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Future Hall of Fame tight end Tony Gonzalez has come over from Kansas City and will be an inviting target for rapidly rising start quarterback Matt Ryan last year’s Offensive Rookie of the Year when he’s not handing off to Michael Turner. But the real question for Atlanta are the holes left by the departure of some key veterans on defense like: Grady Jackson, Lawyer Milloy, Keith Brooking and Michael Boley among others as well as an inexperienced backfield.

From Canada (George Chuvalo) to Argentina (Louis Firpo), North America has been well represented in the heavyweight boxing division. The United States has produced dozens of world class fighters at this biggest classification as well, but despite a wealthy history of producing outstanding champions in various lighter categories (mostly featherweight and bantamweights), the heavyweight crown [...]

For the Giants to get to the top of the East again, they’ll have to do it with a whole new receiver corps. With former Super Bowl-MVP David Tyree, Plaxico Burress and Amani Toomer out of the picture, New York will depend on youth in their wideouts – Hakeem Nicks (first round) and Ramses Barden (third) to go with 5-year vet Domenik Hixon.

From their early days in the fledgling American Football League to the exciting squads of the 21st century, all the great games, star players and classic moments of one of the National Football League’s most exciting franchises scores on a new double-disc DVD set

The three-time Academy Award nominee provides the narration to “TOGETHER: The Hendrick Motorsports Story,” NASCAR Media Group’s documentary-style film that chronicles the history of the eight-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship team.

Who will win the Heisman Trophy, college football’s most coveted award, on its 75th anniversary?

From leading candidates to long shots to the three top vote getters from last year who return for another run, here are some players to look for throughout the season and a few of the key games that may determine their fates.

Michael Jordan is the reason why hall of fames were created.

The five-time NBA Most Valuable Player leads a stellar group into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts this weekend.

Unlike most nations around the world, there is very little government financial support for the Olympics in America, so when NBC broadcast a taped ceremony over the weekend of the USOC’s latest inductees it was for a good cause.

The Broncos BCS fortunes rest on the undersized shoulders of southpaw sophomore quarterback Kellen Moore. The savvy and efficient Moore threw 25 TDs as a redshirt freshman. Boise State have won at least 10 games seven out of the last nine years and there is no reason their winning ways will end this season.

These perennial conference powers will be there again as Jim Tressel welcomes back seven starting defenders and four on offense to this year’s team. The Buckeyes key to success in winning at least ten games each of the past four seasons is the defense’s ability to limit the opponents scoring, a category they have been among the national leaders for some time. It was under 14 last year. The defense will be led by top tackler Kurt Coleman and converted linebacker-to-rusher Thaddeus Gibson. But like last year, the Big Ten crown will likely come down to a match with Penn State.