Only the NBA’s best and the Bucks are still standing. Now what? What can we expect from each of the 16 teams engaging in this second season. Will they boom? Will they bust? As we all know, even in the NBA, either is a possibility.

Let’s go through the best and worst case scenarios for each team. Yesterday we detailed the Eastern Conference, which features the league’s best team and (in)arguably its best player. Today, we focus on the West.

Only the NBA’s best and the Bucks are still standing. Now what? What can we expect from each of the 16 teams engaging in this second season. Will they boom? Will they bust? As we all know, even in the NBA, either is a possibility.

Roger Goodell says the NFL is considering expanding its postseason to 14 or 16 teams. That would be a grievous error on the league’s part, and here’s why.

It’s a good thing A’s pitcher Brandon McCarthy knows how to make the best of a terrible situation — a quality that’s come in handy on the rocky road to recovery from a severe head injury. It’s an even better thing the rest of his teammates can make light of it too. Because then we get this: Brandon McCarthy’s safety-ensured celebration helmet, equipped with a drool cup.

Even though the Yankees beat the Red Sox 5-4 Wednesday night to maintain a first-place tie in the AL East, it wasn’t all pretty for the struggling Bombers. Derek Jeter has added injury to insult to injury. It isn’t pretty, Yankee fans.

To say that this was a crushing hit would be a terrible understatement. Seidenberg of the Bruins zeroed in on the Capitals’ Ovechkin right between the two teams’ benches and delivered an earth-shattering blow during the second period. This is playoff hockey, people. Video after the jump.

The NFL playoffs will place one of the sport’s oldest rivalries at the forefront when the Packers and Bears square off for a spot in the Super Bowl this weekend. But what was it like the last time these two teams met in the playoffs – almost 70 years ago?

Leading up to this weekend’s playoff match-up between the Seahawks and the visiting Saints, it’s already a foregone conclusion to many that Seattle doesn’t deserve to be there. Are the many Seahawks skeptics on to something?

Many now consider Rajon Rondo to be the league’s top point guard, leaving casual fans to wonder when that transformation occurred, and how it happened so fast. Here, on the day Boston can clinch its Eastern Conference series, a look back at Rondo’s progression over the past two seasons.