags: College Football, Big 12

Badger Upset
College Football The king is dead. Now what?Say what you will about Jim Tressel’s inability to keep his team in the nation’s No. 1 spot; his teams have regularly contended on a national scale during his te...
2 years ago by Braden Gall Tags: College Football, Big Ten

Defense Leads the Way
Big East The Big East is exactly halfway through its football season. Every team has played six games. And the results haven’t exactly been pretty. Only West Virginia at 5–1 is ranked, and only two...
2 years ago by Braden Gall Tags: College Football, Big East

Big Money McMurray
NASCAR by Matt Taliaferro Kyle Busch led a ton of laps. Jamie McMurray scored his third unlikely win of a career-resurgent season. A debris caution flew with under 25 laps remaining. Yes, the Bank of Amer...
2 years ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR

2011 Free Agency
MLB  2011 Difference-makers2011 Potential Front-LinersOther 2011 NotablesFree in 2012CVictor MartinezJohn BuckRod BarajasRyan Doumit*  Gerald LairdRamon HernandezYadier Molina*  M...
2 years ago by Charlie Miller Tags: MLB

Kolb's Huge Weekend
NFL Kolb or Vick? Does It Matter?Michael Vick leads the NFL in passer rating. Kevin Kolb has three 300-yard games in five career starts, including yesterday’s 23-of-29, 326-yard, three touchdown mas...
2 years ago by Rob Doster Tags: NFL

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