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After uncovering Patient Zero for insane spending, the Sports Guy brings us up to date on basketball's truly atrocious deals.

After evaluating the best deals in MLB, it's time to determine which ones you should run away from. Click here to read the story on Grantland.com....

After evaluating the best deals in MLB, it's time to determine which ones you should run away from. Click here to read the story on Grantland.com....

After evaluating the best deals in MLB, it's time to determine which ones you should run away from.

Shane Victorino's three-year, $39 million contract with the Boston Red Sox vaults to the top of the rankings of the worst contracts signed so far this offseason, giving him virtually the same total dollars that Angel Pagan -- a superior player -...

Blog | December 04, 2012

Shane Victorino's deal with the Boston Red Sox is doomed to fail, writes Keith Law.

Blog | Conversation | December 04, 2012

The AFC West figures prominently in ESPN.com's project on the worst contract in sports -- inspired by the New York Yankees' dilemma with Alex Rodriquez. In a look at the worst contracts in professional sports history, Oakland Raiders fans are remi...

No NFC North teams appeared on John Clayton's list of the NFL's 10 worst contracts, and I really can't come up with an obvious nomination. There are no abominable contracts in this division at the moment, at least none any team entered by choice that...

John Clayton has his list of the 10 worst contracts in the NFL and two NFC South players are on it. Carolina running back DeAngelo Williams (five years, $43 million) came in at No. 6. It's tough to dispute that because Williams hasn't produced big...

ESPN.com sports business writer Darren Rovell was asked to come up with the worst contracts in professional sports for Playbook's Dollars blog. And after he came up with his "top" 10, ESPN asked NFL Insider John Clayton to come up with the league's 1...

As part of a broader look at the worst contracts in sports, ESPN.com's John Clayton pieced together a top 10 list of the league's worst. And Tennessee running back Chris Johnson grabbed the No. 1 spot. Writes Clayton: Chris Johnson, RB, Ten...

You could argue that in today's locked-out NHL, every contract is the worst. After all, how good is a contract if it's not being honored? That notwithstanding, there are some monumental contract failures in the league. Here's a list of what w...

The truth is, there aren't really any terrible contracts in baseball. There are bad contracts and bad players getting overpaid, sure, but as we've seen in recent years, teams can still win with the most burdensome of deals on their ledger and have e...

NFL owners have navigated through years of labor battles and escaped without having to fully guarantee contracts. Instead, teams offer huge signing bonuses and partial base salary guarantees to compete. To appease fan bases and promote ticket sale...

After years of shelling out top dollar to the DeSagana Diops and Jerome Jameses of the league, cash-strapped owners went into the many long, closed-door meetings that made up last year's NBA lockout searching for a reprieve. And when both sides em...

Finding actual data on the contracts and salaries of professional soccer players is tricky because clubs are loath to reveal just how much it costs to assemble a superb team. Given that soccer is the global game of the masses, there's enough fan ire ...