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About a year ago, Bayern Munich played Chelsea in the Champions League final, losing on penalty kicks. It was a heartbreaker; Bayern were, overall, probably a better team, and they were playing in front of their home crowd at Allianz Arena. What did ...

The Big Ten Road Trip, with all its local comforts, is over, and now it's time to plunge back into the chaos of the national scene. A huge part of college basketball analysis is projecting what will happen in the postseason. It makes sense, because t...

Last Thursday, in the waning moments of the Seattle Sounders' playoff victory over Real Salt Lake, left back Marc Burch was caught on camera calling an opposing Real player a "f----t." (Fair warning: Links to YouTube clips in this piece might not be ...

In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Thursday. The New York Yankees are out. CC Sabathia struggled and the offense remained dormant as the historic franchise lost 8-1 and were swept out of the ALCS. ...

The San Francisco Giants have their hands full: They might have just lost their starting second baseman, and after Game 3 of the NLCS, their starting rotation becomes a total mystery. But that doesn't matter today, because they are heading back to St...

Nine things we learned on a quadruple-header Thursday that sent two teams to the next round and set up two more Game 5s today (making it four Game 5s out of four): 1. The Baltimore Orioles are baseball's home for wayward children ... if each of...

MVP candidate Andrew McCutchen has the Pirates in uncharted waters.

As I watched the Rangers pull away from the Devils on Monday, I realized that in a few days, we might be in for a New York–Los Angeles championship series. The Kings, who face the Coyotes in Game 2 of the Western Conference finals tonight, are ...

It's here. March Madness. Other than the NBA playoffs, MLB playoffs, and every single week of the NFL schedule, it's absolutely my favorite thing to bet on. No question. Although thinking back now, I can't remember a time when I wasn't completely bro...

For most of the past decade, the Jays have been a good team, occasionally a very good team. Yet they have nothing to show for it. The loaded AL East has suppressed the team's win totals and prevented them from cracking the postseason. That killer com...

Anything and everything written by the Sports Guy in 2011-12.

Four games, one jam-packed day of ALDS action. Here's what went down in the early games (check back this afternoon for the late games): RANGERS 4, RAYS 3 (Rangers win series 3-1) In leading the Texas Rangers to the ALCS with the seventh three-h...

Craig Robinson, the brain behind Flip Flop Fly Ball, presents the 2011 MLB playoffs — in rad graphics form. Robinson's book, Flip Flop Fly Ball: An Infographic Baseball Adventure, is available now. Follow him on Twitter at @flipflopflying. ...

The AL wild card was up for grabs. The Red Sox were collapsing. The Rays were rallying. Here's what transpired.

Now that the NL wild card is up for grabs, the final two weeks of the MLB regular season should end with a bang.

It could end with one of the worst collapses in baseball history. Or a World Series parade. But however the rest of their season plays out, one thing seems achingly clear: the Red Sox are headed for a hell of an offseason. I mean, there's no way T...