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Leinart, coaching, experience give USC the edge

Scouts, Inc.

The nation's top scoring offenses will be featured in the national title game, but don't be surprised if the defenses become the story when Texas and USC meet in the Rose Bowl.

Story | Conversation | December 25, 2005

Football 101: The zone blitz

Bob Davie, Special to ESPN Insider

It's time for another class in the season-long course. Today's lesson breaks down the zone blitz.

Story | Conversation | October 14, 2004

The athlete body, 1876-2009

Peter Keating, ESPN The Magazine

After parsing 130-plus years of data on professional athletes' bodies, Peter Keating confirms that yes, athletes have gotten bigger. But that's just scratching the surface.

Story | Conversation | October 15, 2009

A slimmer Kung Fu Panda is needed

Buster Olney

The Giants lost again Saturday and will soon be eliminated, and in time their focus will shift to 2010, as John Shea writes. Pablo Sandoval will like...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 27, 2009

Sox-Yanks, Aroldis Chapman, Cy Young Wars

Buster Olney

It is still September and nine days of regular-season baseball remain, but the playoffs provided the context for everything that occurred at Yankee St...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 26, 2009

Wainwright commanding plate, and attention

Buster Olney

...and Lopez just nodded approvingly, respectfully, as if to say Yep, he's got a great curveball today, and I'm just going to have to go to work from here with that in mind...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 10, 2009

Why Greinke should win the Cy Young

Buster Olney

By the standards of a David Wells or Livan Hernandez or John Smoltz or Orlando Hernandez or Curt Schilling or Randy Johnson, Zack Greinke has yet to p...

Blog Entry | Conversation | August 31, 2009

Zito bolsters Giants' wild-card push

Buster Olney

Remember when Barry Zito tried to remake his mechanics, when he showed up to his first spring training with the Giants intent on improving his velocit...

Blog Entry | Conversation | August 30, 2009

Smoltz manufactures a comeback

Buster Olney

John Smoltz is a friend and golfing partner of Tiger Woods, which is hardly surprising, because the two men are similar in many ways. Both are superla...

Blog Entry | Conversation | August 24, 2009

Smoltz and Sox face difficult decisions

Buster Olney

All Boston manager Terry Francona could do was to try to contain the damage the Yankees had done to John Smoltz in the fourth inning Thursday night. A...

Blog Entry | Conversation | August 07, 2009

A conversation with Colin Kaepernick

Bruce Feldman

...and stronger this offseason, and I'm hoping that'll really help me this season on the football field. Last season, I played at around 200 pounds. At one point, I got up to 218...

Blog Entry | Conversation | July 22, 2009

Ranking the NL's easiest roads to the postseason

Buster Olney

Here's the ranking of strength of schedule in the second half in the NL. It's great news if you're a fan of the Brewers or the Dodgers or the Marlins,...

Blog Entry | Conversation | July 18, 2009

Bright idea

Morty Ain, ESPN The Magazine

The sports world wasn't always a 24/7 affair. But ever since the lightbulb made its first appearance in a sports stadium, fans have been seing things differently.

Story | Conversation | July 16, 2009

Troy's Bear shows his human side

Bruce Feldman

Bear Woods isn't just one of the best names in college football. The Troy linebacker, with his long dreadlocks and crazy game-day face paint, is one of the...

Blog Entry | Conversation | July 08, 2009