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Sporting News previews the Lobos as we count down our preseason top 100 college football teams leading into the season opener on Sept. 2. Last year: 1-11 2010 projected record: 3-9, 2-6 (Mountain West) Mike Locksley will have to show significant improvement in his second year at New Mexico. Why we know we’re right: It’s not as if UNM [...]

The piece of investigative journalism that turned the NCAA loose on the Connecticut basketball program appeared online at Yahoo! Sports at 1:54 a.m. on March 25, 2009. Talk about bad timing. It must have felt horrible for the people inside UConn’s program to wake up to such news, especially with an NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 game [...]

The Michael Jordan statue outside the United Center in Chicago gets a new addition. CHICAGO — The Reebok skates latched to the the feet of the Michael Jordan statue outside the United Center have an addition: Nike swooshes. The iconic Nike symbol was [...]

When an NFL team wins in a Super Bowl in the recent past, there’s a tendency to compare seasons to everything that went right in that one special year. Ray Lewis enters his 15th season in the NFL — all with Baltimore. When it comes to examining the Baltimore Ravens, that year is 2000. In the regular [...]

Randy Moss may not be a Patriot after the 2010 season ends, but Moss does intend to play somewhere. Moss, who fired his agent last week, told the Boston Herald that he has “no intention of retiring soon.” “The way it was brought [...]

ST. LOUIS — That Rams defensive end Chris Long owns a pair of six-month-old English bulldogs — Rambo and Chubbs, who can’t last five minutes without getting some attention — seems about right. Chris Long has more sacks than any of the seven defensive ends drafted in the first two rounds in ‘08. Tenacity is one of [...]

Sporting News previews the Bulls as we count down our preseason top 100 college football teams leading into the season opener on Sept. 2. Last year: 5-7, 3-5 MAC Buffalo safety Davonte Shannon has 332 tackles over the past three seasons. 2010 projected record: 4-8, 3-5 MAC (5th East) Why we know we’re right: Well, because Turner Gill [...]

Here’s what’s happening around the National Football League on Wednesday, May 26, 2010: • Robert Mathis wants the Colts to rework his contract, and the Pro Bowl defensive end is staying away from OTAs to prove to the team that he’s serious, The [...]

Seeing Gordon Hayward listed on various NBA mock drafts as a late-teens pick — or worse — doesn’t come close to ranking with the greatest mock-worthy moments of the past decade. Remember the time a well-known mock draft listed N.C. State forward Josh Powell as a lottery pick — and then he went unselected? Though Gordon Hayward [...]

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany has done the unthinkable. He caused John Marinatto to commit a sin. A former altar boy who spent four years in the seminary, Marinatto was at a Saturday afternoon Mass at St. Pius [...]