by Steve Fetch | Mar 14, 2015
In what was the best possible result for the Ivy League this year, the league’s two best teams went into a one-game playoff knowing that while both teams could be cinderellas in a week’s time, only one of them would get the chance to prove it. Harvard and...
by Ian Casselberry | Mar 14, 2015
By the time Bobby Riggs played Billie Jean King in 1973’s “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match at the Houston Astrodome, he was 55 years old and looked rather schlubby, not like much of an athlete. However, Riggs was a world-class tennis player in his...
by Garrett Wilson | Mar 14, 2015
Spring Training injuries are just the worst, right? The games don’t even count and yet every year a few teams have the entire course of their season derailed because a key player suffered a major injury. Sadly, this season is no different as we’ve already...
by Garrett Wilson | Mar 14, 2015
Spring Training injuries are just the worst, right? The games don’t even count and yet every year a few teams have the entire course of their season derailed because a key player suffered a major injury. Sadly, this season is no different as we’ve already...
by Matt Zemek | Mar 14, 2015
A tradition unlike any other: Single conference-tournament results unleashing an explosion of debate about No. 1 seeds. No, that’s not Jim Nantz — that’s just reality. Every year, there’s at least one conference tournament result, typically a...
by Joe Lucia | Mar 13, 2015
There will be no high-fiving during Brewers Spring Training for the foreseeable future. Why? Because members of the team are battling a pink eye infection that they don’t want to spread. Oh, OK. Via ESPN… The Milwaukee Brewers will have to find a new way...
by Ben Koo | Mar 13, 2015
Director – Rory Karpf (director of 30 for 30, Tim Richmond: To The Limit, and 30 for 30 Short, Silver Reunion, among many other ESPN projects. Length – 90 minutes with commercial (77 minutes without) Installment – #71 of 30 for 30/ESPN Films series...
by Tim Livingston | Mar 13, 2015
2015’s most talked-about minor league signee with an invite to Spring Training made his 10-team debut on Thursday, as Will Ferrell showed off his athletic prowess by playing 10 positions in five games, including acting as third base coach for the Chicago...
by Tim Livingston | Mar 13, 2015
2015’s most talked-about minor league signee with an invite to Spring Training made his 10-team debut on Thursday, as Will Ferrell showed off his athletic prowess by playing 10 positions in five games, including acting as third base coach for the Chicago...
by Matt Birch | Mar 13, 2015
The Cleveland Cavaliers and San Antonio Spurs treated fans to a thrilling overtime game at the AT&T Center on Thursday night. Kyrie Irving dropped 57 (!) points and the Cavs emerged victorious, 128-125. LeBron James turned in a pretty solid performance as well,...
by Brad Gagnon | Mar 12, 2015
As we say goodnight to Thursday and prepare for the weekend, here’s a look at the top unrestricted free agents still left on the open market: 1. C.J. Spiller: Between 2011 and 2013, the man averaged 5.3 yards per carry, which was more than any other qualified...
by Ian Casselberry | Mar 12, 2015
The thought of anyone besides Alex Trebek hosting Jeopardy is virtually incomprehensible. Maybe Will Ferrell could do it but he’d have to be playing Trebek, like he did on Saturday Night Live. Trebek has stood behind the quiz show’s podium for 31 years,...
by Ian Casselberry | Mar 12, 2015
The thought of anyone besides Alex Trebek hosting Jeopardy is virtually incomprehensible. Maybe Will Ferrell could do it but he’d have to be playing Trebek, like he did on Saturday Night Live. Trebek has stood behind the quiz show’s podium for 31 years,...
by Matt Yoder | Mar 12, 2015
To be honest, I’m surprised it’s taken this long. PFT’s Mike Florio and ESPN’s Dan Le Batard have a history of needling each other and pretty much everyone else in sports on a regular basis. Today that came to a boil when the two engaged in a...
