Fantasy Football

NFL Training Camps have opened. Time to start thinking about your upcoming 2009 fantasy football draft. CBS Sports has position-by-position player rankings here, and a Top 200 here. Brad Funston's Big Board here and ESPN's full rankings here. Yahoo! position rankings here. Deeper analysis at sites like FFToolbox which has a helpful RB bye week back-ups list here. For a list of top leagues visit our fantasy football tips. If you want to be a real player, consider the Vegas drafts: WCOFF and FFPC. More fantasy football links at NFL Stats.

Rickey Henderson into the Hall of Fame

By a long shot, Rickey Henderson is the fastest player in Major League Baseball history: 1,406 stolen bases. The next best on the list is Lou Brock at 938 (record list here). Take a look at the career year-by-year numbers for Rickey here. Most people remember Rickey as an Oakland A and a New York Yankee, but he played for 9 different teams! Consider that he stole 3 bases for the Red Sox in 2003-- a full 22 years after he had his career high 130 stolen bases in 1982 for the A's. His first stolen base was in 1979 (the start of a 25-season career). See Rickey's career in video from MLB.com here.

MLB: Perfect Game from Mark Buehrle

For only the 18th time in baseball history, a perfect game (see the list of past perfect games here>)! The last time was just over 5 years ago by Randy Johnson. A perfect game is facing the minimum 27 batters without allowing a hit or walk or anyone on base-- quite an accomplishment. MLB has AWESOME video coverage here, including the saving catch in the 9th inning by CF Dewayne Wise.

Where in the world is Quentin Richardson

The 29-year old 6-6 G-F has been traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves-- his 4th team in just the last month. He was traded by the Knicks to Memphis; then from Memphis to the L.A. Clippers. And now from L.A. to Minnesota. Story.

Is the Tour de France over?

Stage 15 was the first big mountain test. Lance Armstrong was strong. But his teammate, Spain's Alberto Contador was better. And, as we all learned from Lance year-after-year, the best rider in the mountains usually wins. Lance basically acknowledges that he won't be able to chase down Contador. Video below, and for overall standings and official Tour de France coverage here.

59-year old Tom Watson ahead at British Open

Can Tom Watson win another British Open, securing a place as a true legend of the game (his bio and history here)? We will all find out tomorrow on ABC at Turnberry in Scotland. He leads by one (leaderboard). Tiger Woods is already gone having missed the cut so a comeback will have to come from somewhere else. Watson has already won the British Open 5 times (1977, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1983). The most famous was his first, the "Duel in the Sun" over Jack Nichlaus.

NFL 2009 Training Camp

Time is getting toward the middle of July. Time to start thinking NFL training camp. Coverage here. Training camp calendars team-by-team here. Cleveland Browns rookies get to show up first, Friday July 24th (two weeks from today). The rest kick in over the following week or so. Also visit our NFL Stats season preview and fantasy football coverage.

Roger Federer Wins Again

The king of tennis, Roger Federer, beat Andy Roddick, to win his 6th Wimbledon title and 15th Slam title overall-- a record that now surpasses the 14 Slam's won by Pete Sampras. Federer's other Slam titles include the French Open only once; the last 5 U.S. Open's; and the Australian Open twice. History of slam winners here. Federer-Roddick recap. Winners of the most slams here. Federer emerged on the scene in part from this win (video) over Sampras back in 2001 at Wimbledon.