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EPL 100: Ranking of Premier League's Best Players After Matchday 34
Manchester City have been crowned Premier League champions with five games to spare. They've been so dominant they've wrapped up the title by mid-April, and that's reflected in the positions of their players in the EPL100...
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Re-Drafting the 2017 NBA Draft 1st Round
The 2017 NBA re-draft looks a lot different compared to the actual one from June. Unexpected rookie seasons, good and bad, have drastically changed scouting reports. If the Philadelphia 76ers had to select again, we'd likely be looking at a new No...
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NFL Draft 400: Top LBs for 2018 NFL Draft
Scouts and general managers have called the 2018 NFL draft class average, but we still have questions. Who is the best overall player? How about the best at each position? The NFL Draft 400's goal is to figure that out...
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European Club Power Rankings After April 13-15 Matches
You know it's the business end of the season when titles are being won, and this weekend saw two champions crowned: Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain...
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NBA Draft: Grading the Top Prospects from the Nike Hoop Summit
NBA scouts and executives traveled to Portland, Ore. on Friday night for the annual Nike Hoop Summit that features basketball's top prospects eligible for the 2019 and 2020 drafts...
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Ranking Potential for Upsets in 1st-Round NBA Playoff Matchups
Let's be honest here—nobody loves chalk. It's boring. We've seen a lot of it lately, though. The last time a No. 6 seed or lower won an NBA playoff series was 2014, when the Brooklyn Nets defeated the third-seeded Toronto Raptors in seven games...
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2018 NBA Free Agency: Impact Players Who Could Be Bargain-Bin Finds
FLASH SALE ALERT. Who: NBA free agents. What: Select impact players. (Prospective ring-chasers and pay-cut enthusiasts not included.) Where: Upscale steakhouses and sushi joints, mostly...
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How the Top 10 Players Not in the NBA Playoffs Can Make It Next Season
Maybe this will help ease the pain a little bit. Not one of these 10 players was able to steer his team into the 2018 NBA postseason, leaving them universally disqualified from the top-50 rankings compiled by myself and Dan Favale...
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Bleacher Report's Staff NBA Playoff Predictions
Eighty-two games. We know the NBA regular season is 82 games, but it seems like this year more than ever we needed each and every one to sort out the mess that was the 2018 playoff picture...
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Best NFL Landing Spots for Dez Bryant After Cowboys Cut WR
The Dez Days in Dallas are done. On Friday, the Cowboys released wide receiver Dez Bryant after eight seasons with the team. Bryant tallied 7,459 receiving yards and found the end zone 73 times with the Cowboys...
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Judging the Comfort Levels for NBA Stars Heading into the Playoffs
After a roller coaster of a regular season that took all the way to Game 82 to determine all the playoff seeds and matchups, the 2018 NBA playoffs are finally here. In the West, the Nos...
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Ranking the Top 50 Players in the 2018 NBA Playoffs
Sit tight. The NBA postseason-participant player rankings you (obviously) ordered are en route. We just have to go over a few ground rules first. Players are being evaluated as if we're acquiring them for the 2018 playoffs...
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NBA Power Rankings: How All 30 Teams Stack Up at the End of 2017-18
How good are all 30 NBA teams? That's a more complicated question than you'd think because answering it means pricing in whatever extra gear we believe each team has while also ...
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Ranking CBB's Top 10 Classes After the Start of the Early Signing Period
College basketball is fading into the background for versatile sports fans, but the current recruiting period offers one more moment in the spotlight...
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NFL Draft 400: Top OTs for 2018 NFL Draft
Scouts and general managers have called the 2018 NFL draft class average, but we still have questions. Who is the best overall player? How about the best at each position? The NFL Draft 400's goal is to figure that out...
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Braun Strowman, Nicholas and the Strangest WWE Tag Team Pairings Ever
Believe it or not, Braun Strowman and Nicholas don't comprise the strangest tag team to compete in WWE. When the monstrous Strowman took on The Bar at WrestleMania 34, he did so with a 10-year-old kid yanked from the crowd in his corner...
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Ranking the Top 10 Juniors for the 2018 College Football Season
Ed Oliver , Nick Bosa and Clelin Ferrell headline the deep list of elite defensive linemen who will be juniors during the 2018 college football season...
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NBA Playoff Bracket 2018: Round-by-Round Predictions
You can now breathe. The end of the NBA 's 2017-18 regular season featured one twist after another as myriad squads battled for playoff positioning in both conferences...
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Metrics 101: MLB's Most Criminally Underpaid Stars
Everyone seems to love a good handwringing about overpaid Major League Baseball stars, but the truth is that the majority of them are actually underpaid. Today, MLB Metrics 101 aims to shine light on the most egregious examples...
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Which NFL Players Are Prime Candidates for in-Season Extensions in 2018?
The NFL is a business, and each organization makes its every move with the future in mind. Franchises can't spend an exorbitant amount every offseason and later expect to keep talent...
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2018 NBA Draft Big Board: Post-Regular-Season Edition
With the NBA 's 2017-18 regular season complete, front offices for lottery-bound teams will now shift their attention to the draft. Prospects are in the process of hiring agents, testing the waters and deciding whether to return to college...
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Grading Every Top 10 College Basketball Team's Recruiting Class
Wednesday marked the beginning of the regular signing period for college basketball, which runs through May 16 for Division I. Prospects who didn't sign in November can now make it official where they'll be playing next season...
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Every NBA Playoff Team's Biggest X-Factor
It took all 82 games to get sorted out, but the 2018 NBA playoff picture has come into focus. Sixteen teams are left standing, each with some degree of championship hopes and a small cast of characters critical to success...
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Final Report Card Grade for Every NBA Team
Red-pen enthusiasts assemble! Year-end NBA report cards are here, in all their unrepressed glory, equally underrating your favorite team and overrating every team that isn't your favorite team...
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Swan Song: Notable NFL Players Who Could Hang 'Em Up Soon
Father Time is undefeated, no matter how great you are at anything. You can own the NFL with your skills and intelligence, but eventually those skills will start to erode, lost to the vagaries of age...