If it was up to Andrew McCutchen, he’d be in a Pittsburgh Pirates uniform for his entire career. “I plan on being here, that’s the mindset. This is where I want to be, ” he said. “I don’t want to go anywhere, and I’m going to be here for as long as they want me to be here.” […]

Your typical NFL fan has many major football dates circled on their calendar: kickoff weekend, rivalry games, and of course the Super Bowl, just to name a few. This past week was one of the largest dates of the year; the NFL Draft. Besides the millions who watched the event from home, some of the most dedicated fans […]

Antawn Jamison has been a lot of things over the course of his basketball life; a homegrown hoops hero, Chapel Hill icon, blue chip prospect, promising young NBA stud, under-appreciated star, award-winning reserve, under-appreciated All-Star, helpless witness to a franchise collapse, three-time tradee, helpless witness to another franchise collapse, and finally, wise old veteran. Naturally he knows what […]

When the Tampa Bay Rays shipped Matt Garza to Chicago this offseason, they robbed the Cubs of a bounty of prospects. On top of prying away Chicago’s best pitching prospect and Pitcher of the Year Chris Archer, the Rays also snagged slick-fielding Korean shortstop Hak-Ju Lee, who was ranked as the Cubs’ fourth-best prospect by Baseball America. Add in Brandon […]

Amidst the ongoing controversy regarding the physical side of hockey, there comes a player that kindles the old school ways of the game that has produced some of the greatest legends in the sport. Owen Sound Attack forward Andrew Shaw plays a much bigger game than his size suggests; something he learned from one of the most […]

Last week’s NFL Draft attracted a huge televised audience, as per usual. A large part of that audience was comprised of the NFL fans and draftniks you’d expect, but some of it had notably different motivations. Instead of eagerly watching to see who their particular team picked or putting their mock drafts up against the […]

A faceless man takes his time dribbling up a court in a crowded basketball stadium that another team calls home. He assumes that the jeers and the voracious racket pouring out onto the hardwood from the frenzied audience above are intended to distract him, but he has other things to worry about. Cautiously he approaches […]

At 34 years old and coming off his worst season at the plate since an injury-shortened 2007 campaign, Lyle Overbay wasn’t exactly considered one of the premier free agents available last offseason. In addition to being a solid defender at first base, though, Overbay’s strong work ethic, 10 years of experience and ability to hit to the […]

At the end of every season, dozens of senior players in the Canadian Hockey League face a dilemma: what’s next? Those players who go undrafted, unsigned and undetected by pro teams try to battle off the temptation to quit the sport. Others give themselves one last shot at a pro contract. The rest have no […]

Every playoff round is different – even in the same sport. With hockey, one year incredible goaltending steals the show, hot snipers another. Through it all though, themes almost habitually tend to transcend time and emerge once the smoke has cleared. One of those constants is the killer instinct that possesses both the Hollywood stud […]