The Oklahoma City Thunder have laid waste to some of the NBA’s best teams to get to The Finals. Up next, though, is their biggest challenge yet in the league’s bad boys: the Miami Heat. Can the kids in OKC take down the Big Three from South Beach? We’ll start to get our answer this Wednesday night.

The Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs are playing more than just a Western Conference Finals series. They’re redefining the NBA as we know it. With star power bursting from both sides, there’s a real changing of the guard taking place, and it’s happening in markets you would least expect.

Bill Veeck was as controversial as they come. Known for his antics and using the loopholes in MLB’s rules, Veeck did anything and everything he could to give his team an advantage. His tell-all book Veeck as in Wreck has stood the test of time, and even gives us an idea of how the man himself would respond to today’s game.

Albert Pujols is getting slammed by the national media for a horrendous start to both the 2012 season as well as his massive contract. With just one home run to speak of almost a quarter of the way into the season, we’re all wondering what’s wrong? Is this a poor adjustment to Anaheim? Is age catching up with him at a breakneck speed?

The short NBA season came and went with much fanfare, and now things are officially back to normal as four solid rounds of playoff action begins. Mark Milner is joined by TheGP basketball contributor Travis Nicholson and Editor-in-Chief of TDotLive.com Dwayne Wynter to break down all the first-round action,

After we thought it was all said and done, the Sacramento Kings story has re-emerged with a vengeance. The shaky marriage between Maloofs and the NBA seems to be over and the state of the Kings’ future hangs in the balance. With so much drama, can a respectable basketball team emerge in the future?

A lot of people are pushing for Kevin Love to win MVP honors this year, but if you ask our Mark Milner, those people are nuts. Love him or hate him – LeBron James is performing at a level far beyond that of Love, and he’s doing it on a winning team, too. He breaks down the numbers for you.

“The Art of Fielding” by Chad Harbach is a novel that captures more than just a summer of baseball. It tells the story of five individuals and their relationships around college baseball field, capturing everything from the funny moments to the sad ones to the fantastic and everything in between. Mark Milner explains more.

A few months ago the world was overrun with a case of Linsanity. The story since has come back down to earth, prompted by the unceremonious return of Carmelo Anthony. By comparing the Knicks to the NHL’s Maple Leafs, Mark Milner questions who truly runs the show: the players or the coaches.

Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook are among the top combinations in the NBA, and they’ve led their Oklahoma City Thunder team to first place in the Western Conference. Each finds himself among the league’s best in many statistical categories, but is it fair to select one over the other as league MVP, or is their respective success due as much to the other as it is to themselves?