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Running for the first time in 2013, Michael Dubb's Sage Valley earned his fourth straight victory in a row when he took the $150,000 Maryland Sprint Handicap at Pimlico Race Course May 18.

Jesse Wright, strength coach for the 76ers, recently got himself a technology budget, something he'd never had before with the Sixers, a gift from his new GM Sam Hinkie. He's stressed about it though. "You've got a blank slate!" I said to him, ...

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The Needham Channel's Mike Dermody passes along these highlights from yesterday's girls lacrosse contest between Needham and Newton North. Needham cruised by the Tigers, 12-4, on the Rockets' "Senior Night" celebration. (Video courtesy of The N...

NEWTON, Mass. - Less than 24 hours after its biggest win in nearly a decade, the Needham High School lacrosse team was drained and maybe a bit hungover from all the excitement. The Rockets (15-2), fresh off a 6-4 win over former No. 1 Duxbury, cam...

READING, Mass. -- At 6-foot-4 and 280-pounds, Matt Comerford is obviously physically intimidating in net, but the Rockets' senior keeper is equally impressively in his ability to be a powerful vocal leader all over the field. Instructing his fello...

Before every huddle breaks, Ricky Powers has his Akron (Ohio) Buchtel football team yell the same phrase. "Play fast," the Griffins scream. Chris Davis and Ali Gross plan on doing just that, but it's not just limited to the high school level as...

Blog | May 14, 2013

Can Toledo hang with the likes of Louisville, Michigan State, North Carolina State, Pittsburgh and Wisconsin? When it comes to recruiting defensive end Anthony Clark (Akron, Ohio/Buchtel) the Rockets can. Toledo was the first to offer the 6-foo...

Blog | May 14, 2013

Sam Hinkie wants the 76ers to use the Moneyball-type of thinking popularized in baseball to build a championship team in Philadelphia.

DUXBURY, Mass. - Nico Panepinto had the date committed to memory. He quickly recalled the date of last year's MIAA Division 1 lacrosse final after Monday's rematch against the No. 1-ranked Duxbury squad that had beaten Panepinto's Needham Rockets at ...

Garrett W. Ellwood/NBAE/Getty Images Play a ton of minutes in the regular season, like Stephen Curry, and injuries are common. A while back I found that players who play a ton of minutes don't win NBA titles anymore. It used to happen all the ti...

Kevin Durant has done more of everything for the Oklahoma City Thunder since Russell Westbrook was lost for the rest of the season with a knee injury after Game 2 of the Thunder's first round series against the Houston Rockets.

INDIANAPOLIS -- It isn't exactly rocket science. When the New York Knicks move the ball, their offense tends to work. But when the ball stops moving, so does the scoring. "When we try to go one-on-one, we become one of the bottom teams in the...

HOUSTON -- Nelson Cruz continues to hit mammoth home runs for the Rangers. And that's not just meant to describe his homers, the latest a 436-foot rocket that carried over the bleachers and the railroad tracks in left field at Minute Maid Park and...

The Philadelphia 76ers have hired former Houston Rockets second-in-command Sam Hinkie as their new president of basketball operations and general manager. Hinkie is a highly regarded behind-the-scenes NBA mind who has put in the work on every fron...