The NHL draft is a fluid process.  Nothing ever really stays the same, and from team to team, opinions on players vary widely.  There is a group of players every year that rise up boards, however. This year, that ranges from players who have put themselves in the top-10 conversation to prospects who have proven […]

He walked into the place as players were filing out, beginning the buildout as they were pulling up stakes. By the time the whirlwind of player procurement ended at Iowa State for new coach Jimmy Rogers, there were 81 players on the current roster that weren’t part of the program a season ago. That’s 81 […]

MILAN — There are roughly 2,900 athletes in the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, all trying to win medals — except for one. Already a gold medalist in the figure skating team event, Alysa Liu has a chance to add to the haul by taking home another piece of hardware in the all-important women’s singles. After […]

The two parties are in agreement on this: Jerome Tang is no longer the men’s basketball coach at Kansas State. Things get dramatically more complicated from there. Kansas State holds that Tang, who was fired on Sunday, can be dismissed “for cause,” which would invalidate the $18.7 million buyout associated with his contract. “This was […]

With NBA commissioner Adam Silver fining teams for tanking and making statements about repercussions, there has been a lot of talk in league circles about the process and strategy of tanking its effectiveness and fairness. The Utah Jazz received a $500,000 fine and the Indiana Pacers got a $100,000 fine for recent game management and […]

Milan — American hopes were sky high coming into the Olympic women’s figure skating competition. Could there be a U.S. sweep of the medals? Would the 20-year U.S. medal drought finally end? Who would be the breakout star among the trio known on social media as the Blade Angels: Amber Glenn, Alysa Liu and Isabeau […]