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David Thorpe breaks down the top 21-year-olds in the 2012-13 rookie class.

Story | Conversation | March 06, 2013

Headlines this week: "World Series finishes up with record-low rating" -- ESPN.com "World Series ratings as anemic as Detroit Tigers' bats" -- Wall Street Journal "World Series ratings for the 2012 Fall Classic: Abysmal" -- The Big Lead Headlines...

Every athlete seeks that sweet spot between development and decline. But how many know exactly when that is? In ESPN The Magazine's Age Issue, stats gurus pick peak performance ages for key positions in NFL, MLB, NHL and NBA.

Story | Conversation | September 21, 2012

There are three things sportswriters love to complain about above all else: 1. How LeBron James screwed over Cleveland. 2. Cities without a Marriott hotel close to the ballpark or arena. 3. World Series start times. The popular refrain go...

Shortly after taking over as head coach of the Knicks, Mike Woodson said he'd be doing things "a little different" from Mike D'Antoni. Anyone who has watched the Knicks over the past nine games knows Woodson's a man of his word. Things are more t...

Player No. 467 in our ESPN 500 ranking of baseball's best players: Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Eric Thames. Player No. 467 when our NBA section did their 500 last fall: A certain point guard named Jeremy Lin. You may have heard of him. Are the...

Rany Jazayerli has a column on Grantland subtitled "Once upon a time, teams got great value by trading for minor league studs. Not anymore." Rany's point is that front offices are smarter than a generation ago, making it difficult to pilfer players l...

After the Miami Heat lost the NBA championship, much of the postgame analysis centered on LeBron James' failures in the fourth quarter throughout the series, attributing his woes to ... well, words like mettle, fortitude, confidence, determination an...

Yes, we're tying the imminent announcement that Derrick Rose will win the NBA MVP Award to baseball ... because we can tie anything to baseball. (Just wait for the post when I hypothesize that Thomas Jefferson would have made a great sabermetrician.)...

It was snowing Wednesday night in Minneapolis. It was snowing, and we're supposed to lament that Target Field was only half-filled with hardy Minnesotans? We're supposed to lament that Mariners fans are setting record-low attendance numbers for Sa...

Dennis Rodman was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame last week, which is pretty amazing for a guy with a 7.3 career scoring average and only one season in which he averaged double figures in points. Rodman, of course, was a tremendous rebounde...

Hagerstown, Md., is nestled near the intersection of I-81 and I-70 near the Pennsylvania border, about 75 miles northwest of Baltimore. During the Civil War, its location as a north-south hub made it a major supply center for several campaigns. In...

The 2010 NFL season was one of the best I can remember when it came to parity. Each week we saw upset after upset, and team after team go from being the unquestioned favorite to win the Super Bowl to in danger of missing the playoffs entirely. It was...

Much of the last week (if not, in fact, the past six months) has been devoted to wailing and gnashing about Carmelo Anthony and what his insistence to play for the Knicks means for the NBA. As a Cleveland fan, I'm certainly sensitive to the issue of...

BOSTON -- A collection of postgame news and notes after the Boston Celtics defeated the Orlando Magic 109-106 Monday night at TD Garden: In a way, Jason Richardson should have known better. When Paul Pierce made his move to the right wing in t...

Without breaking a sweat, Craig dismisses the bizarre notion that Mark Cuban hasn't been a good NBA owner: The Mavericks were a laughing stock for most of their history before Cuban came. They have been a playoff team for a decade since he came....