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SI.com Recently Published/Updated SI.com is the league leader in original in-depth coverage of professional, local, college and international sports. And we're updated continuously, delivering the level of rich in-depth coverage Sports Illustrated fans demand, at the speed of CNN. Chris Mannix: Fast Breaks: USA vs. Tunisia 2 Sep 2010 at 6:27pm After a forgettable first half Thursday, Team USA pulled away in the second to rout Tunisia 92-57, completing a 5-0 run through Group B at the FIBA World Championship in Turkey. With pool play complete, the United States will face Angola on Monday in the round of 16. Here's what we can glean from the Americans' latest victory: American teen Capra upsets 18th-seeded Rezai 2 Sep 2010 at 5:50pm NEW YORK (AP) -- American teenager Beatrice Capra upset 18th-seeded Aravane Rezai of France 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 Thursday to reach the third round of the U.S. Open in her Grand Slam debut. Jackson is WNBA MVP, Agler top coach 2 Sep 2010 at 5:34pm SEATTLE (AP) -- Seattle Storm forward Lauren Jackson will be named WNBA most valuable player for the third time in her career, a person with knowledge of the voting told The Associated Press on Thursday. USA caps undeafeated preliminary play with rout of Tunisia 2 Sep 2010 at 5:32pm ISTANBUL (AP) -- Eric Gordon scored 21 points and the United States pulled away from Tunisia after sleepwalking through the first half, winning 92-57 on Thursday in its final game of pool play at the world championship. Bill Trocchi: Game of the Week: Boise battles Va. Tech with title hopes on th... 2 Sep 2010 at 5:31pm With Boise State coming into the season ranked No. 3, Broncos coach Chris Petersen knows he can no longer play the "no respect" card to motivate his team. So what have these Broncos adopted as their motto? "Let's prove everybody right," Peterson told his team in August. Boise State will get that chance right away as it challenges No. 10 Virginia Tech at FedEx Field on Sept. 6. The result will have season-long implications for the BCS title game, with Boise expected to be the solid favorite in each of its games the rest of the way. Fair or not, the Broncos' national-title worthiness will be judged largely on their first four quarters of the season. Tim Layden: Reflecting on 'Blood, Sweat and Chalk' 2 Sep 2010 at 5:30pm In the past three weeks, I have done dozens of interviews with radio stations, websites, blogs and print media as part of the publicity for my book, Blood, Sweat and Chalk. The Ultimate Football Playbook: How the Great Coaches Built Today's Game. It's a fascinating process and I'm thankful that almost every interviewer has been prepared and enthusiastic. I wish W.C. Heinz had been given a similar opportunity to talk about writing Run to Daylight with Vince Lombardi, because he would have killed, for sure and I'd pay to see the transcripts. Tom Bowles: As teams look toward 2011, shortage of rookie talent is becoming ... 2 Sep 2010 at 5:19pm As the dust settles from NASCAR's Silly Season and Sprint Cup teams turn toward 2011, a funny thing happened when I tried to find a list of the sport's next rookie class. Search continues for boxing promoter's son 2 Sep 2010 at 5:06pm SEATTLE (AP) -- Searchers in the rugged North Cascades have found a backpack belonging to the son of Hall of Fame boxing promoter Bob Arum, but they are still looking for the missing climber. Cory McCartney: Clint Bowyer and Jamie McMurray will battle it out for the fi... 2 Sep 2010 at 5:05pm 1. Kevin Harvick has already locked up his Chase spot. So too has Jeff Gordon. They could be joined by nine more drivers clinching their places in the 10-race playoff by the time the lights dim on Atlanta Motor Speedway late Sunday night into early Labor Day morning. For them, Richmond will be a formality. Mining activists demand WVU, Nike pull uniform ad 2 Sep 2010 at 5:01pm MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) Mountaintop removal mining activists are demanding Nike pull its promotional ad for a new West Virginia football uniform because it features a strip mine. Norway's Hushovd wins 6th Vuelta stage 2 Sep 2010 at 5:00pm MURCIA, Spain (AP) -- Thor Hushovd of Norway won the sixth stage of the Spanish Vuelta on Thursday, while Philippe Gilbert kept his overall lead for the fourth straight day. Sid Lowe: Van der Vaart could be latest star rescued from Real Madrid scrap heap 2 Sep 2010 at 4:54pm Shhhh! Stop. Stay very, very still. Listen carefully. Prick up your ears and you might just catch it: a faint rustling in the bushes as it ducks and dives its way through the darkness of Padre Damián Street, scavenging. If you're really lucky, you might even hear its characteristic call breaking the still air in the dead of night, escaping from somewhere in the shadow of the Santiago Bernabéu: Man in a box: The fantasy commandments 2 Sep 2010 at 4:49pm Can you smell it? That's the odor of pigskin wafting ever closer as the NFL regular season approaches. A huge percentage of fantasy drafts will go down in the next week. If this weekend is your only draft, I hope you've been mock drafting. You can analyze the player pool all you want, but until you've went through the process, you just can't know the ins and outs that each different year brings. To help those of you who haven't taken the time to do some serious mocking, I'll share my five commandments for fantasy football drafts for the 2010 season. Yeah, I know, there are supposed to be 10 commandments, but we're talking about a league with Michael Vick and Ben Roethlisberger here. We can't aim too high. LeBron a Miami resident, but still a Buckeyes fan 2 Sep 2010 at 4:45pm CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) -- LeBron James didn't change all his teams this summer. Roach might train Dawson 2 Sep 2010 at 4:13pm NEW YORK -- The next time Chad Dawson gets into the ring he could have a new voice in his corner. Representatives for Dawson, the former light heavyweight champion who suffered a one-sided defeat to WBC champion Jean Pascal last month, have contacted Freddie Roach about possibly training the 28-year-old Dawson for his next fight. Newsfeed display by CaRP