CBS SportsLine.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Five weeks ago, Denver won at San Diego and seemingly wrapped up the AFC West. Now that 3 1/2-game lead is gone, and the Chargers come into the Rockies with a ton of momentum. There's a lot more than first place on the line for the Broncos, Clark Judge says.
SI.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Vince Young is shaping up to be the best story of this NFL season. Maybe that's just the sportswriter in me talking. (Yes, I actually have a sportswriter living INSIDE me. It's like a tapeworm, except it eats more.) But the more I think about what's happening with Vince Young, the more I want it to keep happening.
SI.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
NEW YORK -- There are two tattoos on the left bicep of Syracuse point guard Scoop Jardine. One is a basketball falling through a hoop. The second, inked in cursive letters, reads: "The Best Kept Secret". "I still don't think people have seen the real me," Jardine said after scoring a team- and career-high 22 points in the Orange's 95-73 win over No. 12 California in the semifinals...
SI.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
It should be ridiculous. To raise the possibility that a 25-year-old -- a "veteran" of just three major league seasons, with only 40 career wins and a look so youthful that he almost certainly still gets carded -- is worthy of serious Hall of Fame discussion, ought to, by all rights and common sense, be ridiculous.
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
If it weren't for this whole MLS Cup thing, going up against David Beckham and Landon Donovan in a few days in cold, rainy Seattle, Kyle Beckerman at this moment would be soaking in the sun, floating on a surfboard off a beach in Costa Rica.
CBS SportsLine.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Arizona's Rose Bowl drought has gotten so long it makes the Wildcats want to puke. Or maybe that's Mike Stoops' workouts. Dennis Dodd says it's a beleaguered program just trying to get over the wall.
SI.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Jimmie Johnson has won the right to a fourth straight title with four wins and eight top-10s in nine Chase races. The 11 drivers who came up short will all go into the offseason privately wondering where it all went wrong while publicly congratulating the No. 48 team. After all, the sport's top dozen controlled their own destiny in a championship quest that ultimately fizzled for all but one; in the...
SI.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
SEATTLE -- The Los Angeles Galaxy meet Real Salt Lake in the 14th MLS Cup final here on Sunday (8:30 p.m. ET, ESPN, Galavisión), and I started the day off by meeting MLS commissioner Don Garber for breakfast in his hotel suite. The 52-year-old Garber, a former NFL executive, has been the MLS commish since 1999 and is widely expected to sign a contract extension in the next few weeks.
SI.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
I don't put a great deal of stock in the fact that Brendan Shanahan chose to announce his retirement through the NHL offices rather than what's left of the NHL Players Association. But I don't dismiss it, either.
SI.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
He had missed 14 of 15 shots and all four from the arc, and yet the Detroit Pistons designed a play for Ben Gordon to attempt a game-tying three against the visiting Mavericks last Sunday. "Are you kidding me?" said Detroit coach John Kuester after Gordon missed in the final second of a 95-90 loss. "I wanted him to have the last shot."
SI.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
It may seem like the BCS has stacked the deck so high, a team outside the six automatic-qualifying conferences will never play for the national title. But don't give up so easily. That day may come much sooner than you think.
CBS SportsLine.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Los Angeles is an NHL contender, and Wes Goldstein knows why: After years of quick fixes, the Kings have committed to building through the draft -- and the kids are getting it.
SI.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Anthony Johnson wasn't pleased with how things went at UFC 104 in October. The welterweight showed up six pounds heavy at the pre-fight weigh-in, clocking in at 176 pounds for his bout with Yoshiyuki Yoshida. It not only made him look undisciplined, it also hurt his wallet; he had to forfeit a percentage of his purse and it likely cost him the $60,000 knockout-of-the-night bonus. Rarely have a few...
SI.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
It was often called a "perfect storm." But what an imperfect mess it left behind.
SI.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
So this week's much anticipated news about South African women's world 800-meter champ Caster Semenya turns out to be that there is no news on the most controversial issue: whether Semenya will be allowed to continue competing as a female.
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