Coming into the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the United States and England had a legitimate chances to advance to the second round or what is also known as knockout stage. Not only were the Americans and the English favored to come out of Group C, but the first game of this group game between these two teams was epic and set of the drama of games to follow.

Even though both the United States and England could only draw in their first two games, they were able to get one goal victories on Wednesday. Despite not many people giving Algeria and Slovenia much chance of advancing to the next round out of Group C, both of these teams gave the Americans and English all they could handle in the group stage. Continue Reading…

Today in New York, Pro football Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor has been indicted by a grand jury on the May 6^th charges of rape, criminal sexual act and sexual abuse.

On May 6^th, 2010, Lawrence Taylor was arrested on charges of paying a 16 year old girl to have sex with him. He allegedly paid the young girl $300, which Taylor denies.

Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Zugibe says the 16-year-old told investigators that she had been verbally threatened and physically assaulted. She said she was brought to the hotel room by a pimp later arrested by New York City police.

The United States national soccer team has exceeded expectations up to this point in the 2010 World Cup, they may have only drawn the first two games they have played in the tournament against England (1-1) and Slovenia (2-2), but they still have a chance to advance to the knockout stage with a win over Algeria on Wednesday.

Throughout the first two games of the 2010 World Cup, Landon Donovan and company have struggled to put score goals in the early going as they have had to come from behind in both matches against England and Slovenia. Continue Reading…

Portugal ended a severe scoring drought today by beating the North Korean team 7-0, which places Portugal in nice shape to get to the next round of 16 teams. “It was a great day for Portugal and Portuguese football,” said the coach, Carlos Queiroz.

The route started with Meireles’ 29th-minute goal that tied up the match, followed by Simao, Almeida and Tiago, all of whom scored rather early in the second half of play. Continue Reading…

These NBA playoffs have been entertaining to say the least with a lot of surprises and underdogs going much further than anticipated. Even though many people were expecting to see a Los Angeles Lakers and Cleveland Cavaliers NBA Finals matchup with Kobe Bryant and LeBron James battling it out for an NBA title, the Boston Celtics were able to do the seemingly impossible and beat the two best teams in the Eastern Conference to get back to the NBA Finals for the second time in three years. Continue Reading…

The Washington Redskins have gone through some drastic changes this offseason, but despite acquiring a Pro Bowl caliber quarterback in Donovan McNabb and a future hall of fame head coach in Mike Shanahan, the Skins seem to be on the verge of another big change by trading away arguably their best defensive player in Albert Haynesworth.

Before last season, the Washington Redskins were thought to have landed a really big fish in free agency by signing arguably the best defensive player in the league in Albert Haynesworth. Even though the Tennessee Titans had one of their best seasons in franchise history, they weren’t willing to sign Haynesworth to the kind of money he was demanding and the Redskins took advantage. Continue Reading…

Throughout the past two years in the NBA, there has been a lot of speculation surrounding the upcoming 2010 NBA free agent market as none of the big-name players like LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Amare Stoudemire, Joe Johnson or Chris Bosh were willing to sign a contract extension with their current teams.

With all these big-name free agents officially becoming available come July 1^st, the NBA has been buzzing with rumors about where some of these players might be landing when teams around the league can start making offers this summer. Continue Reading…

The upcoming free agent class in the NBA is arguably the most talented and most impactful the league has ever seen as some very big names in the NBA could be heading elsewhere this summer.

Obviously, the biggest name available this summer is without a doubt LeBron James from the Cleveland Cavaliers, but there are plenty of other game changers that could very easily take a struggling NBA franchise from perennial loser to a possible playoff team or maybe even title contender. Continue Reading…

This NBA regular season was an absolutely nightmare for the Washington Wizards in more ways than one as they quickly went from a team ready to compete in the Eastern Conference to arguably the worst team in the league once again.

Coming into this NBA season, the Wizards had high hopes of getting back to form as their superstar point guard Gilbert Arenas was finally healthy and ready to lead the team back to being a force to be reckoned with. Continue Reading…

The San Antonio Spurs have been arguably one of the most dominant teams in the Western Conference and the entire NBA for that matter for quite some time and their four NBA titles to prove just that, but any team with a lot of miles on them will start to break down at one time or another and that might be exactly what’s happened to Gregg Popovich’s dominant squad.

Despite being the seventh seed in the West heading into the NBA playoffs, the San Antonio Spurs played more like the second seed as they were able to knock out their Southwest division rivals in the Dallas Mavericks in the first round with relative ease. Continue Reading…