Bleacher Report Colin Kaepernick's play hard to predict, Jed York saysNFL NewsThe episodic nature of the NFL's weekly schedule manufactures drama, the most entertaining of which is a full-blown quarterback controversy. While the media did its best to stoke the fires on the San Francisco 49ers last season, the 49ers' sudden …Are Jim Harbaugh and [...]
ESPN Vinny Del Negro says job loss 'hard to take' but thanks ClippersLos Angeles TimesThough he helped the Clippers to their best record in franchise history and back-to-back Western Conference playoff appearances, those weren't enough for Vinny Del Negro to keep his job as coach of the team. Del Negro said that being let go [...]
Bernstein: Other NBA Teams Try Hard, TooCBS2 Chicago(CBS) — Four NBA teams remain in the running for the title, and the never-say-die Bulls are not one of them because, well, they died. Throughout their entire lost season of water-treading, we have heard Tom Thibodeau's Bulls lauded for every available … NBA – Google News
American News Report NASCAR's Dick Trickle drove hard, lived the same way – USA TodayUSA TODAYHe came to NASCAR at 48 and was the Winston Cup rookie of the year in 1989. Asheville, N.C.-area racers who competed against him include Robert Pressley and Jack Ingram, who is to Western North Carolina what Trickle was to [...]
New York Times Why horse racing's Triple Crown is so hard to achieve – USA TodayUSA TODAYThe difficulty in horse racing's Triple Crown is that the races are at different lengths, at different tracks, requiring different combinations of talents (just like baseball's Triple Crown), with different sets of competitors. Fresh challengers who …Horse racing-Orb is [...]
San Francisco Chronicle Red Wings have hard time keeping up with speedy 'HawksThe Detroit NewsChicago — Maybe all that travel the Red Wings did in the opening round finally had an effect. It didn't seem to be a factor the opening 20 minutes. But the final 40 minutes of Chicago's 4-1 victory in Game 1 [...]
New York Daily News Mark Sanchez hard for David Garrard-less Jets to cutNFL NewsDavid Garrard always was a long shot to make it to the regular season, much less the starting lineup. His body failed him for two seasons running, and that's a trend that doesn't often turn around for 35-year-old NFL players.David Garrard Retiring [...]
MiamiHerald.com After promising start, it's hard on Ducks to have it end this wayLos Angeles TimesA great beginning turned into a sorry end for the Ducks, who burned up the NHL in the early weeks of this lockout-shortened season but were too burned out Sunday to put up much of a consistent challenge to the [...]
CBS News Graduating to the Next Level of Hard LessonsNew York Times (blog)More than jubilation, the Knicks wore badges of competitive — or combative — honor after bringing closure in all likelihood to the Paul Pierce-Garnett era and the die-hard team that won Boston's 17th and most recent N.B.A. championship. After an 88 …In defeat, [...]
Bleacher Report Charting the Lakers' hard road aheadESPNLook, they had the fourth-best record in the NBA since the All-Star break. They just got hammered so badly by injuries you almost felt sorry for them. They rarely had any genuine continuity. Basketball observers everywhere were robbed of seeing what …NBA: Spurs complete sweep of LakersSan Jose [...]
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