The New Orleans Saints announced that they have waived defensive end Greg Romeus. He was the Saints’ 2011 seventh-round draft pick out of Pittsburgh, but he could never make it on the field. Romeus’ with the Saints was plagued by devastating injuries and never saw any playing time in the NFL as he was always [...]
The New York Rangers, who trailed the Boston Bruins 3-0 in the Eastern Conference Semifinals, appeared to have thrown in the towel in this do-or-die Game 4. Their superstar forward Brad Richards was a healthy scratch and two key defenseman (Marc Staal and Anton Stralman) were out with injuries. As a result, they started out sluggish. For about the first half of the [...]
The Minnesota Twins will be getting a promising starter back Friday in Samuel Deduno. Deduno made 15 starts last season for the Twins in his first year as a starter. The 29-year-old right-hander was steady last year for the Twins, logging 57 strikeouts in 79 innings. Deduno has a wide variety of pitches, which is [...]
Name: Gregory Echenique Age: 22 Height: 6-foot-9 Position: Center School/Country: Creighton Latest Stats: 9.7 ppg, 6.6 rpg, 1.7 bpg Within the Creighton Bluejays‘ front court, 6-foot-9 big man Gregory Echenique earned himself a valuable reputation. He was the anchor inside for a Bluejays squad that has been amongst the top non-power six programs in the country over the [...]
Nick Saban’s Alabama Crimson Tide rule college football. No one, not even the most hardcore Auburn Tigers fan, can argue that. In fact, just coming off another national title, Alabama is in the midst of the most dominant run in college football in a long, long time. How good has Alabama been the last seven years? Really, [...]
I, along with many other basketball fans across the country I’m sure, was more than ecstatic to hear the announcement yesterday that Duke Blue Devils head coach Mike Krzyzewski would be returning to lead the 2016 version of the United States Olympic men’s basketball team. With whispers that he may not be returning, it was [...]
Aside from his recent contract demands, Green Bay Packers superstar quarterback Aaron Rodgers is one of the classiest professional athletes of our generation. The man sat through a humiliating first round of the 2005 NFL Draft with the poise of a 10-year veteran and received what then-NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue called a “good thing” — an [...]
One of the biggest surprises this fantasy baseball season has been San Diego Padres SP Jason Marquis. The 34-year-old has been all over the place, as he has played for eight different teams in his 14 MLB seasons, but this has finally been his breakout season. He went practically undrafted in nearly every format outside [...]
Way back in 2003 when Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich purchased Chelsea from Ken Bates for £140 million, there was an outcry from supporters groups and MP’s who felt that Abramovich wasn’t a fit and proper person, and that his background was a little shady to say the very least. Fast forward 10 years, and Abramovich [...]
After a number of successful NASCAR Nationwide Series races, Puerto Rican driver Victor Gonzalez Jr. will be making his Sprint Cup Series debut in the No. 36 car for Tommy Baldwin Racing during the Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway. Gonzalez will also run the Sprint Cup Series race at Watkins Glen later in the [...]
2013 has provided a platform for both rookies and relatively unknown names to get attention at NASCAR’s highest level: Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Danica Patrick are both formidable rookies at elite teams with incredibly high expectations, Aric Almirola is anchoring the second Richard Petty Motorsports car after ending 2012 with impressive results, and Paul Menard is currently carrying [...]
If anyone had doubts about Brad Keselowski coming out strong to defend his title as NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion, then they were promptly shattered after a four race run of top 5 finishes only ending this last weekend in the Auto Club 400 in Fontana, California. Now Keselowski may have relinquished the points lead to [...]
Matt Kenseth is taking his No. 20 Dollar General Toyota to Fontana, California for the Auto Club 400 at Auto Club Speedway. It’s the next stop on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series schedule and it’s at a track that Kenseth has had success on. But he says it can “be tricky.” Kenseth has three wins [...]
Kyle Busch and Joe Gibbs Racing had their first taste of victory together during the NASCAR Nationwide Series race in Phoenix this past week. Now Busch is heading home to Las Vegas, where he will drive the No. 54 Monster Energy Camry at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in the NNS race. Busch has had success [...]
The good news seems to keep rolling in for five-time NASCAR champion and 2013 Daytona 500 winner Jimmie Johnson. Today at the company’s 2013 managers meeting, the nationwide hardware store chain announced it would be the title sponsor on Johnson’s car until the 2015 season, extending the partnership that has been active since Johnson’s first [...]
For a whole week now, most of the talk surrounding the Daytona 500 was Danica Patrick qualifying for the pole position. Then the talk shifted to her and others sitting on Saturday practice. Finally the day most of the country had been waiting for was here. Patrick would be out of the poll and second [...]
NASCAR announced today that it would be altering the payment system for finishing positions 39-43 in all 2013 races. Every position back in the field will have a steeper penalty than last year; with a 39th place run earning a team $1,000 less than it did last year, whereas a last place run will [...]
October 9th 2010 was a dark day for not just the Hmiel family but for motorsports in general. On that day, Shane Hmiel’s professional career was snuffed out for good in a crash that very well could have ended his life all together. Shane found himself in this situation on his own accord. Once a NASCAR [...]
Joe Gibbs Racing is shaping up to have a strong year. The addition of Matt Kenseth and the continuing development of Denny Hamlin assure that this may be the best group of drivers the championship team has ever fielded. Without a doubt these two drivers will provide a backbone of development and feedback [...]
