Remember Super Bowl XXXVII? If you don’t, no one would blame you. It’s been more than 13 years. At the same time, that’s the last postseason game that the Oakland Raiders have participated in. Will…
In a season full of incredible individual and team accomplishments, there are many forgotten storylines in the NBA. The Golden State Warriors’ run at history, San Antonio Spurs hanging right on their tail, and Cleveland…
Never ones to be considered “comeback” candidates, here now are the New York Yankees, suddenly mired in a three-year stretch in which they have not won a single playoff game. They were shutout at home…
In this installment of Comeback Candidates, we examine the Los Angeles Angels, led by the longest-tenured manager in the game in Mike Scioscia. The Angels won the 2002 World Series but seem to have been…
Our Comeback Candidates series moves to the desert to look at the suddenly-free-spending Snakes. A massive contract for Zack Greinke and a trade for Shelby Miller suddenly gives Arizona a fearsome rotation, at least at…
Our next subject in the continuing 2016 MLB Comeback Candidates series is the team that Sports Illustrated’s Tom Verducci picked — and therefore jinxed — to win the World Series in 2015. That would be…
Defense wins championships, right? Normally, that is a rock-solid argument. In recent years, however, there have been some statistical anomalies that have belied that old adage. When the Carolina Panthers’ unstoppable offense meets the Denver…
There was something that did not feel just about the Tampa Bay Lightning going into the postseason as a second seed. It seemed odd that they finished just shy of the Montreal Canadiens in the…
We are down to hockey’s final four, not to be confused with the NCAA’s Frozen Four. A year ago, the New York Rangers and Chicago Blackhawks appeared headed for a Stanley Cup Finals showdown, but…
So I went 4-4 in picking the first-round series, erring with the Blues and Canucks after flip-flopping those picks about 20 times. Perhaps no team is more perturbed about their second-round opponent than the Montreal…