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College Football 2012 All-American Team
News Picking a college football All-American team is no easy task. Some positions are deeper than others, while it's also difficult to project how a player will perform with the losses or additions arou...
44 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, Independents, MAC, Mountain West, Pac 12, SEC, Sun Belt, WAC

College Fantasy Football: Examining the Top Players in the Big 12
News College fantasy football drafts will be heating up over the next few months and Athlon Sports has teamed with The College Fantasy Football Site to provide in-depth coverage for 2012. ...
45 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, Fantasy, News, Big 12

MLB Manager Actually Gets Ump to Overturn Call
News Well, here's something you almost never see. It happened during Saturday night's game between Cleveland and Tampa Bay. Indians manager Manny Acta came out of the dugout to complain to the first-bas...
45 weeks ago by Rich McVey Tags: MLB, News

Unit Rankings: 2012 ACC Wide Receivers
News Kickoff for the 2012 college football season is still two months away, but it's never too early to project how the year might play out. Athlon will be taking a look at how each position s...
45 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, ACC, Boston College Eagles, Clemson Tigers, Duke Blue Devils, Florida State Seminoles, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, Maryland Terrapins, Miami Hurricanes, NC State Wolfpack, North Carolina Tar Heels, Virginia Cavaliers, Virginia Tech Hokies, Wake Forest Demon Deacons

Unit Rankings: 2012 Big Ten Wide Receivers
News Kickoff for the 2012 college football season is still two months away, but it's never too early to project how the year might play out. Athlon will be taking a look at how each position s...
45 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, Big Ten, Illinois Fighting Illini, Indiana Hoosiers, Iowa Hawkeyes, Michigan State Spartans, Michigan Wolverines, Minnesota Golden Gophers, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Northwestern Wildcats, Ohio State Buckeyes, Penn State Nittany Lions, Purdue Boilermakers, Wisconsin Badgers

Kansas Football: Will Charlie Weis' Second Chance Equal Success?
News It didn’t matter that spring practice was just a month away or that the business of rebuilding a team coming off a 2–10 season never closed. Charlie Weis wanted to get home for the game. Th...
45 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, Big 12, Kansas Jayhawks

College Fantasy Football: Examining the Best Players in the ACC
News College fantasy football drafts will be heating up over the next few months and Athlon Sports has teamed with The College Fantasy Football Site to provide in-depth coverage for 2012. ...
45 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, Fantasy, News

Pennell’s Picks: Fantasy NASCAR Trends at Daytona
News Here's hoping all the NASCAR fantasy players out there had a happy and safe Fourth of July holiday. After a week of firework displays around this great nation, the grand finale will come Saturday n...
45 weeks ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR, News, AJ Allmendinger, Brad Keselowski, Carl Edwards, Clint Bowyer, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Greg Biffle, Jamie McMurray, Jimmie Johnson, Kasey Kahne, Kurt Busch, Landon Cassill, Martin Truex Jr., Matt Kenseth, Paul Menard, Tony Stewart, Daytona, Fantasy NASCAR tips

10 NASCAR Sprint Cup Contenders and Pretenders
News Saturday’s Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway (please don’t call it the Pepsi 400 — Firecracker 400, however, will be accepted) marks the halfway point in the 2012 NASCAR Sprint ...
45 weeks ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR, News, Brad Keselowski, Clint Bowyer, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Denny Hamlin, Greg Biffle, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex Jr., Matt Kenseth, Tony Stewart, Chase for the Championship, NASCAR, Sprint Cup

Strangest Non-Game Related Sports Injuries (that may or may not have happened)
News This week several media sources reported that former South Carolina QB Stephen Garcia injured himself while giving a peace sign. Turns out, it was just a joke, and Garcia's career as a fourth-strin...
45 weeks ago by Rich McVey Tags: Overtime, News

Backseat Drivers Fan Council
News TV coverage, traffic and the racing at Kentucky were on the minds of members of the Backseat Drivers Fan Council this week. With the recent complaints about commercials, especially during the Kentu...
45 weeks ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR, News, Backseat Drivers Fan Council, Dustin Long, Kentucky, NASCAR, pay-per-view, TNT coverage, traffic

Unit Rankings: 2012 Big 12 Wide Receivers
News Kickoff for the 2012 college football season is still two months away, but it's never too early to project how the year might play out. Athlon will be taking a look at how each position s...
45 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, Big 12, Baylor Bears, Iowa State Cyclones, Kansas Jayhawks, Kansas State Wildcats, Oklahoma Sooners, Oklahoma State Cowboys, TCU Horned Frogs, Texas Longhorns, Texas Tech Red Raiders, West Virginia Mountaineers

Unit Rankings: 2012 Pac-12 Wide Receivers
News Kickoff for the 2012 college football season is still two months away, but it's never too early to project how the year might play out. Athlon will be taking a look at how each position s...
45 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, Pac 12, Arizona State Sun Devils, Arizona Wildcats, California Golden Bears, Colorado Buffaloes, Oregon Ducks, Oregon State Beavers, Stanford Cardinal, UCLA Bruins, USC Trojans, Utah Utes, Washington Huskies, Washington State Cougars

LSU Football: It's Zach Mettenberger's Time to Shine in 2012
News At the ripe old age of 20, Zach Mettenberger surprised himself. The LSU quarterback figured out the person he had become by going through a season like he’d never experienced in his football life...
45 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, SEC, LSU Tigers

NASCAR Horsepower Rankings
News 1. Jimmie Johnson  Lost a shot at the win during the final restart in Kentucky when he picked up trash on his tires. Managed to rebound to sixth after a quick backslide, his 13th top 10 of t...
45 weeks ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR, News, Brad Keselowski, Clint Bowyer, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth, Tony Stewart, Kentucky, NASCAR, Power Rankings

Confident Earnhardt Heads Back to Daytona
News The equipment and team help but Dale Earnhardt Jr. says a key reason for his success in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series this season is crew chief Steve Letarte. Since being paired together last ye...
45 weeks ago by Matt Taliaferro Tags: NASCAR, News, Bill Elliott, Dale Eanhardt Jr., Greg Biffle, Jimmie Johnson, Matt Kenseth, Daytona, Dustin Long, NASCAR, Steve Letarte

Texas A&M's Welcome to the SEC Video is a Disaster
News There's no question Texas A&M is fired up to be in the SEC. After dealing with the soap opera known as the Big 12, the Aggies finally have some stability in terms of conference alignment. W...
45 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: Overtime, News

Unit Rankings: 2012 SEC Wide Receivers
News Kickoff for the 2012 college football season is still two months away, but it's never too early to project how the year might play out. Athlon will be taking a look at how each position s...
45 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, SEC, Alabama Crimson Tide, Arkansas Razorbacks, Auburn Tigers, Florida Gators, Georgia Bulldogs, Kentucky Wildcats, LSU Tigers, Mississippi State Bulldogs, Missouri Tigers, Ole Miss Rebels, South Carolina Gamecocks, Tennessee Volunteers, Texas A&M Aggies, Vanderbilt Commodores

College Football: Examining the Skyrocketing Coordinator Salaries
News There’s more money than ever in college football, and assistant coaches are reaping the rewards, with compensation levels rising at a rapid pace If you happen to score an invitation for dinne...
45 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, Independents, MAC, Mountain West, Pac 12, SEC, Sun Belt, WAC

Northwestern Football: Revisiting the 1995 Wildcats Rose Bowl Team
News It was midnight on the eve of the 82nd Rose Bowl in Pasadena. A lone figure sat in the partially lit stands gazing out at the fabled field in the near darkness. Gary Barnett was fulfilling a pe...
45 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, Big Ten, Northwestern Wildcats

College Fantasy Football: Examining the Best Players in the Mountain West
News College fantasy football drafts will be heating up over the next few months and Athlon Sports has teamed with The College Fantasy Football Site to provide in-depth coverage for 2012. ...
45 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, Fantasy, News

Purdue Basketball Players' Awesome Trick Shot Video
News Purdue basketball players have put out a new video showing that they're keeping their skills sharp during the off season. Players Dru Anthrop and D.J. Byrd are joined by former player and now stude...
45 weeks ago by Rich McVey Tags: College Basketball, Overtime, News

Swimmer Dara Torres Goes for Her Sixth Olympics Tonight
News She's 50 meters — a single lap — away from history.  Dara Torres, swimming's elder stateswoman at age 45, is more than just one of the hottest 40-somethings on the planet. She remains ...
45 weeks ago by Rob Doster Tags: News, Olympics

Charles Barkley Tried to Recruit Dirk Nowitzki to Auburn
News Dirk Nowitzki is one of the NBA's top players, but he switched in his sneakers for cleats and a bat for the 2012 Heroes Celebrity Baseball Game in Frisco, Texas. The event featured a handful of not...
45 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: NBA, News

Miami Football: Al Golden Has the Hurricanes Back on Track
News Recruiting is a contact sport not meant for the weak-hearted. Al Golden knows this. But even with that in mind, Golden was startled by the level of malice he and his Miami Hurricanes staff encounte...
45 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, ACC, Miami Hurricanes

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