The Polite Power Rankings

It’s the day after the All-Star Game, a time to reflect on who’s up, who’s down, and who’s going nowhere fast.

The SP baseball staff is back with its latest MLB power rankings. Count your blessings you aren’t a Nationals fan. Or David Ortiz.

SP’s trio of baseball junkies-slash-editors break down the opening month of the season for you. We like the Dodgers and Royals but wonder about the Rays and the White Sox.

The Titans appear beatable. The Giants look bored. The Colts are heating up. Must be Week 16 of our NFL Power Rankings.

A few years ago, there wasn’t a football fan in the land who wasn’t intimately familiar with the word “parity.” Everyone from John Madden and Chris Berman to the guy who worked at the sports …

Tennessee vs. Detroit. Dallas vs. Seattle. These were the two daytime games on Thanksgiving this year, and both games were built to stink. Dallas vs. Seattle might be forgivable — when the schedule was being …

The good poet Robert Browning gave us these prescient words: “Jove strikes the Titans down not when they set about their mountain-piling, but when another rock would crown the work.” Ok, maybe that’s a little …

Déjà vu, huh? This time last year football fans were placing bets on whether the New England Patriots would go undefeated and whether the Miami Dolphins would go completely defeated. This year, the saga is …

“Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers,” says writer Merle Kessler. Well, consider me one of those strangers. We’ve hit that time of year — …