Brooklyn lured the New York Islanders away from the crumbling Nassau Coliseum, but the rest of the Eastern Playoff teams are getting nervous that the Islanders will not have home ice advantage. The 7th-place Islanders have the second best road
The Los Angeles Lakers’ twin seven-foot towers combined for an incredible 38 rebounds for their seventh straight win, a 99-95 overtime victory over the Houston Rockets on Wednesday night to pit them against the San Antonio Spurs. Chris Paul’s 11
Pau Gasol might have expected a little help from his little brother Marc Gasol against Utah’s red hot Al Jefferson to get the Lakers into the playoffs Wednesday night. Instead, Jefferson dominated with 22 points and 16 rebounds to only
On the most emotional hockey night imaginable, the Boston Bruins were on their way to a win after 59 minutes and 30 seconds of play – only to have Cody Hodgson, of the Buffalo Sabres, score with 26.6 seconds to
Braves starter Mike Minor and A’s starter Bartolo Colon both allowed only one run Wednesday, but only the A’s won – catching the Braves with a major-league-best 12 wins. The Braves 1-4 rotation has not allowed more than one earned
On Monday, the Boston Bruins went from worrying about coming back home after a couple of losses to fight off Ottawa, to worrying about the victims of the Boston Marathon explosion. On Wednesday, they will attempt to help lead Bostonians
While the Braves five home runs Tuesday grabbed attention, another dominant starting pitching performance is the biggest reason the Braves are 12-1 with 10 straight wins. Kris Medlen made it one earned run or fewer allowed in 10 straight starts
Marcus Smart was expected to be guaranteed $8.7 to $9.7 million in a couple of months despite being in a shooting slump for a good part of his freshman season and having his Oklahoma State team lose in the opening
While most Americans were running to mail forms to the IRS Monday, IRS agents were raiding the Knoxville headquarters of the Flying J truck chain owned by the owner of the Cleveland Browns and the Governor of Tennessee. During the
Whether or not the 2013 Kobe-less Lakers join the Lakers teams of 1958, 1975, 1976, 1994 and 2005 as the only ones not to make the playoffs now comes down to if either Marc or brother Pau Gasol can win
An important hockey game was scheduled Monday, as the Boston Bruins came home to try to rebound from two losses and keep the visiting Ottawa Senators from threatening to make a run at home ice advantage for the playoffs. However,
Ninth inning rallies by both Tampa Bay and Boston extended the Monday morning game beyond three hours and hopefully kept most of the 37,000 Red Sox fans from getting far from the stadium before explosions just over a mile way.
Dwight Howard scored 26 points and grabbed 17 rebounds Sunday against one of the greatest players of all-time, Tim Duncan, to get the Lakers one win from the playoffs. The Lakers were able to win the final three minutes after
The Chicago Bulls hit some three-pointers to keep the score respectable, but the Miami Heat’s dominance was most evident by the 57% of the 2-point shots they hit to the 32% accuracy they allowed the Bulls while holding them without
Goalies Rick Hartzell of Quinnipiac and Jeff Malcolm were both spectacular throughout the second period of the NCAA Frozen Four championship Saturday, as each stopped barrages of rebounds, deflections, short one-on-ones, getting run over twice each and even defending 5-on-3
Kobe Bryant fought back tears after a game in which he appeared to tear his left Achilles Heel on a drive to the basket with 3:08 to go in the game Friday. He somehow managed to come back on the
Former Timberwolves player Al Jefferson set a career high with 40 points and saved the Utah Jazz’s season when he fought through a double team by Ricky Rubio Greg Stiemsma, and pulled up to hit a jumper with one second
The Major League Baseball Players Association said Friday it had received an application from rapper Jay-Z to be a baseball agent the same day he released “Open Letter,” which includes the lyrics, “Obama said, ‘Chill you gonna get me impeached.’
Yale and Quinnipiac are only seven minutes apart, but they will play in Pittsburgh Saturday for the NCAA Hockey Title, joining the UConn women’s basketball team to give the state two winter champions. With NHL-bound goalie and potential player of the year
BOSTON (Reuters) – The National Hockey League on Thursday formed a partnership with You Can Play, an organization that promotes gay and lesbian equality in sports, intended to make the league more welcoming to gay players, fans and officials.
President Barack Obama congratulated another champion with a phone call to Rick Pitino Wednesday. In January, President Obama talked to Nick Saban after Alabama won the football title, and a few weeks later he welcomed the champion Miami Heat to the
Going into Washington to face John Wall is no longer an easy win, particularly when you had to beat Milwaukee the night before, your four top players are out, and you happen to be a 37-year-old who had to sit
When Penn State joined the Big Ten as an 11th team, one of the suggestions for a new name that was published in the Milwaukee Journal was, “the Big Ten and Northwestern.” Students at the conference’s only private school averages roughly 740
As Breitbart Sports noted leading up to the women’s NCAA championship, history was going to be tied Tuesday night. Either UConn was going to tie Tennessee with their eighth all-time title, or Louisville was going to become the first school
Kansas’ Ben McLemore’s decision to enter the NBA Draft Tuesday is no surprise, as he should be guaranteed to make between $7.1 million and $10.9 million as soon as his name is called in 79 days, even if he never
After a thrilling first half, every shot, pass and dribble within the arc in the second half seemed as hard fought as Chane Behanan’s pictured dunk through Tim Hardaway. During their 20-game streak to close the season that including 19 wins
Trey Burke scored seven points in the first 2:40 to help Michigan jump to the lead, but with 11:09 to go in the half it suddenly looked like Michigan’s 20-15 lead might vanish. Luke Hancock pumped Burke into the air,
With only one college game left to be played, Trey Burke needs a solid national championship Monday to become the 10th player ever with a Value Add of 11% or more, as shown by the new top 100 Value Add players listed
Louisville, the top Value Add team, goes up against the top Value Add player in Trey Burke and Michigan Monday at 9:23 p.m. for the national title. Russ Smith dropped from No. 4 to No. 6 in the rankings after
Freshman Breanna Stewart scored 29 points and UConn broke a losing streak against Notre Dame with a 83-65 win Sunday. UConn will now go to their eighth NCAA title game, where they have never lost, and if they beat Louisville
If Brittney Griner focued on the NBA rather than the WNBA, noone would benefit more than Elena Delle Donne, pictured leaving the court after Delaware was eliminated in the Sweet 16. Delle Donne would likely become the No. 1 pick
The Louisville women were already the first 5-seed to make the Final Four and had pulled the biggest upset in tournament history, and Louisville was already only the fifth school to put a men’s and women’s team in the final
The Nationals finally made it back to the top of their rotation and it did not matter, as the Cincinnati Reds made it 27 runs in the three game series to win 6-3. The ball was carrying well during the
Just a few months after Mayor Michael Bloomberg was at a press conference announcing the New York Islanders would move to Brooklyn, Matt Martin finished a week in which he knocked out New Jersey Devils right wing Tom Kostopoulos with
Syracuse’s zone took away the scoring of Player of the Year Trey Burke (right of photo), but Michigan’s Mitch McGary (left in photo) grabbed the rebound on Syracuse’s first shot, then rejected the next two Syracuse shots to set the
After Wichita State had played an almost perfect game to take a 12-point lead over Louisville in the second half, two unlikely heros emerged. Walk-on Tim Henderson (left in photo) came in and hit two three-pointers to keep Louisville alive,
If the bottom of the Blue Jays rotation can get shutouts like JA Happ did Saturday against the Red Sox, and the bottom of their line-up can produce two home run blasts from sub-.250 hitters, then this may truly be
At the outset of March Madness, we noted that the teams with the best trios have the best chance to go alll the way. In the “almost” final Value Add rankings below (see table) just three teams – Indiana, Louisville
Like the final shot in Hoosiers, there was no doubt who would take the final big shot for Santa Clara in the CIT championship game Friday, the last college game except for the NCAA Final Four that starts Saturday. Earlier
On Thursday Breitbart Sports reported on the Nationals 3-0 start after allowing Miami only one run in 27 innings, but warned, “The Nationals’ great pitching will get more of a test when they go to Cincinnati to face another early season favorite…” Did
