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Opening Day elicits memories of pomp and pageantry and presidential first pitches, but once the games get started, the players themselves occasionally do something pretty memorable as well. We took a look back at the history of Opening Day from 1920 ...

Bracket Fever -- it infects sports fans every March, and the only cure is a steady diet of college hoops. With the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament just around the corner, brackets and links will be flying around offices and filling in...

Spring is the ultimate season for optimists. The chill of winter is receding, snowbound regions are on the verge of seeing green grass again (really -- we promise!) and nature's annual renewal picks up speed as the sun shines longer and the air regai...

With the NBA All-Star Game taking center stage this weekend in Houston, we wanted to look back on the history of the game and its most dazzling stars, none of whom shines brighter than the All-Star Game MVP. The NBA has played 61 All-Star Games a...

The adage "defense wins championships" has been spot-on when describing a lot of teams that have made it to -- and in many cases won -- the Super Bowl since the game's inception. Seven of the first eight teams to appear in the Super Bowl ranked eithe...

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum welcomed no new members on Wednesday, meaning the total number of players elected to the Hall in balloting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America remains at 112. Houston Astros icon Craig Bigg...

NFL teams fight all season to sew up home-field advantage in the playoffs. This year, the Atlanta Falcons and Denver Broncos earned the No. 1 seeds in the NFC and AFC, respectively. But that doesn't guarantee a Falcons-Broncos matchup in Super B...

If it seems like there are more college bowl games every year, that's all in your head -- after all, there have been 35 bowl games for the past three years. But yes, it's true, bowl games have been multiplying like fruit flies, more than doubling ...

With another bowl season upon us, college football fans are looking for some kind of an angle in their office pool or want to drop some knowledge and impress their buddies while they're watching the games. Playbook decided to take a deeper dive in...

The Los Angeles Lakers started this season with one win in their first five games, prompting them to fire head coach Mike Brown. But in all likelihood they would have figured out a way to turn things around and even improve on last year's record. As ...

The Detroit Tigers and San Francisco Giants are getting set to square off in the 2012 World Series, and each team is led by one of its league's top candidates for regular-season most valuable player. Detroit's Miguel Cabrera won the first Triple ...

Well-compensated NFL players and coaches engender little sympathy when it comes to busy schedules. Most of us deal with being "too busy" all the time. Still, the NFL season is definitely a grind -- a grind made even tougher by arduous travel schedule...

How much do the home fans help an NFL team? Considerably, say the statistics, as shown in this graphic from SportsData LLC, which visualizes the home and road win totals of all 32 teams over the past 10 seasons (heading into this one). Of note:...