December 26, 2010/8:30 pm Eastern Detroit, MI - Ford Field

The UConn women are going for their 89th straight victory tonight when they square off against Florida State. Should they win, they will pass John Wooden’s famous UCLA men’s teams of the 1970s that put together the 88-game win streak that served as the gold standard in college basketball before Geno Auriemma’s women began their [...]

    December 22, 2010/8:00 pm Eastern Las Vegas, NV – Sam Boyd Stadium  

It is something that so wholly encompasses the sports fan’s consciousness that it seems second nature. Yet it is one of those things that the fan rarely thinks about as he goes about his daily existence. Rooting for his team or teams, year after year, there are precious few occasions on which he finds himself [...]

It’s an age-old question that vexes the sports fan that follows a wide variety of pastimes. And at this time of year — with everyone and their mother bemoaning the BCS, or railing about the potential that a team with a losing record could still win the NFC West and compete for a shot at [...]

December 18, 2010/5:30 pm Eastern Boise, ID – Bronco Stadium     Northern Illinois Huskies (10-3/MAC) vs. Fresno State Bulldogs (8-4/WAC)     Northern Illinois made their way all the way to the MAC title game, losing a heartbreaker to the Miami Redhawks and missing out on their second MAC conference championship in school history [...]

Cold sweat, the room still dark, cat shuffling ’round the two pair of feet poking out the covers at the edge of the bed. This fan doesn’t usually dream in his sleep, but this nightmare vision seemed to be coming in more vividly as he awakened. The phone on the nightstand blinks with messages piped [...]

Twenty-two men convened in Zurich to seal the fate of the world’s most popular sport for the next dozen years. The preceding weeks and months saw FIFA forced to investigate alleged corruption, the spectre of blatant vote-buying and potential collusion between bids in the two adjoining cycles. It was a risk they knew they would [...]