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This fall will mark the final college football season that concludes with a BCS title game. The era has had its ups and downs for all, so here we will take a look at the best and worst of the past 15 years in the Big East: BEST 1. BCS bowl perfor...

NORCROSS, Ga. -- ESPN 150 defensive end Lorenzo Carter seems to never stop grinning, even on the football field. His 100-megawatt smile calls to mind another affable defensive end, Michael Strahan, complete with the trademark gap. Even a shoving matc...

Binghamton outfielder Cory Vaughn is the reigning Eastern League Player of the Week. He starred alongside Nats ace Stephen Strasburg and White Sox closer Addison Reed for Tony Gwynn at San Diego State. And Vaughn's father, Greg, played 15 big l...

Twenty years after its debut, the UFC's Octagon has become one of the most iconic images in sports. Maybe that's why no one can agree on who created it.

The New York Rangers' blue line, already without Marc Staal, lost another top-four defenseman Tuesday night when Anton Stralman was forced from the game in the second period. Stralman, who plays on the team's second defensive pairing with Michael...

PITTSBURGH -- Somewhere Chicago Cubs reliever Michael Bowden must be shaking his head. Bowden was designated for assignment -- to make room for the return of Matt Garza -- on the same day current reliever Shawn Camp gave up a grand slam to pinch hitt...

Michael Carrick believes Manchester United will keep their winning mentality and never-say-spirit despite the departure of manager Sir Alex Ferguson.

Swansea City enjoyed a highly successful season, with Michael Laudrup's reshaped squad and intelligent tactics earning the club its first major silverware (League Cup) and highest Premier League finish (ninth place, 46 points). With the season over, ...

LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- Chicago Bears linebacker Lance Briggs spoke Tuesday for the first time in a public setting all offseason, and admitted the defense is "very different" without former teammate Brian Urlacher in the fold. "I didn't call plays be...

There is nothing quite so fascinating as a boxer who has game-changing hands, true weapons that can render a foe slumped and twitching in a blink. The fight game hasn't had an excess of those natural-born lobotomizers in recent years, as the top t...

Sometimes movies slip through the cracks and, for better or worse, I catch up with them. Here's a handful, from the shirtless to the offensive to the gloriously ecstatic. Mud, directed by Jeff Nichols Ordinarily, two boys who happen upon Mat...

LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- Chicago Bears running back Matt Forte missed Tuesday's session of organized team activities along with cornerback Tim Jennings, as both had a prior commitment with USO Illinois in Germany, where they visited troops at Landstuhl R...

During the summer, GatorNation will analyze each of the scholarship players on the Florida roster -- excluding the Gators' 2013 recruiting class -- in our Gator Breakdown series. Starting with No. 1 Quinton Dunbar we will go through the roster numeri...

Michael Jordan wants to "bring the buzz back" to Charlotte.

So that's it, then. In a press conference on Monday, Real Madrid president Florentino Perez divulged the least surprising piece of news since Mariano Rajoy announced for the 74th time this week that Spain is doing just fine, thanks. Jose Mourinho wil...

From time to time, the writers of Grantland will use this space to unpack a new sports book. Most of these books will be bad. Relentless is a sports self-help/inspirational book by famed athletic trainer Tim Grover that reads like it was written b...