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To review: J.J. Watt's defensive player of the year season in 2012 included 107 tackles, 20.5 sacks, 39 tackles for loss, 42 quarterback hits, 16 batted passes, four forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries. "It was the best I've ever seen, the be...

TCU Horned Frogs defensive end Devonte Fields has been suspended for the first two games of 2013.

Teddy Bridgewater appears to be running away in the Big East offensive player of the year poll. Perhaps we'll have some more parity in today's vote. We're looking at who you think will be the best defensive player in the conference this fall. Keep...

Mike Wells of The Indianapolis Star: Coach Frank Vogel said George was a Defensive Player of the Year candidate. Hibbert bluntly said before Game 2 against the Knicks that he feels like he's the best defensive center in the league. The voters thought...

The last two linebackers to win NFL Defensive Player of the Year came from AFC North. James Harrison of the Pittsburgh Steelers received the honor in 2008, and Terrell Suggs of the Baltimore Ravens followed him in 2011. Who's the next great pass-r...

Roy Hibbert finished 10th in Defensive Player of the Year voting. I didn't list him among the top three of my fake ballot, in part because his own head coach, Frank Vogel, answered an admittedly unfair either-or question by reluctantly concluding tha...

Marc Gasol helped the Griz gain control of the paint and even the series, writes Kevn Arnovitz.

Ethan J. Skolnick of the Palm Beach Post: Heat forward LeBron James finished second this week in voting for defensive player of the year, and he wasn't happy about not winning. "It sucks," said James, who never has won the award although he has been ...

LeBron James isn't happy with finishing second in voting for the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year award for the second time in his decorated career.

Mike Monroe of the San Antonio Express-News: Tim Duncan's sixth-place finish in the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year voting sparked debate in the Spurs' locker room about the difficulty media members face in choosing a winner for that award. Duncan...

Kent Smith/NBAE/Getty ImagesAvery Bradley earned two first-place votes for Defensive Player of the Year.Boston Celtics guard Avery Bradley finished 12th in this year's balloting for Defensive Player of the Year. The lingering question is whether he d...

Jim McIsaac/Getty Images Gasol earned his first Defensive Player of the Year award by anchoring the NBA's stingiest defense. Since the 1982-83 season, when the first Defensive Player of the Year award was given, a power forward or a center has won ...

Grizzlies center Marc Gasol has won his first NBA Defensive Player of the Year award after anchoring the league's stingiest defense.

It has been a weird six weeks for the Pacers. They're a middling 11-9 in their last 20 games, and their vaunted defense, the stingiest in the league, has slipped a bit in the last three weeks, partly because George Hill is battling hip and groin issu...

It's become something of a tradition of late for a Penn State defensive tackle to rise up and turn in a standout senior year. That happened with Devon Still in 2011, when he won Big Ten defensive player of the year honors. Jordan Hill took the bat...

Our NBA experts cast their votes for 2012-13 Defensive Player of the Year.