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The NBA cracked down on racism on Tuesday. A few hours later, the NHL witnessed an African American player transcend racial stereotypes regarding hockey players.   Nine days ago when Breitbart Sports reported on Wayne Simmonds‘ goal wrapping up a

The Boston Bruins defeated the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday move on to a second round match-up against the Montreal Canadiens. The first-seeded Boston’s series victory reflects a larger pattern of favorites winning playoff games this postseason.  While the NHL

Which college basketball team produces the best NBA talent? The NBA has boasted a Development League for over a decade but its real “D” league long predates the existence of the Association. The schools that develop the most productive NBA

Some fans love the NBA playoffs, but many others watch it to remember players from their college. The following is a list of all 492 NBA players from this season listed from the best to worst player at each college

NHL teams given at least a 60 percent chance of winning in the Breitbart Sports Playoff Table are 8-2 heading into Easter Sunday’s games. One of the two upsets was of the Boston Bruins by the Detroit Red Wings, who according

The Flyers Wayne Simmonds (pictured) scored a great goal Sunday to wrap up a 1-1 series tie against the Rangers. The series has just an 8% chance of producing the eventual champion, but has the top remaining NHL market share

Normally, it would be hard to find much in common between a 109-105 NBA playoff game and a 4-3 NHL playoff game. But Saturday afternoon the Golden State Warriors and St. Louis Blues both made game-changing shots with six seconds

PITTSBURGH – The toughest NHL ticket in the USA is the Console Energy Center (see inside and outside photos below), as the Penguins have sold out every regular season and playoff game since February 2007. But Wednesday Penguins fans were

Shabazz Napier did it all. Monday he overcame spectacular plays by Julius Randle and James Young, two players who will go ahead of him in the NBA Draft, to claim his second national title. His performance was so dominant–against such

Two years ago NBC Sports had one big question about Value Add: “[H]ow (is) Shabazz Napier the 11th most valuable player in the country?” “I’m not going to nitpick at the numbers too much,” the sports site continued. “This really

Sunday it was revealed that UConn’s Kemba Walker (left) and Shabazz Napier (right) have produced the 15th and 16th best Value Add seasons since tempo free era started in 2003 with Carmelo Anthony, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, David West, and

I get more questions about the Value Add basketball rankings from the Ivy League than from any where else in the country–and now they have reason to review because Value Add calculates that an Ivy League School would have claimed

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China should not doubt the U.S. commitment to defend its Asian allies and the prospect of economic retaliation should also discourage Beijing from using force to pursue territorial claims in Asia in the way Russia has in

It appears Utah’s Delon Wright will hold onto the top Value Add ranking in the updated Top 100 below despite Shabazz Napier’s incredible tournament run. Doug McDermott will be the most valuable offensive player by the second largest margin of

LEXINGTON, KY – Count Kentucky’s state legislators as one group not suffering from March Madness. Last week the Herald-Leader reported that Sen. Mitch McConnell’s campaign was “horrified” after accidentally running footage of Duke celebrating a national title. The newspaper edition

LEXINGTON, KY – The dorm that Kentucky basketball players left Tuesday (pictured above) appeared more modest than I expected, as was the reaction of most of the students I met within a couple of blocks from the Wildcat statue on

LEXINGTON, KY – The updated Value Add rankings for all 96 players still in action are listed below – highlighted by UConn’s Shabazz Napier (#2) and Wisconsin’s Frank Kaminsky (#12). On Thursday at 7 p.m. Markus Kennedy (SMU, #71) will

UConn pulled away from Michigan State in the second half to emerge victorious and return to the Final Four for the fifth time in the last fifteen years on Sunday afternoon.  Breitbart Sports readers may have been the only ones

Xavier Thames left no doubt why he was the best Value Add player on the court, torching Arizona’s great defense for 25 points. Unfortunately for the Aztecs, Arizona had the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th best Value Add

Frank Kaminsky, the Breitbart Sports 1st Team All-American, showed once again why he is by far the best center in college basketball. Baylor was down 5 with 10:22 to play when Kaminsky blocked his first of three shots within 90

If Syracuse had not missed their final shot against Dayton, all eight of our projected Elite 8 teams would still be alive including our surprise picks of 11-seed Tennessee and 7-seed Connecticut. Perhaps even more impressive, three of the 2014

Two years ago a system built on Value Add projected the 2014 Final Four (see May 20, 2012 post here). Three of the Final Four teams remain from what Value Add projected two years ago. Seven of the teams projected to go to

When Breitbart Sports was the first major outlet to announce the All-American team, the most controversial pick was Kentucky’s Willie Cauley-Stein as the 3rd team All-American center. One of the top 15 offensive players at www.valueaddbasketball.com (No. 1 Seed Wichita

The biggest, longest block party in the country kicks off Thursday and includes 10 days of community gatherings at arenas, sports bars and offices over the next three weeks. Even the prep for this block party is big – ESPN’s

You can pull up the values of 668 players on the 68 tournament teams, but you need to know the 17 who are injured or have left the team before you make your bracket selections. The team most hurt is

The NCAA’s South region offers several potential upsets. But because of a key injury, fans need may not know until tip-off–long after the brackets have been filled out–who to pick. Ohio State is led by three upper-classmen guards who are

The top half of the NCAA tournament’s South bracket seems ripe for a few upsets that should give hope to underdogs and help in office pools. Pitt is led by a senior, NBA-bound PG in Lamar Patterson (19th best Value

The bottom half of the Midwest bracket contains a Cinderella that could potentially parlay a play-in game all the way to the Sweet Sixteen. Red-hot Tennessee has two of the top 35 players, both of whom are NBA prospects, and

What teams are underseeded? Overseeded? Gleaning the answers can be the difference between being an office also-ran and the winner of your annual NCAA tournament pool. The Midwest Region offers many potential surprises, particularly as the tournament pairs down weaker

The Eastern Regional bracket’s top half–the slate of games that appear higher as you look at the seedings–matches up Virginia-Coastal Carolina, Michigan State-Delaware, Cincinnati-Harvard, and George Washington-Memphis. Unlike in the other portion of games in the East, prognosticators might be

Marcus Smart is the top-rated Value Add player in the West region and Smart gives Arizona fits. If Arizona beats Oklahoma State, San Diego State could give them trouble as well, according to Value Add projections. Here is an analysis

The upsets make the NCAA tournament, and the winners of bracket office pools are generally made up of fans who can predict those upsets, which aren’t always unpredictable. Beating the bracket takes the guts to pick the occasional underdog, but

The following are the Value Add Rankings for each player in the bottom half of the West Region, their team’s seed, height, year in school, and which players are NBA prospects (all caps). The teams are American (15-seed), Baylor (6),

The following are the 68 best players in the country as of Selection Sunday, the day that the top 68 teams are announced. Doug McDermott is by far the best offensive player in the country at www.valueaddbasketball.com, with his 8.77