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
