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Brooklyn Has A Massive Meltdown Against The Lakers; Houston Scores 140 Points

Dime Magazine, dimemag.com

As much as we want to give credit to Kobe Bryant for icing the Lakers win in Brooklyn last night, L.A. should throw the Nets a bone. Brooklyn did everything they could outside of express mailing the W to Hollywood. Down the stretch, the Nets endured a c…

Ashley Brooke Nevel, dimemag.com

Jeremy Lin hits Chandler Parsons with a perfect no-look pass.The post Jeremy Lin’s No-Look Pass appeared first on Dime Magazine (dimemag.com) : Daily NBA News, NBA Trades, NBA Rumors, Basketball Videos, Sneakers.

chron.com

Even before the rebuilding Astros traded veteran shortstop Jed Lowrie and the organization’s MLB-low payroll took another hit, the team was staring at holes in several key areas. The outfield, the back end of the starting rotation and the bullpen were c…

chron.com

Bud Norris is the Astros’ highest-paid player and potential No. 1 starter during the 2013 season. He’s also available to be traded and “drawing interest,” according to FoxSports’ Ken Rosenthal. Norris, 27, recently signed a one-year, $3 million …

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Astros manager Bo Porter, general manager Jeff Luhnow and president George Postolos met with the media Tuesday afternoon during an annual pre-spring training lunch at Minute Maid Park. Porter was his normal grounded but excited self. Luhnow acknowledged…

Brian McTaggart, MLB.com

Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow has heard the critics who have chastised the club for dealing away most of its established Major League players in the last year, while slashing payroll and stockpiling talent for what suddenly has become a very good M…

chron.com

Bo Porter will receive some friendly Hall of Fame advice before Astros spring training begins next week in Kissimmee, Fla. The first-year Houston manager plans to meet with former NFL coach Bill Parcells on Friday and Saturday in Florida. The duo share …

CNNSI.com

Give And Go: Assessing the brewing postseason races

ESPN.com

The Baltimore Ravens will host the 2013 NFL regular-season opener. The guessing about who their opponent will be is well under way. The Ravens will host the New England Patriots this season, so a rematch of the AFC Championship Game would be giant. I im…

Brian McTaggart, MLB.com

The Astros worked diligently to pack up an 18-wheeler Tuesday morning, cramming it with just about anything you could imagine to sustain nearly 60 baseball players and a couple of dozen staff members for seven weeks together at the team’s Spring Tra…

Iam Thomsen, CNNSI.com

Much of the focus this trade season has been given to the players possibly on the block (Pau Gasol, Paul Pierce, Josh Smith). But which teams are positioned to be buyers at the deadline? Could the Clippers deal some depth to strengthen their title hopes…

chron.com

The Baltimore Ravens’ odds of repeating as Super Bowl champions are the same as the Texans’ chances of claiming their first NFL championship, according to the betting site Bovada. The site lists the Ravens and Texans at 14 to 1 to win Super Bowl XLVII…

Kevin Kaduk, yahoo.com

Four Philadelphia Phillies will make more money in 2013 than the entire Houston Astros team. So will three New York Yankees, three Los Angeles Dodgers, three Detroit Tigers and three San Francisco Giants. All total, 20 deep-pocketed players are set to e…

chron.com

Brian, Dan and Chip are completing their position-by-position look at the 2013 Astros this week. • •• ••• •• • January 23: First Base (Chip Bailey). January 24: Second Base (Brian Todd). January 25: Shortstop (Dan Peschong). January 28: …

Mark Townsend, yahoo.com

At some point we’ve all been halfway to our destination before realizing we forgot something - like baseball tickets, perhaps - and had to turn around to retrieve them. But how many people can say they’ve started a cross-country trek to work, only

grantland.com

The A's and Astros pulled off a five-player trade yesterday, one that strengthens Oakland's status as a contender and upgrades Houston's already vastl...