The 2012-13 KHL season came to an end on Wednesday as Dynamo Moscow won their second straight Gagarin Cup, defeating Traktor 3-2 in overtime in Game 6 to take the series, four games to two. Alexei Tsvetkov was the hero, picking up a rebound on the doorstep six minutes into the extra period to...
The opening weekend of the NCAA tournament produced plenty of surprises, but it did not change the favorite to capture the national title. That remains No. 1 overall seed Louisville, which looked as dominant as anyone advancing to the Sweet 16.
With the regional semifinals set to tip off...
Score and situation: Move over Japan, it's time for a new World Baseball Classic champion. Yes, the winners of the first two tournaments are headed home after being stifled by Puerto Rican pitching and some timely offense in a 3-1 loss in Sunday's semifinal at AT&T Park in San Francisco. The win...
Had Indiana clinched its first outright league title since 1993 by beating Ohio State, the Hoosiers could have celebrated in front of a sellout crowd by donning championship hats, cutting down the nets at Assembly Hall and hoisting a Big Ten trophy.
Instead Indiana staggered to a surprising...
Joe Flacco, quarterback, Baltimore Ravens: After a relatively quiet first half, Flacco stepped up in the final 30 minutes, completing 15-of-24 pass attempts for 159 yards and three touchdowns as the Ravens scored 21 straight points to defeat the New England Patriots 28-13 and advance to Super...
Tom Brady's legacy: A quarterback's win-loss record, especially in a relatively small amount of playoff games, is nowhere near an accurate measure of a player's career. We all know that, right? Good.
Still, we see Patriots quarterback Tom Brady trudging off the field Sunday after another...
One might expect to hear names like Pop Warner, Bear Bryant and Vince Lombardi drop at a press conference for the BCS championship. But if reporters can get a football coach to talk long enough, legends from other sports are bound to come up. Even one from our greatest game, baseball.
Alabama...
Well, it’s almost here.
After enduring bad bowl games and lopsided outcomes, the national championship is just three days away and Dr. Saturday is here to chronicle the home stretch (sans the Will Smith lyrics).
Saturday is media day, one of the last major media opportunities for both teams...
Win it like Beckham! David Beckham's final game with the Los Angeles Galaxy on Saturday sent him off as a two-time MLS champion.* The 37-year-old, who transformed the...
After the stunning upset losses suffered by Kansas State and Oregon, the two college football teams at the top of the BCS are Notre Dame and Alabama. Could it change between now and the end of the season? It could, however it’s starting to look like these are the two best teams in college...
The Big Ten has been a big mess most of the season, starting with the conference's best team being ineligible to play in the conference championship game or a bowl game.
The conference race started to get some clarity this week, but there's still plenty to be decided.
In the Leaders...
The only chance the Chicago Cubs had of winning the World Series in 2012 took place inside the fictional universe of NBC's "Revolution," a new TV show about a future without electricity. But after the show premiered Monday night, as you can tell from the side-by-side screen caps above, even...
Leaf? What leaf? Carl Pettersson throttled the field at the Wyndham Championship, carding an eight-under round at the start of the Wyndham to pace the leaderboard. Many golfers are trying to both get inside the FedEx Cup top 125 and catch the eye of Davis Love III. It'll be fun seeing how this...
Welcome to Teeing Off, where Devil Ball editor Jay Busbee and head writer Jonathan Wall take a day's topic and smack it all over the course. Suggest a future topic by writing [email protected], or hit us on Twitter at @jaybusbee and @jonathanrwall. Today, we wrap up the season's last major...
If you go back and look at the tape of Rory McIlroy's final round at the PGA Championship, one thing that seems to stand out was how calm the 23-year-old looked going down the stretch as he turned a three-shot lead into the biggest rout in tournament history.
Want to know why McIlroy looked...
When Dustin Johnson arrives at Kiawah Island's Ocean Course for the PGA Championship, he won't have to worry about reading the local rules regarding the bunkering at the seaside course. Two years removed from his bunker mishap on the final hole of regulation during the 2010 PGA Championship at...