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Mark Gottfried admits the expectations for NC State were too high entering last season. At the outset of a rebuild, Gottfried looks ahead to a bright future and teams he hopes will live up to the hype.

Catching up with transfer Rodney Hood and his transition to Duke.

IRVING, Texas - The Cowboys' post-draft hype focused on how much this class would help immediately. "We've got here seven players of what I think are going to start, compete, be productive for our football team this year," player personnel directo...

Over the nearly three full days of hype leading to Game 3 of an Eastern Conference first-round series between the Celtics and Knicks, you'll be reminded often about the perils of the 0-2 deficit. By now you know the daunting data: Only 15 teams in...

Reading the coverage... Don't believe the hype on guards going early, and look for teams to be wary of quarterbacks in this draft thanks to what unfolded in 2011, says Robbie Lee Roach of Pro Football Personnel. Houston Texans Neutralizing J.J...

Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney talks to Andrea Adelson about the continuity of his team coming back and why he doesn't like preseason hype....

THE SUPER TEAM G - Kayla Burton, Sr., Newton South Heralded as one of the state's premier lead guards, the 5-foot-9 Burton lived up to the hype in her senior season, leading the Lions to a surprise appearance in the Division 1 South semifinals as a...

AUSTIN, Texas -- Ben Howland made it way too easy. The embattled UCLA coach was supposed to scratch, claw and fight for the remaining years on his contract and, perhaps, have his team -- a group of players assembled with the most hype this side of...

DAYTON, Ohio -- NC State was never the sixth-best team in the country. We should probably get that out of the way. NC State's now-infamous preseason ranking was less the product of the team's quality and more of the hype that accompanies tournamen...

Heat-Cavaliers Preview

The Dominican Republic's highly emotional win over Team USA lived up to the game's hype and then some.

John Gasaway examines the VCU Rams' success on defense, offense and their tournament chances.

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MESA, AZ. -- If the Chicago Cubs want to slow down some of the hype following 20-year-old Cuban prospect Jorge Soler then he better stop putting on hitting clinics. Soler, in the team's first game of any kind this spring -- an intra-squad affair a...

NEW ORLEANS -- Getting there... Only three (and I guess a half) more days of hype before the big game. Then we can get back to focusing on all the stuff in our links. Washington Redskins The Redskins will indeed need a new special teams coach i...

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- The pomp and circumstance surrounding the AFC Championship game has rolled back into New England, but Patriots head coach Bill Belichick isn't one to play into the hype. Standing next to the Lamar Hunt trophy, which his team w...

North Carolina State was the ACC preseason favorite for the first time since 1975, and after visiting Raleigh for Midnight Madness, I felt like this team deserved the hype. A one-sided loss to Oklahoma State and a close call with UNC-Asheville has qu...