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Despite being in last place with one match to go in its opening round group of the World Cup, Team USA actually still controls its own destiny.  The standings in the group have Italy with 4 points, Czech Republic and Ghana with 3 points each, and the United States with 1 point.  Everyone in the group can automatically [...]

After months of silence, Green Bay Packer quarterback Brett Favre confirmed the report that he will return to play another year of football.  What does this mean?  Good for the Packers, good for the Packer fans, good for the NFL, but bad for the television viewer. NFL game announcers gush over Favre just slightly less than Phil [...]

Allen Iverson and Chris Webber showed up late to last night’s Fan Appreciation Night in Philly. “I honestly thought as long as I got there before the ball went up, everything would be cool,” Iverson said. “I’ve been doing it that way my whole career and it never was a problem, even when coach [Larry] Brown [...]

Bowl SP   Game Prediction Rose Bowl #2   USC     #1   Texas Win by 4                     Orange Bowl #3   [...]

Slowplay.com 2005 College Football Ranking Dec 3, 2005 Last Cur Team SP Rating Record 1 1 Texas 98.6058 12 - 0 2 2 Southern California 96.7005 12 - 0 3 3 Penn State 90.6648 10 - 1 4 4 Ohio State 87.9945 9 - 2 5 5 Virginia Tech 84.2232 10 - 2 6 6 Oregon 83.4274 9 - 1 14 7 Georgia 81.7402 10 - 2 9 8 West Virginia 81.7372 9 - 1 10 9 Notre Dame 80.4947 9 - 2 8 10 Miami (Florida) 80.4727 9 - 2 11 11 Auburn 79.3014 8 - 2 7 12 Louisiana State 78.9668 9 - 2 15 13 Texas Tech 78.9442 7 - 2 12 14 Texas Christian 78.4226 10 - 1 16 15 Michigan 76.9121 7 - 4 13 16 UCLA 76.2831 9 - 2 17 17 Alabama 76.1555 9 - 2 18 18 Wisconsin 75.8205 9 - 3 19 19 Louisville 75.4623 9 - 2 21 20 Florida 74.9881 8 [...]

The NBA has ended its investigation into recent allegation made by Houston Rockets head coach Jeff Van Gundy. Commissioner David Stern fined Van Gundy $100,000 and threatened to ban him from the league for comments he made about NBA officials. Van Gundy has since clarified that the “official” he claimed was the source of the [...]

Paul Pierce tried to end the season for Boston tonight. Lucky for him, he failed. The Indiana Pacers were handed a golden opportunity to clinch the series after second year player Kendrick Persons missed two free throws. They failed. The game went into overtime and the Celtics pulled out the victory [...]

The recent life and times of Houston Rockets’ coach Jeff Van Gundy have been a wild ride. His team won the first two games of its best-of-seven playoff series at Dallas, but has since turned in a three-loss tankjob — two of those losses at home — to reach the brink of elimination. [...]

One of the great athletes — and better stories — in American sports history, Lance Armstrong, has announced that the 2005 Tour de France will be his last competitive race. Armstrong, having won the last six Tours de France, will seek to extend his record win total to seven in the July event, for [...]

Today during the St. Louis Cardinals’ home opener with the Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis’ television station WB-11 reported that Placido Polanco was given two contract offers in the 2004-05 offseason that he did not hear about until he had already agreed to submit to salary arbitration with the Phillies. According to WB-11, Polanco was [...]