By Michael Silver, Yahoo! Sports
Brett Favre is one of the most beloved players in NFL history, and his retirement last week inspired heartfelt tributes from many of his most devoted followers. Naturally, some of those who loved Favre reacted to my suggestion that he ended his career at an opportune time by sharing their unbridled [...]
By Jeff Passan, Yahoo! Sports
PHOENIX – Usually it lasted a minute. Mark DeRosa’s heart would dance the salsa instead of its customary waltz, and he would calm it down. Breathing worked. So did squatting. Sixty seconds, some concentration and it was over, no worries. Not even his teammates knew.
This one scared him. One minute turned [...]
By Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports
Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey let out a long, exasperated sigh over the telephone Tuesday, as though to say: Are you kidding? Asking Yao Ming to ease back on his Chinese basketball commitments – never mind sit out the Beijing Olympics in August – is a request that’ll go unasked [...]
By Dave Doyle, Yahoo! Sports
Month in and month out, there are nine fighters you can almost guarantee will be ranked among the world’s top 10 pound-for-pound mixed martial arts.
By and large, the pundits agree that at this time Anderson Silva, Georges St. Pierre, Quinton Jackson, B.J. Penn, Fedor Emelianenko, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Urijah Faber, Dan [...]
By Martin Rogers, Yahoo! Sports
LONDON, England – The future of many of the United States’ Premiership exports has rarely been in a greater state of flux.
A total of 12 Americans play in England’s top flight, but of that group only three – Everton’s Tim Howard, Blackburn’s Brad Friedel and West Ham’s Jonathan Spector – are [...]
By JAY COHEN, AP Sports Writer
NEW YORK (AP)—Past and present stood across the net from each other during a third-set tiebreaker at Madison Square Garden.
On one end, a winded Pete Sampras tried to summon enough energy to give the New York fans another memorable win to talk about it on the subway ride home. On [...]
By Brian Murphy, Yahoo! Sports
Once again, we were reminded why we’re all sick in the head – those of us who play golf, love golf, watch golf, care about golf.
All it is, is one long, slow-motion, sadistic, masochistic and creepy peek into our inner beings, where if it’s not us choking away a $5 Nassau [...]
By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports
It was late January and Kentucky was 7-9. Billy Gillispie looked like he needed a vacation or three and some of the Wildcats fans were having some serious buyers’ remorse. This was not happening, was it?
Gillispie was supposed to take the Wildcats from good to great again. A program with seven [...]
By Olin Buchanan, Rivals.com College Football Senior Writer
Missouri was in the national-title picture last season until losing in the Big 12 Championship Game. The Tigers return 14 starters, including star QB Chase Daniel. Most of the attention this spring should focus on finding a starting tailback and rebuilding the offensive line. Here’s a look at [...]
By Bob Margolis, Yahoo! Sports
HAMPTON, Ga. – Thoughts, observations and a few questions following the Kobalt Tools 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway:
• Kyle Busch has been hot, hot, hot since Daytona and it was only a matter of time before he was going to win one. It took a weekend in Georgia complete with snow, [...]