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

No, of course it's never too early to talk fantasy football. I mean, sure, if you're like me, you're working on buy-low targets to try and make up points in your rotisserie baseball league before it's too late (I always seem to struggle with batting ...

It's time to look forward to 2013 and the Big 12's best passers. Hitting 3,000 yards is the benchmark for a productive season as a college quarterback. Four Big 12 quarterbacks threw for at least 3,000 yards last season -- but all four threw for m...

The season is done and the verdict is in. The correct London teams are heading to the Champions and Europa Leagues, respectively, while the evil hegemony of Manchester United may well be toppled now that Sir Alex Ferguson has left the building with h...

You know the story. Jeffrey Loria bought the Montreal Expos, ran them into the ground, then swapped them for the Florida Marlins. For the next 10 years, he ran, essentially, a skeleton operation, at one point so brazenly failing to compete that Majo...

During the summer months, SoonerNation will take a closer look at each player on Oklahoma's roster in our Crimson Countdown series. Each day, we will analyze each player's impact on the program since arriving on campus, his potential impact this fall...

There have been a lot of theories and assumptions, since the Philadelphia Eagles hired Chip Kelly as their head coach, about how much their offense will look like the ones he ran at the University of Oregon. I have generally believed people are assum...

Mike McGinnis/Getty ImagesThe addition of Chris Andersen in February improved the Heat's ability to combat Indiana's size. MIAMI -- Erik Spoelstra is already in adjustment mode. The Miami Heat and the Indiana Pacers don't play Game 1 of the Easte...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Fall is just around the corner, well, a season away but that means football is coming up soon. In that spirit, we discuss a lot of redshirt freshmen, pure freshmen and linebackers in this week's WolverineNation mailbag. Oh, and...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The summer is about to kick off everywhere across the United States -- Memorial Day is this weekend -- which means one thing, of course. One season until football begins. As you itch to get on your boats this weekend and out...

Chris Broussard and Skip Bayless react to Alonzo Mourning saying that Scottie Pippen said LeBron James would beat Michael Jordan....

Michael Jordan is in a bind. His team has lost seven out of every 10 games since he became the majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats in March 2010. On an average night, reported attendance reveals an arena that is 20 percent empty, while actual...

The league titles were decided long ago, and relegation battles have received significant attention in recent weeks -- but how about the clubs punching above their weight, close to the Champions League places? Here we look at five surprise packages i...

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Yu Darvish may not consider himself to be in the class of Justin Verlander just yet. But Darvish is certainly held in high regard in the Rangers' clubhouse. "He's certainly been our ace," manager Ron Washington said. Dar...

Hope you guys didn't miss me too much yesterday. I was out buying a wedding gift for a professional football player who's making $7 million a year in salary, plus endorsement money from Adidas and Subway, and didn't invite me to the wedding. Oh no, w...

Take a shot at writing a cartoon caption. Playbook cartoonist Kurt Snibbe will offer up a blank cartoon each weekday morning, and he will fill in the blank with our favorite reader submission at the end of the business day. So please, by all means...