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In case you were busy making a new nonalcoholic mixed drink that's half soda water, half tonic water called the Van de Velde, here's what you missed in sports on Thursday: Playing without Luol Deng, Derrick Rose, and Kirk Hinrich was too much fo...

In case you were busy on eBay trying to unload your Tim Tebow Jets jersey, here's what you missed in sports last weekend: The San Antonio Spurs dispatched the Los Angeles Lakers, 103-82, to advance to the Western Conference semifinals. Lakers ce...

Jim Callis profiles hard-throwing Tigers reliever Bruce Rondon, who made his major league debut Thursday, and updates his top 10 prospect rankings for the 2013 fantasy season.

Story | Conversation | April 26, 2013

We're only a few days in, but we need to remind everyone not to hit the panic button and not to print playoff tickets. All that plus the rest of our MLB rankings.

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Picking division winners and playoff teams is easy. What's harder is picking the final record for every team. So I will venture to project this year's final standings ... remember, wins and losses and runs scored and runs allowed must add up across t...

Keith Law gives his division, postseason and awards picks for 2013.

Blog | Conversation | March 28, 2013

Dan Szymborski projects the AL standings, including each team's odds of making the playoffs and winning the World Series.

Story | Conversation | March 25, 2013

Thearon W. Henderson/Getty ImagesMiguel Cabrera became the 1st Triple Crown winner in baseball since Carl Yastrzemski in 1967. The Detroit Tigers started slow in 2012, posting a 26-32 record before finishing the year with 88 wins and a playoff ber...

CC Sabathia made a surprising admission on Saturday: Just before releasing his first pitch from a spring training bullpen mound before small crowd of coaches and reporters, he was nervous.

Since 1986, our friends at Scripps Howard News Service have spanned the globe to get Super Bowl picks from some of today's biggest names in politics, sports, television and entertainment.

A talent evaluator breaks down the offseason changes in the AL East.

At the All-Star break in 1998, the New York Yankees had an 11-game lead in the AL East, and by Aug. 18, they had nearly doubled that margin. Their record was 92-30, so there really wasn't any question about whether they would make the playoffs -...

Blog | January 25, 2013

Buster Olney ranks the top 10 teams in MLB history, starting with the 1998 New York Yankees.

Blog | Conversation | January 25, 2013

ESPN.com's David Schoenfield, in his Sweet Spot blog, goes through his power rankings (as they stand now) for each MLB team. He puts the Texas Rangers at No. 9. Here's what he says about Texas: I think the rotation is playoff-caliber with Yu D...

The Oakland Athletics players have decided to donate one full playoff share to eight local and national charitable efforts, a total of $34,325.16.