NHL
Yahoo.com: Puck Daddy (Sean Leahy) —
No. 1 Star: Martin Hanzal, Phoenix Coyotes Looking for their first win against the Detroit Red Wings in seven games, Hanzal potted a pair of goals and Mike Smith made 30 saves as the Coyotes were victorious 3-1. Ray Whitney had a pair of helpers to extend his points streak to five games and give him eight points over that stretch. The win puts Phoenix two points behind the Minnesota Wild for...
Yahoo.com: Shutdown Corner (Nick Bromberg) —
Let's be honest, there's a fair amount of overlap between the demographics of NASCAR and the WWE. So it can't be all that surprising that WWE wrestler John Cena is the honorary starter for the Daytona 500, right? Cena, who has already appeared in a Gillette commercial back in the days of the Gillette Young Guns, received his official "invitation" to be the starter when friend Carl Edwards...
Yahoo.com: Shutdown Corner (Jeff Eisenberg) —
Since the NCAA tournament expanded to a field of 64 in 1985, only four teams have ever failed to earn a bid the year after winning the national title. UConn is now in danger of becoming the fifth. Despite fielding a team more talented than the one that won five Big East tourney games in five days and stifled Butler in the national title game last spring, these Huskies hardly bear any...
Yahoo.com: Jeff Passan (Eric Freeman) —
Picture, if you can, an NBA player with the following stats: 31.8 minutes per game, 17.2 ppg, 45.5 percent shooting from the field, 21.6 percent shooting from three-point range, and 6.0 rpg for a 14-11 team. Is that player an All-Star? The easy answer is an obvious "no." Unfortunately, the case is not so easy, because the player in question just happens to be Dirk Nowitzki, the reigning...
Yahoo.com: Jeff Passan (Michael Krumboltz) —
Betting on the Super Bowl is almost as popular as the game itself. Most folks are content to pick a winner and cross their fingers, but others like their bets to be a little more, well, obscure. These wagers, known as prop bets, can cover everything from how long a singer will take to finish the national anthem to who will score the game's first points. Jeff DeLuca of the Yahoo! Contributor...
Yahoo.com: Jeff Passan (Scott Pianowski) —
We don't have an exact date on the photo above, but we know it wasn't taken in September of last year. The 2011 Braves put together a monumental choke down the stretch, but the story was partially obscured by the rumbling in the AL East (mmm, that's tasty chicken). Here's the math of it all: Atlanta had an 8.5-game lead in the NL Wild Card standings into the final month, sitting pretty at...