Wheaton College DE/OLB Andy Studebaker works out for NFL scouts.

By Jason Cole, Yahoo! Sports
Given that there wasn’t a lot of great offensive talent at skill positions available this year, most teams in the AFC focused on upgrading their defenses in hopes of chasing down top quarterbacks Tom Brady of New England and Peyton Manning of Indianapolis. Either that or they spent high picks on [...]

By Tim Brown, Yahoo! Sports
LOS ANGELES – That name, that game. Orlando Hudson sighed.
“Aw, don’t kill him yet,” he pleaded.
Across the narrow visitors’ clubhouse, Justin Upton adjusted his cap, perched a pair of sunglasses atop the brim, stuffed batting gloves in his back pockets.
“Very impressive,” Hudson said. “Tons of talent.”
Upton will be 20 for four [...]

By Jeff Passan, Yahoo! Sports
The complete game is on life support.
Don’t mourn. It lived well. During its heyday, pitchers loved throwing it. In 1879, Will White started 75 games for the Cincinnati Reds and finished every one of them. More than 100 years later, Rick Langford threw 28 for the 1980 Oakland A’s staff that [...]

By Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports
Why yes, there were suggestions that Avery Johnson was losing his Dallas Mavericks, including the struggling Josh Howard. No more. The Mavs aren’t just listening to the coach, they’re reading him, too.
The trouble is, it appears Howard never made it past the title of Johnson’s new book, “Aspire Higher.”
In perhaps the [...]

By Johnny Ludden, Yahoo! Sports
PHOENIX – Boris Diaw has heard it all from the local hang up-and-listen psychologists. French Pastry. Doris Meow. Phoenix Suns coach Mike D’Antoni, once lamenting Diaw’s expanding waistline, questioned how many croissants his French forward had eaten over the summer.
The criticism has never seemed to hang on Diaw for long. For [...]

By Victor Chi – SportingNews
The Dallas Stars have opened their second-round series by winning twice on the road against the San Jose Sharks. Their success isn’t a huge mystery. The Stars’ upper-echelon players have delivered. Their counterparts on the Sharks have failed to keep pace.
The Sharks still haven’t figured out a way to neutralize Mike [...]

By Ross McKeon, Yahoo! Sports
PITTSBURGH – Two games were played here over the past three days – one the Pittsburgh Penguins’ style and one that conforms to the New York Rangers’ ways. The fact that Pittsburgh won both leaves New York with really only one option – go home and hope that’s going to aid [...]

By Jerry Bonkowski, Yahoo! Sports
TALLADEGA, Ala. – It may not have been a race for the ages, but Sunday’s Aaron’s 499 at Talladega Superspeedway should be one folks won’t forget for a long time.
“If the fans didn’t like that, you just don’t like racing,” said Denny Hamlin, who finished third. “It was fun racing, so [...]

By Bob Margolis, Yahoo! Sports
TALLADEGA, Ala. – Thoughts, observations and a few questions following the Aaron’s 499 at Talladega Superspeedway:
• Is there a hotter driver in NASCAR at the moment than Kyle Busch? If there is, I can’t think of one. One thing still bugs me: Why aren’t we seeing more M&Ms racewear on race [...]