One of the most notable differences between the NCAA and NFL brands of football is how distinct the offensive systems are. In the college game, you have everything from the run-focused triple option used by Army, Navy and Georgia Tech to the high-tempo spread options of Auburn and Oregon to passing-focused offenses like Hawaii and […]

Only a small percentage of NHL executives are still involved in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Their peers are either helping players unpack their lockers after a hard-fought playoff run, or have already had a couple weeks of free time before they begin preparation for the 2011-12 season. One of the only advantages of bowing out […]

Andre Levingston feels the time is right. Levingston is one of the founders of the National Basketball League of Canada, a new professional league set begin play this October. “There’s definitely a thirst and passion for the game of basketball in the country,” Levingston told the Canadian Press earlier this month. “We thought, if there ever was going […]

Never have the competing philosophies of trying to win now versus trying to win later been more evident than during this year’s NFL draft when the Atlanta Falcons and Cleveland Browns made one of the biggest draft day trades in history; the principal of which being Cleveland’s No. 6 pick Julio Jones exchanged for a […]

Each National Hockey League franchise has dreamt of landing the first overall pick at the NHL Entry Draft at least once in their existence. It’s inevitable. When the time does come, management must disarm their short-term aspirations and insert thoughts about what blue chipper is worthy of their enviable position in the draft order. Whether it’s a […]

It was February 15, 2011, when Theoren Fleury glided off the ice for a short breather during intermission at a charity old-timers’ hockey game. In a dim hallway, the Stanley Cup andOlympic champion calmly addressed local media types about the impact Playing With Fire(2009) has had on his life. “I didn’t really know what I was getting myself into when I […]

Raul Ibanez has certainly learned his fair share of things on the baseball diamond, and he has learned a lot away from it as well. After a stint with the Kansas City Royals, Ibanez returned to the Seattle Mariners – the team that drafted him in 2004 – and took note of the notable charitable efforts […]

Between my sophomore and junior years of high school in 2006, my parents came to me and asked if I would be okay with a foreign exchange student living in our home for a year. I quickly agreed that it would be a wonderful experience, as did my little brother. That summer we received a […]

Baron Davis is an unpredictable man. So unpredictable in fact that when the Jungle Book 2 shows up listed in the filmography of his IMDB profile, it prompts little suspicion. Over the past half decade, in addition to his work running offenses in the NBA, Davis has emerged as a promising young film maker and producer, even acting occasionally on television and in […]

Entering the 2010-11 regular season, Mark McNeill wasn’t even on the radar as a potential first-round draft pick for the 2011 NHL Entry Draft. In fact, the Prince Albert Raiders center wasn’t even listed on Central Scouting’s preliminary rankings of the top 25 North American skaters last November. He was absent from International Scouting Services’ October, 2010 top […]