MLB Notebook: World Series Preview
One of the sport’s ancient rivalries, the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers, will settle the championship. Here’s our preview.
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MLB Notebook: League Championship Series Recaps
A look back at how the Yankees and Dodgers advanced.
MLB Notebook: League Championship Series Previews
It’s Yanks-Guardians and Dodgers-Mets for the American League and National League pennants. Here’s our preview of each series.
MLB Notebook: Division Series Recaps
Read a concise summary of how the Yankees, Guardians, Dodgers and Mets advanced.
MLB Notebook: Division Series Previews
Analysis and predictions on Tigers-Guardians, Royals-Yanks, Mets-Phils, and Padres-Dodgers.
MLB Notebook: Wild-Card Round Recaps
A look back at the key storylines, as the Tigers, Royals, Padres, and Mets all advance to the Division Series.
MLB Notebook: Playoff Preview
A look at all 12 playoff teams–their path to victory, along with what could trip them up.
MLB Notebook: Final All-Star Team
To wrap up the regular season, we go position by position and pick the best players in baseball for this year.
1980 Louisville Basketball: Denny Crum’s Breakthrough National Title
Denny Crum was an assistant for the great John Wooden at UCLA, when the opportunity arose to take the Louisville job in 1972. Crum inherited a program that had been a consistent winner, but had only made the Final Four in 1959. Crum promptly went to the Final Four in his first season. He went […]
1980 Oregon State Basketball: A Breakthrough Pac-10 Championship
Ralph Miller inherited a program in 1971 that had frequently been competitive, but had slipped under .500 in recent years, and was buried underneath John Wooden’s UCLA dynasty in either case. By 1975, Oregon State was good enough to take advantage of the NCAA Tournament’s slight expansion to include some non-conference champions, and the Beavers […]
1985 North Carolina Basketball: The Post-Jordan Era Begins
Dean Smith had some rebuilding to do. A guy named Michael Jordan had departed from Chapel Hill. After winning a national title in 1982, UNC had continued to produce great teams with Jordan in 1983 and 1984, but there was disappointment in March. The Tar Heels had failed to win the conference tournament—a big deal […]
1987 DePaul Basketball: A Sweet 16 Trip
The 1980s were a great time for DePaul basketball. They had earned four #1 seeds in the first half of the decade. Even though March flameouts became all-too-common, the Blue Demons were on the map as a national power. When Joey Meyer took over the coaching reins from his father Ray in 1985, the son […]