What Sports Fans Look Forward to in August

Sports     From Erik Wander, your About Sports Editor     Does it seem like summer is going by a little too quickly? Golf’s final major of the year is this weekend, less than two months of regular season baseball remain, and it’s almost football season—seriously, football season! Are you ready for this?   Follow us on:     Sign up for more free newsletters: About Today About Electronics & Gadgets About Computers   PGA Championship: What You Need to Know We’ll find out Sunday who joins Bubba Watson, Martin Kaymer and Rory McIlroy as 2014’s major champs when the PGA Championship takes place at Valhalla Golf Club. We’ve got facts, stats, records, trivia and history from golf’s fourth and final major, and you can even pick a winner. READ NOW 5 Things We Know After Tiger's Latest Injury The Youngest Golfers with 3 Majors   Baseball's Most Expensive Starting Rotations When David Price joined the Tigers’ rotation last week in a somewhat surprising trade deadline move, you might have thought it made Detroit’s starting five baseball’s priciest. Well, you would have been wrong. They’re not even in the top three. So which teams’ rotations are the most expensive? READ NOW Is Clayton Kershaw Underpaid at $215M? MLB Trade Deadline Winners and Losers   Can San Diego Challenge the Broncos this Year? It’s not exactly a secret that About.com football expert Tim McDonald isn’t the world’s biggest Denver Broncos fan, but he wouldn’t go as far as picking the Chargers to win the AFC West, would he? In his first of eight NFL division previews, Tim answers the question, “Can [the] Broncos Conquer Abject Humiliation?” READ NOW Top 150 Fantasy Football Player Rankings Your Team's Odds of Winning the NFC   How the New College Football Playoff Works Did you really think the College Football Playoff, which replaces the much-maligned BCS this season, would make determining a national champion less confounding? Sorry. Here are five things the new playoff committee hopes will clarify how the system will work. Sound better than the BCS to you? READ NOW What Nick Saban Thinks about the Upcoming Season Why the Future Seems so Bright at Penn State   ADVERTISEMENT Featured Articles College Football's Preseason Top 25 Did Carmelo Choose Money over Wins? How Paul George's Gruesome Injury Happened Baseball's 100 Best Baseball Players Ever 5 NHL Players Bound to Bounce Back Mayweather vs. Leonard: Who Would Have Won? More from About.com Sign up for Shareables! An every-morning rundown of the day in history, with headlines and trends produced by your pals at About.com. Click here to sign up! It's free (of course) and we think you'll like it! Want More From About.com? Check out our social channels tailored to every interest! Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About.com Sports newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. If you would like to unsubscribe from all newsletters sent from About.com, please send an email to optout@about.com with "Unsubscribe" as the subject line. Contact Information: 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor New York, NY, 10036 Privacy Policy © 2014 About.com