NC State’s CJ Leslie is the best of the only 74 players physically capable of joining the NBA next season. Compared to the average prospect, he is taller (6’7″>6’5.6″), has a longer wingspan (7’2.25″>6’10”), jumps higher (40.5″>36.2″), and is faster
Trey Burke leads the list below of the top Sr. Value Adds using the Advanced formula reviewed by select NBA teams last year. Only 10 players have recorded a better Sr. Value Add and five have become superstars, four have
A couple of dozen former college basketball players will sign multi-million dollar contracts after the NBA Draft in three days. A report from Americans for Tax Reform reminds them Obamacare will take a big chunk out of those new checks
This week the Richmond Free Press, one of many weekly newspapers around the country that serve a black community, gave rare top sports billing to the NHL to report Seth Jones (center of photo) was expected to be the first
A few days before Michael Jordan’s 50th birthday, Breitbart Sports asked if it was too soon to compare LeBron James as potentially the greatest player of all time. After watching James win his second straight title, Magic Johnson posed the question
A classic NBA Finals Game 7 was within five points either way for more than 44 of 48 minutes Thursday, but Dwyane Wade and LeBron James knocked down the jumpers the Spurs had given them all series to seal a
The Cleveland Cavaliers will watch LeBron James in Thursday’s NBA Finals amid rumors he could return to the Cavs in a couple of years to join Kyrie Irving and which ever player the Cavs take with the first pick in
Magic Johnson played in some of the greatest NBA games of all time, but he is not sure he has ever seen a game as great as the back-and-forth NBA Finals Game 6 between the Miami Heat and San Antonio
The Spurs were six seconds from the NBA title until Chris Bosh grabbed an offensive rebound and got the ball to Ray Allen for a three-pointer to force overtime at 95-95. The Heat preserved the win with two unbelievable defensive
Dwyane Wade turned in his second strong performance in a row with 25 points and 10 assists Sunday. The game before he became the first player since Allen Iverson 11 years ago to put up 30 points, 5 rebounds and 5
The Miami Heat overcame tough defense at the rim to score 104 points, but continued to have no way to stop Danny Green’s 3-point shooting. NBA teams average 1.2 points when they attempt a 3-pointer, but the Spurs scored 10
Rick Porcello led the Tigers to the fifth shutout of the night in Major League Baseball, driving the average runs per game to 8.48 this season, well below the 9.21 that were being scored at this time in the 2002 season. The Boston Red Sox
Dwyane Wade had more steals (6) than the Spurs team (5) in falling one steal short of tying Robert Horry’s 18-year NBA Finals record. Kawhi Leonard (left in photo) once again joined Gary Neal and Danny Green to give the Spurs
The San Antonio Spurs continue to get the most wins per salary dollar spent because they identify players such as Kawhi Leonard with high Senior Value Adds. A look at the top three young players for each team in this
San Antonio’s young three earning a total of $6.2 million a year has matched the points of Miami’s big three earning $52.3 million a year through three games of the NBA Finals. The Spurs continue to pay the fewest dollars
Who has the better Big Three? It did not matter Tuesday as the Spurs took a 2-1 lead in the NBA Finals by beating the Heat 113-77 in San Antonio. The rest of the San Antonio Spurs beat the rest
Unlike the Miami Heat, which were given better than a 50 percent chance of winning the NBA title before the season began, the Chicago Blackhawks (5%) and Boston Bruins (4%) were given very little chance of winning the Stanley Cup
Trailing by one late in the third quarter in Game 2 of the NBA Finals, the Miami Heat went on a 33-6 run en route to a 103-84 victory that evened the series at one. The next three games in
The New York Mets joined both Boston baseball teams as the only Major League teams to lose four games of 20 innings or more when they fell the Miami Marlins 2-1 in 20 innings Saturday. The Houston Astros are the
The following is a list of the 20-inning games played by each Major League Baseball team–and the results. Teams are organized by the franchise while in each city, so the Atlanta Braves’s 5-4 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies on May
Like the great Utah Jazz teams that had the misfortune of playing during the Michael Jordan era, Novak Djokovic has the misfortunate of trying to win a Grand Slam during the era of the greatest clay court player in the
Miami’s LeBron James had a triple-double, but it was not enough as Tony Parker made shots when it counted, Tim Duncan was steady as usual, and Manu Ginobili was again disruptive as the San Antonio Spurs, a team that was
The NBA Draft has a more dramatic impact on teams than any other draft. The Cleveland Cavaliers more than doubled their wins the year after picking LeBron James with the top pick, and this year have the top pick again and hope not to make
On Thursday, Major League baseball teams will use first round picks on Jonathan Gray and Mark Appel, hoping those potential future stars can help them win a few games in 2016. One team will draft San Diego University’s Kris Bryant (pictured), who hit more home runs than
The only player besides Rafael Nadal to win the French Open in the past eight years fell Tuesday. Life after 30 is proving tougher for Roger Federer, who won the title in 2009, but lost early in the Australian Open
