Ravens safety Ed Reed supplanted linebacker/accused murderer Ray Lewis as the bedrock of Baltimore's insanely stingy defense a couple of years ago. Ever since he's consistently racked up huge games, occasionally seeming to...

Two notable trends have emerged over the past two weeks at old Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh: 1) The Penguins have started a long decent out of playoff position and, 2) In an attempt to energize his team, young captain Sidney...

Alexander Semin has emerged as a second-banana to Alex Ovechkin's top fiddle for a Capitals team that's rapidly on the rise. Still, that can't help explain why the Russian fights by throwing his arms around like a squid as...

When Matt Hasselbeck said the Seahawks would score after winning an overtime coin toss it was a bad idea. When Chargers nose tackle and co-captain Jamal Williams made an even bolder prediction after San Diego won a toss...

Note to the Rose Bowl: THIS is how you produce a game that actually lives up to the over-hyped circus around it. Each year the Holiday Bowl pits Pac-10 and Big 12 conference teams in an entertaining game that nearly always...

When we say that All Sports Band is the worst band of all time -- No, not worst concept band of all time, the worst band of all time full stop -- we really, really mean it. Need proof? Take this gem, which is a music video...

Do we really have to tell you what's about to happen in this video? Let's be real. If you know that we always run clips of the best action sports accidents and an idiot happens to be dumb enough to tape himself cruising down...

We define crazy as "anyone who would consider jumping up 10 stories on a motorcycle for a stunt, then freefalling back down all 10." Well, by that definition, motocycle stuntster Robbie Maddison is most definitely crazy. He...

It took their biggest rivals and a big Christmas Day game from Kobe Bryant to do it, but the Celtics finall lost. After rolling off 19-straight wins, Boston fell short of 20 in-a-row, dropping the afternoon special of ABC's...

The headline tells you all you need to know in this clip: For the second time this year, a team tried a free kick for a field goal with no time left on the clock in the first half. For the second time it missed, though this...

It took a 50-yard, game-winning field goal as time expired, but the Vikings made the playoffs on Sunday, beating the defending-champion Giants in a face-off that meant everything for Minnesota and the NFC North and absolutely...

Mark Teixeira was unequivocably the top position player on this winter's free agent market. Everyone was in on him at one point ... except the Yankees ... until the moment when it really mattered, and then the Yankees and $180...

Leave it to the experts of crappy sports TV -- Awful Announcing -- to target down each and every broadcasting lowlight ... and a few highlights, of the 2008 Monday Night Football slate on ESPN. It's a must see vid of awkward...

ESPN play-by-play man Dave Pasch is never going to be confused with Marv Alberts. Still, he may have hit a new low while broadcasting the Hawaii Bowl on Christmas Eve, with Notre Dame dropping mediocre home-bound foe Hawaii....

In case you didn't tune in, it was really windy in Buffalo yesteday. Yeah, go ahead and ask ... ("Just how windy was it?"). OK, we'll tell you: It was so windy that one of the league's best kickers couldn't hit a 26-yard...