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Headlines this week: "World Series finishes up with record-low rating" -- ESPN.com "World Series ratings as anemic as Detroit Tigers' bats" -- Wall Street Journal "World Series ratings for the 2012 Fall Classic: Abysmal" -- The Big Lead Headlines...

There are three things sportswriters love to complain about above all else: 1. How LeBron James screwed over Cleveland. 2. Cities without a Marriott hotel close to the ballpark or arena. 3. World Series start times. The popular refrain go...

Player No. 467 in our ESPN 500 ranking of baseball's best players: Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Eric Thames. Player No. 467 when our NBA section did their 500 last fall: A certain point guard named Jeremy Lin. You may have heard of him. Are the...

Rany Jazayerli has a column on Grantland subtitled "Once upon a time, teams got great value by trading for minor league studs. Not anymore." Rany's point is that front offices are smarter than a generation ago, making it difficult to pilfer players l...

After the Miami Heat lost the NBA championship, much of the postgame analysis centered on LeBron James' failures in the fourth quarter throughout the series, attributing his woes to ... well, words like mettle, fortitude, confidence, determination an...

Yes, we're tying the imminent announcement that Derrick Rose will win the NBA MVP Award to baseball ... because we can tie anything to baseball. (Just wait for the post when I hypothesize that Thomas Jefferson would have made a great sabermetrician.)...

It was snowing Wednesday night in Minneapolis. It was snowing, and we're supposed to lament that Target Field was only half-filled with hardy Minnesotans? We're supposed to lament that Mariners fans are setting record-low attendance numbers for Sa...

Dennis Rodman was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame last week, which is pretty amazing for a guy with a 7.3 career scoring average and only one season in which he averaged double figures in points. Rodman, of course, was a tremendous rebounde...

Hagerstown, Md., is nestled near the intersection of I-81 and I-70 near the Pennsylvania border, about 75 miles northwest of Baltimore. During the Civil War, its location as a north-south hub made it a major supply center for several campaigns. In...

Los Angeles is hosting All-Star Weekend, but is it the real center of the basketball universe? We examine five basketball meccas to find the answer.

Go ahead and laugh at the Seahawks, but stranger teams have won it all.

How well do you remember the '00s? Take the Page 2 decade trivia quiz.

With six championships, have Boston sports fans experienced the best decade of success ever?

No team has had as many lottery picks as the Clippers. And no team has blown as many lottery picks. The sad, sordid tales.

As we celebrate the 25th draft under the lottery system, Page 2 looks back and grades the previous 24 drafts.

Is Phil Jackson the greatest coach of all time? Page 2 investigates and comes up with a surprise answer. Story