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There might as well be a neon "FOR SALE" sign on the No. 13 pick. The Mavs aren't just listening to offers for their lottery pick. They're actively pursuing them, hoping to pick up a future asset while preventing the pick's $1.655 million cap hold fr...

Following a clinical defensive display by the Boston Bruins in Game 3, is it possible that their blue line could be even better next season and beyond? Craig Custance writes that Dougie Hamilton gives the Bruins plenty of promising options moving forward.

Blog | Conversation | June 18, 2013

BOSTON -- On a humid day in the middle of June, ice is out of its element in Boston, a fact that made the playing surface less than ideal in Monday night's Game 3. It started even before the game began. According to defenseman Dennis Seidenberg, i...

Zdeno Chara and Dennis Seidenberg always have each other's back.

The Mavericks' selection in ESPN Insider Chad Ford's mock draft must be revised after his report that Croatian small forward Dario Saric is withdrawing from the draft. The Mavs were interested enough in Saric for a Donnie Nelson-led contingent to ...

Josh Gross rates the performances of UFC 161 fighters.

CHICAGO -- First the Chicago Blackhawks lost momentum, then they lost the lead and finally the game, falling 2-1 in overtime to the Boston Bruins in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup finals on Saturday. The first 20 minutes were vintage Hawks. Speed with ...

The major question facing each team in the NFC East as summer break looms: Dallas Cowboys: Did the offensive line improve enough? I don't think it's overstating the case to say that the Cowboys' season rests on the answer to this question. They...

TAUNTON, Mass. - St. Mary's coach Colleen Newbury looks through Red Sox Nation glasses when viewing the relationship between pitchers Brooke L'Abbe and Mia Nowicki. "She's like our [Jonathan] Papelbon," Newbury said Wednesday after the Spartans ed...

Sebastian Janikowski and Shane Lechler were a team in Oakland. They kicked together. They golfed together. They hung together. They were known as the best kicker-punter pair in the NFL for years. Now, Janikowski is on his own after Lechler left...

KATY, Texas -- As one of the 18 commits -- and counting -- in Baylor's 2014 recruiting class, Houston Elsik receiver Ishmael Zamora has little, if anything, left to prove. With nearly a dozen offers and five from power-conference schools, the 6-fo...

Blog | June 11, 2013

You thought the AFC North blog would be one of the Tebow-free places on the site. Well, you thought wrong. Tim Tebow officially signed with the New England Patriots, the team announced on Tuesday. How does that have anything to do with this divisi...

The Denver Broncos, Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers will all hold their mandatory minicamps this week. Kansas City held its mandatory camp last week. Here is a story line for each of the team's minicamps this week: Denver: Manning's offe...

Georgia Tech's group of wide receivers was thin to begin with this spring, but the recent news that projected starter Anthony Autry has reinjured his knee -- the same knee he suffered a torn ACL in last fall -- has depleted the group even further. ...

In 2011, UCLA ranked 10th in the Pac-12 in scoring offense with a measly 23.1 points per game. Oregon State was even worse, ranking 11th with just 21.8 ppg. Bad offenses! Both finished with losing records. The Bruins fired coach Rick Neuheisel....

ALAMEDA, Calif. -- Dennis Allen knows there is much intrigue about his quarterback situation. Still, the Oakland Raiders coach is not in a hurry to see it play out. "We haven't really even had a full practice," Allen said. "We have three-plus m...