The Baltimore Orioles are the best deal in baseball, clinching the playoffs Tuesday despite $107 million in salaries that projected an 81-81 season. They are on pace to win 17 more than their salaries justify, the 25th-best deal since 1998.
The following scoreboard gives the Week 3 results for all 128 FBS teams by conference. A separate post breaks down the overall ranking of all 10 conferences. Starting with the American, Cincinnati was ranked 64th coming into the week and
The ACC and Big 12 both had better records and better victory margins than expected to pass the Pac-12 as the second and third best conferences through Week 3 (see Week 2 standings here). The Big Ten had another terrible
The Big 12 has two chances to challenge the SEC’s No. 1 ranking (click here) if they can surpass their projected 4.9-4.1 record this week with an Oklahoma win over Tennessee and Texas Tech win over Arkansas. Iowa State, Oklahoma State,
BYU kicked off Week 3 by surviving a Thursday night scare against Houston, and could repeat their feat from 30 years ago of competing for a national title without beating a ranked team. After destroying Texas in Week 2, BYU
Two of the biggest programs in the country, Ohio State and Texas, found playing without their starting quarterbacks very difficult, and the ACC took advantage to pass both of their conferences. Conference USA moved into 6th place and not far
The Big Ten has been essentially eliminated from the first four-team playoff in history–in Week 2. The fourth-best team in the ACC faced the largest crowd in Ohio State history and beat the second-best team in the Big Ten to
The argument for a 2-loss SEC team going to the playoff ahead of another 1-loss team could hinge on if Mississippi State, Missouri, and South Carolina win this weekend. If two of them stumble, then the Big 12 could catch them
The following is the list of the projected score of every college football game this weekend–though fans should adjust their point spreads based on the latest injuries through a service such as DonBest. Teams are listed alphabetically within their conference,
Scott Sands interviewed me (click here) about our college football rankings of the Big Ten and the Mid-American. I noted that critics of the SEC often complain that they never play road games, so that I would expect there to be
Stanford would be the surprise team in the first college playoff if their No. 2 spot in the Breitbart Sports Pythagorean Rankings held up at the end of the season. While Oregon would project to have a wider average margin
The BCS banned the use of victory margins in college rankings more than decade ago, resulting in the New York Times (see story here) replacing two other computer services in the BCS ratings. We let the reader decide–offering a “Method
The Pac-12 survived upset bids 4,694 miles apart, and Cal went to the Midwest to help match the SEC’s 5-2 mark in Week 1 and take Week 1 honors, while CUSA went 5-5 to finish as the 6th best Week
The following are the projected NON-CONFERENCE records for all 129 FBS teams assuming they played every other team except those in their conference (a total of 7,406 total non-conference games). The projected conference record is the starting basis for the
On Friday, Conference USA was established as the best of the “other five” conferences. Saturday the pecking order of the big five will be determined by if Wisconsin can upset LSU and/or Clemson can upset Georgia to challenge the long-reign
No “SEC, SEC” chants could be heard as Temple scored a stunning road win on the new SEC Network. Rutgers carried the Big Ten banner for the first time, traveling to the Left Coast for a big upset against the
AUBURN – Last year fans chanted “Amanda” over and over to celebrate coach Andy Enfield and his wife and former Maxim swimsuit cover Amanda Marcum making the Sweet 16. This week Auburn fans started the first week of FOOTBALL by
Breitbart Sports unveils the most comprehensive database of the values of college basketball players available, allowing the reader to access all 4,250 players in Google Docs by clicking on the master scholarship table. For each team you can view the projected
Fox Sports 1 made the Big East the only basketball conference to top $150 million in profit this year as the conference also grabs the most top recruits per team. The ACC may pass the mark with the addition of
If there was ever a must-watch WNBA game, it would have to be the tallest player in the league flying from Los Angeles to Minnesota to put a 15-game winning streak on the line Thursday against the best women’s player
Forbes recently estimated ESPN’s $50 billion price tag, and the brand alone is worth more than Fox’s brand ($12.9 billion to $10.2 billion according to Forbes). The sports giant protected market share against Fox Sports 1’s attempt to promote the Big
Before his brutal injury in 2013, Breitbart Sports noted that Nerlens Noel’s 12 blocked shots in one game had him on pace to challenge fellow Wildcat Anthony Davis and former Duke star Shelden Williams as the best college defensive players
On July 11 the Cleveland fans pictured watched Roberto Perez homer in his first game and learned that LeBron James would return to their city. I spent a few days this week in the city that also won the Republican
Mason Plumlee was the top-ranked Value Add player when Breitbart Sports debuted on New Years Day 2013, and now he is the top-ranked player in Summer League with a rating of 1.06. A separate post lists the top 2014 draftees,
Cory Jefferson was the last player taken in the NBA Draft, but he has been better than the 59 taken in front of him so far with 0.91 net contributions per minute in early Summer League action. The average Summer
Sunday’s World Cup championship game pits Pope Francis’ native Argentina against retired Pope Benedict’s native Germany. The Catholic Church has witnessed pope/anti-pope feuds. But it has never experienced two popes watching the soccer teams of their homelands battle it out
With three of the most Catholic countries in the world among the final four teams in the World Cup, including the Pope’s Argentinians after their win Saturday over Belgium, many Catholics and Lutherans may expect Pope Francis’ next confession to
Nik Stauskas was one of the hottest players in the NBA Draft Thursday, impressing scouts enough to move from a possible 2nd-round pick to the No. 8 selection. He could have been an even bigger winner if the Sacramento Kings
Prior to the last two NBA Drafts I have visited team offices, sent draftee info and built databases for teams, and worked with projection guru Rob Lowe to calculate how many wins each player would be worth to an NBA
Clayton Kershaw threw his first no-hitter and was one routine grounder away from throwing the 24th perfect game in the 135 years of baseball. Kershaw stuck out 15 players, walked none and allowed only 13 balls to be put into
Before Rashad McCants dated Khloe Kardashian (pictured) at the end of his 4-year NBA career, he was in the top 2% of all college basketball players while at UNC. He managed to win an NCAA title and–according to him–get several
While Major League Baseball teams are drafting players they hope will eventually help, the basketball players taken on June 26 can change teams immediately. The Cleveland Cavaliers won 17 games in 2003, then 35, 42 and 50, respectively, the next
Manu Ginobli and Tony Parker may have grabbed the spotlight last night in San Antonio. But entering the NBA Finals, the top three performers in the playoffs have been: 1. LeBron James, 2. Tim Duncan, and 3. Dwyane Wade. The
According to Las Vegas, the Heat entered the Conference Finals with a 43% chance to win the title while the Spurs had the second best chance at 29%. After struggling through four games last week for an average 105-102 win
It would take an unlikely Finals sweep to argue that the Miami Heat’s current run was better than Shaquille O’Neal’s 2000-2002 LA Lakers, Larry Bird’s 1984-87 Celtics, George Mikan’s 1952-54 Minneapolis Lakers, or the smash mouth 1988-90 Pistons as the
Tea Party candidates are losing races this year due in large part to reverting to something like Knute Rockne’s Single Wing Offense with no air support to try outscore the Chamber of Commerce’s air attack that looks like Peyton Manning’s offense. The Establishment
The Cleveland Cavaliers, sitting atop the NBA Draft board, most need a small forward (3.0) with the first pick of the NBA draft, so in the mock draft below they take Andrew Wiggins. Doug McDermott is moving up the fastest
Five cities should be big winners in the NBA lottery draft Tuesday, as each will be able to choose from the top five players on the Big Board at Draft Tek, all of whom project as NBA stars. The actual mock draft
As soon as an NBA team announces a first-round pick June 26 they are promising the player $3 million to $14 million. Before investing that money, each team may want to look back at a packet Rob Lowe and I
Do the student-athletes graduating this spring after playing in any of the 351 Division 1 basketball programs have a better chance finding employment in a job related to their major or on a professional basketball team? There are only about
