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This Weekend in Sports: UFC 158 and NCAA Tournament Selection Sunday

Joe Student — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:39:36 +0000

Nearly nonstop college basketball and a highly anticipated UFC matchup are among the best offerings on the upcoming sports calendar. Here’s what to watch this weekend: Friday, March 15 Big Ten Tournament United Center, Chicago; 12 p.m. (ET) on ESPN — ongoing through Sunday, March 17 The best teams in the Big Ten will duel [...]

Game On! Sports Schedule for February 19, 2013

Drew Weisholtz — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:05:15 +0000

The NBAâ€™s second half begins today, but the biggest hardcourt matchup will be in the college ranks. Top-ranked Indiana travels to East Lansing to battle fourth-ranked Michigan State in a mammoth Big 10 — and top five — showdown. The Hoosiers took down the Spartans, 75-70, at the end of January for MSUâ€™s only loss [...]

9 Cliches Your Local Sports Writer Will Include In His First Article From Spring Training

Chris Illuminati — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 04:09:02 +0000

“The job of a sports writer isn’t easy” claims hundreds of columns I’ve read over the years. These men watch and write about baseball for a living which sounds like a step above working in a hospice. It must be awful. With spring training beginning this week, we’ll be reintroduced to those men who waddle [...]

Buzzer Beaters: Top Sports Stories for January 26

Chris Chaberski — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:58:18 +0000

Today’s biggest sports news: the Australian Open’s men’s final is set, the NBA All-Star game rosters have some surprises, and you should sign this petition making the day after the Super Bowl a national holiday. Andy Murray defeated Roger Federer in five sets to set up an Australian Open final against top-seeded Novak Djokovic. It [...]

NBA Week 1 Review: Who's the Most Surprising? — Sports Survey of the Day

BJ Ragone — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:53:16 +0000

Yesterday we discussed the disappointments so far in the young NBA season. Today we’ll take a look at some pleasant surprises. The second week of the 2012-13 NBA season is now under way, and we’re wondering if some of the teams that started off great will continue on that path. One of the biggest surprises so [...]

Who Is the Biggest Disappointment in Baseball This Year? — Sports Survey of the Day

BJ Ragone — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:31:26 +0000

The Major League Baseball season is winding down, and for some high-profile players and one particular manager, it probably feels like the longest season of their careers. So who was this year’s biggest disappointment? This past off-season, the two biggest free agents were Albert Pujols and Jose Reyes, both of whom left their longtime teams [...]

Big Wheel Racing Should Be a Professional Sport

Danny Gallagher — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 21:00:19 +0000

Professional cycling really don’t impress us much. These guys have been chemically and physically engineered from birth to become pedal monsters and ride biked made by NASA engineers that could withstand the wind resistance produced by a nuclear holocaust. Frankly, we’d rather see “Big Wheel Racing” in the Olympics than cycling, especially now that we [...]

Everything You Need to Know About Sports in 2011

Wes Glinsmann — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:56:08 +0000

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2011 was a wild year in the world of sports. Sadly, much of the drama occurred off the field and left many of us vainly searching for an answer to the question, “How could they have let this happen?” But fortunately, there were also a lot of great team and individual accomplishments to be enjoyed this year. GuySpeed look