JULY 23-29

NFL training camps open this week, starting Monday with the Arizona Cardinals and TheSportsNotebook will lead off the week with a look at how AFC teams spent their offseasons. Isaac Huss grades each AFC team in Monday’s piece, which serves as a companion to his NFC article which ran two weeks ago.

JULY 16-22

The next two weeks have the baseball season in flux, as we wait to see which teams will trade off key pieces and which ones will beef up before the July 31 trade deadline. On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, TheSportsNotebook will run trade-deadline related articles, as we evaluate the merits—or lack thereof—of different rumored trades. Thursday and Friday will feature an overview report on both the American League and National League playoff races, with an emphasis on how teams have played coming out of the All-Star break, then on Sunday we’ll close the week with another trade-related feature.

JULY 9-15

It’s All-Star week in baseball as the game’s stars converge on Kansas City for Monday’s Home Run Derby, and Tuesday night’s All-Star Game. You can read the position-by-position reviews TheSportsNotebook did for the past several weeks building up to this week (with some general weekly reports on the playoff picture mixed in) right here.

JULY 2-8

Baseball is where the action is, as we have the final week of games before the All-Star break. Please check the reports that have been run here position-by-position as TheSportsNotebook tracked everyday players on The Road To Kansas City and the July 10 All-Star game. The every day lineups are now set, and TheSportsNotebook will start this week by looking at starting pitchers in both leagues on Monday and again on Tuesday.

JUNE 25-JULY 1

It seems quiet on the sports front now, now that a spring and early summer that was fit for a King is wrapped up—both the Los Angeles Kings in hockey and King James in the NBA. Congratulations to the passionate hockey fans in SoCal and the diehard hoops fans in South Beach. Both of them.

Sarcasm aside, congratulations do sincerely go out to those that followed the Kings through the long Cup-less existence to this point and those that followed the Heat in the dog days of the 15-20 wins seasons while they cleared the cap space to go out and get LeBron and Chris Bosh, while re-signing Wade. You suffered through the low moments and earned the right to ecstasy now.