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 [...]
Last Friday Night the NASCAR Nationwide Series was at Richmond International Raceway, a 3/4 mile short track. As always tempers flare and sometimes those tempers spill over to pit road after the race. In this case it was between Nelson Piquet Jr. and Brian Scott, drivers of the No. 30 and No. 2 cars respectively. [...]
Boys have at it may have gone a bit out of control between Nelson Piquet Jr. and Brian Scott, but NASCAR has stepped in and laid down the final word. NASCAR made their voice heard following post-race incidents between the No.2 team of Scott and the No.30 team of Piquet. Due to the several incidents [...]
Redemption doesn’t come easy, especially not in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Series veteran and 2004 NASCAR Champion Kurt Busch has been on this long hard road to redemption for a season now. Busch now drives for Furniture Row Racing after being let go from Penske Racing because even Roger Penske couldn’t defend his behavior anymore. [...]
When it comes to short track racing, short track tempers are expected especially between rivals. Of course the tempers add to the race, but has rivals butting heads gone too far as it did in the NASCAR Nationwide Series? On Friday night, the way to handle a rivalry went to a complete different level when [...]
There was an unsuspected rumbling at the beginning of the year that Richard Petty Motorsports was due for a revival after nearly needing to cease operation during the beginning of 2012. A majority of people who thought such a revival would occur in the form of much-improved driver Marcos Ambrose. However, with a quarter of [...]
After a dismal beginning to the year at the Daytona 500, Kevin Harvick has officially returned to his typical form. The Richard Childress Racing driver is in the final year of his contract, and will be leaving the only tem he has ever driven for in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. The veteran Harvick has [...]
Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Richmond International Raceway was full of action and suspense; it was a perfect short track night race. Coming into this weekend Joey Logano and Penske Racing in general have a hard time of it lately. At Texas Motor Speedway both the cars of Logano and reigning champ Brad Keselowski were found to have illegal rear ends in pre-race inspection. [...]
Jimmie Johnson drove rather well at the Richmond International Raceway on Saturday evening. Good old five-time was running inside of the top-10 for the majority of the Toyota Owners 400 after starting back in the 26th position. Johnson’s race was rather interesting. He had a car capable of winning, as he was able to drive through the pack like it [...]
A streak was broken last night under the howling full moon of Richmond International Raceway. The past four years, Kyle Busch has won the spring NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Richmond. Even during last year, a year filled with adversity and plain old bad luck, he was able to pull out a win here. Last night, it seemed like [...]
The weekend of short track tempers continued at Richmond International Raceway but it was Kevin Harvick who walked out harmless by the end of the night. In Saturday night’s Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond, Harvick ended up having luck on his side following the final restart in the race to take home the win, one that, for most of the final [...]
