A Top Overall Draft Choice Picks Up Speed
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After a dismal rookie season, Houstonâs Mario Williams is playing better and with more confidence for a team that is doing the same.
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They love Yao. Now comes Yi &#151; Yi Jianlian, the 7-foot power forward who will be among the top choices in Thursday's NBA draft.
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Brett Elliott's record-breaking season made him an All-American.
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Greg Oden, a 7ft center from Ohio State, was made the first overall pick of the 2007 NBA Draft on Thursday by the Portland Trail Blazers.
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Greg Oden is the 1. The Portland Trail Blazers settled months of debate Thursday night when they chose Oden over fellow college freshman Kevin Durant with the No. 1 pick in a highly anticipated NBA draft.
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Whether you're the classic fantasy football geek who has been memorizing stats since May or the casual player who just tore a rankings list from a brand-new magazine, the first round of the draft has always been the great equalizer.
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Yet another player joins the MRAP race.
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Despite their 28-16 victory over the Houston Texans yesterday before 61,465 at Ford Field, that remains to be seen. But one thing looks evident early on - rookie wideout Roy Williams, the Lions&#39; top draft
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For most of the first 54 minutes of Sunday&#39;s game, Indianapolis Colts cornerback Jason David was definitely a marked man, a rookie fourth-round draft choice who could almost
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Nikolas Besagno could only think of one word to describe his feelings when expansion team Real Salt Lake made him the top pick in the Major League Soccer draft Friday.
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For the first time, Americans were taken with the top two picks in the NHL draft.
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David Price's blazing fastball might be too overpowering for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays to pass up with the No. 1 pick in the draft. "We just think that he has everything we're looking for in a front-line major league starter," Devil Rays scouting director R.J.
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The development of Nick Young and Oleksiy Pecherov -- the Wizards' last two first-round picks -- will go a long way in determining the team's future.
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Brady Quinn isn't ready to admit defeat in the race to be the top pick in the NFL draft. Seven weeks since JaMarcus Russell shot up the draft chart after beating Quinn in the Sugar Bowl, Quinn delivered his first major rebuttal in the competition to be selected first overall in April.
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The eight Giants chosen in last Aprilâs N.F.L. draft are still treated like rookies in the locker room, but have also increasingly become pieces to the teamâs sudden championship hopes.
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The NBA All-Star weekend has taken on  the look of a class reunion in recent years with the top picks  of the 2003 draft hogging centre stage.
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The NFL moved to speed up its draft on Tuesday during owners' meetings at which it also discussed having the Buffalo Bills play regular season games in Toronto, expanding the reach of the NFL Network and moving the Pro Bowl.