Wednesday Afterschool Special: Top Picks

Letang escapes discipline

The Penguins beat the Rangers 3–1 at Madison Square Garden last night to take a 2–1 series lead. But in the process, Pittsburgh's top defenseman Kris Letang almost took off the head of Rangers forward Viktor Stalberg on this two-handed slash. Then it came out today that Letang will not have a supplemental discipline hearing with the league, and thus will face no punishment. Was Letang's slash fairplay in the rough-and-tumble playoffs? Or did he get the star treatment in avoiding a suspension?

How the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft got traded

Peter King has the inside story of the negotiations between the Titans and Rams that sent St. Louis the top pick in this year's draft. And of course the Eagles traded up to the next spot — No. 2 — today in a deal with the Browns.

Former first-overall picks teams traded up to get

Traded by the San Diego Chargers to the New York Giants for Philip Rivers (their 2004 1st round pick, 4th overall), their 2004 3rd round pick (65th overall, Nate Kaeding) and 2005 1st round pick (12th overall, Shawne Merriman).

Traded by the San Diego Chargers as the 2001 1st round pick (1st overall) to the Atlanta Falcons for their 2001 1st round pick (5th overall, LaDainian Tomlinson), 2001 3rd round pick (67th overall, Tay Cody), 2002 2nd round pick (48th overall, Reche Caldwell) and Tim Dwight.

Traded by the New York Jets as the 1997 1st round pick (1st overall) to the St. Louis Rams for their 1997 1st round pick (6th overall subsequently traded, Walter Jones), 1997 3rd round pick (67th overall subsequently traded, Dan Neil), 1997 4th round pick (102nd overall, Terry Day) and 1997 7th round pick (207th overall subsequently traded, Koy Detmer).

Traded by the Carolina Panthers as the 1995 1st round pick (1st overall) to the Cincinnati Bengals for their 1995 1st round pick (5th overall, Kerry Collins) and 1995 2nd round pick (36th overall, Shawn King).

Traded by the New England Patriots as the 1991 1st round pick (1st overall) to the Dallas Cowboys for their 1991 1st round pick (11th overall, Pat Harlow), 2nd round pick (41st overall, Jerome Harrison), Ron Francis, David Howard and Eugene Lockhart.

Traded by the Atlanta Falcons as the 1990 1st round pick (1st overall) with their 4th round pick (83rd overall, Stacey Simmons) to the Indianapolis Colts for Andre Rison, Chris Hinton, their 1990 5th round pick (121st overall, Reggie Redding) and 1991 1st round pick (13th overall, Mike Pritchard).

Traded by the Cincinnati Bengals as the 1984 1st round pick (1st overall) to the New England Patriots for their 1984 1st round picks (16th overall, Pete Koch and 28th overall, Brian Blados), 10th round pick (265th overall, Brent Ziegler) and 1985 5th round pick (129th overall, Lee Davis).

Traded by the Baltimore Colts to the Denver Broncos for Chris Hinton, Mark Herrmann and their 1984 1st round pick (19th overall, Ron Solt).

Traded by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as the 1978 1st round pick (1st overall) to the Houston Oilers for Jimmie Giles, their 1978 1st round pick (17th overall, Doug Williams), 2nd round pick (44th overall, Brett Moritz), 1979 3rd round pick (78th overall, Reggie Lewis) and 5th round pick (133rd overall, Chuck Fusina).

Traded by the Baltimore Colts as the 1975 1st round pick (1st overall) with their 6th round pick (132nd overall, Fulton Kuykendall) to the Atlanta Falcons for George Kunz and their 1975 1st round pick (3rd overall, Ken Huff).

Adrian Beltre gives Elvis Andrus a look

His reaction is great

That's gotta hurt...a lot

Today's Peanuts

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