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If you're reading this, chances are you like sports and grew up dreaming of becoming a famous star athlete. Unfortunately, that didn't quite work out for us. We're stuck watching in the stands while the famous star athletes are out on the f...

Sydney. Athens. Beijing. London. Rio. Tulsa. Wait. What? One city doesn't belong, right? If you're a member of the Tulsa 2024 Olympic Exploratory Committee, though, your answer is that all six cities are equals. Yes, Tulsa, Okla. -- the se...

Nick Saban is "the devil himself." Those are the words of Tim Davis, Florida's offensive line coach, at a Gators booster club meeting Tuesday night. Davis is not alone in believing the Alabama head coach is the Prince of Darkness. Vanderbil...

It was the "shush" heard 'round the world. Yankees closer Mariano Rivera shushed fellow reliever Joba Chamberlain before Saturday's game. Minutes later, Chamberlain told Rivera: "Don't ever shush me." Yes, it was that bad. Things got crazy....

The NBA and NHL allow only 16 teams into their playoffs. It's an exclusive club. But not as exclusive as the club of playoff fans. There are only nine kinds of playoff fans. Here they are. The Freak-Out Fan Every twist and turn...

Big 12 football > SEC football. That's the implication made by Bob Stoops. The Oklahoma Sooners head coach seems to believe the Big 12 is where it's at and alluded to as much to the Tulsa World. "So [the SEC has] had the best team in colleg...

There is a move afoot to rid America of The Wave. Nationals fans and the "cool kid," hipster sports fans of America want to outlaw The Wave. They want to take away a time-honored means of passing time at America's pastime. And they are gain...

The Stanley Cup playoffs are underway and, with it, the drama of playoff overtime hockey. But extra time is not unique to the NHL. All four of our major sports can go long, and when those games occur we, the fans, must decide if we have the phys...

If Tim Tebow's NFL career is over, what's next? Here are the six most likely landing spots. CFL Tim Tebow is an unconventional football player. The CFL is an unconventional football league. The field is wider, the goalposts are at the goal l...

The 2013 NFL draft is over. But how did your team do? Did its draft performance guarantee this year's Super Bowl title and every other one as far as the eye can see? The only way to find out is to read the only 100 percent accurate draft grades ...

After months of buildup, the first round of the NFL draft is complete and it's time to render verdicts. Here are the winners and losers: (Note: As always, there are only winners and losers. There is no in-between. This is a pass/fail kind of deal...

Hello, prospective NFL Draft pick. It's your big day! Your dream is about to come true! In fact, you're so confident of your draft status that you're in New York and plan to attend the draft to be there when your name is called. According to your...

George R.R. Martin is the author of "A Song of Ice and Fire," a series of fantasy novels that have been developed into HBO's "Game of Thrones." He is also a Jets fan. Obviously, being a Jets fan caused him to retreat to a world of make-believe as sel...

America's pastime, the NBA playoffs and the NHL's playoff push are all nice, but they don't compare to a real sport that is about to happen: the NFL draft. Hundreds of players are draft prospects, but every year there are really only 10 players ...

The NFL schedule is out. If you've been waiting to get your Miami Dolphins tickets, act now before they're all snatched up. While you deal with being on hold due to heavy call volume, take a look at some of the highlights of the 2013 slate....

The San Antonio Spurs signed Tracy McGrady, late of the Qingdao Eagles in the Chinese Basketball Association, to a deal that will keep him on the roster through the end of the playoffs. With McGrady off the market, what other former NBA veterans...