Both the Angels and the Tigers are coming off a win and are in 2nd place in their respective divisions and if the season ended today the Angels would be the team in the AL that would snag the Wild Card berth.
The Chicago White Sox have been one of the best road teams in baseball so far this year. The Kansas City Royals have been one of the worst home teams in baseball this season.
The Padres are assuredly out of the race and will be using the second half to season some youngsters and make some decisions for next year.
It’s only fitting that the New York Mets and Atlanta Braves would start the second half of the season with a series against each other. These two have battled for the second place position in the NL East all season.
The NASCAR Sprint Cup series makes its first trip of the season to Loudon for the running of the Lenox Industrial Tools 301 at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
The Miami Marlins are in some desperate need of some wins after a miserable first half of the season, which currently has them sitting four games under .500 after skidding into the All Star break on a two-game losing streak.
MLB kicks-off the second half of the regular season this Friday as all 30 teams are back in action after this week’s All-Star break.
With everyone well-rested from the four-day break, we have carefully analyzed all the pitching matchups on Friday’s slate of games to uncover a two-team parlay that promises to get your weekend off to a profitable start.
Oakland headed into the All-Star break bursting with confidence.
Winners of six of its last seven, and sitting at .500 on the year for the first time since 2008, when it was 51-44 at the half, but ultimately finished a disappointing 75-86.
As the landscape in college football continues to move from six majors to just four power conferences, the Big East is clearly one of the two that finds itself on the outside looking in.
The last time the UCLA Bruins won the Rose Bowl was 1984. The Bruins haven’t even been a part of the Rose Bowl since 14 years ago. Rick Neuheisel promised to take the program back to the top, but that never panned out. Jim Mora was brought in to try things a different way in Westwood.
One week to go until the British Open – the majority of the favorites for that event are taking the week off. This week is the John Deere Classic with a somewhat watered down but decent field.
We have arrived at the half-way part of the season – what a perfect time to take a look at the teams that have impressed throughout the first three months of the season and the teams that have fallen flat.
All the brightest stars from each league will meet Tuesday night at Kauffman Field in Kansas City for the 2012 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
The ACC has not sent a team to the national championship game since Miami made it all the way there in 2002 as still a member of the Big East, but there is at least one school that has a legitimate chance to go that far this season.
Connecticut has always been known as a basketball school. The Huskies had a brief successful run under Randy Edsall a few years ago, but the past couple years have been small steps backward for this football program.
It seemed Syracuse had entered the national stage when they dominated nationally-ranked West Virginia 49-23 last year in October. The win took the team to 5-2, and they looked like a team that could win the Big East. Instead, Syracuse confusingly lost its last five games to go 5-7 and miss out on a bowl berth.
