Barry Zito reached base all three times at the plate including once that allowed San Francisco to score their only run, and threw seven scoreless innings to give the Giants a 1-0 win over St. Louis in front of their
Less than five months after taking the stage with Rutgers President Robert Barchi (center photo) and Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany (right) to announce that Rutgers had been selected by the Big Ten, Tim Pernetti (left) is out as Rutgers
On Selection Sunday, Breitbart Sports noted that NIT-bound Baylor had the 17th best trio in college basketball under the headline “Breitbart Sports Picked 67 of 68 NCAA Bids: Middle 20s No. 7 Baylor Left Out.” On Thursday, the trio dominated
The Washington Nationals capped a packed schedule of baseball Thursday afternoon by becoming the first team in the Majors to win three games, improving to 3-0. Miami finally scored for the first time this season in the second inning, but
Some thought Breitbart Sports was premature in naming Trey Burke the College Basketball Most Valuable Player 43 days ago, when speculation was focused on other players. But Thursday the Associated Press sports writers agreed, naming Burke their Player of the
The good news for the Houston Astros is that they will win more games than injured Johan Santana, who is one of three players being paid more than their whole team, they can no longer be the only sixth place
For the first time in history, one conference has placed five teams in the Final Four, or rather Final Fours, as the Louisville women dominated Tennessee to join the UConn women, Notre Dame women, Syracuse men and Louisville men to
Fans of Louisville basketball and Pittsburgh Penguins hockey could both be cheering for championships soon, but Tuesday they are happy for a more important reason. Tuesday the AP reported that both Sidney Crosby and Kevin Ware are out of the
Louisville’s Shoni Schimmel hit five 3-pointers en route to 22 points, but more importantly was in the face of Brittney Griner (pictured) as the 5-seed Cardinals gave Baylor only their second loss in 76 games. If the Cardinals can now
While writing for the New York Post in 1990, I debuted a stat for starting pitchers called “ERA Needed to Win,” which took runs of support from a pitcher’s offense and subtracted runs allowed by relief pitchers and unearned runs allowed by the defense
Jeff Samardzija showed the kind of dominance on the mound that led him to choose baseball after being an All-American receiver for Notre Dame in 2006. After several years of bouncing between the minors and the major league bullpen, Samardzija
The Houston Astros are in first place in the American League for the first time in history. The Astros played their first game since being moved to the American League, hammering Texas Rangers All-Star pitcher Matt Harrison for the second
The old Big East lost a decade-long war to the ACC, but they won the last two battles to claim two Final Four teams and bragging rights one last season. In a season in which the ACC uncharacteristically had only
WASHINGTON, DC — Defense was the story of the game as Jim Boeheim’s Syracuse secured the first Final Four bid of the 2013 NCAA Tournament, defeating Marquette 55-39 in the match up of Big East schools. The game was proof
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nearly half of the crowd at Saturday’s Elite 8 game between Syracuse and Marquette at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. booed President Barack Obama when he was shown on the big screen with just over ten
WASHINGTON – CBS sportscaster Bill Raftery (left of photo) and thecamera crew prepares for the first Elite Eight game between Big East schools Syracuse andMarquette. March is the one month CBS Sports dominates ESPN in sportsrevenue due to the $1
In the debut of Breitbart Sports we gave you the top 1500 players in the nation, and at the time Mason Plumlee was No. 1. However, Trey Burke quickly emerged and left the field behind him, and on Friday he
Just 23 days ago, Breitbart Sports reviewed the 295 teams still alive for the National title, and 12 days ago we did an in depth alphabetical review on the chances of the 68 teams that were left. The ratings system worked again; 11 teams
With Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell clad in red in the Louisville section and his almost opponent Ashley Judd apparently cheering somewhere, the Cardinals became the third Big East team to lead by double digits for most of the game and
The rest of the Elite 8 will be set tonight as the games move from DC and LA to to Indianapolis and Dallas. The tournament favorite Louisville opens the action against Oregon, which has made the case that the Pac12
WASHINGTON – Breitbart Sports made Marquette a slight favorite in Thursday’s game against Miami, while ESPN ranked Marquette as the worst team in the Sweet 16. Marquette lead by double digits for the final 27 minutes and 52 seconds of the game,
In the debut section of Breitbart Sports at the beginning of 2013, we listed the Minnesota women’s hockey team as the best college team in any sport. They were 20-0 at the time, and this week improved to 41-0 to claim
WASHINGTON – The Sweet 16 kicks off from Coast-to-Coast Thursday – with Indiana being the favorite to emerge from four teams playing in the political center of the country (Washington) and Ohio State the favorite to emerge from the entertainment
During the NFL playoffs Breitbart Sports was one of the first to note a possible Superbowl matchup between brothers Jim and John Harbaugh, and the fact that brother-in-law Tom Crean simultaneously had the Indiana Hoosiers contending for a title. With
Major League Baseball and the Players Association frustrated baseball fans years ago when they began requiring licensing that forced board games like Statis-Pro Baseball to stop producing player cards. I even invented my own game of 36 historic teams, and
As the women’s Sweet 16 was set Tuesday, it was great to see how far women’s basketball has come in the 40 years since Title IX. Young girls and their parents now know from an early age that if they
Women’s opening week March Madness games are played at schools in the tournament. That gave George W. Bush and the rest of Baylor’s home crowd the chance to cheer Brittney Griner’s three dunks in Baylor, and the LSU home crowd the
This year the Connecticut women lost four more games than they did during their record streak from 2008 to 2010, but Monday they crushed Vanderbilt 77-44 to advance to the Regional Semifinals for the 20th straight season. Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis (left
As the Miami Heat dismantled the Orlando Magic for their 27th straight win, 108-94 over Orlando, I could only remember what an NBA executive told me after breakfast last year. When I mentioned having attended Dwyane Wade’s alma mater of
The 2009 Big East had three No. 1 seeds and put five teams in the Sweet 16, a mark that looked like it would not be threatened until Sunday. After four Big Ten teams had made it, both Minnesota and
The following table is the schedule of starting times and team ratings as March Madness wraps up today in Philadelphia (PA), Kansas City (MO), Austin (TX) and Dayton (OH). The second tables lists the ratings in the Breitbart Sports Alphabetical Guide
Road wins have been hard to come by this college basketball season, but Syracuse basically won on the road Saturday 2800 miles away from home when they beat Cal in San Jose to give the Big East three teams in
The Big East hopes to see this every year – Marquette and Butler playing two games a year down to the wire. Butler will be the only non-Catholic member of the new 10-team Big East, and after Rotnei Clarke won
Lexington,KY – Except for a lone section of green Colorado State fans and theushers in Kentucky blue, virtually every fan in Rupp arena was clad inred and on their feet, cheering for Wildcats’ rival Louisville as theydefeated the Rams 82-56
The NCAA tournament wraps up in Auburn Hills, MI, Lexington, KY, Salt Lake City and San Jose. Below are the start times and ratings of each team going into the tournament, and 14 of the 17 teams with a rating
The Big Ten has been the top conference all year, and Minnesota’s blowout of UCLA to close out the second round Friday kept them on top. The following is the list of all 32 schools still alive by conference, and the
Minnesota was one of 17 teams that entered the NCAA tournament with a 30 or higher rating in the Alphabetical Guide to teams, and for all of the upsets in the first round, their destruction of UCLA made those teams
LeBron James and some other stars do not like being in dunk contests because they form bad habits when not contested on the way to the rim. If that is the case, Cody Zeller and Victor Oladipo could be in
Colorado came out of halftime and dominated Illinois for 11 minutes, outscoring the Illini 23-2, and lost. In a game of streaks, Illinois won the final seven minutes of the first half 13-0, and responded to Colorado’s run with a
